WILD

Motionhouse

Gravity-defying dance-circus exploring our relationship with the natural world.

Circus / Dance | Suitable for all ages.

All performances and touch tours at The Town Hall (9) | 45 mins

FRI 28 AUG ‍| 12:45 & 16:15 (AD)

Touch Tour | 11:55 & 15:25

ABOUT

WILD explores our relationship with the natural environment. In our modern lives, is the wild still shaping our behaviour?

Using the powerful physicality distinctive to Motionhouse, WILD creates an urban forest in the everyday of the city. Performers use dynamic choreography, acrobatic movement and hand-to-hand partnering to move through a forest of tall poles, which forms the striking set for WILD. From the top of the pole, life in the canopy looks down onto the forest floor – a dangerous world of unknown meetings.

WILD has been a major hit with audiences of all ages since its premiere in 2019. It has wowed more than 100,000 people with its gravity-defying dance, acrobatics and circus. The show never fails to attract large audiences, and where the space allows, it has regularly been watched by 1,500 – 2,000 people at each performance, making it a thrilling festival highlight.

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    Benches and chairs are available at this performance.

    Audio Description is integrated into the show.

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    Motionhouse creates and tours a wide range of inspiring and powerful dance-circus productions to theatres and festivals in the UK and across the globe. The company’s distinctive, highly physical style integrates elements of circus and acrobatics with breath-taking dance to surprise and delight audiences. 

    A pioneer of outdoor dance, Motionhouse tour a range of flexible productions extensively to festivals and non-theatre spaces. These short, sharp injections of dance and circus are designed to be performed up-close, attracting and engaging large crowds, and inspiring audiences who are not necessarily familiar with dance.

  • WILD is commissioned by Gulbenkian & ART31 and Birmingham Hippodrome (as part of the Hippodrome Associate Artist programme). Supported by Without Walls with commissioning from Freedom Festival, Hat Fair, and Out There International Festival of Circus & Street Arts. With additional backing from the Garfield Weston Foundation, the Foyle Foundation, The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust, The Saintbury Trust and The City of London Corporation.

    Motionhouse is supported by Arts Council England with additional support from Warwick District Council and is a Hippodrome Associate Company.