To all the art adventure seekers and art revolutionaries! BrainFools are back at Jacksons Lane. After our series of four mind-bending scratch nights, we’re ripping up the rule book of scratch and diving headfirst into a whirlpool of unfiltered creativity.
This evening’s theme is ‘Poetry slam’. Forget dusty books and stuffy recitals, this ain’t your grandma’s poetry slam. Words collide with circus skills in a chaotic ballet of spoken word, movement, and visual mayhem. Think poets swinging from trapezes, rhymes dropping like firecrackers, and metaphors. It’s a lyrical free-for-all where anything goes, and the only limit is the imagination.
Line-up includes:
Compere Dru Cripps has an award-winning, ‘sensational’ ★★★★ (Time Out) brand of spontaneously funny chaos, which he likes to refer to as: “Showing up and seeing what happens”. Fresh off the Westend, Dru is an act that needs to be seen to be misunderstood. As seen on The Westend, BBC, ITV and Dave.
Niamh Keady is an artist working with movement and words. A trained contemporary and street dancer, she likes to explore and blend these influences in her practice, as well as bringing a love for musicality into her spoken word. In this experimental performance poem, we’ll explore looping, repeating, deconstructing and reconstructing through movement, sound, and spoken word.
Georgina is professionally trained aerialist and qualified aerial instructor. This performance combines poetry and aerial skills words to explore themes of mental health “dance and aerial, and more recently poetry, have always been a means for me to express what I cannot say”.
Rika is challenging herself to compose her own autistic song, singing and playing the piano: “I want to share what goes through my mind during meltdowns and tantrums — what triggers them and how they feel”.
Dani Mearns tumbles into vulnerability. With words and actions, trying something that scares me and sharing something new with you. Combining aerial straps and spoken word to tell a story that is new to me too. I am a circus performer specialising in Aerial straps, Partner acrobatic and Aerial Hoop.
Ernesto Sarezale is the pen name of a Basque published poet based in London. Active in the London poetry scene, his work includes queer poetry & micro-fiction, multimedia performance, and film (e.g. video poetry and documentaries on the LGBTQ+ spoken word scene).
Mala Sangre is a non-native English speaker, and as such, aerial has allowed her to communicate and root herself as well as connect with people in visceral and authentic manner that is not always possible through everyday language. Mala explains “I believe circus has a tremendous potential for connection to others, to yourself, culture and art; that it gives itself to intersect and cohere with other disciplines, poetry being one of them”.
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