New show: INSIDE by TOM CASSANI
We are very excited to announce Inside, the new show by Tom Cassani set to premiere in autumn 2026 in London. Following the international success of Iterations, Tom is now exploring sword swallowing.
Cassani explores how swords being swallowed can be: a private act, an exposé, a performance lecture, a futile gesture, a demonstration, an obsession and a celebration of being alive together. This show deconstructs a skill that is often presented as momentary, fleeting or virtuosic and represents it as an act of corporeal, contemplation, exposing hidden internal and external processes.
The audiences is invited to experience this very rare act as intricate sequences of movements, learning, and understanding whilst being offered an intimate reflection on dedication, repetition, and transformation.
This new work draws on the traditional lineage of the act and situates it within a contemporary space where magic and illu sion meet physical reality. At its core Inside is a meditation on the body’s potential, an exploration of private and public risk, and a reimagining of what it means to embody magic and danger in contemporary performance.
