So the London International Mime Festival is finished for another year. How was the 2010 edition for you?
For us, it’s been a great year, with lots of sold-out shows and a brilliant audience. What did you enjoy most? Collectif Petit Travers’s beautiful juggling? Mimbre serving tea to the audience? Circus Klezmer taking audience participation to another level? Or the two guys from Compagnie Ieto balancing on top of 2 planks of wood, 4 meters up in the air?
We’ll cherish plenty of moments from this year’s festival. Let us know yours!
Eshet tells the Book of Genesis story of Yehuda and his three sons, and Tamar, the woman who links them together and who is forced by convention to marry one of her dead husband’s brother to ‘raise up [his] seed’. But Yehuda’s second son, Onan, refuses to marry her: he ’spills his seed to the ground’ and so is killed by God. The youngest son is still a child, so Tamar, yearning for a child, must remain a widow until he comes of age.
Five life-size puppets, brought to life by two human doubles, play out this painful story, presented with restrain and sensitivity by Israel’s Etgar Theatre.
We have found this video of Okidok performing extracts of their show Slips Inside on Belgian television. Hilarious guys! (Anyone can translate what the presenters are saying at the beginning? Please leave translations in the comments)
Slips Inside will be performed at Southbank Centre on Wednesday 20, Thursday 21, Friday 22 and Saturday 23 January. Come and laugh with us!
The Lost Voice, our beatboxing show, ends on Sunday. If you have kids aged 4 to 8, bring them down to help Whisper find her voice. Find out more about the show in the video below.
Posted on December 23, 2009 by TrishT (Southbank Centre)
Five budding young critics mentored by Guardian dance critic Sanjoy Roy and Times dance critic Donald Hutera attended the press night of Into the Hoods for Play the Critic, an initiative of Mousetrap Theatre Projects, a theatre education charity that enables young people with limited resources or support to engage with the best of London’s theatre.
Last night’s performance of Into the Hoods recieves a five-star review from WhatsOnStage.com!
Into the Hoods is a fast, funny and hugely creative show from UK dance company ZooNation and director/choreographer Kate Prince. A year after its run at the Novello Theatre, it comes to Southbank Centre for a well-deserved Christmas run.
Into the Hoods is saturated with wit and parody. In a world of tired long-running musicals this is a fresh and exciting show that, especially if you didn’t catch it first time round, should not be missed.
Interview with Kate Prince
We also interviewed Kate Prince who tells us about the history of Into the Hoods, bringing it to Southbank Centre and getting today’s youth into theatre and street dance.
As Kate says, people from two to over eighty have seen and loved Into the Hoods. Don’t miss out on seeing it this Christmas… it is on for a strictly limited run! Buy your tickets now!
Collectif Petit Travers present their new show, Pan-Pot, as part of the London International Mime Festival, on 21 and 22 January at Southbank Centre. Don’t miss this amazing juggling concert! Here is a preview. Get tickets for Collectif Petit Travers today.
You were the lead choreographer for the Beijing Olympics handover to London ceremony. What was that like to work on? Going to Beijing was an awesome and surreal experience. It was quite a pressured situation but ultimately very exciting and rewarding. Unfortunately I broke my foot in rehearsal whilst we were out there so it also had its down side.
Favourite film? Father Goose – it’s an old Cary Grant and Leslie Caron movie, one of my mum’s favourites.
Are you going to do anything different with [Into the Hoods] at Queen Elizabeth Hall? There have been a few updates and adjustments to the show for QEH but we’re going to keep them as surprises.
What’s comes after Southbank Centre’s run of Into the Hoods? I am working on the first UK season of So You Think You Can Dance on the BBC, starting in January 2010. ZooNation are working on their new show Some Like It Hip Hop, an adaptation of Some Like It Hot. We hope to preview this next year.
Zoo Youth is ZooNation’s youth dance company – comprising some of the best young dancers from all across the UK. Check out their performance on Blue Peter.
There will also be chances to see members of Zoo Youth at Southbank Centre this Christmas. They appear in our street dance sensation Into the Hoodsand also present their ZooSkool Christmas Show this Saturday. Come and check them out!
Last night’s performance of Into the Hoods recieves a five-star review from WhatsOnStage.com!
Watch Zoo Youth on Blue Peter! 
