Waiting Song

Waiting Song is a song and trapeze duet played out on a striking steel rig. Two circus performers, dressed in golden sequinned fabric, chat to the crowd, asking them what good things they are looking forward to.

They climb and shift around the metal bars and the small stage, sharing thoughts and reflecting the desires of the audience, who are beguiled to hear their aspirations voiced back to them.

The artists sing an exquisite melody, simultaneously twisting their bodies through strong and playful shapes on the trapeze, suspended from the curved metal rig. They voice the lyrics that the audience follow from the printed postcards. The words of the song derived from lengthy discussion about the difference between hoping for something and looking forwards to something that you believe will happen.

Audiences sometimes sing along, or sway to the guitar accompaniment. People are mesmerised by the lyricism of the trapeze moves and might look through the rig to the sky, letting birds or clouds frame the intention. People often come forward afterwards and thank the artists for the moment of calm, for giving them a joyful and peaceful experience in amongst present realities.

Waiting Song is about looking for the good things and placing them firmly into your own future.

Mish Weaver has worked in UK circus for 30 years, designing structures and props, directing circus performance for outdoors, small scale performance in theatre spaces and running engagement projects in streets and community settings in a wide range of formats. With Waiting Song, Weaver is channelling her desires to broach climate communication and find ways to talk about the future, and how our expectations are affecting how we might behave. Weaver is working with stunning trapeze performers, a talented song writer, an inspirational voice coach and skilled metal workers to create an extraordinary visual experience for outdoors.