We create work that is energising and relevant to the here and now. We are always rethinking where and how performance happens in a way that is open to everyone.
Our Work
Luton On Fire
Capturing the emotional core of the production, the bold 9-track album is both a memento of the live show and a powerful standalone musical work. Fusing Rave, Grime, Jungle and poetry, it takes the listener on a journey through British dance and rave genres and its seminal relationship with countercultures, activism and the politics of…
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RAVE NEW WORLD
Rave New World is a spectacular new outdoor show told through lyrics, music, aerial theatre, and moving cars.
It's a celebration, provocation, and call-to-action.
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Belongings
“highlights the importance of play as a positive force: a means of self expression, for learning, companionship, challenge and teamwork.” (Everything Theatre) We are all trying to work out our story. Who are we? How are we shaped? Where do we fit in? Cleo arrives into a new home, unsure of what the future holds.…
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Deep Adaptation
The future is different than the one we once imagined. How do we bring our imaginations to the task of living well, even when the process of adaptation is difficult? What can we learn from our own process of adaptation to trauma that might help others navigate the changes we must all face and help us…
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The Pop Up Performance Shop
The Pop Up Performance Shop allowed new and emerging artists to share original work and develop their skillset alongside offering artistic works the public could experience for free. With an emphasis on originality and trying something new the pieces take a range of multimedia and interactive forms, you can expect something for every palatte… A…
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Murmurations
Murmurations is a guided tour into nature you’ll never forget – a woman on a mission, a couple in conflict, a man with a plan, and a botanist’s last stand… and other invasive species of the human kind… Through live scenes and songs, poetry and physical theatre, comedy and tragedy, Murmurations explores what we need…
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Butterflies
Three friends embark on an exciting adventure to chase their butterflies away. They cross new seas to unchartered lands, on a journey filled with discovery. The only trouble is they’re are all a bit worried about it. During their voyage the group ride the waves, battle the storms and face their fears, before reaching dry…
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But When?
Promenade theatre, a vibrant soundtrack and physical movement combine in a unique total theatre experience. Made through collaborative workshops with local young people to explore life in lockdown and the joy of reconnecting. A co-production by Tangled Feet, Next Generation Youth Theatre & The Culture Trust. Meeting point: Hat Factory Arts Centre foyer.
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Devolution Evolution
As we watch ingrained power structures around us being (rightly) challenged and in some cases dismantled, it felt like the right time also to interrogate our own creative power structures, and to try something different. What kind of work will fit into the new landscape we find ourselves in? How can we play a useful part…
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That Parking Show
Come and witness a hilarious, acrobatic and absurdist mix of parking row meets full blown war (with cling film!) Tangled Feet explore the lightening rod of our daily frustrations as two cars vie for a parking spot in a physical exploration of how conflict escalates. As the cars collide so do the occupants, their musical choices and the contents of the boot.…
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Factory Reset
As darkness falls, a crowd gathers, the Hat Factory glows and starts to call to the people below. Bodies dance in windows, spill out onto the walls and dance up to the sky inviting us all to come inside and enjoy the party! Tangled Feet join forces with NGYT, Lee Nelson, Pirates of the Carabina and…
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Boots On The Ground
“I sign on. I sit in my flat. Another day passes. And all that we did is gone, and means nothing now” Inspired by the centenary of the mass demobilisations from WW1 and the tales of modern-day veterans Boots On The Ground is a promenade headphone show which invites its audience to exchange their shoes…
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Need A Little Help
A Half Moon Co-Production. “Rarely is childrens’ theatre as profound whilst joyously riveting as #NeedaLittleHelp” Audience Member Need A Little Help is a moving and uplifting show inspired by the experience of young carers for ages 3 – 7, exploring what it means to look after someone else when you are young. In a uniquely…
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Inflation
Inflation is a raucous, riotous and bouncy journey through the lunacy of the international financial trading system and BREXIT using slapstick, physical theatre and audience participation. Tangled Feet explore the uncertain ground that our global economical system is standing on, asking the idiotically simple questions we’d all like answers to. Co-commissioned by: Greenwich+Docklands International Festival,…
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Mirror Sky
We are collaborating with leading local theatre company Next Generation Youth Theatre to create a stunning piece of mass movement theatre across the streets of Luton. Join the one hundred performers at 5pm on Sunday 25th June 2017 in St George‘s Square for a stunning finale to the Imagine Luton festival and an uplifting and…
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Kicking and Screaming
Two couples negotiating the first year of parenthood are guided by our playful narrator, Laura. A baby is more than Natasha bargained for – and she’s also wondering whether boyfriend Jay will ever grow up. As a flood of plastic balls and children’s toys is unleashed in the middle of their marriage, Sam and Ronnie…
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Emerge/ncy
In this unique durational performance piece, which evolves over the course of each day, Tangled Feet questions how we all cope with standing on the edge of enormous uncertainty. Has this state of emergency become the new normal?
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Collective Endeavour
Bringing to life the adage of ‘strength in numbers’ the new production featured 300 professional and amateur dancers as well as local volunteers from across the city – each representing one of the 300 players who make up the international teams competing in this year’s Rugby World Cup. The performers worked together in a specially…
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Care
The National Health Service: Almost everyone enters the world inside it and most of us will experience its healing powers. Many die in its arms and some will have their lives saved by it. It is epic, tragic, joyful, extraordinary and ordinary all the same time. Tangled Feet transform the theatre into a hospital in…
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Ping Pong Table of Truth
Audience members are welcomed into the Chamber of Truth to meet the Ping Pong Lord where they’ll play a 3-minute bout whilst answering questions ranging from the deep to the ridiculous. At a listening post outside members of the public can eavesdrop on the answers before stepping inside themselves.
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The Crossing
Tangled Feet unlock the tensions in territory and the creation of borders. Mixing dynamic physical theatre with evocative live drumming, this moving and ultimately celebratory story pulls apart and draws together the two sides of the British High Street.
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One Million
The early years of adult life are a fragile and vulnerable time, but simultaneously, explosively powerful and filled with enormous energy. Identities are carved and pathways into the future forged. What does it mean for a generation to face the start of their working lives in a time of uncertainty? How do you get onto…
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Push
Clench your pelvic floors and join us for the ride as five pram-pushers weave paths between elation, despair, exhaustion and love. Performed in the very outdoor spaces that parents inhabit – parks, shopping centres and busy streets, Push is a high-energy, humorous and thought-provoking piece about mothers and their relationship with their babies. Using clowning,…
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Rant Box
Rantbox captures public opinion and respectfully offers it back to the public. Three roving performers interview passers-by about their attitudes to climate change and the state of the world. The performers then ‘rant’ on behalf of their interviewees – the edited interviews playing simultaneously in the actor’s headsets to offer compelling performances. The local rants…
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Shepherd Tone
As midnight strikes a chanting mass of masked figures assemble. They are here to sacrifice the king and the queen (chosen from the crowd), beat to death their piñata effigies and then invoke a UV rave to open the portal between the living and the dead. Commissioned by nabokov theatre comapny.
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All That Is Solid Melts into Air
A city’s story is an epic and perpetual tale of regeneration and change. Industries have changed, bombs have fallen, tower blocks have soared and markets plummeted. The past is wiped away and new futures promised. How does a city survive as all that is solid melts into air? What does it take to let go…
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The Hide
Winner: Audience Prize Gi20 (Stockton International Riverside Festival and Shoreditch Festival 2011) Tangled Feet install a special people-watching structure (complete with human expert) into an urban environment and let the audience watch our species in their natural environment. Step inside The Hide and gaze across humanity in all its glory. Commissioned by The Lyric Hammersmith…
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The Measurement Shop
The Measurement Shop is a creative exploration of how we measure complex and simple things and what effect measuring has on our lives. How do you measure happiness, hope and pain? As well as age, population and health? Welcome to the Measurement Shop… Members of the public can come in, stay for as long as…
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Remote Control
In this short piece, performers interact with sound and projection that respond live to their movements – sometimes they control it, and sometimes it controls them.
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Showtime
Tangled Feet collaborate with the band Clock Opera, Exponential Aerial Company and designer Simon Daw to create an event somewhere between a live music video, happening and piece of theatre. Featuring wall running, a secret flash mob, live projection, 200 glow sticks, a 15-metre scaffold tower and giant indoor catherine wheels… all set to a…
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Undercover
In this 15 minute short, Tangled Feet invade the darkly comic territory between domesticity and fantasy, and sex and death.
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Game?
When the well organised and obsessive planners Tony and Connie decide to welcome their new neighbours with a spot of wine, music and marshmallows, things couldn’t go more wrong. James from next door has a new girlfriend, Frankie, and she’s determined to steal the show. Breaking the unwritten rules at a dinner party, Game? is…
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Emily's Kitchen
Daydreaming through life, Emily loses herself part of the radio programmes she hears. She imagines sitting in a smoky cabaret bar, climbing mountains, playing at the Royal Albert Hall and sailing out to sea. But one day she sails too far and is lost in the radio waves. An epic journey ensues. In a rich…
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Lost Property
Follow your hand down the back of the sofa and there is a door, open the door and you’ll find yourself in the lost property department. Why do we lose things? And if you have, was it really that important to begin with? A highly acrobatic search for lost objects, hearts and people. Nominated: The…
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Catching Dust
Wherever you are sitting now, somebody has sat before you; someone will replace you when you leave. What would happen if you watched one bench for one hour – what people would you meet, what secrets would you hear? Seven characters are all linked by the bench they sit on in the local park. Live…
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