Bicycle Ballet creates exhilarating outdoor dance performances on bikes, exploring the joyful highs and gritty lows of cycling. The choreographies fuse dance, circus and physical theatre with visual spectacle, comedy and striking soundtracks.
A new, installation project expands on some of these themes in a fun and visually arresting way.
Initially conceived as a mass participatory performance, engaging local people in new, exciting and unexpected ways is still at the heart of the project.
The work is created for outdoors, to cross the boundaries of art, sport, health and environment, to attract the widest range of audiences or passers-by, and to transform familiar environments into places of discovery and magic.
Bicycle Ballet is a collaboration between a wide range of artists, performers, creatives, supporters and partners including:
Karen Poley, Creative Producer
Virginia Farman, Choreographer, Bicycle Ballet Mass Show & Tandem Ballet R&D
Janine Fletcher, Choreographer, the dance of cycling & Where are the girls when the boys are learning to bunny hop?
David Bernstein, Additional Direction on the dance of cycling and Where are the girls when the boys are learning to bunny hop?
Oliver Aylmer, Sound and Music Design
Ray Gibson, Photography
John Kennett, Bright FX, Pyrotechnics
Bicycle Ballet Mass Show Tour 2012
Alex Beech, Rehearsal Director – Edmonton & Skegness
Anna Daly, Rehearsal Director – Preston
Jenna Owles, Rehearsal Director – Hastings
Jodie Buck, Rehearsal Director – Hadleigh
Sarah Alexander, Rehearsal Director – Hadleigh & Edmonton
Yumino Seki, Rehearsal Director – Hastings
Scarlett – additional costumes
Jane Fox & Emma Wreyford – special treats
the dance of cycling
Sarah Alexander, Performer, Workshop leader
Kate Evans, Performer
Terry O’Donovan Performer
Flora Wellesley Wesley, Performer
Joe Wild, Performer
Jenny Luard (understudy for Kate)
Judith Mandel (understudy for Flora)
Mark Carberry (understudy for Terry)
Marc Saad (understudy for Joe)
Jane Fox, Charlotte Bernstein, Costumes
Emma Wreyford - After Dark Costumes
Previous Performers: Stephanie McMann, Tom Adams
The Bunny Hop
Marc Saad, Performer
Miranda Letten, Performer
Amy Fleuriot, Cyclodelic, Costumes
Previous Performers: Mary Eddowes, Paddy Waters
Bicycle Ballet, Original Show 2006
Sarah Alexander , original core performer now assistant choreographer and occasional lead dancer on the show
Alex Beech, original core performer
Angus Corrieri, original core performer
Janine Fletcher, original core performer
Vicki McManus, original core performer
Anna Weatherston, original core performer
Warren Haigh, Costumes
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Simon Budd & Martin Memory, Technicians
Maria & Ellie Tribe, and Ray Gibson, Workshop Leader & Painting Assistant
Special thanks to:
Aideen Gallagher, Project Assistance
Ed Chivers, Website design & development
Paul Jonas of Tru Thoughts
Tom, Bike Mechanic
Clive Lyttle & Jon Linstrum, ACE
Nicola Guthrie, Workspace Group
Apologies to anyone else who’s been inadvertently omitted, but thank you
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