How Like An Angel
How Like An Angel is a show for the six acrobats of Australian contemporary circus group Circa and the nine singers of I Fagiolini.
Last few tickets for 2013 tour on sale… See below!
The idea of putting the two groups together came from Jonathan Holloway, former director of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival and now at Perth International Arts Festival (where the show was premiered). The show was created by Yaron Lifschitz and Robert Hollingworth, Circa and I Fagiolini’s respective directors.
Photo by Andrew Wilkinson
“The starting point of How Like An Angel was to make a show which was as much about the four UK cathedrals where we would go on to perform it as about the performers who would make the show,” says Robert Hollingworth. “I could see how the beautiful work of Circa could forge a human relationship with the cathedrals and challenge everyone’s relationship to these buildings – connected with formal worship and conceived in very different times. And the music (even the variety we present in the show: Renaissance motets, a medieval monody, South African church music and a commission from Adrian Williams) would have an intrinsic relation to such spaces. But circus and a capella vocal music function in such fundamentally different ways that making something more than a soundtrack to the physical action initially foxed us.
Photo by Danny Higgins
“What made the show and became apparent over the rehearsal and performance process was both groups’ commitment to each other and to the spaces they performed in. Rudi Mineur (acrobat) talks about this in the film, referring not to the amazing ‘tricks’ but to the expressive language through which Circa communicates and which became heavily affected by the extraordinary spaces they found themselves in.
The film of the show
Polyphonic Films presents a response to the show in film, capturing the essence of this ground-breaking collaboration. The film of the show is a work of art in itself and not ‘the show’, which you need to be there to appreciate. But it gives a very good idea, for anyone who doesn’t get the chance to see it live, or who wants to relive the experience.”
Robert Hollingworth
The film was released on DVD in May 2013. Click here for more details.
Live show returns for 2013 tour.
How Like An Angel returns this year:
All Saints Hove, nr Brighton
7 to 10 May
Norwich Cathedral
14 to 17 May
Salisbury Cathedral – some tickets still available
Thursday 6 June at 9.30pm
Friday 7 June at 7.30pm and 9.30pm
Saturday 8 June at 7.30pm
Find out more and book online at the Salisbury International Arts Festival website
London, St Bartholemew the Great – sold out, but there may be returns
Tuesday 25th June at 9pm
Wednesday 26th June at 8pm and 10pm
Thursday 27th June at 9pm
Friday 28th June at 8pm and 10pm
Find out more and book online at the Barbican website.
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