“WE ARE offering something that people would have never have seen in their lives.”

These are the words of one of the joint artistic directors of Ockham’s Razor, Tina Koch.

Combining visual theatre with circus acrobatics, Ockham’s Razor will be bringing their unique and award-winning show to the B Love festival.

The show, titled Belly of The Whale, has been commissioned by Basingstoke Festival and is the company’s first specifically outdoors show.

For every Ockham’s Razor show there is a sculpture centrepiece and this is what forms the idea which shapes the rest of the show.

“It is a bit of a backwards process compared to the normal way that you would create theatre,” explains Koch.

“We start from a sculptural point as for each show we make a bespoke structure and it has to be something which promotes movement.

“We want to create something that will make performers want to get on it and play.

“So we just put people in the room with the structure and play around and draw out what catches us and we build the ideas from there.”

For the Belly of The Whale performance, the centrepiece is a unique and powerful see-saw, weighing 600kg, which is able to reflect the narrative and aid the invention of the piece.

The concept of the belly of the whale is found in mythology around the world - what happens when we confront our fears and come face-to-face with the power and momentum of things we seemingly can’t change?

Koch added: “We are very rooted in the discovery of traditional circus techniques, what we do is look at the physicality or what the skill of a certain thing is and what the theatre within that element is and how we bring that out.

“We don’t just put a trick in just because it’s a cool trick, it has to bring the story we are telling forward.

“We want our audience to be moved by the show and feel something from it.”

The show will be performed by three performers Stefano Di Renzo, Nathan Johnston and Amanda Homa who will all use the structure in a unique way to tell the story of the Belly of the Whale.

Koch added: “In our performances we always want to have the human element to it, something that is tangible and relatable.

“There needs to be that universal feeling that everyone can relate to in our shows, that we can talk to the audience afterwards and see how they interoperate the show.

“This show is about three people coming face to face with their biggest challenge and the different ways they deal with it, which is something everyone knows.”

The Ockham’s Razor show will be part of the family activities at B Love on Sunday, 8 July.