News: Electrabel Nights, Nixdorf Museum, Kaleidoscope, Gadget Show Live

Electrabel Nights: Brussels Winter 2009-2010

Feeding the Fish perform a specially created Christmas show on Saturday evenings throughout December on the balcony of the spectacular City Hall in Brussels' Grand Place. The 'Electrabel Nights' performances are sponsored by Belgium's national electricity provider and will be seen by thousands of people each week.

The Site-Specific Christmas version of 'Kaleidoscope' is integrated into a stunning programmable LED installation that clads the entire facade of City Hall. Performances are scheduled for 7pm, 8pm, 9pm and 10pm on the 28th November and the 5th, 12th and 19th December and 2nd January. A live DJ set and Light-show takes place between the Feeding the Fish shows. Video now online on our Home Page

Feeding the Fish equipment displayed in World's largest Computer Museum: 6 November 2009 - 28 February 2010

The Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum displays a working Feeding the Fish Club as part of an exhibition of inventions by Claude Shannon - the father of the information age. Besides writing the epic "Mathematical Theory of Communication," he was an avid juggler and inventor of juggling machines.

A performance of Flux is scheduled to open the exhibition entitled "Codes and Clowns - The Juggling Scientist" on 5 Nov 2009 at Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, Paderborn,Germany: More information.

Finale song "Hold Up a Light" features Feeding the Fish Pixel-Poi

Feeding the Fish Pixel-Poi will be seen live on stage by over one million Take That fans this summer as the cast of 34 dancers and performers on Take That's 'The Circus' tour perform with our custom programmed LED batons for the finale song of the concert: "Hold Up a Light." The Light-Sticks display the Take-That logo and special Star graphics designed for the Circus Tour. It promises to be spectacular as it will be the largest number of Pixel Poi on a single stage ever.

The Circus Tour will be Take That's first stadium tour in a decade and smashed box office records by completely selling out within 5 hours of tickets going on sale. For more info, visit the Take That website.

NEW SHOW:  Kaleidoscope

Drawing on their popular show, ‘Flux’, Feeding the Fish have created a larger, more visual and even more stunning performance. ‘Kaleidoscope’ is a strongly choreographed combination of dance, laser manipulation and Pixel-Poi, performed by three dancers to a movingly upbeat classical-fusion soundtrack.

'Kaleidoscope' premiered in June 2008 and has already been performed at a number of high profile events worldwide including the Horse of the Year Show, the Salle Empire in Monte-Carlo before Prince Albert of Monaco, for the rebranding party of Hong Kong Tourist Board, to launch a new TV channel in Dubai and at the opening of the 'Queens of Egypt' exhibition for the Egyptian Ambassador to France.

The Gadget Show LIVE

Kaleidoscope was performed at the Gadget Show Live, held at the NEC in Birmingham as part of the Gadget Show Super Theatre. Rated as a highlight of the event, we look forward to next year’s repeat performance.
For details/tickets, please visit: Gadget Show Live.

Wellcome Collection - Extreme Coordination

Feeding the Fish perform at the Wellcome Collection in London on the 19th February 2009 as part of Wellcome's live events programme. The 'Extreme Coordination' lecture features live experiments by Richard Wiseman, exploring the science of juggling and explanations of the performance.

Pixel-Poi™

Pixel-Poi are highly visual illuminated LED batons manipulated in performances by Feeding the Fish. We invented a unique method to create graphics in lights whilst spinning juggling props in 2005 and patented the technology (Granted UK & European Patents: GB 2451 234B and 20 2008 009 828.9)

They can be precisely programmed to display text, graphics and logos as they are spun by the performers - this makes them perfect for custom shows. A typical branded performance would include a Pixel-Poi routine as the finale of the act, displaying numerous colourful patterns. As the music builds to the crescendo, the client's choice of logo or text appears in the Pixel-Poi. The effect is completely breathtaking and we are frequently told that audience members had goose-bumps when the logos appeared.

Third generation Pixel-Poi are incorporated in both Feeding the Fish acts: ‘Flux’ and ‘Kaleidoscope’. The displayed images now have a higher definition, endless colours and multiple words can be programmed to appear simultaneously.

Specially programmed Pixel-Poi branded shows have been performed for clients including: Google, Vodafone, AXA, Microsoft, Alton Towers, Kraft Foods, Ministry of Sound, Diesel, the British Royal Family, Bahrain Formula One, Christina Aguilera and Lamborghini to name but a few. The combination of Juggling with Logos appearing in lights has been extremely well received worldwide.

Expo 2015 Milan

Feeding the Fish created a special Pixel-Poi performance for Milan's bid to host Expo 2015. The show was performed at the Palais des Congres in Paris directly after Al Gore's address to the panel and audience, which included Italian prime minister Prodi, the Turkish prime minister and numerous VIPs. The entire presentation was extremely well received and Milan won the race to be the host city.

Bahrain Formula 1 Grand Prix Drivers' Welcome Party

We performed a 3 person finale show at the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix drivers' welcome party. The show was a great success and displayed on the big screens to the public audience throughout the race days. The Bahrain International Circuit logo as well as English and Arabic text were displayed by the Pixel-Poi during the high-point of the performance.

Science Events

Feeding the Fish are very proud to have performed at the opening of the Science on Stage Festival held October 2008 in Berlin's Uranium, and previously at the European Science on Stage event held at CERN (the world's largest particle physics laboratory) where the performance was accompanied by a teacher's sheet explaining some of the scientific concepts involved in juggling and the unique technology that FTF have developed.
Science on Stage events encourage teachers from schools throughout Europe to explore new ways to make science exciting and fun for young people. The events are inspiring and hugely positive.
Follow-up performances included the Konrad Zuse awards ceremony at Phaeno Science Centre, a symposium at the Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin entitled "Is the Universe a Quantum Computer?". Flux was performed for 10 days during the summer holidays at the Swiss Science Centre, Technorama including a Q and A session after each show about the technology involved in the show.
We have also performed at Technology Festivals throughout Asia, including the Mumbai, Kanpur and Kharagpur branches of the Indian Institute of Technology. Thanks to all the organising teams and audiences for wonderfully warm receptions. See Date-List for more details.

Dubai World Cup

Feeding the Fish performed a special Pixel-Poi logo-juggling show for the Dubai World Cup - the world's richest horse racing event, with a purse of 6 million dollars. The Pixel-Poi set was performed on the main stage alongside Vanessa Mae who was flown in to play for the ceremony. The audience included Sheikh Mohammed, the ruler of Dubai, and the show was broadcast on national TV. The Pixel-Poi displayed Dubai World Cup logo and various visual patterns using the colours of the United Arab Emirates.

Be Fabulous

Our most glamorous recent performance was the 'Be Fabulous' party for Moët and Chandon in Milan's Castello Sforzsesco. Feeding the Fish were the closing act of the enormous party which was attended by thousands of Italian and international VIPs. The show, performed on an open air stage in the centre of the main courtyard, included Pixel-Poi spelling the Moët and Chandon logo as well as the message Be Fabulous which is the name of Moët's innovative branding campaign.

LUCI - GLOW: Eindhoven City of Light

Following the success of the city.people.light forum held in Rotterdam last year, Feeding the Fish performed for LUCI Association and GLOW - Eindhoven City of Light's forum of light in art and architecture. The event attracts speakers including the Chief Executive of Philips and leading architects and lighting designers from around the world, with the aim of bringing new technologies in lighting to public spaces.

FTF Television Appearances

Feeding the Fish were featured on the BBC1 primetime children's show 'The Slammer' (repeated April and the Christmas special - December 08), which won the BAFTA award for Best Children's Entertainment Programme. Extracts of Flux were also shown on another BBC Television institution: 'Blue Peter' - Feeding the Fish's third appearance on the show. More recently, Feeding the Fish performed for 'Dar Familia' - a Saturday night primetime show broadcast on Nessma - the most popular TV station in the Maghreb countries Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. Feeding the Fish were also spotted juggling on the PC World television commercials shown nationwide in the UK in the run-up to Christmas 2007.

Philips Ambilight Demo Video

Philips are currently promoting their latest in television set technology. The new flat-screen TVs have a surround panel which changes colour in response to the content on the screen. Philips recently filmed Feeding the Fish performing Flux to use as part of the demonstration video for the Ambilight range of televisions. The video, featuring FTF clubs and Pixel-Poi sequenced to change colour, which will stimulate the surround panel of the television to change colour accordingly, is on show at retailers worldwide.

Environmental and Social

We recognise the impact that our activities can have on others and the environment. It has become increasingly important, as Feeding the Fish has grown, to take an intentional approach and to acknowledge our responsibilities to minimise the negative effects and to maximise the positive ones.

We love our work and the places it takes us but the downside of performing internationally is the high carbon emissions caused by travelling these distances and in particular flying. We are committed to minimizing emissions from travel, choosing ground-based travel whenever possible and encouraging bookers to do similar if they are arranging our transport.

It is very difficult to evaluate an end-client’s ethical credentials in black and white: we avoid where possible working for companies involved in human rights abuses, the armament and tobacco industries.

Feeding the Fish have joined thousands of individuals and organisations by signing up to the 10:10 project and in doing so have committed to cutting 10% of our carbon emissions by next year.
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Dates

Our schedule is subject to change at short notice, so please contact us either to check availability of a date or if you would like to see Feeding the Fish perform. We now have 2 shows, so can perform for 2 bookings on the same day.