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STOCKTON INTERNATIONAL
RIVERSIDE FESTIVAL
1-4 AUGUST WWW.SIRF.CO.UK
www.sirf.co.uk SIRF2019 1
Welcome
If you’re reading this then you’re already
interested in SIRF, and why wouldn’t you be,
it’s the UKs finest street arts festival. Audiences
come back year after year and their feedback
is always positive. It’s simple really; carefully
selected performances from all over the world,
some newly created for SIRF and some just
new to our shores, squeezed cheek by jowl
into Stockton’s town centre, in 4 fizzing days
of creativity. There’ll be dancing on shipping
containers and in camper vans, on tight ropes
and atop poles, there’ll be theatre under water
and high above your heads, there’ll be satire,
storytelling and seriousness – and a bit of pyro!
In his first year as SIRF’s Artistic Director, the
hugely experienced Jeremy Shine has prepared
us a feast, and Stockton Council and Arts
Council England are going Dutch so it’s all free.
Come, sit down and enjoy.
Brought to you by:
Reuben Kench
Director of Culture,
Events & Leisure,
Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council
We’d also like to say a huge thank you to all our partners, performers,
volunteers, contributors and supporters who help make SIRF a success.
This programme lists all the companies appearing at
the festival this year, conveniently grouped by location.
You’ll also find a handy timetable and map showing
all the locations at the back of the programme.
Key:
SIRF is a partner in Without Walls, working with festivals and artists
to bring a fantastic range of outdoor arts to people in towns and cities Shows for Ticketed shows -
across the UK. This year we are presenting 14 new shows that have children and see listings for
been supported by Without Walls for 2019. their adults more information
Show times are approximate and subject to change,
especially in the case of bad weather. Visit the
website and follow us on social media for any last
minute changes.
www.sirf.co.uk @sirf_stockton
/stocktonfestival sirf_stockton
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STOCKTON RAJASTHAN Filling the High Street with
spectacular, colourful and
HIGH STREET HERITAGE vibrant sounds will be The
Rajasthan Heritage Brass Band.
BRASS BAND Their heady and hypnotic music
(INDIA) will transport you to the golden
sands and the Indian Thar
Desert.
Stockton High Street www.accessallareas.info
Thursday 1 August,
6pm and 7:30pm
FESTIVAL
LAUNCH
The Festival begins with an early evening launch as
street artists and strolling bands bring colour and
carnival to Stockton High Street. MOTIONHOUSE
Evening timetable: WILD
6:00pm Rajasthan Heritage Brass Band
Stockton High Street Wild is also being performed
6:30pm Generik Vapeur Thursday 1 August, Thursday 1 August; 1:15pm
7:30pm Rajasthan Heritage Brass Band 7:45pm Friday 2 August at 1:15pm
7.45pm Motionhouse and 4:15pm
WILD, the daring new dance- Supported by Without Walls and
GENERIK VAPEUR (FRANCE) circus production from
Motionhouse, explores our
commissioned by a number of festivals
and organisations.
Drôles d'oiseaux et art blaxon disconnect with the natural
environment. In our increasingly
Stockton High Street Join the hubbub as the music urban lives, is the wild still
Thursday 1 August, gets into full swing and the cars shaping our behaviour?
STOCKTON
6:30pm are transformed into a painted Performers use powerful
sea of colour. The hullaballoo physicality and daring feats
5 4 3 2 1 Go!
Follow a troop of 20 performers
builds to a spectacular full
throttle creation of a giant sized
to move through an intriguing
forest of giant poles. HIGH STREET
rainbow as we welcome the start www.motionhouse.co.uk
and a train of seven white cars of SIRF’s 32nd festival.
as they progress along Stockton www.generikvapeur.com
High Street.
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STOCKTON
RIVERSIDE
THEATER TOL
(NETHERLANDS)
Hotel Watercage
5 Stockton Riverside
Sunday 4 August,
9:30pm
A remarkable aerial
performance by Theater Tol
which portrays the battle
between the head and the
heart. The characters of Hotel
Watercage appear to have lost
each other forever because
they have become out of touch
with themselves. The world
around them judges them from
afar, deprives them of their
freedom, and condemns them
to isolation. The realisation
that they are not alone in their
imprisonment empowers them
to redress their predicament.
These soulmates find each other
and together, they fight to find
the key to happiness and leave
their past behind to a flourish
of pyrotechnics provided by
pa-Boom
www.theatertol.com
FESTIVAL
FINALÉ
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STOCKTON SISUS SIRKUS (FINLAND) VINCENT
RIVERSIDE Mosh Split GLOWINSKI
5 Stockton Riverside trapezes, skipping rope, pair (BELGIUM)
Friday 2 August and acrobatics and Washington Human Brush
Saturday 3 August, trapeze. When the doors of
8:30pm the van open, toilet paper will 5 Stockton Riverside
become a huge, hypnotic skirt Friday 2 August and
This energetic show is built and vacuum cleaners turn into Saturday 3 August,
around a crazy camper van, hair dressers! This is what 10:15pm
flexible legs and a 10-metre- Mosh Split is made of!
high truss structure - featuring www.sisus.net Vincent Glowinski is a living
two simultaneously swinging paintbrush using his body to
create patterns and images that
are recorded, multiplied and
projected onto a giant screen by
a suspended camera. The body,
lit like a photo in a darkroom,
leaves traces of pictures that
grow and disappear. From the
motion, rolling and vibrating of
his body all sorts of shapes and
figures emerge – other worldly
skeletons, unknown vertebrate
species and images reminiscent
of old cave paintings or
confusing X-ray details.
www.entropieproduction.be
FURINKAI
(FRANCE)
Origami
5 Stockton Riverside
Friday 2 August
and Saturday 3 August,
9:30pm
Inspired by ancestral Japanese
origami techniques, Origami
turns a 40 foot shipping
container into a shifting
performance space. Dancer
Satchie Noro slowly evolves on
the mechanical structure as it
folds up from triangle to square
and rectangle. Origami is a
duet between a machine and a
dancer, an industrial romance in
which a symbol of globalisation,
a container, embraces the
fragile scale of the human body.
www.furinkai.com
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STOCKTON DOROTHY’S SHOES
HIGH STREET Ragroof Tea Dance
1 High Street Plinth
Sunday 4 August,
2pm-5pm
Fancy a whimsical Waltz, a dance displays, and mistress
cheeky Cha Cha or a jazzy Jive? of the dance Dorothy’s Shoes’
The Ragroof Tea Dance trademark Instant Dance
welcomes every one of all Classes, which guarantee to get
ages and abilities to trip the everybody moving.
light fantastic. Join us for an All welcome – experienced
afternoon of dancing delights, dancers and absolute beginners
featuring a DJ playing authentic alike. No dance partner needed.
music from the 1920s to 1950s, www.dorothymax.wixsite.com/
vintage costumes, glorious dorothysshoes
AVANTI
DISPLAY
Full Circle
2 High Street Fountain
Friday 2 August,
2pm and 4:30pm
Saturday 3 August,
2pm and 5pm AXIAL DANCE
Dissolve
Full Circle is a mischievous,
experimental show performed 2 High Street Fountain
in the round. A series of odd Friday 2 August,
actions intrigue the audience, 3:15pm and 6pm
drawing them into a circle. The Saturday 3 August,
audience become more than 3:15pm and 6:30pm
a group of strangers, through
helping the performers they This is a human story rather
become a team. Now invested than a love story… with water.
in where the show is going, Two characters meet, the first, a
although they don’t know positive soul who reaches out to
where that is, they ultimately the second to draw them into a
will decide how things end better world. Water and human
and for one audience member touch are essential elements
this decision will have in this story, where life forces
consequences. play crucial roles. Created and
A slow and intriguing choreographed for Stockton’s
performance with suspense, central water fountain by Ruth
hilarity and unforeseeable
consequences. Just how many
Jones of Axial Dance.
STOCKTON
buckets do they need?
www.avantidisplay.co.uk
HIGH STREET
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JOLI VYANN JOSS ARNOTT DANCE
STOCKTON Lance Moi En L’Air’ PULSE! STOCKTON
HIGH STREET 2 High Street Fountain 1 High Street Plinth 3 High Street South HIGH STREET
Sunday 4 August, Saturday 3 August, Sunday 4 August,
2:45pm and 6:45pm 1:15pm and 5:30pm 1:15pm and 4:45pm
A show about the sensitivity and A brand-new dance and live music experience created
connection between two people, for the streets. Performed entirely around a unique 3.5m
bringing about compatible high percussion wheel, designed by Eleanor Bull and
contradictions. Can we be strong engineered by Rolls-Royce. This adrenaline-fuelled show
whilst relaxed? Heavy whilst is a combination of rhythmical flare and heart-in-mouth
light, grounded whilst levitated, choreography for all the family to enjoy.
submissive whilst in control? It Audio description is available for download.
explores a mixture of strength www.jossarnottdance.com
and weakness. Can we be
dropped into the air? Humanity Supported by Without Walls and commissioned
by a number of festivals and organisations
emerges, and acrobatic prowess
speaks between bodies. In a
mixture of abandonment and
KAPOW DANCE
accountability this piece is
sensitive, where bodies just
CIRCUS
fit together. THEATRE
www.joli-vyann.com Adrift
Supported by Without Walls and
commissioned by a number of festivals
2 High Street Fountain
and organisations Saturday 3 August,
1:30pm and 4:30pm
Sunday 4 August,
1:30pm and 6:15pm
ADRIFT tells the story of two
INITIATIVE.DKF women lost at sea on a moving
Scalped wooden raft. In this journey
across oceans, we witness the
3 High Street South danger, courage and struggles
Sunday 4 August, of the characters as they
2pm and 3:45pm battle the odds and learn to
live together in this small and
A mix of fashion and otherness, Scalped is an outdoor unpredictable landscape.
dance theatre exhibition piece focusing on black Performed in the round, using
women’s hair in professional spaces and western dance, physical theatre and
society. In a world of consistent judgement and literal circus, Kapow have captured
poking and prodding, we play on the idea that life is a risky, exciting and dynamic
a fashion show. The piece includes nods to Grace journey, mixed with a sensitivity
Jones whose career embodies breaking free from and uncertainty which can be
expectations and the boundaries faced by black understood by many.
women. The overriding message is of self-acceptance. www.kapowdance.co.uk
www.initiativedkf.com Supported by Without Walls and
commissioned by a number of festivals
Supported by Without Walls and commissioned and organisations
by a number of festivals and organisations
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MIMBRE RAMSHACK-
Lifted
LICIOUS STOCKTON
2 High Street Fountain The Band at the HIGH STREET
Friday 2 August, End of the World!
2:45pm and 5.15pm
Saturday 3 August, 2 High Street Fountain Their simple existence, struggle
2:45pm and 6pm Saturday 3 August, and joy is unravelled and played
8:30pm out through a series of beautiful
All female acrobatic theatre striking imagery and audience
company Mimbre return this 3 High Street South interactions ranging from
year with a brand new outdoor Sunday 4 August, gentle to manic. Be prepared
show, collaborating with three 5pm and 8:30pm as they take you into the next
new choreographers to mix phase switching over to the new
their trademark acrobalance Five musicians arrive, dressed dawn, into the next frequency
movement and techniques in punk marching band attire of consciousness. A humorous
with new styles. Lifted is a and with the intensity of the and emotional re-styling of the
choreographic indulgence that inevitable end of the world traditional street band.
celebrates and explores the burning through their eyes. www.ramshacklicious.com
expressions and impressions
that appear when three strong Supported by Without Walls and
women move, lift and balance commissioned by a number of
festivals and organisations
each other.
www.mimbre.co.uk
Supported by Without Walls Supported
by Without Walls and commissioned by a
number of festivals and organisations
STOCKTON
HIGH STREET
NEWTONS LADDER
Sirin (Hope is the Thing with Feathers) SAFETY CATCH THEATRE
3 High Street South women. It is inspired by human Doctor! Doctor!
Sunday 4 August, ambition to possess and tame still standing, holding the Join the performers before
3:15pm and 7:15pm the unknown. 1 High Street Plinth only equipment left. An artful, the show for immersive and
www.newtonsladder.co.uk Friday 2 August, farcical love triangle set in interactive activities including
Through narrative aerial 3:30pm and 6:30pm a clapped out community a medical test lab, and DIY
choreography, two compelling Supported by Without Walls and Saturday 3 August, ambulance. Can the audience in surgery lessons.
performers tell a love story
commissioned by a number of 3:30pm and 7pm the waiting room help them cure www.safetycatch.co.uk
festivals and organisations
like no other. Drawn from the The satirical slapstick medical all in this national health crisis?
Newton’s Ladder are returning
ancient myth of man falling in roadshow – with the last Doctor, Surgical demonstration gone
with a full scale show having previously
love with a beautiful bird-like performed this show at SIRF17 Nurse and Paramedic wrong meets old-time travelling
medicine show.
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TANGLED FEET
That Parking Show
3 High Street South spaces. But what really fuels the choices and the contents of the
Sunday 4 August, road rage? Witness a hilarious, boot, as Tangled Feet explore
2:30pm and 4:15pm acrobatic and absurdist mix of the lighting rod of our daily
parking row meets full-blown frustrations. Bonnets pop, roofs
There are three certainties in war as two cars vie for one peel open and everything (and
life: death, taxes and people parking spot. As cars collide so everyone!) starts to unhinge.
getting angry about parking do the occupants, their musical www.tangledfeet.com
STOCKTON
HIGH STREET
SPITZ & CO
Les Gloriables
2 High Street Fountain Inspired by “Les Miserables”, Josephine has promised to build
Friday 2 August, legendary French actress Gloria a barricade. Expect a master
3:45pm and 7:15pm Delaneuf has created a life- class in mutiny – French style
Saturday 3 August, changing piece of theatre with – complete with berets and
3:45pm and 7:45pm the power to reunite Europe. baguettes.
She has dreamed a dream, and www.spitzandco.com
her hapless assistant
Supported by Without Walls and
commissioned by a number of
festivals and organisations
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STOCKTON UPSWING
HIGH STREET Catch Me
1 High Street Plinth
Friday 2 August,
3pm and 5:45pm
Saturday 3 August,
3:15pm and 5:45pm
With an intergenerational cast, Catch Me playfully pokes at our
expectations of the relationship between age and genders. Blending
dance, circus, sound and design trickery to ask powerful questions
about how we value others and what they are capable of.
www.upswing.org.uk
Supported by Without Walls and commissioned by a number of festivals and organisations
DESPERATE
MEN
Slapstick & Slaughter
1 High Street Plinth
Saturday 3 August,
2:30pm and 4:45pm
2 High Street Fountain
Sunday 4 August,
5:30pm and 7:45pm
Two men recklessly attempt
to confront the absurdity of STOPGAP DANCE
war in just 40 minutes, using
their bodies, their voices
COMPANY
and the surrealist toolbox of Frock
DADAism. Playful, physical and
blackly comedic, SLAPSTICK 1 High Street Plinth
& SLAUGHTER examines how Saturday 3 August,
the barbaric chaos of WW1 2pm and 4:15pm
manifested itself in the nihilistic, Sunday 4 August,
nonsensical art that grew 1:30pm and 5pm
from it.
This show splatters big ideas on Brace yourself for an uplifting dance riot. Six striking dancers revel
a small canvas, exploring art’s
reaction to the war’s wholesale
in 21st Century freedoms of self-identity. Watch a clash of eras, a
collision of partner work and a blend of genders from Stopgap’s STOCKTON
destruction of lives, the old
order and old hypocrisies and
virtuosic inclusive cast. This ‘Punkish’ dance invites you to think
about your unconscious bias and reminds us why difference can and HIGH STREET
finding echoes in equally absurd should be celebrated today.
modern conflicts. www.stopgapdance.com
www.desperatemen.com Supported by Without Walls and commissioned by a number of festivals and organisations
18 SIRF2019 www.sirf.co.uk www.sirf.co.uk SIRF2019 19STOCKTON FROLICKED to uncover a series of hidden
locations whilst exploring
HIGH STREET Quest for the Tees Tusk familiar and not so well-known
features of the town centre.
Free but ticketed, Complete the hunt and you’ll
tickets available from win a small prize AND be in
SIRF Central as below: with a chance to win a one-off
original, framed illustration of
10 Friday 2 August, Saturday 3 the town’s hidden (and not so
August and Sunday 4 August hidden) wonders!
Mornings; 10:45am, 11am, www.frolicked.co.uk
11:15am and 12pm -
all tickets available from 10am
on day of performance Practical Information
Afternoons; 2:45pm, 3pm,
1) The Treasure Hunt will
3:15pm and 3:30pm –
take between 45-75 minutes
all tickets available from 2pm
depending on your skill at
on day of performance
deciphering the clues.
The Quest for the Tees Tusk is 2) The route is fully accessible
Frolicked theatre company’s and approximately 2 km.
newest puppet-filled, puzzle- 3) It’s suitable for all ages
fuelled adventure for the whole from 7 years old
family. You’ll encounter a cast
4) Teams can comprise 2-5
of colourful characters as you
people at least one of whom
use your powers of deduction
should be an adult.
COMMUNITY The Carnival begins with
a parade of hundreds of
Times:
12pm: The Parade begins on
CARNIVAL performers from local schools
and community groups, many
Church Road before turning left
onto Stockton High Street. It
Tales of the Tees Valley dressed in colourful costumes, will travel along the High Street
celebrating the Tees Valley. passing the Town Hall and The
10 SIRF Community Carnival Thousands of people are
Shambles before turning into
Stockton High Street and Tower Street and looping back
expected to line the route
Stockton Riverside along Riverside Road.
for the vibrant parade as the
Saturday 3 August,
procession passes along
12pm-3:30pm 12.30pm-3.30pm: The
Stockton High Street leading
Parade will arrive on Stockton
to the Riverside where you can
This year’s SIRF Community Riverside for an afternoon of
enjoy an afternoon of free live
Carnival will celebrate all that performances, including live
music, family entertainment and
is unique and wonderous about music, family entertainment
workshops following the parade.
our beautiful towns. Our Tales of and workshops.
the Tees Valley theme will bring Supported by HLF as part of Great Place
together 40 community groups Tees Valley
for a spectacular parade not to
be missed.
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GARDENS The Bonkers Balloon
Show
7 Parish Gardens
Friday 2 August,
2:15pm and 3:45pm
Saturday 3 August,
2:30pm and 4:15pm
The Bonkers Balloon Show
does what it says on the tin! A
completely off the wall, unique
show filled with comedy, circus
fun, music, magic and lots
and lots of balloons. A simple
FULLY BOOKED THE balloon gets turned into an
THEATRE FABULARIUM alien, a helicopter and an air
guitar, audience members
Once Upon a Wall Reynard The Fox are transformed into balloon
immediately blame the fox. creatures in front of your very
7 Parish Gardens 7 Parish Gardens Reynard must do everything eyes, and a magic trick makes a
Friday 2 August, Saturday 3 August, he can to prove his innocence balloon appear from nowhere.
2:45pm and 4:15pm 1:45pm and 3:30pm and avoid certain death, as www.foolsparadise.co.uk
Sunday 4 August, Sunday 4 August, well as maintaining his devious
2:30pm and 4:15pm 1:45pm and 3:30pm persona. Will the gift of his silver
A new interactive dance-theatre The tale of Reynard the Fox
tongue be a shade too bright
against his roguish red fur to APOCALYPTIC CIRCUS
show for children and families. follows the woodlands most save his own tail? My House
Join Hum-T on her fast-paced infamous scoundrel who prides
dancing adventure through the himself on being the trickster Performed on their traditional 7 Parish Gardens Saturday 3 August,
streets of Lost Sandwiches. of the forest. But when the wooden cart, the show features Friday 2 August, 1:15pm, 3pm and 4:45pm
Build a giant wall, throw down Woodland Court announces storytelling, puppetry, original 1:45pm and 3:15pm Sunday 4 August,
some signature moves, and the theft of the King’s Crown live music and The Fabularium’s 1:15pm and 3pm
watch one very large egg Jewels the animal kingdom bespoke animal headpieces.
scramble to the top. Kids and www.fabularium.co.uk
adults alike join in the fun on Welcome to “My House”! Come we create to feel at home and
the egg-venture of a lifetime, close and look in through the how we must compromise to live
dancing the sizzling bacon enticing doors and windows. alongside others.
dance, hip-hopping with the If you are patient enough you After the show everyone is
Royal Rebels and helping an might find out who lives here! welcome to explore and play
egg to see the Sunnyside of life. “My House” is a circus theatre (carefully) in the structure.
experience for little people and www.linnbroden.com
An egg. A wall. A very big fall. their families. This magical,
www.fullybookedtheatre.com quirky structure, invites people Supported by Without Walls and
commissioned by a number of
to come close and almost festivals and organisations
become part of the performance.
The show exploring, in a playful
way, what habits and routines
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GARDENS (FRANCE) STOCKTON
Phasmes
body. It questions the place of
7 Parish Gardens humans in nature. The bodies
Friday 2 August and mutate, move and interact
Saturday 3 August, with the environment, evoking
8pm animal, mineral and plant life.
Prepare to experience morphing
Phasmes, a sensuous two- figures galloping between
person performance that headless creatures, delicate
invents a new acrobatic insects, creeping aliens and
language, developed from the architecture.
raw, tactile and transmutable www.libertivore.fr
RAY LEE
Congregation
Free but ticketed; tour across Stockton to a secret Important information
Tickets available location, guiding you by sound 1) Starting points are 5-15
from SIRF Central alone. Your job is to keep the minutes walk from SIRF Central
one hour before advertised sphere happy by going in the – all but one are fully accessible
starting time right direction. Remember, only
the sphere knows where you 2) Walking distance is
between 1 and 2 km
10 Starts at SIRF Central are being taken! If you go the
Friday 2 August and right way it will let you know by 3) Each sphere can be used for
Saturday 3 August, making a ‘happy’ sound, but if 1 person or small groups
11:45am, 1:45pm, you start to go the wrong way it 4) Please allow 45-60 minutes
5pm and 7pm will sound sad. for this performance
www.invisible-forces.com
5) No minimum age but under
A sonic mystery-tour.
Supported by Without Walls and 16’s must be accompanied by
Let Ray Lee’s magic sonic commissioned by a number of an adult
spheres take you on a mystery festivals and organisations
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THE OTHER ACTION D’ESPACE (FRANCE)
WAY WORKS ARC First Cry
A Moment of Madness 11 Secret Location,
meet outside ARC
Free but ticketed; Saturday 3 August and
Tickets available Sunday 4 August,
from SIRF Central 12pm and 4pm
one hour before advertised
starting time When you arrive at the secret location, two men and two women
appear. They speak of children...of what it is like to be a mother, a
10 Starts at SIRF Central father. What it is to procreate or decide not to; to have children or not
Friday 2 August, Saturday 3 to, destiny, nature, love, chance, necessity...They become silent, live
August and Sunday 4 August, life through dance, skim by us in an outdoor ballet. They slip their
1:45pm, 5pm and 7:30pm hands in ours, recognise us, we are from the same tribe and we also
go forth. They cling to our arms, scream into our bodies, confide
As the press gather for a big to us doubts and convictions, tell us eye to eye their vibrant truth.
announcement on the new Different lives, common destinies, life then death.
environmental bill, a politician’s www.actiondespace.wordpress.com
future hangs in the balance.
Thrust into the heart of a spy Important information
thriller, you’ll navigate the
1) The route is fully accessible and is approximately 1 km from ARC
political scandal of the decade.
Staking out a multi-storey car 2) Please allow approximately 90 minutes from departure time
park, you must use every mode 3) The audience may be required to follow performance as it moves
of surveillance to hunt down LO-GIUDICE through the site
facts and intercept evidence.
As agents of the state you will DANCE The company receives the backing of French Ministry of Culture and Communication
expose a complex network L’uomo (General Direction for Artistic Creation, Regional Direction for Cultural Affairs); Occitanie
of corruption that threatens Regional Council, Hérault Departmental Council and the City of Montpellier.
to destroy the UK’s path to 4 Green Dragon Yard
environmental progress. Saturday 3 August and
www.theotherwayworks.co.uk Sunday 4 August,
2pm and 4pm DEBORDANTE movement, their silhouettes
emerge, the landscape is
Practical Information
1) Limited capacity - 24 tickets L’uomo (Italian for ’The Man’) (FRANCE) transformed around them.
Some of them progress faster
available per show, a maximum is a short dance theatre duet Far than others, retreat, leave.
of 2 tickets per person that tells a story of two men They amalgamate, form a
2) Participants will need to be struggling to articulate their 5 Infinity Bridge (Stockton side) group, supporting each other,
able to get in and out of a car feelings for one-another, created Saturday 3 August and then separate becoming again
that remains static. using real-life accounts from Sunday 4 August, solitary individuals.
LGBTQ people about public 10am and 7.30pm www.ladebordante.com
3) Each car has maximum
displays of affection.
capacity of 4 people
Caught between a place where If you look carefully, you will see Important information
4) Minimum age; 16 but under moments driven by the heart- in the distance, bodies appear 1) The Infinity Bridge is
18’s must be accompanied by felt become entangled with the and detach from the landscape. approximately 1 km from
an adult discomforts of prejudice, L’uomo Like a mirage they appear Stockton High Street
5) Please allow 75 minutes from examines and highlights the blurry, their gestures vague.
GREEN
concerns same-sex couples can They are getting closer and we 2) Please allow 15 minutes to
advertised starting time
still face when holding hands or can distinguish more precise walk each way
INFINITY
6) Walking distance
approximately 1 km
showing affection in public.
www.logiudicedance.com DRAGON
YARD BRIDGE
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(WALKABOUT) BOING
High Street Walkabout
Saturday 3 August,
11am and 2pm
BOING is a character who
makes noises but never speaks.
His whole body is full of sound
that’s literally bursting to get
out - be it from his fingers or
his feet. A cheeky chap with an
insatiable curiosity for the world
around him, BOING invites you
to see & hear the world from his
own unique perspective. A show
for all ages combining humour
with pathos.
www.plungeboom.com
Supported by Without Walls and
BACK CHAT
commissioned by a number of
festivals and organisations BRASS
High Street Walkabout their brassy twist on classic
Saturday 3 August, tunes combined with electrifying
2:30pm showmanship will ignite the
street. Wielding their horns
Back Chat Brass are an instant whilst roaming the street they
favourite. With a nod to their won’t fail to get your toe tapping
roots in pop, funk and hip hop, and the party started.
www.backchatbrass.co.uk
KAMCHÀTKA Roaming around the town
centre, you may come across,
The spectator becomes an active
part of the exchange. Shall
(CATALUÑYA/ eight lost characters. Carrying
their own suitcase you’re left to
we build our future with the
Kamchàtka members or should
SPAIN) decide if they are passers-by or we reject them? Kamchàtka
immigrants. Naïve and curious, is the first part of a trilogy –
High Street Walkabout their emotions are barely the Company will return with
Saturday 3 August, contained, they know nothing Habitaculum in 2020 and Fugit
11am and 3:30pm about our norms, rules or way in 2021
Sunday 4 August, of life. The game they play is so www.kamchatka.cat
1:15pm and 4:30pm subtle it could be mistaken
for reality.
28 SIRF2019 www.sirf.co.uk www.sirf.co.uk SIRF2019 29CHURCH
ROAD
TICKERTAPE PARADE
Fantabulosa!
glitter; where boundaries and original songs.
8 Church Road are forgotten and everyone Fantabulosa! is open to anyone,
Friday 2 August and and anyone can be whoever young and old, who wants to
Saturday 3 August they want to be. Join some experience the joys and freedom
2:30pm and 5pm of the UK’s leading drag of self-expression. Age Range:
artists for a queer-positive 3-8 (but fabulous for adults too)
Step into the unforgettable participatory family drag show www.tickertapeparade.org
magic of Fantabulosa! - a for public spaces encompassing
fantastical pop-up world of interactive storytelling, lipsync, Supported by Without Walls and
commissioned by a number of
CHURCH
imagination, storytelling and performance, dress-up, games festivals and organisations
ROAD WILD N BEETS
Buck A Brenda
8 Church Road
Friday 2 August
1:30pm and 4pm
Saturday 3 August
ELEPHANTS LAUGH 2pm and 4pm
(REPUBLIC OF KOREA) Join country and western lovers,
Beryl and Cyril, for ‘Buck-
MULJIL A-Brenda’, the wheelchair
wobbling game of chance.
8 Church Road each Haenyeo endures a critical we are all immersed in the Based on the popular family
Friday 2 August and moment of breathlessness same sea. Nobody can choose game ‘Buckaroo’, teams take it
Saturday 3 August, at least twice. Only those the conditions of life themselves. in turns to place objects on our
10pm who are determined to risk www.elephantslaugh.com burdened Brenda. But be careful
their lives can overcome such as you go, one flip, and that’s it!
brief moments of crisis. The Commissioned by Ansan Street Arts
Festival, Seoul Street Arts Creation Center Disability politics meet ‘Dallas’
The Korean word ‘MULJIL’ refers crossroads of life and death that and supported by Arts Council Korea. in this rip-roaring, participatory
to diving activities by Haenyeo, Haenyeo encounter when diving performance for all ages!
female divers of Jeju Island. exists in our daily lives and www.darylbeeton.com
When diving for shellfish, although separated like islands,
Supported by Without Walls and commissioned by a number of festivals and organisations
30 SIRF2019 www.sirf.co.uk www.sirf.co.uk SIRF2019 31THE
COURTYARD
OFF CHURCH ROAD
Please note; The Courtyard has a limited
capacity of 200 people and we may have to
turn people away during busy periods.
AMER I AFRICA
(CATALUÑYA/
SPAIN)
Envà
9 The Courtyard
Friday 2 August and
Saturday 3 August, 8:30pm
Sunday 4 August, 8:15pm
THE SPORTHORSES PRESQUE
AND THE GUGGENHEIM BOX SIAMOISES
(SWITZERLAND) (FRANCE)
Between 250kg of straw and
125kg of human mass, two
people play around through Rock the Box Au point du jour
movement, balance, humour
and composition of space, 9 The Courtyard Tickets £2 to cover
exploring the peculiarities of Friday 2 August and cost of breakfast.
human relationships. Saturday 3 August, Limited capacity of 46
ENVÀ (in Catalan) is a thin wall 7pm and 9.45pm tickets for both days
that is constructed to separate will be available at 5:30pm on
spaces. People often build Clip-clop, here come the Sporthorses with a thrilling DIY electronic Thursday 1 August from SIRF
mental walls that protect us concert the Guggenheim Box. Prepare to see dancing, jumping and Central (Tickets needed for
from a serious emotional danger air drumming. Generating music by crossing light barriers that children over 3yrs – Babes in
regarding others. We spend our trigger a modular synthesised sounds and samples, The Sporthorses arms free)
lives looking for a way to free create a musical experience like no other.
ourselves and all we need is to 9 The Courtyard
knock that wall down. ‘The Box’ includes self-made electric instruments such as a fiddle, a Saturday 3 August
www.amerafricacirc.com guitar and a one-string bass, filter stations and flashing Blinksy. The and Sunday 4 August, 10am
electronic sounds will make your dancing shoes move, your heart
Project selected by the Funds for creation gallop and your imaginary spaceship take off! And after the Show: If good things have an end,
of the cooperation project De Mar a Mar, you can have a go - Clip Clop - you rock the Box! they also have a beginning.
in the frame of the POCTEFA programme.
With the support of La Central del Circ, www.thesporthorses.com At the point of the day (Au
La Grainerie, Hameka. With the support
of INAEM, Generalitat de Catalunya
Point du Jour) invites you in the
departament de Cultura, Institut Ramon early morning to take time to
Llull, Xarxa Transversal. celebrate the day ahead with
some toast, good coffee and
maybe a juggled egg.
Counter contortions and
convoluted services: getting up
on the right foot is an acrobatic
story! Curiosity awakened -
appetite for the day comes...
Good morning!
www.presque-siamoises.fr
32 SIRF2019 www.sirf.co.uk www.sirf.co.uk SIRF2019 33YOUR GUIDE
TO ALL THINGS SIRF
Whether you’re a SIRF CENTRAL ACCESSIBLE
regular visitor, or Located on Stockton High Street
this is your one stop shop for SIRF
this is your first more information about the We’re committed to ensuring
festival, merchandise and
SIRF, we are here tickets.
that SIRF is as accessible as FESTIVAL GETTING TO SIRF
possible for everyone.
to help you make SIRF Central, Rediscover Find out more on our website
VILLAGE Buses: Stockton Town Centre
is well served by buses from
Driving: There is ample car
parking within easy walking
Stockton, 134b High Street, or visit SIRF Central for more Location 6 on map across the Tees Valley. distance to Stockton Town
the most of your Stockton-on-Tees TS18 1LP information. The Festival Village is situated Train: Stockton station is 5 Centre. Please see website for
Festival visit: • S IRF buddy service at the crossroads of SIRF - minutes walk from the Town a list of the available car parks
along with any road and parking
THE TEAM ON
between High Street, Riverside Centre. Thornaby station is
• A
ccess lanyards and Parish Gardens - location 6 just across the river - it’s a 15 restrictions in-place during the
• Choose your shows festival.
THE STREET • D
isabled access on map. A place to sit and chat minutes walk to the Town Centre
• Get the latest updates with family and friends, or make and there are frequent buses
at www.sirf.co.uk or Our incredibly friendly and • B
SL performances new ones whilst grabbing a from outside the station as well
helpful Visitor Experience Team • T
ickertape Parade (page snack from a top class range of as a taxi rank.
follow us on social street food stalls.
in their orange SIRF t-shirts will 31), all Saturday shows Berwick
media be located at all our venues so
• Come prepared for do ask them for; • T
ouch tours
• K
apow (page 15),
NCT &
all weathers - bring a Alnwick
TEESSIDE
• Directions and other useful available on all shows,
raincoat, sunscreen information must be booked in
and sunglasses too! • Programmes
(if you need another one)
advance at SIRF Central
SLING LIBRARY Newcastle upon Tyne
• Take time out of your Location 7 on map
busy Festival day to • Guiding you around the SIRF TICKETS SIRF & National Childbirth
Carlisle
enjoy our Festival Festival, providing support, All but one SIRF19 shows are Trust (NCT) have teamed up to Durham
Village and sample advice and recommendations FREE and for most of them you offer a pop up family tent within Stockton-on-Tees
on what to see can just turn up for the start. Parish Gardens. The space will
some of the best food Darlington
• Helping you navigate the However there are four shows offer baby changing facilities,
and drink our town has with a limited capacity – these space and seats for breatfeeding
festival with up-to-date
to offer information if anything are clearly marked with a T sign mums. There will also be an
with information about when to opportunity to hire a sling from
Enjoy! changes
get your tickets for each from Teesside Sling Library to help
York
SIRF Central. you get around the festival and
Leeds
for tired little legs.
SIRF19 ticketed shows:
• Frolicked, page 21
For further information:
• R
ay Lee, page 25
Visit www.sirf.co.uk /stocktonfestival
• T
he Other Way Works, General enquires, Accessible SIRF & SIRF Central: 01642 528130 @sirf_stockton
page 26
Follow us on social media sirf_stockton
• P
resque Siamoises, Page 33
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36 SIRF2019 www.sirf.co.uk www.sirf.co.uk SIRF2019 37DAILY TIMETABLES
THURSDAY 1ST AUGUST 2019
VENUE 6.00pm 6.15pm 6.30pm 6.45pm 7.00pm 7.15pm 7.30pm 7.45pm 8.00pm 8.15pm
Rajasthan
Rajasthan Heritage Heritage Tickertape
High Street Generik Vapeur pg4 Motionhouse pg4
Brass Band pg4 Brass Parade
Band pg4
Page 31
FRIDAY 2ND AUGUST 2019
VENUE 10.00am 10.15am 10.30am 10.45am 11.00am 11.15am 11.30am 11.45am 12.00pm 12.15pm 12.30pm 12.45pm 1.15pm 1.30pm 1.45pm 2.00pm 2.15pm 2.30pm 2.45pm 3.00pm 3.15pm 3.30pm 3.45pm 4.00pm 4.15pm 4.30pm
Upswing
High Street Plinth Motionhouse pg4 Safety Catch pg15 Motionhouse pg4
pg19
Avanti
High Street Fountain Avanti Display pg10 Mimbre pg14 Axial Dance pg10 Spitz & Co pg16 Display
pg10
Apocalyptic Circus Balloonatic Fully Booked Theatre Apocalyptic Circus Balloonatic Fully Booked Theatre
Parish Gardens
pg23 pg23 pg22 pg23 pg23 pg22
Pre-show
Pre-show Tickertape Post-show Ticker-
Church Road Wild N Beets pg31 Tickertape Parade pg31 Wild N Beets pg31 Tickertape
Parade pg31 tape Parade pg31
Parade pg31
Ray Lee pg25 Ray Lee pg25 Frolicked pg21
Ticketed shows -
start SIRf Central
Frolicked pg21 The Other Way Works pg26
High Street Walkabout Balloonatic pg23
Continued... All information is correct at time of print and is subject to change at short notice due to unforeseen
circumstances such as bad weather. Please check our website and social media for latest information
VENUE 4.30pm 4.45pm 5.00pm 5.15pm 5.30pm 5.45pm 6.00pm 6.15pm 6.30pm 6.45pm 7.00pm 7.15pm 7.30pm 7.45pm 8.00pm 8.15pm 8.30pm 8.45pm 9.00pm 9.15pm 9.30pm 9.45pm 10.00pm 10.15pm 10.30pm 10.45pm
Upswing
High Street Plinth Safety Catch pg15
pg19
High Street Fountain Avanti Display pg10 Mimbre pg14 Axial Dance pg10 Spitz & Co pg16
Stockton Riverside Sisus Sirkus pg8 Furinkai pg8 Vincent Glowinski pg9
Parish Gardens Libertivore pg24
Pre-show Tickertape Post-show Ticker-
Church Road Tickertape Parade pg31 Elephants Laugh pg30
Parade pg31 tape Parade pg31
The Sporthorses and The Sporthorses and
The Courtyard Amer i Á frica pg32
the Guggenheim Box pg33 the Guggenheim Box pg33
Ray Lee pg25 Ray Lee pg25
Ticketed shows -
start SIRf Central
The Other Way Works pg26 The Other Way Works pg26
38 SIRF2019 www.sirf.co.uk www.sirf.co.uk SIRF2019 39SATURDAY 3RD AUGUST 2019
VENUE 10.00am 10.15am 10.30am 10.45am 11.00am 11.15am 11.30am 11.45am 12.00pm 12.15pm 12.30pm 12.45pm 1.00pm 1.15pm 1.30pm 1.45pm 2.00pm 2.15pm 2.30pm 2.45pm 3.00pm 3.15pm 3.30pm 3.45pm 4.00pm 4.15pm 4.30pm
Joss Arnott Upswing
High Street Plinth Stopgap pg18 Desperate men pg18 Safety Catch pg15 Stopgap pg18
Dance pg13 pg19
Kapow
High Street Fountain Kapow pg13 Avanti Display pg10 Mimbre pg14 Axial Dance pg10 Spitz & Co pg16
pg13
Green Dragon Yard Lo-Giudice Dance pg26 Lo-Giudice Dance pg26
Stockton Riverside Community Carnival and Aftershow pg20
Parish Gardens Apocalyptic Circus pg23 The Fabularium pg22 Balloonatic pg23 Apocalyptic Circus pg23 The Fabularium pg22 Balloonatic pg23
Pre-show
Post-show Ticker- Tickertape
Church Road Wild N Beets pg31 Tickertape Parade pg31 Wild N Beets pg31
tape Parade pg31 Parade
pg31
The Courtyard Presque Siamoises pg33
Ray Lee pg25 Ray Lee pg25 Frolicked pg21
T icketed shows - start
SIRF Central
Frolicked pg21 The Other Way Works pg26
Explore -
Action d’espace pg27 Action d’espace pg27
start at ARC
Kamchatka pg28 Community Carnival pg20 Kamchatka pg28
H igh Street
Balloonatic pg23 Plunge Boom pg23
Walkabout
Plunge Boom pg29 Back Chat Brass pg29
Débor-
Infinity Bridge dante
Cie pg27
Continued... All information is correct at time of print and is subject to change at short notice due to unforeseen
circumstances such as bad weather. Please check our website and social media for latest information
VENUE 4.30pm 4.45pm 5.00pm 5.15pm 5.30pm 5.45pm 6.00pm 6.15pm 6.30pm 6.45pm 7.00pm 7.15pm 7.30pm 7.45pm 8.00pm 8.15pm 8.30pm 8.45pm 9.00pm 9.15pm 9.30pm 9.45pm 10.00pm 10.15pm 10.30pm 10.45pm 11.00pm
Joss Arnott Upswing
High Street Plinth Desperate men pg18 Safety Catch pg15
Dance pg13 pg19
High Street Fountain Kapow pg13 Avanti Display pg10 Mimbre pg14 Axial Dance pg10 Spitz & Co pg16 RamShacklicious pg15
Stockton Riverside Sisus Sirkus pg8 Furinkai pg8 Vincent Glowinski pg9
Apocalyptic Circus
Parish Gardens Libertivore pg24
pg23
Pre-show Tickertape Post-show Ticker-
Church Road Tickertape Parade pg31 Elephants Laugh pg30
Parade pg31 tape Parade pg31
The Sporthorses and The Sporthorses and
The Courtyard Amer i Á frica pg32
the Guggenheim Box pg33 the Guggenheim Box pg33
Ray Lee pg25 Ray Lee pg25
Ticketed shows -
start SIRF Central
The Other Way Works pg26 The Other Way Works pg26
Débor-
Infinity Bridge dante
Cie pg27
40 SIRF2019 www.sirf.co.uk www.sirf.co.uk SIRF2019 41SUNDAY 4TH AUGUST 2019
VENUE 10.00am 10.15am 10.30am 10.45am 11.00am 11.15am 11.30am 11.45am 12.00pm 12.15pm 12.30pm 12.45pm 1.00pm 1.15pm 1.30pm 1.45pm 2.00pm 2.15pm 2.30pm 2.45pm 3.00pm 3.15pm 3.30pm 3.45pm 4.00pm 4.15pm 4.30pm
High Street Plinth Stopgap pg18 Dorothy’s Shoes pg11
High Street Fountain Kapow pg13 Joli Vyann pg12
Joss Arnott Newton's
High Street South Initiative.dkf pg12 Tangled Feet pg17 Initiative.dkf pg12 Tangled Feet pg17
Dance pg13 Ladder pg14
Green Dragon Yard Lo-Giudice Dance pg26 Lo-Giudice Dance pg26
Apocalyptic Fully Booked Apocalyptic Fully Booked
Parish Gardens The Fabularium pg22 The Fabularium pg22
Circus pg23 Theatre pg22 Circus pg23 Theatre pg22
The Courtyard Presque Siamoises pg33
Frolicked pg21 Frolicked pg21
Ticketed shows -
start SIRF Central
The Other Way Works pg26
Theatre Tol
Explore - start at ARC Action d’espace pg27 Action d’espace pg27
Page 6
High Street Walkabout Kamchatka pg28
Débor-
Infinity Bridge dante
Cie pg27
Continued... All information is correct at time of print and is subject to change at short notice due to unforeseen
circumstances such as bad weather. Please check our website and social media for latest information
VENUE 4.30pm 4.45pm 5.00pm 5.15pm 5.30pm 5.45pm 6.00pm 6.15pm 6.30pm 6.45pm 7.00pm 7.15pm 7.30pm 7.45pm 8.00pm 8.15pm 8.30pm 8.45pm 9.00pm 9.15pm 9.30pm 9.45pm 10.00pm 10.15pm 10.30pm 10.45pm 11.00pm
High Street Plinth Stopgap pg18
High Street Fountain Desperate men pg18 Kapow pg13 Joli Vyann pg12 Desperate men pg18
Joss Arnott Newton's
High Street South RamShacklicious pg15 RamShacklicious pg15
Dance pg13 Ladder pg14
Green Dragon Yard
Stockton Riverside Theatre Tol pg6
Parish Gardens
The Courtyard Amer i Á frica pg32
Ticketed shows -
start SIRF Central
The Other Way Works pg26 The Other Way Works pg26
Explore - start at ARC
High Street Walkabout Kamchatka pg28
Débor-
Infinity Bridge dante
Cie pg27
42 SIRF2019 www.sirf.co.uk www.sirf.co.uk SIRF2019 43SIRF NEEDS YOU
Ever watched a show at SIRF
and thought ‘I’d like to try
that?’ Well you can;
Next year SIRF and ARC in
partnership will be launching a
new street theatre group for young
people aged 18 - 24, if you’d
like to be part of this,
please register your interest
on our website by sending us a
message via the ‘Contact’ section
www.sirf.co.uk
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