(Photo: The Lowry)
Natalie Reckert and Mark Morreau
Playful, didactic, beautiful and highly skilled, world-class hand-balancer Natalie Reckert and digital artist Mark Morreau use technology and video projections to turn our conventional ideas of circus upside down and inside out.
Fusing circus and interactive technologies to examine the inner workings and fragmentation of the body, Natalie and Mark playfully investigate the relationship between the actual, and the mediatised body. Exploring the intersection of live acrobatic performance, close up video and spoken word, they embed movement on stage into projected landscapes on screen, to reveal the underlying mechanics, emotions and motivations of the circus body.