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Pioneering companies NoFit State Circus and Motionhouse join forces to perform thrilling show BLOCK

18 May 2018 2:06 PM | Lauren Martin-Grieveson (Administrator)


Pioneering companies NoFit State Circus and Motionhouse join forces to perform thrilling show BLOCK

On 27-28 June as part of Worthing Theatres’ Summer of Circus, leading UK companies NoFit State and Motionhouse will be joining forces at the Pavilion Theatre to perform their electrifying show BLOCK, revealing what happens when circus and dance collide.
 
BLOCK is about life in the city; its contradictions and challenges. Twenty oversized blocks are deconstructed and reformed to create different cityscapes for the performers to play on, move with and explore. The show encompasses daring physicality, split-second timing and thrilling feats with original music.
 
The constant shifts of forms echo the transitory nature of city centres, the changing landscapes of our environments and within this context, creates a platform on which the bodies talk about change, barriers, obstacles, repetition, failures and successes.
 
Created in 2016, BLOCK is a collaboration between NoFit State Circus and Motionhouse. Created and directed by Kevin Finnan, with the original concept, design and production by Ali Williams, and circus direction by Paul Evans, BLOCK has astounded audiences across the world. This year the show will be taken as far as Australia, Germany, Budapest and Belgium.
 
Kevin Finnan and Ali Williams said “The modern city is a nest teeming with activity. Human life streams through it. BLOCK  is about living in the city, its contradictions and its challenges. Living large, living fast and sometimes living in the cracks, this extraordinary cast stay on their toes to thrive and survive in the world of blocks. The tower block, the urban block, danger, love and excitement streaming through the day. The fusion of house styles creates a new theatrical language mixing circus and dance in an extraordinary and seamless way. Fusing the fluidity of dance with spectacular circus to continually reshape the modular staging negates the need to perform “acts”, allowing the skills to be fully integrated in the movement vocabulary, creating a new and exciting form.”

NoFit State was founded in 1986 by five friends. During a politically charged time, in a recession, and as a creative reaction to the world around them, the circus was born. Today, NoFit State is the UK’s leading large-scale contemporary circus company, producing professional touring productions and a wide variety of community, training, and education projects for people of all ages. Over the last six years NoFit State's touring productions have visited 15 different countries, played to audiences of over 250,000, have been critically acclaimed and won numerous prestigious international arts awards. They last performed in Worthing with their critically acclaimed sold out show Noodles in 2014.
 
Motionhouse create and tour a wide range of inspiring and powerful dance-circus productions to theatres and festivals in the UK and across the globe. Their distinctive, highly physical style integrates elements of circus and acrobatics with breath-taking dance to surprise and delight audiences, using powerful narrative and incredible digital imagery; they are pioneers in the world of dance. Their previous hugely popular productions in Worthing include Charge, Scattered and Broken.

Tickets for BLOCK at the Pavilion Theatre are available from the Worthing Theatres box office on 01903 206 206 and online at worthingtheatres.co.uk.

BLOCK is commissioned by Without Walls, Stockton International Riverside Festival, Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Out There International Festival of Circus & Street Arts. Co-production Archaos, Pôle National des Arts du Cirque Méditerranée and Le Citron Jaune, Centre National des Arts de la Rue.

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