Stefano Di Renzo, StopGap Dance Company, Avanti Display, Artizani , Gandini Juggling, Cathy Waller Company

A packed afternoon each day of new and exciting outdoors shows. Bring a picnic and the whole family. Featuring:

Artizani - Bees! The Colony
Buzzing with panache and imagination, this combination of walkabout performance and installation engages all the senses as it investigates the complex relationship humans have with bees.

Avanti Display - Reliquary
A bejewelled casket makes its enigmatic way around Brighton. What on earth can be inside? Well, stand ready, people for we have discovered a new species and preserved its last egg, and it’s about to – no, that could never happen! Could it? Will you be among the lucky few to be invited to peep inside the casket? What will you hear through the specially attached headphones? Serious and seriously funny, Reliquary combines surrealism, spectacle and surprise.

Hold On - Stefano Di Renzo
One person, one system; each governed by the other. Hold On explores the relationship between the performer and the system that is both his stage and his means of expression. Using a self-counterweighted slack rope as the starting point of an eloquent theatrical language, Stefano Di Renzo blends circus and physical theatre, creating a mesmeric solo show. He is an intrinsic part of the entire structure and holds it up, but if he wants to leave he will fall…

Bill & Bobby - Stopgap Dance Company
Lucy Bennett and David Toole channel the magic and the magnetism of the screen’s greatest dance duo in tribute to the star partnership of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. Bill & Bobby is inspired by the Art Deco sophistication of the 1930s, and particularly by the film classic Swing Time, which includes some of Astaire’s and Rogers’s most joyous and accomplished routines.

8 Songs - Gandini Juggling
A huge hit at Brighton Festival 2012 with Smashed, Gandini Juggling makes a welcome return with a brand new show that promises to push the art of juggling to new heights, in true Gandini style. An outdoor performance that will appeal to the whole family, this tribute to the mythical landscape of popular music features a series of choreographed juggling vignettes set to eight classic rock ’n’ roll songs.

Louder Than Words - Cathy Waller Company
In this brand new, explosive and dynamic work, two dancers compete, test and outdo each other while being challenged by the multiple instruments and percussion played live alongside them. As the powerful, beat-heavy sound intensifies, all the performers are drawn into a competition between movement and music, striving to outshine each other in a vigorous and vibrant display.