The Artful Badger Presents: Wild Worlds: Dark Sides

After last years sell out show the Artful Badger returns, for an extended three week run, to the renowned VAULT festival with a brand new episode of Wild Worlds. Dark Sides serves up acts exploring the animal instinct of the human condition. A curated collection of breathtaking breakages, emotional explosives, anti gravity time travellers, baffooning birds, bad habits & allegorical aerial. One way or another we will touch you, open you up and take you to our world.

WARNING: There may be nudity, strong language and performances of a strong sexual nature. Strobe lighting will be in use and there will be some periods of blackout. You may be touched by the performers. There may be fire and smoke. If the smoke becomes uncomfortable you may be allowed leave. If you are asthmatic please follow the ushers advice. It is compulsory to leave your bag in the cloakroom for this show for your own safety.

INHABITABLE by Zoë Cobb
Rachel Alexander, Niki Angus, Maria Crittell, Margherita Franceschi, Stephanie Kelley, Anna Zant.

The Artful Badger Troupe enter the space consumed with the struggles of daily life. They find their own battles, and darkness as it unravels into a relief of rhythm.

IN-SIDE-OUT by Zoë Cobb
Zoë Cobb, Nikki Angus, Margherita Franceschi.

Falling out of the complacency of innocence, these strange creatures need to find a powerful response to external world. Using strong predatory dance and mimetic composition, the three of them explore the cruel depths or even more fearful shallowness of loss.

SKIN by Aedin Walsh
A woman's body wakes on a black hole of an island, marooned with a raft of ropes and knots. A world without walls, a world without sun. She toils and labours to negotiate this web of reality she can not quite get to grips with. The body leans out, stretches the leash, jumping away and being dragged back, setting loose ties to the earth, her mind unravels. Sprawled and wriggling she risks being caught and dissected by her own construction. Escaping from the floors and walls, this is a journey from oblivion to flight, to the roof and the sky beyond, but can she ever escape her own skin?

FOLLOW THE FAUN: RUNNING WITH THE SUN by Andy Black
Andy Black, Zoë Cobb & Jack Weir

Artful Badger and Andy Black have teamed up to channel more of The Faun's shamagical ecstatic theatricals. Adding Jack Weir's projections and Zoe's Cobb’s wall running Follow The Faun takes us on the most spectacular installment to date of his interactive dance adventure which promises to move your body, blow your mind, open your heart and tickle your fancy...