SIZE OF COMPANY
3–50 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Open air or large indoor locations from 500 to 50,000 spectators

PERMANENT STAFF
Partner Directors
Paul Miskin
Miranda Sharp

ARTISTIC POLICY
Neighbourhood Watch Stilts International creates an ontological street theatre that truly challenges the context of the street and the reality in which the performance is embedded. The company aims to surprise astonish and please, and creates a street theatre without words that can be appreciated by anyone of any age in any country.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
‘NWSI at the Fira delighted the audience with a torrent of visual imagery and after a storm of applause left everyone with the pure excitement of art.’ Carlos Gill, Director, Fira de Carrer de Tarrega, Spain

‘I was completely blown away by Neighbourhood Watch and the impact they had on the kids, it was as if their world had changed once they saw them, because they never had conceived that creatures like that could exist.’ Paul Collard, Director of the Newhaven Festival of Arts and Ideas, USA

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Les Oiseaux de Lux Interactive street intervention on stilts. An invasion of giant birds. (25 mins, 3 shows per day, 3–22 on stage.)

The Butterfly Collection Interactive street intervention on four-legged stilts. An invasion of giant butterflies. (30 mins, 3 shows per day, 3–7 on stage.)

The Samba Ants Drumming ensemble, stilts, drumming. (20 mins, up to 3 shows per day, 5–7 on stage.)

The Ant Orkezdra A brass and drumming ensemble. (45 mins, 14 on stage.)

Soznak Street Band Multicultural music. (60 mins, 10 on stage, 2 shows per day.)

Dali and Gala Giant Inflatable puppet dancers (10 mins, up to 3 shows per day, 4 on stage.)

The Caterpillar Giant inflatable puppet (15 mins approx, up to 2 shows per day, 10 on stage.)

Sid the Spider Giant inflatable puppet. (15 mins approx, 2 shows per day, 11 on stage.)

Delireality Large-scale piece for city squares. Pyrotechnics, fire theatre, fire drawing, drumming, stilts, inflatables and music. A street theatre and pyrotechnic exploration of the iconography of Salvador Dali. (35 mins, 25 on stage, small-scale version also available.)

Grand Magix Stilts, inflatables, helium-suspended aerial puppetry, and performance pyrotechnics. A street theatre exploration of the magic of technology and nature. Large- and small-scale version available. (35 mins, 25 on stage.)

Taranta Stilts, inflatables, helium-suspended aerial puppetry and performance, abstilting installation, live original music, performance and pyrotechnics. An urban invasion/hallucination of spiders and insect life set to the darker flamenco modes (echoes of the Moorish invasion of southern Spain) and the “compass” (rhythmic pattern of stresses in a 12 beat cycle) of the Buleria. Large- and small-scale version available. (50 mins.)

WRAP-AROUND
The company will consider any form of wrap-around suggested.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2007 Belgium (site-specific version of Taranta), Canada, Eire (Les Oiseaux de Lux), Netherlands (The Butterfly Collection)

TOURING AVAILABILITY
All productions are currently available but large shows need a two-month lead in and large shows with pyrotechnics outside of Europe need three months lead in time.