We depend on the services of these small creatures for all our food and they are a crucial link in the chain of life that supports us. Paul Miskin, company Director, explained: “Recently many people have noticed the lack of dead insects on the windscreens of cars. The event aims to highlight the world’s recent 40-50% loss of insects and suggest what we can do to save and regenerate them. Visitors will be able to meet and take selfies with a giant Bombus terrestris bumble bee, join in the waggle dance with giant honey bees, plant a special pollinator friendly flower and learn many extraordinary other things about insects, including all the things you can do to help them. Dancing with bees combines street theatre, music, games, science and education featuring performers from the Neighbourhood Watch Stilts International. Insectopolis swarms into Kirkleathham Art and science will combine as a special urban insect conservation zone arrives in Kirkleathham for the Festival of Thrift. As a choreographer he has developed his own style of movement, embodying the raw, unrefined energy and expressive dynamism of dances originating in Central East Africa. Choreographer Patrick Ziza moved to Gateshead from Rwanda as a teenager. Dandyism is flamboyance: dress sharp and present your best self. In this new performance work choreographer Patrick Ziza explores the Dandy’s fashion and style as an assertion of freedom, the evolution of this cultural phenomenon into a modern-day norm, and how it relates to exploring, respecting and valuing individuality in the 21st Century. Dandyism is a celebration of style and cool as well as a concern for humanism, gender and identity in our increasingly divided society. More recently Dandyism has encompassed the fight for gender equality by the Congo’s Female Dandies movement. By the 1960s it had become a phenomenon, a way to preserve a legacy of African culture and challenge conventional male stereotypes. African Dandies appropriated the flamboyance of the 18th Century English & French gentlemen in defiance against slavery, referred to by some as a resistance movement. Commissioned by the Coventry City of Culture Trust, the Canal and River Trust, The Arches Worcester Festivals at Severn Arts and Basingstoke Festival.ĭandyism is centuries old, and for the original African dandies, it represented male empowerment and post-colonial freedom. With the weight of plastic now greater than the weight of humanity, what better time than now to take action? By Highly Sprung. It presents an alternative, sustainable and more compassionate way of being and challenges us to consider our own actions in the face of climate change. CastAway responds to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a floating island of everlasting plastic that has now grown to 6½ times the size of the UK. The all-female cast immerses audiences in an underwater world where performers dive, twist and float over 26 feet in the air to delight, inspire and captivate audiences of all ages. Featuring a unique gyroscopic flying machine, it presents a brand new approach to aerial theatre. Highly Sprung’s CastAway is a stunning outdoor performance that explores the impact of today’s throwaway society on our waterways. Drowning under a crushing mass of plastic, the Keeper of the Waterways awakens and rises up.
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