From the 22nd till the 26th September the festival will attract jugglers, acrobats, circus artists, dancers, aerialists and other performing artists  from all over the world to Clonakilty, Ireland.  The 5 days will be packed with workshops, shows and games. Internationally renowned artists have been invited to inspire, teach and perform  throughout the festival.

Motion Festival started 6 years ago as Clonakilty Juggling Convention. Over the last few years it has evolved past its "juggling" boundaries to include all forms of body and object movement and manipulation arts, such as:

-clowning and theatre
-object manipulation - juggling in all its forms - balls, clubs, rings, contact ball, diabolo, poi, staff, the fire arts, hoop, devilstick, etc
-movement - dance and movement of all kinds - all dance styles, martial arts, acrobatics, aerial dance, parkour
-therapeutic or mind/body arts - yoga, alexander technique, etc

Throughout the 5 days there will be:

• workshops in many of the disciplines mentioned obove
• street performances
• fire shows
• gala show
• renegade show (an open stage where anyone can get up and do something - from absolutely amazing to stupidly silly - and they get rewarded with alcohol so the show gets more and more ridiculous as the night goes on

The last two years featured workshops and performances from Aragorn "Bishop" Boulanger and this year we are proud to bring Dimaworm from Russia.

Check out the video from last year here:

Clonakilty Motion Festival 2009 Highlights

For information take a look at our website: www.motionfestival.com

Hope to see you there

:)

Ronan