An improvisational, visual performance & ‘cycle-about’ choreography inspired by flash mobs, dada-ism, every day cycling experiences & the great British weather.
Five to ten performers in bright yellow cycle or wheel their bikes. They take over the streets creating epic human/bike sculptures; parking their bikes in the hands of passers-by & battling in slo-motion races, celebrating cycling, life & yellowness.
Strictly Cycling is part choreographed and part improvised to play in close contact with audiences, interacting with them & any features around performance locations. It is a roving performance interspersed with short, static vignettes, so can be seen by large numbers, move around a performance space, or between sites.
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The show is high impact, with visually striking costumes and a mobile soundscape. It’s exciting, comic, self-contained and able to go anywhere – from shopping centres and High Street, to parks and rural locations – and, waterproof as well!
Strictly Night Cycling, a night-time version commissioned by Love Light Norwich in 2022 & The Birmingham Weekender, 2015. Read more…
Other developments: Inside Strictly Cycling, a Flash Mob Workshop; a Tandem Workshop 2015 & Strictly in Pink. Click links for further info.
Choreographed by Janine Fletcher. Performers include: Carlos Ara, Sophie Arstall, Becky Burchell, Nick Cowell, Ben Driscoll, Jo Dyer, Kate Evans, Jo Gale, Joe Garbett, Zoe Georgallis, Saskia Marland, Typhaine Delaup, Judith Mandell, Michael Kitchin, Michael Warne & Eve Stainton, Maga Radlowska & Bryony Thomas, amongst others.
“Strictly Cycling bought a yellow dash of cycling panache to our event… full of energy and mayhem, with a sprinkling of dancing mischief. Everyone loved it!”
Helen Helmstock, Director Marketing & Communications, Greater Nottingham.
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