GDIF 2024 | London’s free, annual outdoor performing arts festival 23 August-8 September 2024
WILD
Part of Dancing City
4 & 5 September
Duration: 45 mins
What to Expect: Make some noise
Free
This daring dance-circus production from Motionhouse explores our disconnect with the natural environment: in our modern lives, is the wild still shaping our behaviour? With a design which imagines an urban forest in the heart of Canary Wharf, performers use powerful physicality and incredible feats to move through a jungle of tall poles.
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Access
Site Access
Site Access information is available on the Dancing City page.
Show Access
Accessibility
- Wheelchair Accessible
- Assistance Dogs Welcome
- Audio Described (Digital)
- Easy Read Information Available – click here to download
- Assisted Route
Access content will be available online via your mobile phone. Please bring a charging pack if you are concerned about battery use.
Brochure
Large-print and Easy Read versions of the festival brochure will be available to download in advance or to pick up on the day. Visit our Access page for more information.
Notes for Audience
Digital Audio Description will be available to download in advance via a QR code on site. Please bring your own phones and earphones. There will be limited mp3s on site, please ask a volunteer for support.
Touch Tour and Audio Tour Promotion
Where to find it
WILD will be performed as part of Dancing City at Canary Riverside, Canary Wharf, E14 8RS.
Nearest public transport:
Canary Wharf underground, Jubilee Line
Canary Wharf/Heron Quays DLR
Bus routes 135, 277, D3, D7, D8
Canary Wharf Pier, Uber Boats by Thames Clippers
About the company
Founded in 1988 by Louise Richards and Kevin Finnan MBE, Motionhouse create world-class dance-circus productions that tour extensively around the world. From full-length productions for theatre touring to flexible work for the outdoors and large-scale performance events, their sell-out productions integrate athletic physicality, powerful narrative, incredible digital imagery and emotive sound scores. Their work takes its inspiration from common human concerns and our connection to the world in which we live, with recent works exploring flooding, the pressure of time, fear and captivity, and our relationship with water, the Earth and energy. Their dancers perform on stunning sets, alongside JCB diggers, with aerialists and singers, in incredible settings and to breath-taking effect.
Supported by
Commissioned by Gulbenkian & ART31 and Birmingham Hippodrome (as part of the Hippodrome Associate Artist programme). Supported by Without Walls with commissioning from Freedom Festival Arts Trust, Hat Fair, and Out There International Festival of Circus & Street Arts. With additional backing from the Garfield Weston Foundation, the Foyle Foundation, The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust, The Saintbury
Motionhouse is supported by Arts Council England with additional support from Warwick District Council Trust and supported by The City of London Corporation.
Dancing City is supported by Canary Wharf Arts+Events and Arts Council England.