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UPSWING / Image: Fallen / Photographer: Rachel Ong

Image: Fallen
Photographer: Rachel Ong

UPSWING

Contemporary circus|Physical/visual theatre|Dance theatre

SIZE OF COMPANY
4–8 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to medium

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Vicki Amedume
General Manger
TBC
Technical Director
Seth Allan
Associate Artist
Kieren Sheehan

ARTISTIC POLICY
Upswing works with the human body to tell stories of people, their culture, and the world we all share, using high quality circus blended with theatrical performance, memorable music, and the imaginative use of visual imagery. Upswing challenges assumptions of identity, place, and our relationships with each other by literally turning the world upside down.

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Red Shoes  
A humorous dance/circus work staged inside a six sided cube drawing. A portrait of three women reconstructing themselves based on judgements around living with a disability. (15 minutes, 3 cast, 1 crew)
Loved Up
An exhilarating performance fusing hip-hop and aerial dance. Five passionate people explore the meaning of love from broken hearts to soaring passion. (25 mins, 5 cast, 3 crew)
Fire Fire
Ritualised performance using fire and acrobatics exploring the elemental processes that connect us to each-other (30 mins, 6 cast, 2 crew).

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Fallen
Exploring the themes of alienation and isolation. Fallen utilises music, dance and circus to explore a multi-stranded story.
Loved Up II
Further development of circus and hip hop hybrid. Incorporating spoken word, video and live music to create an immersive performance experience that examines women’s roles in the urban dance scene.
Older
New writing, movement and circus.  Exploring the process of becoming older biologically, physically, psychologically and in terms how it affects our place in the world.

WRAP-AROUND
UpSwing offers skills based aerial and dance workshops as well as workshops on devising physical and circus based performance using a collaborative and exploratory process. The company also offers Q&As.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2006 Austrailia/Netehrlands/Ireland: Voices
2007 USA/ Canada/Kenya: Voices/UnWound
2008 Spain / Ireland: Loved Up

TOURING AVAILABILITY
May 2009 onwards