Motionhouse explore our relationship with the natural environment in WILD. In our modern lives, is the wild still shaping our behaviour? Using the powerful physicality distinctive to Motionhouse, WILD creates an urban forest in the everyday of the city.
Performers use dynamic choreography, acrobatic movement and hand-to-hand partnering to move through a forest of tall poles, which forms the striking set for WILD. From the top of the pole, life in the canopy looks down onto the forest floor–a dangerous world of unknown meetings.
WILD has been a major hit with audiences of all ages since its premiere in 2019. It has wowed more than 150,000 people with its gravity-defying dance, acrobatics and circus.
In June 2025, WILD won two awards at El Festival Internacional de Teatro y Artes de Calle de Valladolid (TAC); the Emilio Zapatero Award for the Judge’s Best Circus Show and the Audience Award, voted for by the public. WILD also won the Audience Award (large format), voted for by audiences at Internationales Straßentheater Festival, Holzminden in Germany in June 2025.
Commissioned by Gulbenkian & ART31 and Birmingham Hippodrome.
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 and The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust.
Showing at La Mercè, Barcelona on 27 and 28 September 2025.
Image: Motionhouse – WILD (photo credit Dan Tucker).
