The Bicycle Ballet company creates exhilarating outdoor dance performances on bikes, exploring the joyful highs and gritty lows of cycling. The choreographies fuse dance and physical theatre with visual spectacle, comedy and striking soundtracks.
Initially conceived as a mass participatory performance, engaging people and their bikes 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.
But, at its heart, its all about the bike. Expressing the freedom and fun of cycling, and exploring people’s partnerships with their trusty steeds.
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 & Everyday Hero
Janine Fletcher, Choreographer, Blazing Saddles, Strictly Cycling, the dance of cycling & The Bunny Hop
Kate Evans, Rehearsal Director & Core Performer, Additional Direction, Blazing Saddles
David Bernstein, Additional Direction on the dance of cycling and The Bunny Hop
Oliver Aylmer, Sound and Music Design
Ray Gibson, Photography
Holly Murray, Costume Design Everyday Hero & Blazing Saddles
Kate Evans, Additional Direction & Performer
Typhaine Delaup, Performer
Josephine Dyer, Performer
Jo Gale, Performer
Saskia Marland, Performer
Eleanor Young, Performer
Ella Fleetwood, Performer
Magdalena Radlowska, Performer
Original Blazing Saddles performers
Mary Roubos, Performer
Jo Dyer, Performer
Hazel Lam, Performer
Eleni Papaoioannou, Performer
Bryony Thomas, Performer
Kate Evans, Performer & Rehearsal Director
Carlos Ara, Performer
Sophie Arstall, Performer
Nick Cowell, Performer
Typhaine Delaup, Performer
Jo Dyer, Performer
Joe Garbett, Performer
Zoe Georgallis, Performer
Maria Lothe, Performer
Judith Mandel, Performer
Saskia Marland, Performer
Antonio de la Fe, Performer
James Rosental, Performer
Virginia Scudeletti, Performer
Pippa Wildwood, Performer
Costumes by Alison Neighbour
Previous Strictly performers:
Sarah Alexander, Asst Choreographer & Performer
Michael Kitchin, Performer
Laura Gubbins, Performer
Tomomi Kosano, Performer
Amy Gomez, Performer
Ben Driscoll, Performer
Nick Cowell, Performer
Michael Warne, Performer
Joel O’Donohue, Performer
Everyday Hero
Amelia Cavallo, Performer
Ben Driscoll, Performer
Karina Jones, Performer
Sophie Arstall, Performer
Zoe Georgallis, Performer
Tracey Hammett, Writer Everyday Hero
The Bunny Hop
Marc Saad, Performer
Miranda Letten, Performer
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
Lisa Jay, Rehearsal Director – Skegness
Sarah Alexander, Rehearsal Director – Hadleigh & Edmonton
Yumino Seki, Rehearsal Director – Hastings
John Kennett, Bright FX, Special Effects
Scarlett – additional costumes
Jane Fox & Emma Wreyford – special treats
the dance of cycling – currently not touring
Sarah Alexander, Performer, Workshop leader
Kate Evans, Performer
Terry O’Donovan Performer
Joe Wild, Performer
Judith Mandel, Performer
Jenny Luard (understudy for Kate)
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
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
Augusto 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:
Ed Chivers, Website design & development
Paul Jonas of Tru Thoughts
Clive Lyttle & Jon Linstrum, ACE
Apologies to anyone else who’s been inadvertently omitted, but thank you
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