JOYRIDE (Working title)

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Tailored

About JOYRIDE

A co-production between Oily Cart and Ockham’s Razor

JOYRIDE is the second collaboration between Oily Cart and Ockham’s Razor, following the hugely successful Something in the Air.  It is a large-scale, sensory, kinetic performance made for and with disabled young people and their peers.  

Designed to proudly takeover public outdoor city spaces, the young audience members will ride together in fantastical vehicles. Along their journey they will encounter performers on wheels, weaving around them to create the exhilarating experience of riding, moving, dancing together. The vehicles will travel through different sensory worlds, which will be co-designed with disabled children who experience the most barriers to access. 

The Oily Cart and Ockham's Razor logos

Behind the scenes

With this show, we’re excited to go big and explore the unexpected with Ockham’s Razor once again, and to play with positive risk and the kinaesthetic sense (the sense of movement). You can read our interview with Esther Veale about her sister Mary, and the value of risky experiences for people who experience the most barriers to access.



  • Acknowledgements

    JOYRIDE is supported by Without Walls Blueprint R&D and Arts Council England.

    The Arts Council England logo and Blueprint Without Walls R&D logo



Video trailer

Joyride | Short film of R&D. Video credit: Primo DVP



R&D Gallery

Show gallery

Two members of the creative team riding on a mock-up fantastical vehicle. A performer using a wheelchair and a performer on roller skates ride alongside and behind them. They are in a large rehearsal space. There is silver material in sheets and strips hanging down from above, a mock up of a possible performance installation space. An adult and young child, seated in a mock up of a fantastical performance vehicles. They are gazing happily at each other. Blue material is draped from above, encircling the vehicle. A photo from the rehearsal and development of Joyride. An adult and young person are seated next to each other in a specially-created vehicle. They are outside in a school playground. The vehicle has a yellow bar across the front, and a folded-down red canvas roof and big wheels at the back. On the right, the vehicle is attached to a bicycle being ridden by a man in a white shirt and sunglasses. Two women stand on each side of the vehicle as it passes. Their arms are raised jubilantly as they release colourful balls into the air.