Crap at Animals
How do you do a Darth Vader Giant Pill Millipede? Have you ever heard of a Miss Kerala Look-a- Like? What kind of animal is a Problematic Flasher???
Solo performance artist Tom Bailey takes audiences on a wildly playful rollercoaster of clowning, physical theatre and VR, diving poetically into a crazy world of currently extinct and endangered species.
INFO
Duration: 45 min.
Age: From 8 years
TICKET PERFORMANCE
Click the TICKET icon to the right: next to TIME + LOCATION or buy a festival-wristband and get free tickets to all ticket-performances. There are different categories of wristbands – for families or individuals.
READ MORE and buy PASSAGE FESTIVAL WRISTBAND HERE
TRAVELLING 800 KM BY FOOT TO PASSAGE FESTIVAL | EFFEA RESIDENCY
To deliver the performance in Helsingør, Tom will be travelling for over 2 months by foot, walking more than 800 km. (Added sea journeys make the distance over double that)
The journey is somewhere between a walk and a pilgrimage. It’s not just a means to an end, but the journey is an artwork itself – a clown-esque nomadic work of art that is both stupid and serious, combining Monty Python with a spiritual purpose. A new response to the challenges of touring performances in an environmentally sustainable way
The route (May-July 2024):
- Start in the southernmost isle of Vatersay in the Outer Hebrides
- Walk and island hop up to Harris & Lewis
- Ferry to mainland Scotland (Ullapool)
- Journey to Thurso
- Ferry to Orkney. Walk Orkney
- Ferry to Shetland Islands. Walk Shetlands.
- Ferry Shetland to Bergen, NORWAY
- Walk from Bergen to Oslo
- Ferry Oslo to Denmark, to deliver the show
FOLLOW TOM BAILEY’s Travel Blog: Journey of a Lost Hunter Gatherer
Tom Baileys journey is supported by EFFEA, as a different type of exploration residency in partnership with PASSAGE Festival, KoresponDance (CZ), Špancirfest (HR), Imaginarius (PT).
How do you do a Darth Vader Giant Pill Millipede? Have you ever heard of a Miss Kerala Look-a- Like? What kind of animal is a Problematic Flasher???
Solo performance artist Tom Bailey takes audiences on a wildly playful rollercoaster of clowning, physical theatre and VR, diving poetically into a crazy world of currently extinct and endangered species.
INFO
Duration: 45 min.
Age: From 8 years
TICKET PERFORMANCE
Click the TICKET icon to the right: next to TIME + LOCATION or buy a festival-wristband and get free tickets to all ticket-performances. There are different categories of wristbands – for families or individuals.
READ MORE and buy PASSAGE FESTIVAL WRISTBAND HERE
TRAVELLING 800 KM BY FOOT TO PASSAGE FESTIVAL | EFFEA RESIDENCY
To deliver the performance in Helsingør, Tom will be travelling for over 2 months by foot, walking more than 800 km. (Added sea journeys make the distance over double that)
The journey is somewhere between a walk and a pilgrimage. It’s not just a means to an end, but the journey is an artwork itself – a clown-esque nomadic work of art that is both stupid and serious, combining Monty Python with a spiritual purpose. A new response to the challenges of touring performances in an environmentally sustainable way
The route (May-July 2024):
- Start in the southernmost isle of Vatersay in the Outer Hebrides
- Walk and island hop up to Harris & Lewis
- Ferry to mainland Scotland (Ullapool)
- Journey to Thurso
- Ferry to Orkney. Walk Orkney
- Ferry to Shetland Islands. Walk Shetlands.
- Ferry Shetland to Bergen, NORWAY
- Walk from Bergen to Oslo
- Ferry Oslo to Denmark, to deliver the show
FOLLOW TOM BAILEY’s Travel Blog: Journey of a Lost Hunter Gatherer
Tom Baileys journey is supported by EFFEA, as a different type of exploration residency in partnership with PASSAGE Festival, KoresponDance (CZ), Špancirfest (HR), Imaginarius (PT).
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About the company
Mechanimal is a multi-award winning performance company from Bristol, England. Led by creative director Tom Bailey, the company creates internationally-touring theatre and installation work that explores our Anthropocene times in new ways. Tom is a performer and a nature clown.
www.mechanimal.co.uk
Credits
Created and performed by Tom Bailey
Co-devised with the following:
Projection design – Chris Harrisson & Limbic Cinema
Sound Composition – Xavier Velastin & James Allen
Dramaturgy & Movement – Philippa Hambly
Associate Director – Sara Amini
Fabricator – Eirini Lampiri
Production Manager – Chaz Webb
Co-commissioned by Without Walls and Norfolk & Norwich Festival, UK. Supported by
101 Outdoor Arts (UK), the European Festivals Association, Passage Festival (Denmark).
Mechanimal is also a part of the collaborative European residency project on exploring sustainable models for creating and international touring performance art, supported by the European Union.