2020 - T1692439082This year's three favourite touring shows from BE FESTIVAL are an all-female line up of companies from Belgium, Switzerland and Hungary, showcasing storytelling, dance and physical theatre in one exhilarating evening. Co-presented once again with Circomedia. | |
26 Mar 20 to 27 Mar 20 | The Tobacco Factory Theatres, Bristol :: V1384579886 listing details L0658737811 |
12 Mar 20 | Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry :: V156 listing details L0955969554 |
T1730089167Each year, BE FESTIVAL packages up three of their favourite shows from their international festival and sends them on a tour of the UK. Out on the road this year, there'll be a daredevil, an illusionist and a juggling-computer-musical genius, performing three nail-biting, 30-minute shows all in one exhilarating evening. In Take Care of Yourself Swiss daredevil and circus performer Marc Oosterhoff, lines up a ludicrous amount of whisky shots and downs them, before attempting to perform a series of hair-raising stunts. UK performance artist, illusionist and professional liar Tom Cassani, questions our collective construction of truth and lies in Someone Loves You Drive With Care. Kulu Orr's funny, pulsating, almost perfectly controlled multimedia circus show, Control Freak, demonstrates his computer genius and desperate pursuit to control everything on stage using various electronic suits of his design. | |
29 Mar 19 | Cast, Doncaster :: V1545109680 listing details L121729734 |
T1928822022An exhilarating medley of circus, theatre and illusion all in one astounding evening. Each year, BE Festival (Birmingham European Festival) packages up three of their favourite shows and sends them on a tour of the UK. Out on the road this year, there'll be a daredevil, an illusionist and a juggling-computer-musical genius. | |
15 Mar 19 | Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury :: V925 listing details L01183821511 |
11 Mar 19 | Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry :: V156 listing details L1373137954 |
T0767957812BE FESTIVAL is Birmingham's international festival of performing arts and we're delighted to present highlights from it again in collaboration with Circomedia. This year Best of BE FESTIVAL features a trio of festival favourites from across Europe; three 30 minute bursts of mask theatre, contemporary performance and comedy circus. Kulunka Teatro present Andr? and Dorine, a piece about an old couple who battle to remember what once held them together after the sudden onset of Alzheimer's disease. It is a heart breaking story told through stunning mask work. Romain Teule's brilliant show L?gende unpacks the possibilities of language and the playful mischief of miscommunication. In What Does Stuff Do? Bristol-based performer Robin Boon Dale trips his way, literally, through a hilarious motivational circus lecture ? you'll never think about water or ping-pong the same way again. | |
15 Mar 18 to 16 Mar 18 | Circomedia, Bristol :: V053777299 listing details L2126842327 |
T576061550Birmingham's international festival of performing arts. Each year, they package up their top 3 shows from the festival and share them with audiences around the country. This year the festival features 3 delicious 30-minute samples of mask, theatre and circus from across Europe, all in one evening. | |
2 Mar 18 | Square Chapel Arts Centre, Halifax :: V1098014226 listing details L0231068863 |
Vacuum/Situation with Outstretched Arm/Overload - T0934515449Experience the highlights of the 2016 festival with three exceptional shows from Italy, Germany & Switzerland each lasting 30 minutes. Vaccum - A transcendental performance created by Philippe Saire, one of Europe's leading exponents of experimental choreography where movement and visual arts converge and bodies weave through black holes and shards of dazzling light. The slo-mo optical canvas mesmerises as two male forms float through a vacuum created in space. Situation with Outstretched Arm - The saluto Romano, the olympic salute, the Bellamy Salute or in its most common form, the Hitler Salute. One of the most powerful and violent symbols of the twentieth century is re-contextualised on stage through physical performance and essay. The German production takes a unique cross-disciplined approach to a controversial subject, one that has re-emerged across Europe in extremist organisations. Overload - Overload is a fast paced and explosive physical theatre performance by four Italians intent on dissecting the noisy interruptions that bombard our day to day lives. Through a witty narrative, the show jumps from one distraction to another analysing the feelings triggered by something ending prematurely and our perpetual sense of confusion. | |
2 May 17 | Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry :: V156 listing details L0904045858 |
#sobrejulieta/Quintetto/The Whistle - T376758228BE FESTIVAL champions emerging theatre, dance and circus artists from across Europe with an annual programme presented in Birmingham. Catch highlights from this year's edition as three daring solo performers play with audience expectation. After the shows there is an opportunity to enjoy an informal chat with the artists during a convivial dinner in the Green Room. A humorous and honest one-woman show about love, chemistry and excess, #sobrejulieta sees Carlota Gavi?o from Madrid try to win hearts in this stripped-back new take on Romeo and Juliet. Italian company TIDA needs t o stage a dance production but is bereft of cast and crew thanks to the financial crisis. Still, the show must go on, so willing audience members are recruited to take on various duties with hilarious results. A razor-sharp comedy, Quintetto was BE FESTIVAL's 2015 first prize award-winner. Irish performer Darragh McLoughlin invites spectators to determine what they watch, prompting their eyes to open and close during a multitude of rapid scene changes. The Whistle is packed with deft circus skills and underpinned by a hidden narrative. | |
6 May 16 | Circomedia, Bristol :: V053777299 listing details L1715636318 |
3 May 16 | Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry :: V156 listing details L1292908785 |
26 Apr 16 | Harrogate Theatre, Harrogate :: V942 listing details L2082943435 |
25 Apr 16 | Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield :: V972 listing details L490888597 |
22 Apr 16 | The Civic, Barnsley :: V959 listing details L0398267101 |
21 Apr 16 | Pegasus Theatre, Oxford :: V801 listing details L02102140899 |
20 Apr 16 | South Street Arts Centre, Reading :: V736 listing details L01322859420 |
19 Apr 16 | Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton :: V160 listing details L0335741233 |
13 Apr 16 to 16 Apr 16 | The Pit, Barbican Centre, West End :: V372 listing details L0805396993 |
9 Apr 16 | Theatr Brycheiniog (Brecon Theatre), Brecon :: V1067 listing details L0167126842 |
7 Apr 16 | Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds :: V76 listing details L2125149177 |
6 Apr 16 | Gulbenkian Arts Centre, Canterbury :: V673 listing details L1970910936 |
From the Waltz to the Mambo/loops & breaks/Waiting - T1902295577From the Waltz to the Mambo by Radioballet (Hungary) Winner: Best performer, BE FESTIVAL 2014 - Three buffoons help and defy one another in equal measure, striving for the tallest construction and the perfect balance. Masterful circus meets mischievous theatre, with buckets of charm. loops & breaks by Julia Schwarzbach (Austria) - A unique and intensely physical piece, fusing freestyle dance with martial arts. Seeking a harmonious and virtuous life, two men are dragged through a series of conflicts and struggles. Waiting by Mokhallad Rasem (Belgium/Irak) Winner: ACT Festival International Touring Prize, BE FESTIVAL 2014 - When Ivan Hansen's neighbour passes away suddenly, Ivan realises he doesn't know anything about him. Intimate storytelling and high-octane physical theatre explore what it is that really connects us.Company Radioballet (Hungary - From the Waltz to the Mambo). Choreographer Milan Ujvari (Hungary - From the Waltz to the Mambo). Lighting Milan Ujvari (Hungary - From the Waltz to the Mambo). Author Julia Schwarzbach (Austria - loops & breaks). Choreographer Julia Schwarzbach (Austria - loops & breaks). Music Nic Lloyd (Austria - loops & breaks). Author Mokhallad Rasem (Belgium / Irak - Waiting). Choreographer Mokhallad Rasem (Belgium / Irak - Waiting). Performer Bassim Altayeb (Belgium / Irak - Waiting). Performer Lore Uyttendaele (Belgium / Irak - Waiting). Performer Jessa Wildemeersch (Belgium / Irak - Waiting). Sound Saad Ibraheem (Belgium / Irak - Waiting). Lighting Mokhallad Rasem (Belgium / Irak - Waiting). | |
8 Nov 14 | Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh :: V605 listing details L01609431569 |
5 Nov 14 | Arts Centre, Aberystwyth :: V817 listing details L01191498215 |
4 Nov 14 | The Atkinson, Southport :: V0485350863 listing details L0741339981 |
21 Oct 14 to 22 Oct 14 | Gulbenkian Arts Centre, Canterbury :: V673 listing details L171907133 |
17 Oct 14 to 18 Oct 14 | General, Manchester :: V1414 listing details L0387419358 |
16 Oct 14 | Circomedia, Bristol :: V053777299 listing details L01701215433 |
13 Oct 14 to 14 Oct 14 | Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham :: V143 listing details L01104980018 |
8 Oct 14 to 11 Oct 14 | The Pit, Barbican Centre, West End :: V372 listing details L0685487752 |
T200254870BE (Birmingham European) Festival has gained a reputation for bringing Europe's most original new theatre to the UK. Enjoy the best of the 2013 festival at the Barbican - three prize-winning performances, plus dinner and a drink with fellow audience members and the performers during the specially extended supper interval. There is an informal post-show discussion each night where audiences can exchange ideas with the creators. | |
22 Oct 13 | Unity Theatre, Liverpool :: V539 listing details L890270010 |
21 Oct 13 | South Hill Park Arts Centre, Wilde Theatre, Bracknell :: V731 listing details L02077369184 |
9 Oct 13 to 12 Oct 13 | The Pit, Barbican Centre, West End :: V372 listing details L01638103543 |
Solfatara/L'Absent/Fantasy No 10: The Beauty of Life - T0370400582One evening. Three unforgettable award-winning shows. Birmingham's acclaimed BE Festival brings together the most daring and delightful theatre from across Europe. This triple bill of festival favourites featuring three 30 minute shows is a unique opportunity to see brand new theatre that has never toured the UK before, so BE part of it! Including a communal meal and discussion session, this should not be missed! Solfatara by A Tres Bandes (Catalunia) BE 2012 Winner of 1st Prize & Audience Prize - What happens when your fear comes round for dinner, and your deepest, darkest thoughts refuse to lie low? Solftara - a term for the volatile openings in volcanic terrain - similarly explores the phenomena that allows our insides to come to the surface. A Tres Bandes was founded three years ago by actors Albert P?rez Hidalgo, Miquel Segovia and M?nica Almirall in Barcelona. They attempt to discover everyday contradictions and share them with the audience. L'Absent by La Compagnie du Geste qui Sauve (Belgium) BE 2012 Winner of Best Physicality - A woman lives alone, though haunted by an absence: that of the man who shared her life before death. He lurks in her life like a shadow, as she lives amidst the false comfort of objects he left behind. This non-verbal piece speaks volumes of our relationships between objects and loss. Formed during their studies at the Kleine Academie in Belgium, the company is inspired by using physical theatre as a universal language. L'Absent is their first project. Fantasy N?10: ?The Beauty of Life' by Vladimir Tzekov (Spain) BE 2012 Winner of Best Mise en Scene - Nothing can be perceived to be truthful, until we accept it as fundamentally normal. An iconoclastic deconstruction of myth; these Granada based performers explore the intermediate space between individuals and their lack of identity. Vladimir Tzekov was founded in 2008, and have since produced performances in collaboration with the University of Granada; the University of S. Clement of Ohrid, in Sofia (Bulgaria) and The International Andalusian University (UNIA). Running time: 1hr 40mins. Suitable for ages 11+Director Mike Tweddle. Director Miguel Oyarzun. Director Isla Aguilar. | |
6 Nov 12 | The Lowry, Salford :: V0655996499 listing details L0548038224 |
5 Nov 12 | Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry :: V156 listing details L1007726642 |
3 Nov 12 | The Carriageworks, Leeds :: V1666392263 listing details L01717404 |
2 Nov 12 | The Civic, Barnsley :: V959 listing details L0479246394 |
1 Nov 12 | The North Wall, Oxford :: V0818740866 listing details L0716000707 |
30 Oct 12 | The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, Gateshead :: V1744216401 listing details L1901678040 |
28 Oct 12 | South Hill Park Arts Centre, Wilde Theatre, Bracknell :: V731 listing details L2100294170 |
26 Oct 12 | Unity Theatre, Liverpool :: V539 listing details L1335774236 |
23 Oct 12 | Arts Centre, Aberystwyth :: V817 listing details L01000359139 |
19 Oct 12 to 20 Oct 12 | Rich Mix, Outer London :: V0478944234 listing details L1557766935 |
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8 Mar 18 | The Civic, Barnsley :: V959 listing details L979005890 |