A smiling performer in red aerial silks and a red wig hangs outdoors, the fabric fanning out dramatically across the garden stage.

Outdoor Performance2023

Alice’s Adventures in Aerialand

The Production

The Dot Collective’s Alice’s Adventures in Aerialand was an open-air aerial-circus theatre adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, developed as accessible family theatre for audiences including people living with dementia and PMLD. The 2023 touring production brought high-sensory storytelling, puppetry, verse, music and aerial performance into care, community and public outdoor settings.

30 photographs in the curated edit

Director: Laura Harling
Musical Director: David Knight
Commissioned by: The Dot Collective
Photography: Steve Gregson

Audience members watch an outdoor aerial performance under a metal rig draped with red and white fabric, as performers handle a long white silk beneath a suspended hoop.

A performer in red dungarees, yellow shirt and purple top hat smiles while holding a small container and a jar beside hanging aerial silks in a garden.

A performer sits in a yellow aerial hoop with oversized pink hand props raised high, while another performer steadies the hoop below.

A performer in red dungarees climbs a white aerial silk beside a yellow hoop and red drapery, smiling high above the garden stage.

Framed by sweeping red aerial fabric, a performer in a red wig and red dungarees leans forward with an intense expression.

A wide view of the garden stage shows performers climbing the metal aerial rig as red and white silks hang above the seated audience.

One performer climbs a rope above a yellow aerial hoop while another sits inside it and a third watches from the side in a purple top hat.

A performer carries a large blue jellyfish-like prop through the seated audience while blowing bubbles beneath the outdoor aerial rig.

A performer in sunflower-patterned dungarees stands before red aerial fabric with arms open, speaking or singing toward the audience.

Two performers in red dungarees and yellow shirts hang upside down from red and white aerial silks in a garden performance space.

A performer in sunflower-print dungarees examines red-and-white paper props while two others hold a large red fabric backdrop behind them.

A smiling performer sits inside a suspended yellow hoop fitted with oversized pink hands, watched by another performer wearing rabbit ears.

An aerial performer hangs upside down in white silks with a pink tutu flaring, while two performers in red dungarees gesture to the seated audience.

A performer in red dungarees and furry brown ears grins while stretched across the top of a metal aerial rig against a cloudy sky.

A performer in sunflower-print dungarees grips a rope while seated high in a yellow hoop, with two performers below holding white aerial silks open.

One performer leans from a metal ladder toward another who raises a large gold paddle-like prop beneath red and white draped silks.

Two aerial performers extend sideways from red and white silks, balanced in matching red dungarees beneath a metal rig in the garden.

A wide view shows performers clustered on a suspended rope under a metal aerial rig draped with red and white fabric, with the audience seated on the grass.

A performer with bright red curled hair stands suspended in red aerial silks that fan out around their legs like a dramatic skirt.

Two performers in red overalls and yellow shirts move through a leafy outdoor stage, one laughing with arms wide and a yellow scarf trailing.

On a garden aerial rig, a red-haired performer arches sideways in red silks while other costumed performers watch from below.

A smiling performer is suspended in sweeping red silks above a bunny-eared performer holding a trumpet on the grass.

A performer in sunflower-patterned overalls sits on a yellow aerial hoop, holding the rope and an open book against a leafy garden backdrop.

Several performers work around white aerial silks beneath red drapes, with one aerialist upside down high above the garden stage.

A performer swings on white aerial silks behind two red-overalled performers, one in a helmet holding a clipboard and one in a red wig reaching forward.

In front of a seated audience, performers use a yellow hoop and rope, including one hanging upside down, on an outdoor aerial stage framed by red and white silks.

Two performers in red overalls hold matching split poses suspended on aerial silks beneath a large metal rig, with audience members watching from the grass.

A performer climbs high on white aerial silks beside a yellow hoop and red drapes, with others assisting below on the garden stage.

A performer in patterned overalls sits on a yellow aerial hoop overhead while three red-overalled performers look up from the grass below.

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