Parade - The Giant Wheel (Action Research 2024)

Action Research / Parade - The Giant Wheel (2024)
Without Walls supported an Action Research Project into Outdoor Arts and Community Co-creation & Participation in 2024. Action Research Project Aims:
to build long lasting relationships between cultural organisations and local participants
to exemplify collaborations between festivals and outdoor artists, championing participatory models and community co-creation
to highlight the value and increase the visibility of community outdoor work
to inspire and empower local communities and participants in co-creating and co-designing outdoor arts taking place in their streets
Autin Dance Theatre engaged with 9 talented Local Community ‘Guardians’
Amy, Charlie, Darcey, Eve, Lindsey, Natalie, Natasha, Tori and Will in 10 different locations (Newcastle-under-Lime, Stratford-upon-Avon, Sandwell, Solihull, Grimsby, Winchester, Yeovil, Whitehaven, Thurrock & Redditch). Parade toured extensively in England, Wales, Ireland, China and Germany
The project in numbers:
30 tour dates, 60 live performances, in 22 Locations, over 7.5 months with our 1st show on the 24th of Feb in Corby and our last show on 12th-13th of October in Karlsruhe, Germany.
In 14 different locations (64% of the touring activities), we developed and delivered a community outreach programme for local participants and groups. The project's community participants were aged from 5 to 79 years old and the Community cast around the wheel ranged from 5 participants at Hat Fair Winchester to 147 participants in Walsall at Walsall Arboretum.
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Parade is a moving performance inspired by the beauty, power and impact of people from different walks of life coming together, featuring a 12-foot tall Giant Wheel powered by 6 street artists and accompanied by music and large community cast of local groups and individual performers. Autin Dance Theatre uses their unique blend of contemporary storytelling, striking physicality and innovative large designs to transport audiences and communities along a carefully choreographed procession.
The 50-minute itinerant act is punctuated by 3 static moments that celebrate the tension and fracture between our individual identities and our shared collective humanity. Ultimately, Parade is about celebrating different journeys whilst honouring our shared life struggles.
The Giant Wheel carries the performers high above the streets, spins them around ferociously, turning their worlds upside down, at times giving them momentum and speed, and at others rocking them gently back and forth imitating the laborious and repetitive cycle of life.
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