Mass Crane Dance

A spectacular meeting of music, light and synchronised cranes, dancing across the skyline at night.

Mass Crane Dance

A spectacular meeting of music, light and synchronised cranes, dancing across the skyline at night.

Three cargo cranes dance a choreographed routine in synchronisation to music performed by choirs and musicians on the water, bringing the Bristol harbour-side skyline to life.

Mass Crane Dance was devised and choreographed by Laura Kriefman as part of the inaugural The Space/ WIRED Creative Fellowship and supported by the Watershed.

"Brilliantly choreographed, what an amazing Crane Dance Performance"

"The atmosphere was utter bliss!"

"The sign of a great event. Woke up this morning thinking, Wow, that was beautiful!"

Visual Experience

A mesmerising visual and auditory experience, 10,000 people, ranging from 3 to 73 years old, came to see Mass Crane Dance in Bristol Harbour.

4 million online

4 million people engaged online with Mass Crane Dance over Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and online.

Mass Crane Dance team:
Choreography by Laura Kriefman
Lit by Howard Eaton and Emma Chapman of Studio Three Sixty
Video Music: Come out of the Sky and Fight This, by Vessels.
Photography: Paul Blakemore and Jon Rowley
Film by Drew Cox

Project development was made possible by: Pervasive Media Studio, Nth Screen, Visual Persistence, Drew Cox, Showsafe, Studio Tree Sixty, Virtually VR.