SIZE OF COMPANY
Minimum 3 maximum 53

SCALE OF VENUE
Open air situations of every size

PERMANENT STAFF
Directors
Paul Miskin
Miranda Sharp

ARTISTIC POLICY
To produce the best street theatre performances in the world. To create an ontological street theatre that truly challenges the context of the street and the reality in which the performance is embedded.

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 of the Fira de Carrer de Tarrega=

'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
Parades and intervention:
Les Oiseaux de Lux An invasion of giant birds. Interactive street intervention. (3–22 performers, 25 mins, up to 3 shows per day).

The Butterfly Collection An invasion of giant butterflies. Interactive street intervention. (3–7 performers, 30 mins, up to 3 shows per day)

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

The Ant Orkezdra A new brass and drumming ensemble of giant ants. (15 performers, 55 mins, one parade show per day which can be divided)

Dali and Gala Giant inflatable puppet dancers. (4 performers, 10 mins, up to 3 shows per day)

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

Sid the Spider Giant inflatable puppet. (11 performers,15 mins, up to 2 shows per day)

Middle-/large-scale open air performances:
Specnic Parade and set piece finale. An invasion of beings of colour and sound featuring stilts, drumming, dance, installation and fireworks. (14 performers, 25 mins, up to 2 shows per day)

Chromarama Arena spectacle featuring dance, ballet, movement, stilts and inflatables. (14 performers, 25 mins, up to 2 shows per day, large-scale performances with smaller versions available)

Delireality Large-scale piece for city square or squares. A street theatre and pyrotechnic exploration of the iconography of Salvador Dali. (25 performers, 35 mins, one night time show)

Grand Magix Stilts, inflatables, helium suspended aerial puppetry, and performance pyrotechnics. A street theatre exploration of the magics of technology and nature. (25 performers, 35 mins, one night time show)

Taranta 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 `compas` (rhythmic pattern of stresses in a 12 beat cycle) of the Buleria.(50 mins, one night time show)

FUTURE PRODUCTION
Insectomachy The War and Peace of the Red and the Black Ants A music theatre performance. Two armies of giant ants will emerge from their termitary installations at either end of a street or square. They will wage musical and theatrical war before the conflict is resolved into a grand scale celebration of `difference` through music. The finale will reveal many new special carnival creations, pyrotechnics and special effects.

WORKSHOPS/WRAP-AROUND ACTIVITY
Details on request.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2006 Netherlands (Ant Orkezdra/The Caterpillar/The Butterfly Collection), Kosovo (Les Oiseaux/The Butterfly Collection), Belgium (The Butterfly Collection)
2005 Norway (The Butterfly Collection), Belgium (Spiders/Butterfly Collection/Samba Ants), Netherlands (Les Oiseaux/The Butterfly Collection/Flying Witch/Dancing Giants) Turkey (Les Oiseaux), China (Sid the Spider/Les Oiseaux de Lux/The Butterfly Collection)

TOURING AVAILABLILTY
All year round availability.