FIRESIDE
Nikki & JD / LOST DOG
Gather around the fire and let us remind you of what it was to be afraid of the dark.
Don’t build the fire too high, sing too loud or laugh too heartily because he’s out there and he’s hungry.
The award-winning circus company Nikki & JD in collaboration with Lost Dog create an outdoor show that combines circus, dance, theatre and live music to re-enact the original horror story. The one about the monster, and the monster’s mother, and the dragon and the hero and the severed limbs.
Dark, comic and physically dangerous this is a modern re-telling of that ancient epic, Beowulf.
“It was a fantastic, atmospheric, both tense and funny performance. The acrobatics was awesome”
“Fantastic entertainment, very funny, extremely talented guys! Well done!”
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Premiere: 2023
Set-up: outdoor
Running time: 45 minutes
Touring party: 5
Performance area dimensions: 10m in diameter
Capacity: 250-2,000 depending on site
Language: Fireside is available in English and French
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Cast: JD Broussé, Joana Dias, Nikki Rummer, Lawrence Swaddle.
Devised by Ben Duke and the Company
Director: Ben Duke
Designer: Sarah Mercade
Lighting Designer: Jules Young
Sound Designer: Samir Kennedy & Alberto Ruiz Soler
Movement Director: Temitope Ajose
Production Manager: Laura Overton Harvey
Production Consultant: Dave Sherman
Producer: Split Second & Lost Dog
Images: Pablo Herrera Pérez
With the support of Arts Council England and Timber Festival & Wild Rumpus CIC and Festival of Thrift.
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Nikki and JD offer a wide range of wrap-around activities, including: post-show discussions, acrobatics workshops, dance workshops. Available for all ages and levels.
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Award-winning company Nikki & JD was co-founded by acrobatic duo Nikki Rummer and Jean-Daniel Broussé with a unique blend of skills in circus and contemporary dance. The company’s mission is to achieve strong storytelling that packs an emotional punch, using high-level circus schools and dance to evoke the feelings and awe that words cannot always touch, and the words that provide a strong narrative arc. Using humour and the accessibility of acrobatic flips and balances, we seek to take people on dark and joyful journeys into the human condition.
Their first show, Knot, premiered in 2016 in London and has toured globally with over a hundred performances in the UK, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Japan, South Korea and Peru. In 2019, Knot was awarded a Herald Angel and the Jacksons Lane and Total Theatre Award for Circus at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
In 2021 and 2022, Nikki and JD created solo pieces: Nikki’s Unbroken and JD’s (le) Pain, which toured UK-wide, cementing their reputation as forward-thinking talent in the contemporary circus scene.
www.nikkiandjd.com
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For more information, check availability, please contact Axel Satgé: axel@yelloweverything.com.