Wild

What is it to be wild? 

WILD, the award-winning dance-circus production from Motionhouse explores our disconnect with the natural environment. In our modern lives, is the wild still shaping our behaviour?

This flagship production is a highlight with festivals and audiences. Exploring human relationships with the environment, WILD takes place in a forest of tall poles, up to 5m high. From the top, life in the canopy looks down onto the forest floor – a dangerous world of unknown meetings.

Using the powerful physicality distinctive to Motionhouse, performers use gravity-defying dance, acrobatic movement and hand-to-hand partnering to thrill and engage people of all ages.

A major hit with audiences and festivals since its premiere in 2019, WILD has so far wowed approximately 250,000 people. The show attracts large audiences, and where the space allows, it has regularly been watched by 1,500 – 2,000 people at each performance, making it a thrilling festival highlight.

Audience quotes

“Absolutely stunning. Never seen anything like it”

“Loved being part of a huge crowd spellbound by the thrilling dance circus show by Motionhouse”

“It was an amazingly mesmerising show, which entertained the whole family”

WILD won the Judge’s Best Circus Show and the Audience Award at TAC, Spain in May 2025. It also won the Audience Award at International Street Theatre Festival, Holzminden, Germany in June 2025. 6 performers, 45 Minutes. Suitable for all ages.

Motionhouse creates and tours a wide range of inspiring and powerful dance-circus productions to theatres and festivals in the UK and across the globe. The company’s distinctive, highly physical style integrates elements of circus and acrobatics with breath-taking dance to surprise and delight audiences.

A pioneer of outdoor dance, Motionhouse tour a range of flexible productions extensively to festivals and non-theatre spaces. These short, sharp injections of dance and circus are designed to be performed up-close, attracting and engaging large crowds, and inspiring audiences who are not necessarily familiar with dance.