The Fierce festival is performing arts with a difference. It's high-risk, powerful and provocative art themed around the issues of love, sexuality and our search for identity.
 | | The Sky Orchestra |
Taking place in unusual places in and around Birmingham, the festival is highly original, featuring everything from provocative acts to quiet contemplative pieces. The festival will open with a massive event called Name In Lights, an attempt to investigate the current obsession with celebrity. A winning member of public will have his or her name emblazoned in lights with twelve foot high illuminated letters above Birmingham city centre with the idea that having your 'name in lights' is an iconic symbol of celebrity. But does having your name in lights confer fame in itself? Will the winning member of the public become famous or does true celebrity require more than exposure?
 | | Ballet on Buses |
For further information on Name In Lights, as well as full details of the other Fierce events, visit http://www.fiercetv.co.uk/ In the meantime, these are some of the performing arts displays that form part of Fierce '07: The Sky Orchestra Seven hot air balloons carrying members of the The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra will float over the roofs of Birmingham and surrounding countryside performing as they fly. Taking off at dawn, they'll be playing specially composed music to stimulate the dreams of those sleeping below. Tunnel Vision In complete contrast to the Sky Orchestra, this light and sound installation will take place underneath the city centre, in Birmingham's vast network of disused tunnels.
 | | Wake Up and Hide |
Surround system speakers playing specially composed music will evoke the atmosphere and histories of the underground networks. Ballet on Buses The ultimate portable stage, the bus will tour the city, with dancers onboard to excite the imagination of young and old alike, with the idea to extend the reach of ballet into everyday lives and places. Wake up and Hide A new piece that explores the intersection between performance, visual art and video, in Wake Up and Hide two wide projections on opposing walls show a static shot of almost identical interiors.
 | | Haircuts by children |
Both screens contain special sensors which allow people on film to react to noise and movement. We Are Ten A special show to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Fierce. Featuring DJs, Readers Wives, comics and performers, the night will take guests back to their childhood with jelly and ice cream and musical chairs. | 
