Bicycle Ballet

@ Watch This Space, National Theatre

• Fri 6 July, 6pm
• Sat 7 July, 1pm & 6pm
• Sun 8 July, 1pm

The Bicycle Ballet is a spectacular choreography on bicycles exploring the sheer ecstatic joy you feel as you swerve downhill on a bike; the wind behind you and the sun on your face, tempered by the gritty reality of urban cycling - manoeuvering amongst traffic, pollution, theft, vandalism and securely locking your bike.

The Bicycle Ballet is a 30 minute outdoor performance. At at the National Theatre's Watch This Space Festival, it will be performed by 20 recently graduated performers and up to 50 volunteer performers - individuals, people from community groups and local cycling clubs.

The performers dance and cycle between set formation pieces reminiscent of Busby Berkeley's film choreography, with visual spectacle and character based stories inspired by people’s cycling experiences – learning to ride, fall off, tricks – and memories.