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Image: Taranta / Photographer: Paul Miskin

Image: Photographer: Paul Miskin

NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH STILTS INTERNATIONAL

Street theatre, Open air performance

SIZE OF COMPANY
3–50 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Open air or large indoor locations from 500 to 50,000 spectators

PERMANENT STAFF
Partner Directors
Paul Miskin
Miranda Sharp

ARTISTIC POLICY
Neighbourhood Watch Stilts International creates an ontological street theatre that truly challenges the context of the street and the reality in which the performance is embedded. The company aims to surprise astonish and please, and creates a street theatre without words that can be appreciated by anyone of any age in any country.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Carlos Gill, Director, Fira de Carrer de Tarrega, Spain

Paul Collard, Director of the Newhaven Festival of Arts and Ideas, USA

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Interactive street intervention on stilts. An invasion of giant birds. (25 mins, 3 shows per day, 3–22 on stage.)

Interactive street intervention on four-legged stilts. An invasion of giant butterflies. (30 mins, 3 shows per day, 3–7 on stage.)

Drumming ensemble, stilts, drumming. (20 mins, up to 3 shows per day, 5–7 on stage.)

A brass and drumming ensemble. (45 mins, 14 on stage.)

Multicultural music. (60 mins, 10 on stage, 2 shows per day.)

Giant Inflatable puppet dancers (10 mins, up to 3 shows per day, 4 on stage.)

Giant inflatable puppet (15 mins approx, up to 2 shows per day, 10 on stage.)

Giant inflatable puppet. (15 mins approx, 2 shows per day, 11 on stage.)

Large-scale piece for city squares. Pyrotechnics, fire theatre, fire drawing, drumming, stilts, inflatables and music. A street theatre and pyrotechnic exploration of the iconography of Salvador Dali. (35 mins, 25 on stage, small-scale version also available.)

Stilts, inflatables, helium-suspended aerial puppetry, and performance pyrotechnics. A street theatre exploration of the magic of technology and nature. Large- and small-scale version available. (35 mins, 25 on stage.)

Stilts, inflatables, helium-suspended aerial puppetry and performance, abstilting installation, live original music, performance and pyrotechnics. An urban invasion/hallucination of spiders and insect life set to the darker flamenco modes (echoes of the Moorish invasion of southern Spain) and the “compass” (rhythmic pattern of stresses in a 12 beat cycle) of the Buleria. Large- and small-scale version available. (50 mins.)

WRAP-AROUND
The company will consider any form of wrap-around suggested.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2007 Belgium (site-specific version of ), Canada, Eire (), Netherlands (

TOURING AVAILABILITY
All productions are currently available but large shows need a two-month lead in and large shows with pyrotechnics outside of Europe need three months lead in time.

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