NoFit State

NoFit State NoFit State is the UK’s leading large-scale contemporary circus company. NoFit State was founded in 1986 by five friends.
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During a politically charged time, in a recession, and as a creative reaction to the world around them, the circus was born. Thirty years later NoFit State still believes that the total outweighs the sum of the parts. The company lives together, works together, eats together, laughs and cries together – travelling in trucks, trailers and caravans and living and breathing as one community. This is

what creates the spirit that is NoFit State and gives the work its heart and soul. Contemporary circus combines live music, dance, stage design, text, and film with traditional circus skills. It is rooted in the travelling community who turn up, pitch a tent, drum up an audience, and then leave with only flattened grass and a memory to show they were ever there. The circus are the strangers who live amongst us – and if we run away to join them we are throwing off our inhibitions, our conventions, the rules of settled society. We are taking to the road knowing that there is no destination - only a journey. Today, NoFit State is the UK’s leading large-scale contemporary circus company, producing professional touring productions and a wide variety of community, training, and education projects for people of all ages. Over the last six years NoFit State's touring productions have visited 15 different countries, played to audiences of over 250,000, have been critically acclaimed and won numerous prestigious international arts awards.

29/05/2026

📍 ARE YOU READY FOR THIS?
Just 2 weeks to go until CARNATION opens in St Pauls 🥳

After a sell-out run in Brighton and stunning reviews, tickets for Bristol are moving fast, so don’t miss out!
🎟 Book now: booknow.nofitstate.org

CARNATION, the brand-new NoFit State Circus production, premieres in St. Pauls, Bristol, from 12–28 June. Directed by award-winning Firenza Guidi, it brings world-class circus, live music, bold cinematic imagery, magic and mayhem.

🗓 Dates: Friday 12 June – Sunday 28 June
📍 Venue: NoFit State Big Top Tent, Wilson Street, St Pauls, Bristol BS2 9HH
⏳ Duration: Approximately 2 hours, including interval
⭐️ Access: Step-free access, toilets, blue badge parking, refreshments on site
🎟 Book now: booknow.nofitstate.org

Presented in partnership with Places for People.

📍 You really showed up for and we felt every bit of it ❤️Thank you for all the love and your beautiful messages.It h...
29/05/2026

📍 You really showed up for and we felt every bit of it ❤️
Thank you for all the love and your beautiful messages.

It has been one incredible month performing as part of Brighton Festival 🎪
Huge THANK YOU to Brighton Festival and Brighton Dome for all the support throughout 🌟

🥁 … you’re next 👀

CARNATION hurls you into a human rollercoaster of extraordinary, large-scale circus about hope in rebellion. World-class circus, live music and bold cinematic imagery collide in an all-embracing Big Top experience from award-winning director Firenza Guidi ✨

📷 Mark Robson ( Ineptgravity Photography )

We love hearing from our audience and this review of our new show CARNATION at Brighton Festival, from Maria made us smi...
25/05/2026

We love hearing from our audience and this review of our new show CARNATION at Brighton Festival, from Maria made us smile 🤩

“So I don’t normally write these little posts about ‘ things we did’- However, I have a deep passion for supporting independent artists and this show last night did particularly rock my world 😜💕🚀

NoFit State is absurd, hilarious, Beautiful and unique.
Don’t go if you’re expecting a showcase of professional standard acrobatics, but if you’re up for bizarre and surreal and uniquely peculiar-this show will have you intrigued from beginning to end…
The music, the choreography, the authenticity.
Soo good.
If this is your thing, I highly recommend it.
😍❤️😍”

Thanks Maria glad you enjoyed the show 🌟🌟🌟

Next stop Bristol 12-28 June, booking link in comments 🎟️

20/05/2026

📍 Tickets are on sale NOW for our brand-new touring show CARNATION!

Boisterous, audacious and emotional, CARNATION unleashes jaw-dropping circus skills, heart-stopping moments, live music and ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

🗓 Dates: Friday 12 June – Sunday 28 June
📍 Venue: NoFit State Big Top Tent, Wilson Street, St Pauls, Bristol BS2 9HH
⏳ Duration: Approximately 2 hours including interval
⭐️ Access: Step-free, toilets, blue badge parking, refreshments on site

Everyone’s welcome, gather your people and step into the tent; walk out braver, more awake and part of something bigger.

🎟 Book now: booknow.nofitstate.org

“A thrilling Orwellian spectacle” Culturalee

“Wild, witty, rebellious and wonderfully alive, CARNATION is circus with heart, muscle, humour and political bite. One of the standout events of this years Brighton Festival 2026” Brighton & Hove News

As a mark of respect to the three women who lost their lives to the sea this morning in Brighton, we are cancelling toni...
13/05/2026

As a mark of respect to the three women who lost their lives to the sea this morning in Brighton, we are cancelling tonight’s performance of CARNATION.

Our thoughts are with their friends and families and those affected by this tragic news.

The festival will be touch with the affected ticket holders.

"CARNATION was in part inspired by twentieth-century dystopian novels. As we were developing the show, we discovered so ...
11/05/2026

"CARNATION was in part inspired by twentieth-century dystopian novels. As we were developing the show, we discovered so many parallels in today’s world. We wanted to hold a mirror up our new post-truth culture and poke some fun at the absurdity of our political masters."

Tom Rack, Artistic Director of NoFit State

https://brightonfestival.org/news/blog-carnation-brighton-festival-2026-/

Discover carnation, NoFit State's bold immersive circus show at Brighton Festival this May. Featuring aerial feats, tightrope stunts and live music.

'Oh boy Oh boy'Word's spreading fast that our brand new creation is one of those 'don't miss it' moments. - we're so ex...
09/05/2026

'Oh boy Oh boy'

Word's spreading fast that our brand new creation is one of those 'don't miss it' moments.

- we're so excited to be back amongst you this June.

Get your 2026 WOW moment locked in now.
Link in the comments.

Three days of BAMBOO at done! Thank you SO much to the whole team, especially Seyoung and Eunseo, for looking after us,...
03/05/2026

Three days of BAMBOO at done!

Thank you SO much to the whole team, especially Seyoung and Eunseo, for looking after us, and to the AMAZING audiences here in Ansan! You are fantastic!

Rather than ship all our bamboo over to Korea, we instead recreated the entire show using native bamboo here which is SO beautiful, and so different to what we’re used to in the UK and Europe. It’s been a real treat getting to work with it somewhere where it natively grows.

Next stop on our Korean Bamboo Adventure: .official ✈️

📍 Be a little rebellious this May Day.As you ease into the bank holiday weekend, we’re offering 10% off CARNATION Bris...
30/04/2026

📍 Be a little rebellious this May Day.

As you ease into the bank holiday weekend, we’re offering 10% off CARNATION Bristol shows for a limited time. It’s the perfect chance to book your seats and enjoy something special this spring 🌸

👉 Book now using code 'MayDay10' at checkout 👈
🚨 Offer ends Monday, 4 May midnight.

🗓 Show dates: 12 - 28 June
📍NoFit State Big Top Tent, Wilson Street, St Pauls, Bristol BS2 9HH

🎟 booknow.nofitstate.org

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