The Bromance circus is coming to Luton but it’s not quite what you expect

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WHAT happens when three guys who between them do breakdancing, parkour and tricking (martial arts mixed with acrobatics) come together?

They start their own circus troupe, of course.

Well, things were not so clear for Beren D’Amico, Charlie Wheeller and Louis Gift when they first met four years ago at the National Centre for Circus Arts.

At the time, they were all engrossed in their individual disciplines until the similarities between the different arts brought them together.

In the final year of their studies they won funding from Deutsche Bank for a business idea they had to pitch as part of an assignment.

With that money the trio started their circus company Barely Methodical Troupe and have since gone on to perform at events such as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Adelaide Fringe Festival.

They will be bringing their award-winning show, entitled Bromance, to Luton, a show about friendship and how it develops over a period of time.

So what is group all about?

Beren said: “The company is our main focus now and luckily for us, we are doing what we wanted to do when we started, which is a have our own contemporary circus company.

“We have been abroad and we are doing things we want to be doing.

“Creating the theme for the show was harder than creating the moves.

“I think that from our three years of doing the degree, we have had our moves set since graduation.

“We racked our brains and thought we were too young to make it difficult or political, so we thought we’d make something that we can relate to because we are three guys.”

The group has a packed touring schedule over the next few months, with 16 performances in May as well as an appearance in Brazil penned in for June.

Beren said they spend up to five hours a day training and perfecting their moves when they are not on tour, including a few moves he said have a ‘degree of risk’.

What can people who watch the show expect?

He said: “A lot of people have a preconceived image of what a circus is, with all the traditional stuff, but we are more set in the theatre and it’s a lot of physical theatre.

“We have a narrative the audience can follow and engage with.

“It’s like a new twist on the circus.

“We have found that it’s been well received and we’ve won awards at Edinburgh and Adelaide.

“When we performed in Edinburgh it was more like a rough performance but in Adelaide it was more ready and polished.”

Tickets cost £10 and can be booked by calling the box office on 01582 878100.

You can also buy them online by visiting lutonculture.com