Tangled Feet

Tangled Feet are an ensemble of theatre practitioners committed to making original work. The company has developed a trademark style of experimental performance, which always begins from a process of physical improvisation and play. Find out more about us.

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Care

CARE

In January we will be visiting Stockton ARC for the second phase of R & D on our new INDOOR show, Care, which explores the changing face of the NHS. Using innovative aerial techniques, the audience experience the show from beds whilst the action happens all around and above them.

“Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune, the cost of which should be shared by the community.” Aneurin Bevin 1945

“We have the technology and knowledge to provide a decent life for all, but we are in the grip of an economic ideology that makes that impossible” Ken Loach 2012

Almost everyone enters the world inside it and most of us will experience its healing powers at some point. Many of us will die in its arms and some of us will have our lives saved by it.

It’s epic, tragic, joyful, extraordinary and ordinary all the same time. And it’s up for sale.

The National Health Service.

As the largest ever restructure of the NHS occurs, Tangled Feet ask: what is it worth to us? Does it have a price that we can quantify? How do we value care?

The audience are on the gurney and the action all around them as Tangled Feet conduct open-heart surgery on our beloved Health Service, in this uniquely staged production premiering at ARC.

Jan 30/31 Feb 1

https://www.arconline.co.uk/whats-on/drama-and-spoken-word/care

We are looking for potential partners to develop and tour Care for indoor spaces in 2014. If you are interested in finding out more, please contact us at nathan (at) tangledfeet.com

One Million

One Million is a spectacular, immersive performance for an audience of up to 5000, which asks what it means for a generation to start their working lives at a time of such uncertainty. How do you get on the career ladder when all the rungs are broken?

Performed with live music, spoken word and using physical theatre and circus that takes place all around and above the audience, Tangled Feet’s dazzling show evokes the spirit of youth and the ambitions of the next generation as a mass cast of up to 100 young people negotiate an ever-changing metal landscape in search of that elusive job opportunity.

Tangled Feet are planning to tour One Million in 2014/15. If you are interested in the production, please email nathan (at) tangledfeet.com for a detailed info pack.

One Million was commissioned by GDIF and funded by Arts Council England, GLL, PRS Foundation, Esmee Fairburn and the Mercer’s Foundation.

Were you there? Tell us what you thought of One Million at www.tangledstreets.com

PUSH

Performed in the very outdoor spaces that parents inhabit – parks, shopping centres and busy streets, Push is a high-energy, humorous and thought-provoking piece about mothers and their relationship with their babies. It explores the thin line between society’s demands for maintaining public decency and respectability, and the more immediate demands of a spewing, defecating and accident-prone child. Using clowning, dance and physical theatre to tell the interweaving stories of five very different mothers, Push lays bare aspects of motherhood so often pushed under the carpet.

Push will also tour in 2014 – contact us for an info pack.

Push was originally commissioned by GDIF, Lyric Hammersmith, Imagine Watford and Latitude Festival and was funded by ACE.

CARE

We are looking for potential partners to develop and tour Care for indoor spaces in 2014. If you are interested in finding out more, please contact us at nathan (at) tangledfeet.com

Tangled Feet Take to the Streets 2013

Tangled Feet, one of the UK’s most innovative theatre ensembles, delivered a season of ambitious outdoor performances featuring a spectacular world premiere, One Million as the finale of Greenwich+Docklands International Festival.

Last year, Tangled Feet Take To The Streets 2012 performed work that was free to access and in public spaces for over 20,000 people. That is the equivalent to selling out both theatres at The Royal Court for a month. In the UK, outdoor theatre plays a significant role in people’s ability to access and enjoy theatre performance and, as the Olympic and Paralympic Ceremonies demonstrated, is able to bring communities together to celebrate the landscape and the stories of public space.

Following on from the huge success of the inaugural season Tangled Feet return with two new pieces, One Million and Push and a revival of Inflation.

One Million tells the story of the 1,000,000 unemployed under 25 year olds in the UK. The time bomb of a lost generation is growing and in this ground-breaking performance Tangled Feet attempt to hold onto a career ladder that is spinning out of reach. Featuring live music, mass participation and large moving structures One Million will be an immersive outdoor experience that is epic in scale and scope.

Push places motherhood in the spotlight, examining the intense joys and frustrations in a quirky blend of physical comedy and pram choreography. Exploding untold private stories in public spaces, Push highlights the often-unseen juggling acts that parents undertake all around us as they try to reconcile the needs of an infant with the pressures of modern life.

Inflation is the story of the credit crunch and mortgage meltdown told on a bouncy castle. A fun, cheeky and provocative piece of theatre that sees Tangled Feet attempt to understand the world of austerity and how we got here.

“Politically motivated theatre bounces back” The Independent

Online

Why does no one review or critically discuss outdoor theatre? Why aren’t we writing about its quality, its effect on its audience and its legacy? Audiences, artists and participants will have the opportunity to interact via social media in a unique platform for critical discourse at tangledstreets.com. This will be a hub for instant comment, images and opinion as audiences watch and interact with the shows, that will fuel further discussion long after the performance has ended.

www.tangledstreets.com

Participation

Tangled Feet partnered with A New Direction to offer work placement programmes to 10 young people (aged 16-24) who were not in education or employment and living in 5 Olympic boroughs. The young people underwent a programme tailored to their personal aims and previous experiences, which involved them being mentored and supported by a member of the Tangled Feet team. The placements were in all areas of theatre making – design, technical, marketing, producing and directing.

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

We are delighted to announce that the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation has awarded Tangled Feet a grant towards our core costs over the next 18 months. We will use this grant to develop new theatre productions and a programme of innovative and inclusive activities for young people. Ultimately, we want to get more people involved with Tangled Feet!

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation aims to improve the quality of life for people and communities throughout the UK both now and in the future. We do this by funding the charitable work of organisations with the ideas and ability to achieve positive change.

The Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-makers in the UK. We make grants of £30 – £35 million annually towards a wide range of work within the arts, education and learning, the environment and social change. We also operate a £21 million Finance Fund which invests in organisations that aim to deliver both a financial return and a social benefit. www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk

Thank you to everyone at The Foundation – we are looking forward to working with you.

PRS for Music Foundation support

Guy Connelly gratefully acknowledges financial support from PRS for Music Foundation:

We are delighted to announce that Guy Connelly’s work in the Tangled Feet production of One Million this summer is being generously supported by The PRS for Music Foundation.

PRS for Music Foundation is the UK’s leading funder of new music across all genres.

Since 2000 PRS for Music Foundation has given more than £14 million to over 4,000 new music initiatives by awarding grants and leading partnership programmes that support music sector development. Widely respected as an adventurous and proactive funding body, PRS for Music Foundation supports an exceptional range of new music activity– from composer residencies and commissions to festivals and showcases in the UK and overseas.

One Million

In June 2013 the number of unemployed 18-25 year olds in the UK will reach One Million.

The early years of adult life are a fragile and vulnerable time, but simultaneously, explosively powerful and filled with enormous energy.

Identities are carved and pathways into the future forged.

What does it mean for a generation to face the start of their working lives in atime of uncertainty? How do you get onto the career ladder when all the rungs are broken?

With live music, ingenious staging and breathtaking pyrotechnics the spectacular One Million is powered by the hopes and aspirations of young people in 21st century Britain.

Tangled Feet’s dazzling performance will evoke the spirit of youth, the untapped potential, and the ambitions and hopes of the next generation. Guy Connelly of a Clock Opera and Nick Gill of The Monroe Transfer create a live-scored soundtrack to this immersive experience, which with a mass cast will bring GDIF 2013 to a barnstorming climax.

28-29th June, 10pm, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich SE18 6ST (outside Firepower Museum)

Come and experience One Million at the Greenwich & Docklands International Festival – click here for all of the details.

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