Since it's birth in 2000, the Barbican Bite festival has brought some of the most prestigious artists and performers from around the globe to London from Russia's Lev Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre (Platonov, 2007), to Pina Bausch of Germany (Kontakthof, 2002), by way of Brazil and Grupo XIX de Teatro (Hysteria, 2008). For years they have been offering a platform to the finest and most experimental International work and, by the looks of the Bite:09 programme, they are going from strength to strength.
Among the numerous prestigious offerings are Teatr Zar, the multinational group who aim to show that theatre is to be heard not only seen. From 24th September they will be performing Gospels of Childhood, their three-part ritualistic lamentation of birth, death, pleasusre and pain, told through song, chanting and movement.
James Thiérrée returns to Britain after his 2007 Sadlers Wells production Au Revoir Parapluie with Raoul, a story of a man with no beginning or end who tumbles through a series of utopian fantasies in a world which is at once entirely alien and clearly recognisable. Combining his trademark cross-fertilisation of acrobatics, mime and clown-like charm, Thiérrée promises to tease his audiences with this delightful, visual comedy.
Not afraid to leave the confines of the Silk Street venue, once again Barbican offers a number of off-site productions to entice people off the streets and into new places. One example is They Only Come At Night: Visions from Slung Low. The promenade performance will begin at the Barbican Box Office and will combine live performance, dance, music and digital projection as Slung Low take attendants through the fast-paced theatrical world.
These are just a few of the wonderful and innovative projections that will be available from September. For more information and to book tickets check out the Barbican website
www.barbican.org.uk/bite09/
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