Wired Aerial Theatre

DIES DE DANSA Dance Festival in Barcelona

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Halloween Lantern Carnival Liverpool

Come watch Wendy and be part of an amazing lantern procession for Halloween this Friday.

The Lantern Procession includes hundreds of handmade lanterns, carnival bands, costumed dancers and giant illuminated puppets. Drawing inspiration from the ancient Celtic roots of Halloween, as well as Mexican, European folk tale, and Eastern traditions, the carnival will culminate in a spectacular Cosmic finale, weaving ancient forms of puppetry, live music and dance, with kinetic light sculpture, fire and pyrotechnics into a fable of Universal proportions which will warm the soul!

Lantern procession starts at 6.30pm by Iron bridge entrance to the Park, Mossley Hill Drive. Route passes Palm House and Café and finishes with a spectacular Finale at 7.15pm on field above the Boating Lake.

Click here for more information about the Carnival and for a map

Off the wall

Wendy recently glided, robed in red flowing fabric, across the side of Liverpool's beautiful FACT building, while being filmed and photographed by Kevin Clifford. Click on the image below to watch documentation or keep checking this page for imminent photo's!

Wired features in Dance UK's autumn 08 magazine

The article follow's dancer Darren Pritchards time shadowing Wired Aerial Theatre at The Higher Space and learning to fly! Click here to read the article

Fervorosa

With the support of Without Walls Street Arts Consortium over the sunny summer months Wired toured UK festivals with 'Fervorosa'. A skin-tingling collaboration with Wired and Brenda Angiel from Buenos Aires... Click here for more information about Fervorosa Fervorosa will be back in summer 2010!

Circus Skills at The Higher Space

Wired host a jam packed programme of circus skills classes from their base 'The Higher Space' off The Old Dock Road in Liverpool. Click here to find out more

If Liverpool resident young people would like to come along, then all they need to do is call the 08plus company to see if they are eligible use their credit amount of £40 a month. Click here to find out more about activities you can get involved in with the 08plus card

Back in October 2007 we proudly opened the doors to our brand new dance and aerial space in Liverpool. 'The Higher Space' is a fresh and creative environment for artists to make new work, train in aerial skills and be inspired by all things flying! With a packed programme of events in the future the space is buzzing, and so are we! Click here to download an info flyer with hire rates

MONKEY!

In June and July Wendy performed in The West Yorkshire Playhouse's family show Monkey! She received some amazing acclaim.

"Hesketh's performance attains some remarkable heights - about 12ft on average, though her superhuman bouncing is aided by the deployment of a bungee rope. Yet the technique is more than just a gimmick; there is stunning beauty in the way Hesketh levitates, robes flowing as if floating on an air current rather than suspended from above. As the founder of Wired Aerial Theatre, Hesketh has pioneered this form of bungee-assisted dance - the potential seems as long as a piece of elastic." The Guardian

In Monkey! Hesketh plays Tripitaka, a monk charged with an epic journey to the West to find sacred Buddhist scriptures. She travels with the mischievous Monkey, played by Jami Reid-Quarrell. Both performers are attached to ropes, and when they skim over land and water the effect is breath-taking, almost like a sequence from a quality cartoon. Hesketh hovers, twists and twirls and then rises four metres off the ground. She can skim over a lily pond. Nothing she does is cumbersome, everything is smooth and calm – the bungee rope can be seen but is unobtrusive. Hesketh is able to fly above most of the huge Quarry Theatre stage and do whatever she wants. Demons have to be scattered, of course, and the character of Tripitaka does this with some beautifully executed martial moves. How long will it be before we see bungee-assisted dance in a pantomime or a production of Peter Pan? Dancing Times

Click here to read the full Guardian review

The Times talks to Wendy about Monkey! Click here to read article

Land Rover love Wired

Wired are featured in Land Rover's glossy new website 'Go Beyond' Click here to read the feature

Back in summer 07 we were invited to take part in a glossy shoot for Land Rover Freelander 2. Agility, risk and high flying is what it was all about. You want to know more? Take a look... Click here for pictures from the Landrover shoot

Boi-iinging on Channel 4

In Feb. 06 The Richard and Judy Show presenter Sarah Cawood was put through her paces in a special feature on the new craze of bungee assisted dance which is 'sweeping the nation!' Richard and Judy were suitably impressed by Wendy and Sarah's bungee antics.

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