
BALANCE BY BRAINFOOLS
Fri 28 August · Blaydon-on-Tyne
Friday, 28 August 2026
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Balance: Balancing Secrets. Juggling Trust. In Balance, Brainfools transports you to a dusty pub cellar where two strangers decide to turn a tense situation into an acrobatic game of trust.
Thrown together in a dust-covered cellar, two strangers find themselves stuck in close quarters. One is fiercely protective; the other is holding onto a secret he’s afraid to reveal. In *Balance*, Brainfools transforms this vintage confinement into a breathtaking playground.
Stripping away traditional circus apparatus, the duo *ich-duO* utilises a landscape of “found objects”: heavy industrial kegs, a rickety wooden plank, and fragile glass bottles. Through a seamless fusion of fluid choreography and high-stakes partner acrobatics, they reclaim these items, transforming them from static stock into instruments of connection. What starts as a wary standoff melts into a high-energy game of risk and reliance.