The London International Mime Festival will open on 13th January and
run until 28th at the ICA, the Purcell Rooms, the Barbican, the Queen
Elizabeth Hall and the Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio.
Jean-Baptiste André
Comme En Plein Jour
Purcell Room
13 - 15 Jan
Powered by a specially commissioned electronic score, movement, video
art and a darker side of clowning meet in a world of uncertain identity
and skewed perspective.
Faulty Optic
Soiled
ICA
14 - 18 Jan
Through the machinations of a boxing ballerina, a soil-spitting psychic,
a sparrow with a Tourette's disorder and two jolly wafters, a tale
of deadly secrets, love and deception unfolds.
Jozef Houben
The Art of Laughter
Purcell Room
16 - 17 Jan
Complicité actor, Jozef Houben, explains and illustrates what
makes audiences laugh.
Rainpan 43
All Wear Bowlers
Barbican Pit
16 - 28 Jan
Two silent movie comics fall literally off screen to find themselves
unexpectedly in front of a live audience.
Inspector Sands + Stamping Ground
Hysteria
Purcell Room
18 - 21 Jan
Inspired by T.S. Eliot's poem of the same name, Hysteria makes
us witnesses to a painstaking attempt at social interaction.
Philippe Genty Co
La Fin des Terres (Lands End)
QEH
18 - 21 Jan
A kaleidoscope of fantastic images conjured from tricks of perspective,
distortion, movement, and puppets of all sizes.
Philipp Boë
Memoire de la Nuit
ICA
19 - 21 Jan
Whilst investigating a murder, a detective gets pulled into the abyss
of his own memories, which seem to lead him deep into the mind of
the killer.
Company:Collisions
Nothing Left to Lose
Purcell Room
22 - 23 Jan
In the fearful minutes between enemy assaults a band of battered dolls
rises from the wreckage to stage a resistance.
Steven Whinnery Co
Lying with the Animals
ICA
22 - 23 Jan
Inspired by Gary Larson's The Far Side cartoons, director/mask-maker
Steven Whinnery's playful work evokes an off-kilter world where the
line between animal and human is mischievously blurred.
Ockham's Razor
Arc
Linbury at ROH
22 - 23 Jan
The world premiere of its latest work, Arc, a human instinct
survival story of three people set adrift at sea will be followed
by Momento Mori, an intimate duet based on Holbein's The
Dance of Death woodcuts and which won a prestigious Jeunes Talents
Cirque award at its first showing, in Paris in 2004. Completing the
programme is Every Action, a daring piece for four performers
and 25 metres of rope, featured in ROH2's 'Firsts' in November 2006.
Al Seed
The Factory
ICA
revised dates:
27 - 28 Jan
The earth has become a factory where everything is quantifiable and
tradeable. War, being the most expensive business, is the best business.
Invest your son... Half Pierrot, half Bin Laden, Al Seed blends dark
physical theatre and bitter stand-up to animate a succession of bleak
and disturbing characters.
Mathurin Bolze Co
Tangentes
Barbican Theatre
24 - 27 Jan
Young trampolinist Mathurin Bolze returns with a stunning company
of acrobats and a brand new show.
Wolfe Bowart
LaLaLuna
Purcell Room
25 - 28 Jan
What if, one evening, the light in the moon went out and you had to
find a replacement light bulb?
Zimmermann/de Perrot
Gaff Aff
Linbury at ROH
25 - 27 Jan
The world of these two Swiss performers revolves quite literally on
a turntable. Rubber-limbed circus artist Martin Zimmermann spins his
way around a day's existence, lived out in DJ Dimitri de Perrot's
fabulous live soundscape.
Buchinger's Boot Marionettes
Vestibular Folds
ICA
26 - 28 Jan
Anarchic and outrageous in the best traditions of puppet theatre,
Vestibular Folds involves the story of a tragic opera written
by 19th century marionettist, alchemist and dentist Ichabod Appleseed
and its recording in a version designed to sound the same whether
played forwards or in reverse.
Words, Sign & Vibes
QEH Foyer
20 Jan Free
Enjoy songs from Oliver, Rent and other well known shows,
transformed through sign language into a truly expressive and visual
- as well as musical - experience.
