Against The Tide

Imagine an island separated from the world not by an ocean but by a vast desert. The tribe that survives here has almost forgotten what water was and every day they assemble to tell each other their stories and share their memories of water. Maybe if they remember well enough the water will come back? Aerial performance by disabled artists on the top of 4 metre high sway poles will evoke the movement of water and the ebb and flow of the tides, whilst a specially created musical soundscape, audio description and sign language interpretation will create an epic elemental environment to tell a moving story of loss and survival set in a near future that we can easily imagine.

Against the Tide
Cutty Sark Gardens
Thursday 25 - Sunday 28 June FREE
Thurs 7.30pm;
Fri & Sat 1pm & 7.30pm;
Sun 1pm & 4.45pm
(runs approx 25 mins)
Festival Website: www.festival.org
Access: Fully Sign Language Interpreted. Headsets available for blind and visually impaired people. Level access to performance space. Disabled parking available. Specially adapted toilet available in Cutty Sark Gardens.

This production brings together the creative skills of a team of UK and Australian artists.

"Against the Tide" is a Greenwich and Docklands International Festival co-commission of Graeae and Strange Fruit. The project is supported by and Circus Space, Five Boroughs, Greenwich's 2012 Cultural Programme, London Councils, Arts Victoria and is Lottery Funded the Arts Council England.
The project is also supported through the 2012 London Cultural Skills Fund, which has provided support for accompanying training for 30 Deaf and disabled artists as part of "Against the Tide".