Bike Bezerk
Coming to the end of the 'Of All The People...' run for Metropolis Bienalle in Copenhagen. It's been great to be here but at times a bit frustrating. When the show has poor attendance (which is rare these days) it can feel like a strange Beckettian experiment, wheeling 12 tons of rice around for hours on end for no-one to see. A bit of detective work and it's discovered the press officer has quit - if nobody knows the show is on how is anyone supposed to come?
Copenhagen has a relaxed quality, beautiful sea and canal vistas, great cycle lanes. We were given bikes for the duration which was very welcome, after the initial wacky race routine as you discover the local road etiquette it's not long before you're zooming around like the best of them. That's what i love about these long runs. You get a real flavour of what it's like to live in a town - Shovelling snow in -15c in Massachusetts, eating pig in Stuttgart...!
We had a chance to see a great site-specific new circus show by Italian/Danish company Cantabile2.
Set outside a disused dockside grain silo with a complimentary boat-trip, it was highly skilled, beautifully lit and breathtaking. Grungey Bukowskian characters knocking around in industrial wastelands. Visual enough to understand in any language but not so tricksy as to lose a sense of emotion and humanity. Sets a pretty high standard in comparison the other circus shows in my limited experience.