Climbers In Cultural Spectacular
Climbers and abseilers performing aerial ballet on side of 100-metre building in Manchester as part of Commonwealth Games. Looks mad and it's free...
Posted: 22 July 2002
by Jon
Seems like climbing and culture can mix after all - the proof is
Australian company Legs On The Wall who are performing in Manchesters
as part of the pre-Commonwealth Games Cultural Programme on Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday this week.
Described as 'aerial ballet', the 40-minute programme features
'climbers, abseilers and dancers' on the side of the 25-storey,
100-metre high Premier Lodge building off Deansgate in the centre of
Manchester.
'Homeland' is about migration and refugees and 'the struggle to be
accepted into a new and alien society and the building of a
multi-cultural society' and accompanied by music and enormous
projections onto the wall.
Sounds mad and spectacular. If you're in the North West and want
to take it in, performances are at 11.30pm on Monday, and at 10pm and
11.30pm on both Tuesday and Wednesday. More details of the programme
at www.streetsahead.org.uk.
More about Legs On The Wall on their own web
site.
Oh, and it's FREE too.
Official instructions: 'To see the show, stand in Exchange Sq
(Near Marks & Spencer) or on Deansgate, near Manchester
Cathedral. The road will be closed from 9.45pm until 10 minutes after
the end of the show and again at 11.15pm for the second performance
each night.'
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