StrangeWorks News

Great photos of ONOMATOPOEIA at The Barbican

2011-03-17T08:37:00.000-07:00

Photos by Michele Panzeri

NEW Show at Barbican

2011-03-01T16:26:00.000-08:00

VIDEO!!!

2011-02-02T08:48:00.000-08:00

Here it is the official video for last years brilliant March of the dead parade, DANCE OF THE DEAD 2010

Enjoy and pass the link on

MARCH OF THE DEAD 2010 !!!

2010-11-24T08:19:00.001-08:00

Here are some wonderful photos by Gualtiero Fisauli of last months Halloween parade 'March of the Dead'.

The annual street parade up the Kingsland road attracted more than 800 people and most of the local residents were popping their heads out to watch the mighty march go by. At Gillet Square in Dalston, revellers were greeted by freakish dancers who led a mass dance off on the square.

We are working on a video that should be posted up very soon and many more photos to come. This years parade was the biggest and most ambitious ever, and without you it would never happen.

Dancing Dead in Gillet Square

Sink the Pink led the Super Freak dance off!

Death even stops the buses while leading his guests up the
Kingsland Road

Adrenalin Dance with their Corpse de Ballet Troupe

Remembering Clerkenwell.

2010-11-19T06:42:00.000-08:00

Over the last few weeks we have been working at Central Saint martins with some students from the BA Theatre design course.

We explored the area and its history, and how to create a street theatre event.

The students worked in groups to create characters and costumes for the parade.

On the day itself we were lead by a guide on a very surreal tour of the surrounding streets, where we were hijacked by a gang of wonderful characters.

More theatre in the streets we say!!

3 DAYS TO GO! LEARN DA MOOOOVES!!!!

2010-10-13T07:15:00.000-07:00

March of the Dead 2010!

2010-10-05T10:32:00.000-07:00

This is the fifth anniversary year of StrangeWorks' annual Halloween Parade.

Prepare for the biggest and most wild one yet!

STRANGEWORKS "HEAD IN THE BOX" AT THE BARBICAN WEEKENDER SUMMER 2010. PHOTOS BY MICHELE PANZERI

2010-07-16T12:08:00.000-07:00

All money from photos sold to participants when to Mind Charity

2010-07-16T11:22:00.000-07:00

BRITTANIA SCHOOL WORKSHOPS

IN JUNE WE WERE RAN 2 GREAT WORKSHOPS WITH A KIDS FROM A SCHOOL IN SILVERSTOWN. WITH YEAR 4/5 THEY CREATED WONDERFUL PAPER FASHIONS AND ORGANISED A SPECTACULAR PHOTO SHOOT. WITH THE YOUNGER YEAR 2'S WE TOOK OVER THE STREETS AS CRAZY ANTS AND PARADED AROUND THE LOCAL AREA. HERE ARE SOME PHOTOS OF BOTH OCCASIONS.

THE FASHION SHOOT:

Barbican Do Something Different Weekend

2010-03-19T10:10:00.000-07:00

StrangeWorks attended the "Do Something Different Weekend" at the Barbican. They arrived in the guise of 2 puppets. Ravana with 3 heads & 6 arms (unfortunately his other 7 heads and 14 arms were chopped off in a previous fight) and Rama on a tiny elephant with his monkey army who came along to keep Ravana out of trouble.

2010-03-04T04:45:00.000-08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM STRANGEWORKS

The Keeper of Leeuwarden

2010-03-04T04:05:00.000-08:00

In Nov 2009 Strangeworks went on tour to Holland. As guest artists at the Pop Academy of Leeuwarden, in the north of Holland, we worked with 10 students on a very theatrical street parade.
The students worked on four different characters who lived or were born in Leeuwarden and Strangeworks interpreted the Keeper of Leeuwarden (a fictional character created for the parade) through a huge scale puppet.
The audience paraded through the streets whilst meeting theses characters at certain stopping points.
Together we created a show never to be forgotten by the people of this small town.

Walsall Halloween Extravaganza

2010-03-04T03:42:00.000-08:00

In October 2009 Strangeworks decamped from their usual haunt of the Kingsland Rd in Hackney London, to Walsall near Birmingham.
We were commisioned by The House of Fairy Tales and The New Walsall Art Gallery to run a series of workshops leading up to Halloween street parade.
The workshops were held in the gallery and in a number of youth centres around the city.

Here are some pictures of the event itself.

Thank you to Marlene Dunkley for the some of the photos and all the other wonderful volunteers.
And not forgeeting the brilliant Jig for his puppets...
THANK YOU