About
Telling stories with circus, physical theatre, clown and collaboration
She Said Jump is a physical theatre company combining the silly and the serious to create performances for indoor, outdoor and digital spaces. We create original equipment that helps us to integrate stories with aerial circus. Our approach focuses on playfulness and communication and draws on theatre clown, circus, dance, mime and puppetry.
Our work has been supported by Jacksons Lane, Flying Fantastic, 101 Outdoor Arts, Longfield Hall, Ecosystem Coldharbour, the Brigstow Institute, the University of Bristol, Good Grief Festival, House South East Theatre Network and using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Projects
OUTDOOR
INDOOR
Daisy’s mum died, nearly a year ago now. She’s fine. Getting on with it. She’s busy. She can’t complain. Except she’s got this slight issue with an invisible guy that won’t leave her alone...
An aerial comedy about grief, memory and flying luggage racks. Find out more.
At the base of a strangely circus-tent like hill, Meryl, the giant earthworm (with her side-kick, Nigel the Nematode), calls ‘roll up, roll up…’. As the audience tunnels into the hill, an underground wonderland is revealed within. Tree roots meet webs of mycorrhizal fungi. Billions of bacteria, minute nematodes and giant creepy crawlies present acts of daring skill and dazzling spectacle. Welcome to the underground circus!
What if grief had a face. What would that face look like? What if it had a body and arms and legs and a personality and a terrible sense of comic timing? What if no one could see them but you? And what if they came to stay?
A series of 6 video shorts created and launched during the coronavirus pandemic 2020-21. Watch the videos and find out more.
More Than That
Music video with singer songwriter Hattie Whitehead (Glastonbury Unsigned award winner 2016). In collaboration with producer/director Emily France (BBC/Channel 4). Filmed in Richmond Park. Watch the video.
People
Maisie Whitehead (Artistic Director)
Maisie originally trained in dance theatre at Trinity Laban Conservatoire and worked a lot in theatre for young audiences (where she learnt puppetry on the job), specialising in weird facial expressions, silly dances and being upside down a lot, long before she realised clowning was a thing. She ran away with the circus in 2011 (not very far… Woolwich) and has more recently been training in theatre clown with renowned teacher and performer Angela de Castro. In recent history she has performed with Hikapee Circus Theatre, Filskit Theatre, WinterWalker, Polka Theatre and alongside children’s author Michael Rosen with the HomeMade Orchestra. She is also one half of comic cabaret duo Shebang.
Malik Ibheis (co-director)
Malik's work spans a variety of fields. Originally from Düsseldorf, Germany, he trained in mime and physical theatre at Die Etage, Berlin. He then moved to London where he specialised in Corporeal Mime at Theatre de L’Ange Fou. After five years of training he started working as a mime, clown, actor, aerialist and creature performer. His interest in costume and makeup design led him to constantly invent outlandish characters for both live performance as well as film and TV productions.
Recent credits include Netflix’s The School for Good and Evil, Inside No.9, Worzel Gummidge and Garsington Opera’s The Bartered Bride.
