Pif-Paf is a genre-crossing company working in sculpture, performance, engineering, sound and natural history to explore our relationships with each other and the natural world.
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NEW WORK FOR 2009 : HONEY (tour dates below) : British Science Association collaboration : Under The Floorboards : HANUMAN! THE MONKEY GOD : TRUNK
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New for 2009, Under The Floorboards a medium scale outdoors show commissioned by the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences exploring the great spinning ball beneath our feet and how and why geologists can conjure up time and more. Focused on the "Golden Age of Geology" and the strident personalities that fought it out to find one theory that explains what on earth happened down there. Initial touring in 2009 followed by re-development and full touring in 2010. Expect a giant Ammonnite, Deep Time, copralytes, Adam Sedgwick and Charles Darwin on the giant Snakes and Ladders board of Scientific discovery!
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HONEY supported by Arts Council England, Explorers! Step up to the bee-line and cross the threshold of Bee Reality! an intimate 30min genre-bending show performed five times a day in our touring Giant Hive, (mobile black out theatre). For more info please download this pdf... introduction to HONEY
As part of its ongoing Plan Bee campaign to save the Honey Bee the Co-operative is supporting performances of HONEY. Find out more about the fantastic (if we say so ourselves!) Plan Bee at www.co-operative.coop/planbee
As of mid June we've performed HONEY 35 times in 2009, if you are one of the lucky Bee Explorers please get in touch and let us know what you think.
(Our evaluation of HONEY 2008 is complete, please contact us for further details or a copy)
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Tour Dates for HONEY for 2009, we are still booking, so get in touch!
March 7 Bee Cart at Ness Botanical Gardens the Wirrall
www.nessgardens.org.uk
April 9 participatory activities at Ordsall Community Arts
www.ocarts.co.uk
April 28 : Preview at St Mary Redcliffes, Bristol
May 2,3,4 Carny Ville at ArtsSpaceLifeSpace Bristol artspacelifespace.purplecloud.net/
May 22,23 Wildlife in the Garden, RHS Harlow Carr,
www.rhs.org.uk/whatson/gardens/harlowcarr/index.asp
June 6,7 : X-Trax 2009 Platt fields, Manchester
www.xtrax.org
June 13, 14 Bradford Mela www.www.bradfordmela.org.uk
July 4 Bee Cart, Lord Mayors Parade Sheffield
July 29,30,31, August 1 Big Green Gathering
www.big-green-gathering.com
August 7, 8 The Herbert coventry
www.theherbert.org
August 14,15 National Theatre Watch This Space
www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/wts
March 7 Bee Cart at Ness Botanical Gardens the Wirrall
www.nessgardens.org.uk
April 9 participatory activities at Ordsall Community Arts
www.ocarts.co.uk
April 28 : Preview at St Mary Redcliffes, Bristol
May 2,3,4 Carny Ville at ArtsSpaceLifeSpace Bristol artspacelifespace.purplecloud.net/
May 22,23 Wildlife in the Garden, RHS Harlow Carr,
www.rhs.org.uk/whatson/gardens/harlowcarr/index.asp
June 6,7 : X-Trax 2009 Platt fields, Manchester
www.xtrax.org
June 13, 14 Bradford Mela www.www.bradfordmela.org.uk
July 4 Bee Cart, Lord Mayors Parade Sheffield
July 29,30,31, August 1 Big Green Gathering
www.big-green-gathering.com
August 7, 8 The Herbert coventry
www.theherbert.org
August 14,15 National Theatre Watch This Space
www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/wts
DIRT AND DREAMS was an enchanting and expansive site specific performance commissioned by the City of Salford on the 27th and 28th of September, in Clifton Country Park,
For 80 years Wet Earth Colliery had lain dormant, for two days only the work, lives and legends of 180 years of Dirt and Dreams come tumbling back up its shafts and tunnels.
The event was a great success, check the gallery for images
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HANUMAN! THE MONKEY GOD, a giant marionette commissioned by the Indian Association of Greater Manchester for Dasheera Diwali Mela in Platt Fields, Manchester. HANUMAN was a great hit in the event and the parade with our own bubble of noisy mayhem and singing at the back of the parade. Jumping high in the air with animated limbs he is the first of a new line of madcap mechanical giants by Pif-Paf's engineering team. HANUMAN is available for events and parades and we can use the people powered crane to animate new puppets. Hanuman has appeared at Maker Faire Newcastle and will be at Bradford Mela and beyond.
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The Truth Doesn't Lie a site specific commission was performed at Oxford Univeristy Museum of Natural History on the 27th of June, a rip-roaring who-dunnit looking at how the truth isn't always what it seems, giant sea cows aren't always honest and why you might want to eat a cockroach (for science). It's a 45 minute show for up to 70 people that we hope to adapt to other Natural History venues, please get in touch to discuss possibilities.
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The Company:
Pif-Paf was formed in 2004 and is led by Pete Gunson working with a team of multi-talented collaborating artists from recent graduates to mid-career practitioners.
We undertake a broad range of work, both site-specific and touring, with and without participatory elements. We work nationally and beyond and are constantly looking develop our partnerships and working practices.
