Wexford Arts Centre are very excited to partner again with the ISACS Network to bring you back LIFT – one of our artist development programmes. This residency will offer mentoring and creation space for duo ground-based circus artists via an open-call residency. This yea’r recipients are Ken Fanning and Tina Segner aka Tumble Circus.
Tumble Circus was founded in 1995 by Ken Fanning and Tina Segner after a chance meeting on Dublin’s Grafton Street. Today we are a pioneering professional company, creating extraordinary Belfast inspired circus. We tour extensively at home, throughout Europe and worldwide. Tumble Circus combines circus skills
with comedy, theatre and social commentary to make people laugh, react, and act. Our work is high-skill and all human. With broad appeal, it is accessible to all, from the young to the not so young. We are Ireland’s first and only non-traditional big top touring circus are unchallenged innovators in outdoor performance.
Tumble Circus has an extensive track record, with a national and international reputation for creating groundbreaking, award winning work. This includes Unsuitable; Starman; Death or Circus; Damn the Circus; This is What We Do For a Living; Toin Thar Ceann; and Up Above. In the virtual world we’ve made Non Essential Circus Providers, Winter Circus The Movie, Lost in Circus diaries and The MacCarnysons (premiering as part of St Patrick’s Festival 2021).
Artistic Statement
Tumble Circus, reinventing Irish Circus since 1995
We are brave risk takers, making world-class, wild and revolutionary circus. We create circus for big tops, the streets, online and everywhere in between.
It is our job to make families, communities and audiences gasp, laugh and be inspired to live well.
Mission
Tumble Circus is a pioneering, professional company creating extraordinary Belfast-inspired circus that makes people laugh, react and act.
Vision
Our vision of the world is one filled with joy and laughter where people are inspired by circus to push the boundaries of their own limits and follow their dreams.
Tumble Circus have toured extensively throughout Ireland, Europe and Australia. See below for highlights and in bold for funded projects by Arts Council NI (ACNI) Irish Arts Council, Culture Ireland, Belfast City Council, (BCC), Arts & Business, Arts Council England, British Council and ZEPA.
LIFT is supported by County Wexford Arts Department, Wexford Arts Centre and Arts Council Ireland.
