Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Theatre is Ireland’s foremost Aerial Dance Theatre Company originally from Donegal. The Company creates spectacular indoor and outdoor work and has become renowned internationally as a creative organisation that stretches the boundaries between several arts forms, combining aerial skills with contemporary circus and creating theatre fused with aerial dance, music and video art, making contemporary circus and aerial dance accessible. We create contemporary circus and specialise in aerial dance, making site-specific work for theatres and festivals.

“…wonder filled elegance…”
The Times

Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Theatre and Cie Drapés Aériens (FR) have co produced a new aerial spectacle Madam Silk. This is a haunting and visually stunning piece of aerial dance, which combines a unique mixture of many art forms including dance, circus, video art alongside original music.

The show opens in an empty house where the memories of Madam Silk lay forgotton under sheets of fabric. The winds of time blow through the window and awaken her, stories evole within a journey of time, the piece rises and spirals through the past, the present and the future.

"Madam Silk delighted and thrilled our audience, a beautiful blend of vivid imagery and aerial dance. The future of circus in Ireland has arrived – a tour de force” Karl Wallace, CEO - Siamsa Tiré, Ireland

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Hurried along by the relentless beat of time, the performers wonder if there is a worthy destination? Or are they just running around in circles? Should they fight the pulse of time or should they just Hang On and hope for a moment of stillness, a moment of clarity.

This is our most recent work and is a very raw phyical piece performed by two outstanding aerial dancers. Hang On is often raw, sometimes sexy but always real. A visual feast for the eye. Fidget Feet have been working with Muire Bloomer as Choreography advicer and Sarah Poole (Montreal), Lindsey Butcher (Gravity and Levity, UK) as aerial advicers.

Commissioned by Westmeath Councty Council with support from Shawbrook, Dance Ireland and The Backstage Theatre, Longford.