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Ockham’s Razor: Collaborator – The Lowry
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Ockham’s Razor: Collaborator – The Lowry

Ockham's Razor, one of the best creative circus companies in the UK, are back at the Lowry with their new show Collaborator and Co Artistic Directors Alex Harvey and Charlotte Mooney are performing once more.  Over the last few years, they have taken on a more directorial role within the company but here they once more work together to create and perform a show which takes an autobiographical look at their lives together. Having met twenty-four years ago while training a Circomedia in Bristol, they fell in love but also realised that the vision for how they wanted to show their circus skills was shared by both of them.  The company Ockham's Razor came from that shared vision.   Twenty years later, older and with a ten-year-old daughter, this retrospective of their re...
Ockham’s Razor are back on tour this summer
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Ockham’s Razor are back on tour this summer

Ockham's Razor are back on tour this summer with their ground-breaking production This ç produced by Turtle Key Arts. With a cast ranging from 13 to 60 years old, This Time examines common perceptions of strength and age: how we are strong in different ways at different times in our lives. Using circus, autobiographical storytelling and original equipment design This Time is a compelling piece of visual theatre featuring stunning aerial acrobatics. Four performers lift, push and cradle each other over thresholds and ledges, exploring the tangible differences between each other as bodies are suspended high in the air and swung close to the ground in innovative takes on trapeze and swinging cradle. Highlighting the immense physical and emotional changes we undergo over a lifetime, This...