Earth, Wheels, Air is a creative collaboration between the UK’s first integrated circus company, Extraordinary Bodies, and Kenya’s leading inclusive contemporary dance company, Pamoja Dance. Together, they are creating a performance that transcends borders and celebrates diverse talent.

An electrifying journey into the depths of self-discovery, resilience, and unapologetic authenticity.

Step into a world of unfiltered authenticity, where the rules are rewritten, where  labels and limitations are left behind. The Other Life I Lead is an electrifying queer/crip night out celebrating the most alive and unfiltered versions of ourselves.

Featuring original music by Harry Bassett, this groundbreaking gig-theatre experience fuses movement, circus, poetry, and music into a powerful force that challenges the masks we wear in society. We dare to ask: When can we reveal our true selves? When do we feel the need to conceal? Why do we live fragmented lives when a whole life should be within reach?

The Other Life I Lead transcends boundaries and celebrates the rich tapestry of human existence. It’s an invitation to embrace your unfiltered, uncensored, and unapologetically fabulous self—a vibrant celebration of life in all its magnificent forms. Join us in the revelry.

A national participatory project celebrating ordinary lives and our extraordinary bodies in nature. 

SW!M is Diverse City’s national participatory project led by Claire Hodgson and Deborah Paige. SW!M and Sw!m Too were performed in Swanage in 2022 and 2023. SW!M 75 was performed in Weston Super Mare in October 2023. The Sw!m shows collect the verbatim stories of swimmers and share these alongside mass choreographed movement in the sea and on nearby land, celebrating ordinary lives and our extraordinary bodies in nature.

Coming to a seaside town near you!

Hold tight. There’s a change coming.

Vivid, rebellious and joyful – Mid Life is a frank, comedic exposé of menopausal midlife. Join us as we laugh, roar and disco dance our way through our midlife! 

Mid Life sold out in venues across the UK in 2020. Rewritten and revamped, this upbeat, life-affirming show is packed with razor sharp humour and disco. It draws its themes from real life experiences of women in midlife and ends with a dance party for all to join in. Touring in 2025.

‘“What we have is all we have – there is no more” – Dame Ellen MacArthur

All We Have is a new co-production with multi-award-winning, internationally acclaimed theatre company Ad Infinitum. The show will explore themes of adventure, survival, and the human love of and destruction of our oceans.

Join us as we celebrate 75 years of the NHS in this collaboration with Super Culture in Weston-Super-Mare.

We were delighted to collaborate with our friends at Cirque Bijou on another of their spectacular finales to Bestival in Dorset.

Extraordinary Bodies presents a new musical co-produced with Bristol Old Vic and Theatre Royal Plymouth. A spectacular story of love and resistance, set in a travelling circus touring Germany in 1933.

A show written by Jamie Beddard, about how things need to fall apart before they can into place. Delicate was presented by Extraordinary Bodies and co-produced with Figurteatret i Nordland (Nordland Visual Theatre) and Theatre Royal Plymouth. Delicate toured between October and December 2022.

We are very excited to be working in tandem with our good friends at Cirque Bijou on some seriously funky moves at Camp Bestival this year as we attempt to break the Guinness world record for World’s Largest Disco Dance! The current record stands at 324 disco dancers, so we’d like to invite you and your family to join us when we take on our world record challenge on Saturday 30th July.

Human is about the small moments that shape us. This new show from Extraordinary Bodies is a poetic record of our time, based on the real life stories of our company and performers, told through circus, music and film.
Intimate, funny and celebratory, Human looks inPart circus, part serenade, part cinema, Human is about the small moments that shape us. We toured the show twice, in 2021 and 2022, and made a film version that was available to venues.to the heart of birth, love and change.

Based on the real life experiences of Claire Hodgson, Karen Spicer and Jacqui Beckford, this joyful, potent show took on the taboos surrounding menopause. Weaving together BSL, audio description, orThese are midlife women – unpaid carers, up-all-nighters, emotional load bearers, shoulders to cry on, school-runners and piece-picker-uppers. Join them as they find a way through the loss, mess, despair, frustration, freedom, joy and possibility of the middle years.

iginal music, dance, and theatre, Mid Life told an honest story of different experiences of the same life event to sell out audiences in Bristol and London. Mid Life is currently available for touring.

For more on the show click here.

Created with support from Ferment at Bristol Old Vic.

Splash! was an immersive outdoor summer show for Every Body. It was commissioned in 2018 by the East Midlands Splash! Consortium, led by The Mighty Creatives. It was directed by Billy Alwen and Jamie Beddard and was written by the directors in collaboration with Richard Headon and Donna Williams.

We co-produced director Lee Lyford’s take on The Elephant Man with Bristol Old Vic and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Diverse City’s Joint Artistic Director, Jamie Beddard, played the main character of Joseph Merrick and the company supported learning around improved access for artists and audiences.