Palestinian Circus at Glastonbury Festival

Apr 7, 2026

We were thrilled to welcome The Palestinian Circus to Glastonbury Festival in 2025

The fact that they were even able to get here intact is a miracle. This show was a joint project with Incandescence Circus, and Satya and her team made magic with them.

They are the loveliest people to work with and their amazing positive energy was wonderful. The show was the most beautiful performance we had in the Circus Big Top that year.

Circolombia Acéléré at Brighton Dome

Dec 31, 2021

We were all very happy to get the full Acéléré cast together for a run of shows at Brighton Dome over the Christmas holidays.

The nature of the venue meant that we could install the cloudswing in a position that Tori could swing out over the audience, which gives that part of the show a lot of intensity.

Usiing a mixture of house lighting kit together with a set of Mac Viper Performance, my favourite moving head profile, I ran it with a ChamSys MQ70.

Breath of Beginning

Oct 12, 2021

It was lovely to work with Nina Bambrey again in the woods. She specialises in putting evening aerial performances in great locations. This time we were in Tortworth Forest for her new show Breath of Beginning.

There is no power available, and the kit has to be easily deployed. I used 10 Astera AX5 units for the performers, controlled with their app, and 9 SmartBats for uplighting the trees.

Plus a healthy dose of fire at the end.

Ves-Tigios by Circolombia

Oct 4, 2021

I have worked with Circolombia for several years, lighting their shows Urban and later, Acelere in venues around the world.

In late 2021 2 members of the company put a new show together called Ves-tigios. Just the two of them, and some nice set. It was a real treat to work with them on this creation

Palomo and Jose Henry made a strange world on stage at Circomedia in Bristol.

Photos by Ramona Carraro

Video and set by Dav Bernard

Heres a clip of one of the sections.

Reach by Lavrak

Nov 2, 2019

This was a really fun little tour with Amy Nicholls and her company. We took it to Falmouth University, The House in Plymouth, Circomedia in Bristol and Jacksons Lane Theatre in London.

I used the house rig in each venue but toured an Avolites Titan Mobile desk to keep as much consistency as possible. The show featured floor and aerial work with rigging and counterweighting by James Arscott.