We saw Hands Some Feet briefly in a taster during the Showman's Dinner, where at 7pm in the Urban Orchard performers...

We saw Hands Some Feet briefly in a taster during the Showman's Dinner, where at 7pm in the Urban Orchard performers get on the table and demonstrate some of their show, or something else or their abilities.

I've never seen anybody juggling ~with someone else's hands~ before or behind their own back, so I was intrigued. This proved to be the mere snowflake at the tip of the iceberg.

The show is in the impressive Opticum at the Showman's Fair, and it's just about the sweetest and most lyrical use of juggling, music, skipping rope, wire and acrobatics I've ever seen. It's like a narrative symphony of beautiful human movement and it tells a story. It's all of a piece - flowing as naturally from one movement to another like a symphony - it's certainly hard to know when to applaud because you don't want to interrupt the story.

The two performers, Liisa Näykki and Jeromy Zwick, are in complete simpatico with one another during the performance, their interactions are entirely unaffected and naturalistic. A daring exploration totally out of the box with the more traditional forms of juggling and wire work.

See it, it's extraordinary and very sweet.

A word of warning though - the Showman's Dinner at 7:00 might detract from the gentle music of the performance (the Dinner show is LOUD) so go to the 6:00pm session if you can manage it. You can then go to the Showman's dinner afterward!

10 out of 10 poignant and on the Sid and Nancy Scale: Torville and Dean's Fire and Ice, if the ice were icecream, and the Fire hot chocolate and peppermint sauce.


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