And today is International Day of Persons with Disability (not our choice of words, but we’re not arguing with the United Nations). As they say: Persons with disabilities, “the world’s largest minority”, often face barriers to participation in all aspects of society. Barriers can take a variety of forms, including those relating to the physical [...]
I love the saying ‘mad as a box of frogs’ and I love Stumble danceCircus’s take on it too. Find out what lies beneath each character as director Mish Weaver takes us into the box in this 90 second glimpse. Pushing people outside of their comfort zone is one of Mish Weaver’s favourite activities – [...]
Our PUSH ME documentary is coming to Bradford! Yup – you don’t have to sit and watch it on your little computer screen – you can watch it in full beautiful enormous loveliness at the National Media Museum in Bradford on the 3rd December – as part of International Day of People with Disability. It’s [...]
It’s all kicking off today – Total Permission, our 30 minute documentary on the Unlimited Projects is up in The Space – AND the documentary and the PUSH ME project are one of Arts Council England’s new case studies celebrating 18 years of lottery funding and showcasing just what lottery cash can do.
A non-stop whirl of feverpitched acrobatics, cycling and hula-hoops to infuse your Thursday thinking. Let Stumble danceCircus play for 90 seconds in the Space. Stumble danceCircus presents Box of Frogs – a circus show with a difference. Five acrobats and two musicians play with the audience’s expectations of mental ill-health and performance, against a backdrop [...]
We aren’t the only ones counting down – Watershed, the executive producers of PUSH ME are also on a roll, showing one PUSH ME short a day too until 2nd Dec and then hosting the cinema premiere of the documentary Total Permission at their base in Bristol.
Stumble danceCircus are now off on tour with Box of Frogs, and wherever they go they are attracting press interest. There is a great piece in the Yorkshire Post this week featuring Mish Weaver, founder of Stumble danceCircus and it really gets under her skin and the skin of the show.
It is with immense pride (and quite a bit of sweat) we can finally announce that all our 12 PUSH ME artists now have their first 90 second films in The Space!
Many of us are now tapping into Jon Snow’s C4 Paralympic show as he builds GB excitement and connection with the Paralympic Games but being disabled doesn’t mean you have to enjoy watching or playing sport, does it? Hell no! So says our very own Push Me comedian Laurence Clark and runner up in the [...]
Box of Frogs have also been finalising their tour – and boy are they busy! after the Southbank on 2nd and 3rd Sept, they move to Preston Guild on Sept 7th, then Circomedia in Bristol on Sept 27th and 28th and The Landmark, Ilfracombe on Sept 29th. Heading north they perform at ARC, Stockton-on Tees on Oct 3rd and at Contact, Manchester on [...]
I don’t want to join the circus – I just wanted to catch up with the cast of Box of Frogs, Stumble danceCircus’s fantastic exploration of bipolar disorder and all things circus. Turns out I would need a private jet to catch up with all of them.
Last week in Stockton, an eight metre high figure took to the streets as part of Stockton International River Festival when Prometheus Awakes was performed, presented by Graeae
and La Fura dels Baus
and co-commissioned by GDIF and SIRF, as part of the London 2012 Festival. Graeae of course, are part of PUSH ME with The Garden, [...]
“If we get the festival right, people will remember 2012 not just for amazing sport, but for unforgettable art as well.” So says London 2012 Festival Director Ruth Mackenzie in the hot-off-the-press official guide to the London 2012 Festival – and we agree, especially in relation to our artists!
We wanted to pass on the link to a fantastic interview with Mish Weaver by Jo Childs for Run Riot. Called ‘Circus meets the Mind’, it really gets to the heart of Mish’s work on bipolar circus and the reasons behind the creation of Box of Frogs, her Unlimited Commission that we feature in [...]
Stumble DanceCircus has just released a great trailer for Box of Frogs, interviewing the director Mish Weaver about the the show and why she chose circus as a medium for exploring her own experiences of bipolar disorder