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"Mayfest’s flagship happening is a strange and ritualistic “installation opera”, investing the audience in the live construction of a freestanding arch from concrete and rapidly melting ice. Set to a chorus of human voices, this surreal endeavour will shake you in ways you never thought possible. "
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A event on Sunday 26th May. The event starts at 21:00.
Arch by Kaleider
Kaleider’s Arch is an attempt to build a freestanding arch, made two thirds of concrete and one third of ice, witnessed by a vigil of human voices.
What happens is straightforward; how it will make you feel is not.
Internationally acclaimed for creating deceptively simple works, Kaleider leads us on a surprising emotional journey. In Arch, an exquisite combination of human voice, relentless physicality, and heart, entangle with the perpetual inevitability of collapse.
Touching audiences with themes of death, renewal, and hope, Arch points towards the extraordinary, yet flawed, systems humans create – and, inevitably, to the impact of these systems on our ecological system, and on ourselves.
Age Guidance: Suitable for all ages
Duration: approximately 2 hours
Access
- Arch will be located in an outdoor space within a 15 minute walk from Bristol Centre
- Wheelchair accessible
- Highly visual performance - enjoyable without aid of hearing. This event is highly visual and contains few or no words.
- Inclusive Environment - The show has an inclusive approach to noise and movement coming from the audience. People are welcome to wriggle, move, stim, or respond in any way that is natural for them. You are free to come and go from your seat, to use the toilet or decompress and return at any time.
- Please see a link to an Easy Read about this event: https://shorturl.at/wEH06
This performance is part of Mayfest: Bristol's international festival of contemporary theatre and live performance, curated and produced by MAYK. Check out the full programme at https://www.mayk.org.uk/mayfest / @mayfestbristol
Credits
Arch is a Kaleider Production
Conceived and Directed by Seth Honnor
Executive Producer: Katie Keeler
Musical Director: Verity Standen
Dramaturg: Tanuja Amarasuriya
Movement Consultant: Laila Diallo
Lighting Design Consultant: Nao Nagai
Production Manager: Jay Kerry
Producers: Irene Urrutia, Jocelyn Mills
Performers: Nao Nagai, Irene Urrutia, Seth Honnor
Singers: Kate Smith, Ellian Showering, Miryam Solomon, Aminita Francis, Kate Huggett, Verity Standen
Main photo credit: Barney Witts Fluxx Films
Arch is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Arch research and development is supported by IN SITU, the European platform for artistic creation in public space, in the frame of the project UN(COMMON) SPACES, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, and supported by Freedom Festival Arts Trust.
Arch was developed with the support of the National Theatre’s Generate programme.
Arch is co-commissioned by Theater op de Markt.
Arch is backed by hundreds of Citizen Commissioners: individual donors who supported Kaleider to make and bring this work into the world. Find out more https://ko-fi-com/kaleider
https://kaleider.com/
https://www.instagram.com/kaleider/
Supported in Bristol by Confluence – a production by MAYK, commissioned by Ginkgo Projects for Redcliffe Quarter with the support of Grainger plc.
#Mayfest / https://twitter.com/mayfestbristol
@mayfestbristol / https://www.instagram.com/mayfestbristol/
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
Kaleider’s Arch is an attempt to build a freestanding arch, made two thirds of concrete and one third of ice, witnessed by a vigil of human voices.
What happens is straightforward; how it will make you feel is not.
Internationally acclaimed for creating deceptively simple works, Kaleider leads us on a surprising emotional journey. In Arch, an exquisite combination of human voice, relentless physicality, and heart, entangle with the perpetual inevitability of collapse.
Touching audiences with themes of death, renewal, and hope, Arch points towards the extraordinary, yet flawed, systems humans create – and, inevitably, to the impact of these systems on our ecological system, and on ourselves.
Age Guidance: Suitable for all ages
Duration: approximately 2 hours
Access
- Arch will be located in an outdoor space within a 15 minute walk from Bristol Centre
- Wheelchair accessible
- Highly visual performance - enjoyable without aid of hearing. This event is highly visual and contains few or no words.
- Inclusive Environment - The show has an inclusive approach to noise and movement coming from the audience. People are welcome to wriggle, move, stim, or respond in any way that is natural for them. You are free to come and go from your seat, to use the toilet or decompress and return at any time.
- Please see a link to an Easy Read about this event: https://shorturl.at/wEH06
This performance is part of Mayfest: Bristol's international festival of contemporary theatre and live performance, curated and produced by MAYK. Check out the full programme at https://www.mayk.org.uk/mayfest / @mayfestbristol
Credits
Arch is a Kaleider Production
Conceived and Directed by Seth Honnor
Executive Producer: Katie Keeler
Musical Director: Verity Standen
Dramaturg: Tanuja Amarasuriya
Movement Consultant: Laila Diallo
Lighting Design Consultant: Nao Nagai
Production Manager: Jay Kerry
Producers: Irene Urrutia, Jocelyn Mills
Performers: Nao Nagai, Irene Urrutia, Seth Honnor
Singers: Kate Smith, Ellian Showering, Miryam Solomon, Aminita Francis, Kate Huggett, Verity Standen
Main photo credit: Barney Witts Fluxx Films
Arch is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Arch research and development is supported by IN SITU, the European platform for artistic creation in public space, in the frame of the project UN(COMMON) SPACES, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, and supported by Freedom Festival Arts Trust.
Arch was developed with the support of the National Theatre’s Generate programme.
Arch is co-commissioned by Theater op de Markt.
Arch is backed by hundreds of Citizen Commissioners: individual donors who supported Kaleider to make and bring this work into the world. Find out more https://ko-fi-com/kaleider
https://kaleider.com/
https://www.instagram.com/kaleider/
Supported in Bristol by Confluence – a production by MAYK, commissioned by Ginkgo Projects for Redcliffe Quarter with the support of Grainger plc.
#Mayfest / https://twitter.com/mayfestbristol
@mayfestbristol / https://www.instagram.com/mayfestbristol/
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
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