Kaleider (UK)
“Time stood still when Kaleider performed the piece ‘Arch’ last night. A truly magical experience.” – Aarhus Festuge
Where concrete meets ice, visceral tension unfolds. Seth Honnor’s visionary direction brings Kaleider’s most ambitious work yet to breathtaking life.
Witness the very real, live endeavor of performers building a gravity-defying, freestanding arch — two-thirds unforgiving concrete, one-third melting ice.
An exquisite combination of breath, heart, and muscle entangle with the perpetual inevitability of collapse to draw the audience into a compelling emotional journey.
In what could be described as a kind of “installation opera,” a languageless score by Verity Standen holds and moves us through a relentlessly physical performance; at times meditative, and at others arresting and highly charged.
With themes of death, renewal, and hope, Arch points towards the extraordinary, yet flawed, systems humans create: language, economies, architectures, democracies – and, inevitably, to the impact of these systems on our ecological system, and on ourselves.
The premise is disarmingly simple. What takes place is straightforward. But the emotional aftermath remains devastatingly complex.
Two works of fire and wire, of experiments in physics and materiality cloaked in a circus guise. Free to all outdoors we finish our summer with a program of new circus and bold vision.
Kaleider is an international Production Studio that combines installation, live performance, and digital in our artworks, almost always in collaboration.
Kaleider is led by Artist and Director Seth Honnor and Executive Producer Katie Keeler, with Artist and Producer Irene Urrutia, and Producer and Company Manager Jocelyn Mills.
Kaleider Studios is in Exeter, UK where the company makes their work and runs projects.
Singers: Aminita Francis, Ellian Showering, Kate Smith, Phil King, Verity Standen
Builders: Nao Nagai, Seth Honnor, Irene Urrutia, Jay Kerry
Kaleider shares space with other creative organizations, individuals, and collaborators.
They tour to cities, festivals, venues and public spaces all over the world.
Arch is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Arch research and development is supported by IN SITU, the European platform for artistic creation in public space, in the frame of the project UN(COMMON) SPACES, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, and supported by Freedom Festival Arts Trust.
Arch was developed with the support of the National Theatre’s Generate programme.
Arch is co-commissioned by Theater op de Markt.
Arch is backed by hundreds of Citizen Commissioners: individual donors who supported Kaleider to make and bring this work into the world.
