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The winners of the Gone in 20 Minutes Showcase 2011 were announced at the Stockton International Riverside Festival. BiDing Time won the £2k Prize with Rantbox and Tangled Feet won the £2k Audience Prize awarded jointly by text voters in Spitalfields and Stockton with The Hide.

Ted Hughes’ classic modern fable, The Iron Man, has been adapted by Paul Sirett for this bold new outdoor theatre production. The unexpected arrival of The Iron Man casts a shadow of fear across a small farm community. But when an enormous dragon from outer-space threatens to annihilate the planet, it is the Iron Man [...]

Bad Taste Cru are a pioneering UK Hip Hop theatre company and over the years have become one of the UKs top bboy crus. A self-confessed collective of ‘B-boys, skaters, writers, MCs, friends, film-makers, outcasts, geeks and weirdos’, their common bond is their love of hip-hop culture and the power of dance. Tribal Assembly fuses [...]

Nutkhut’s latest production sees a sari shop explode into a colourful night-time procession through the centre of town. A beautiful mannequin modelled on a Bollywood star is paraded through the streets, accompanied by tailors on bicycles, parasol dancers, Maharajahs on stilts and other exotic imagery, including a radiant lotus flower float and a ‘maypole’ of [...]

This year’s SIRF Finale was one of the most spectacular we’ve ever staged. It was a stunning UK premiere featuring Argentine/Spanish aerial company Voala, with pyrotechnics from Alchemy Fireworks. Taking inspiration from the heady optimism of the 1960s, High! featured a giant, psychedelic mobile suspended from a 120 tonne crane, 13 extraordinary acrobats performing below [...]

Meet some Imaginary Friends courtesty of Whalley Range All Stars and Babok.

Nobody does daredevil stunt shows quite like SIRF favourites the Bangditos…

Some video highlights from some of the very best acts from this year’s SIRF – highlights from the High Street   Featuring highlights from Cabinet Fatalia – Fatalia, Scuba Club Collective – Images of Villages, Pause – Accidental Collective, Professor Smith’s Mobile Myths – Kitunda Argyle and The Hide – Tangled Feet.   Highlights from [...]

Bridges y Puentes uses a multiplicity of languages – spoken, sung, played, and danced – to explore the experience of migration. Interviews with migrants to Stockton, Brighton and Mulhouse (France) form an integral part of the soundscape, which also includes a beautiful mix of live and recorded music from all corners of the world. The [...]

Some great video footage from SIRF’s opening night showing Taffy Thomas, The Chipolatas, The Dirty Brothers and DJ Dolphin Boy… it’s a Spiegel Tent full of constant surprises!