WILD on the Beach

5&6 July 2025

This summer, movement meets nature on the sand. For the first time ever, Motionhouse brings its gravity-defying dance-circus show WILD to a beach stage.

Saturday evening is topped off with a Summer Social silent disco, bar and street food.

Credit: @studi_sd - Stef Darmon

WILD

This July, Motionhouse brings WILD to the beach at Watergate Bay – a free outdoor performance combining dance, circus, and acrobatics. Set in a striking forest of tall poles, performers leap, slide, and swing against the dramatic coastal backdrop. From the top of the pole, life in the canopy looks down onto the forest floor – a dangerous world of unknown meetings…

Performance times:
Saturday - 12pm & 4pm
Sunday - 12pm & 3.30pm

Summer social silent disco:
Saturday 5-7pm

Summer social silent disco

Saturday 5-7pm

After the performance, stay on the sand for the summer social silent disco, with a mix of local street food vendors and bar from Sharps Brewery.

Kids' Zone on the Beach

Explore the family activity area hosted by our Kids' Zone team over the weekend of WILD. With reading tents, sandcastle and sand sculpture building, hula hoop games and a paper aeroplane racing station.

Saturday 5 July 11am-5pm

Sunday 6 July 11am-4pm

Supported by Cornwall Airport Newquay

WILD is commissioned by Gulbenkian & ART31 and Birmingham Hippodrome (as part of the Hippodrome Associate Artist programme). Supported by Without Walls with commissioning from Freedom Festival, Hat Fair, and Out There International Festival of Circus & Street Arts. With additional backing from the Garfield Weston Foundation, the Foyle Foundation, The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust, The Saintbury Trust and The City of London Corporation.

Motionhouse is supported by Arts Council England with additional support from Warwick District Council and is a Hippodrome Associate Artist.