For our second collaboration with Arnolfini we’re delighted to be bringing the acclaimed Curious to the festival over our middle weekend.

The Moment I Saw You… is a new performance made in collaboration with filmmaker Andrew Kötting, composer Graeme Miller and performers Claudia Barton and Joseph Young. It’s about gut feelings; fight, flight and freeze reactions; impulse, love and undefended moments. Set inside the belly of a whale; the audience is cast adrift with only stories and half-remembered truths to sustain them.

This is how i dream it. This is how it feels. And I am not a sailor. I cannot steer a craft. I cannot tie a reef knot. I cannot swim. But still, this is how it ends. I am out here with the lost mariners, the castaways, the shipwrecked and the sea-swallowed.

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‘There are a thousand beautiful moments: my favourites include a film of a woman floating adrift at sea projected onto a tiny Sealegs packet and a harrowing story of a childhood terrorised by a sword-swallower’s accident. It’s a rich and rewarding experience being immersed in this watery world.’ Total Theatre

"There is something immensely wistful about a piece that demonstrates that we are merely chemical compounds, and yet also shows us how to discover equilibrium." The Guardian (read the full review here).

There will also be an artist talk by Curious on May 14th, click here for more info.