Programme

Cast
Alfie Sherwood, Alice Collins, Amelia Bridgewater, Amelia Laughlin, Andrew Feely, Chrys Shipley, Clementine Tonkin Wells, Daria Krystyna Zubilewicz, Elanor Beale, Emma Moon Pechey, Emma Van Buuren, Freya Lindeck, Grace Tonkin Wells, Jonathan Goh, Kate Williamson, Lucy Potter, Maddy De Brugha, Oskar Brightman, Parker Calvert, Rebecca Inel, Rosie Carr, Ruby Buchanan, Tomas Briones Rojas, Tula Martindale, Willow Saville Hippely, Xelia Froidevaux

Crew and Creatives
Director : Sebastian Belmar
Lighting Design : Gillian Tan
Costume Design : Rosie Whiting
Sound : Alex Jones and Misty Messer
Company Stage Manager : Beth Hoare Barnes
Deputy Stage Manager : Eleanor Chapman
Head of Rigging : Matt Burch
Creative Rigger : Mela Birch
Head of Degree : Adrian Porter
Technical Manager : Sunni Jolly Deputy
Head of Operations  : Ben Harris
Producer : Katharine Arnold

A big thank you to the staff and teachers of the National Centre.

Special thanks to AB Lighting for their generous support.

no future

The National Centre for Circus Arts presents its FD2 students’ ensemble production no future, directed by Sebastian Belmar.

Through the momentum generated by punk, no future proposes its own perspective of anarchy highlighting the cultural revolution of the of the 70’s where innovative artistic and political expressions were given a fresh injection of energy.

Join us to experience this exciting collaboration between Sebastian and our talented FD2 students.

From the Director:

in 1976 the song anarchy in the uk by the sex pistols was released in london. this event became the starting point of the punk cultural revolution with radical ideas, still present in the socio-political and artistic field.

no future passes through the punk momentum to present a perspective of an anarchic manifesto questioning three main forces: state, religion and capitalism. anarchic identity presents ideals and the practice of an attitude towards the expansion of human liberty revealing individualism and the awareness of the impact of our actions on a collective level. this concept translates into our acrobatic process expressed through a culture of rebellion and insurrection. the rejection of: docile, straight and conformed bodies. we play with the principles of inversion, deformation, curvature, an apparent unbalance where disorder shifts into (new) possible order.

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