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Falling in love with Falling Together
Sep 2022Reflections from week one of R&D for Common Ground (Previous title Falling Together) – a new show that uses circus and comedy to address the difficulty we have talking about race. A blog series by Nyasha Daley – Audience Engagement Associate for Common Ground, who spent time getting to know the places and people that …
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Diverse And Inclusive Leadership
Jan 2021At the end of May 2020, as the BLM Movement gained traction across the globe we, as a team and together with Circostrada and Xtrax, were also contemplating intersectionality and the ways that we can genuinely embrace equality, diversity and inclusion in the Street Arts and Circus sectors. On 4th June, Vicki joined Bettina Linstrum …
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Developing Diverse and Inclusive Leadership Practices
Jun 2020How can we genuinely embrace diversity and inclusion in Circus and Street Arts? As organisations – how can we be porous and open to change? As a Sector – how do we work to ensure that inclusion is not laden upon isolated agents of change? On 4th June 2020, Vicki joined Betinna Linstrum at the …
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Aerial Alchemy
Mar 2019Aerial Alchemy: Flight Paths – A Collaboration with Extant and Yellow Earth by Vicky Amedume I rarely get butterflies walking into a rehearsal room but on the first day of this project I felt like I had just swallowed a hand full of the beasties. How did I end up here? It really began for me …
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Facilitating Feedback
Feb 2019Facilitating Feedback: Reflections on Join the Dots By Orit Azaz There are few opportunities for robust critical debate about our work, especially in the area of contemporary circus. Upswing took a bold and refreshing approach with Join the Dots, by inviting a group of peers, collaborators, partners and critical friends to reflect on ‘What Happens …
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Working For Free
Jan 2019Working for Free: Collaboration or Exploitation? By Vicki Amedume This is a topic that has been coming up a lot recently; working for free or low pay. As artists and makers of work it is something that we are often asked to do. People see the value of what we make but not necessarily the hard …
