Press

"Superhuman...pushing the limits of what's physically possible. "

Cynthia Archbold, Miami Sun Post

>full article (PDF)

 

“Their zany exuberance is tempered by their desire to transmit a serious message”

Courtesy of Santa Fe New Mexian

>full article (PDF)

>additional press

Description

Commissioned by Miami’s Carnival Center for its inaugural outdoor performance in January, 2007, Flexion was created for Wise Fool New Mexico by Sydney’s David Clarkson. Recognized in the aerial and physical theater world as a leader in the field, Clarkson’s Flexion is an outdoor, aerial and stilt movement spectacle. Featuring five acrobats on stilts rolling into backbends, splits, and a myriad of sculptural forms, Flexion stretches one's perception of the human body. Strutting and dancing, suspended and flying the performers’ pincer-like metal legs slice the air as they spin and swim like fencers in a seas, barely missing each other in their fervent exploration of their metal home. Shedding layers of armor, the acrobats slowly transform from superhuman warriors to fragile nymphs balancing high above the audience, hanging precariously from straps, the cage, and each other and finally descending to earth.

 

Flexion is designed for outdoor venues and runs 45 minutes. Abbreviated versions available upon request.

 

More about Wise Fool New Mexico

Wise Fool New Mexico has won the Santa Fe Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, Best Theatre Company from Crosswinds Weekly, the cover of the Santa Fe Reporter’s 30 years of Santa Fe issue, Best Puppeteers from San Francisco’s Bay Guardian, and visual arts awards from San Francisoc Carnaval and Cherokee National Holidays. Wise Fool New Mexico is a non-profit community-based arts organization that offers workshops and training, presents educational and entertaining performances, and participates in local community events. In the folk traditions of storytelling, puppetry, circus arts and public spectacle, Wise Fool New Mexico offers accessible, highly visual and physical professional performances, participatory events and hands on workshops. For 17 years Wise Fool New Mexico has been creating original works for theatres, schools, libraries and outdoor venues to rave reviews and sell out audiences.

 

>links to individual artist biographies