NoFit State Circus

Who we are

NoFit State is the UK’s largest touring contemporary circus company. Every year the company engages with 120,000-150,000 people of all ages and backgrounds from across Wales, the UK and the world.

NoFit State is a dynamic creative organisation that thrives on challenge and is constantly seeking to learn and improve in all areas of everything that we do. We are inspired by the extraordinary things that ordinary people can achieve and celebrate the communal strength that comes from the traditional circus touring life.

Our mission is to create extraordinary work that changes lives. We celebrate the power of ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

Rooted in Wales, NoFit State Circus delivers:

• • Medium and large scale professional productions that tour across the UK and internationally
• • An extensive participatory community and learning programme
• • A professional development programme to support the transition from community participation to professional training and from professional training to employment

Our culture and values

Our mission is to create extraordinary work that changes lives.

We celebrate the power of ordinary people to do extraordinary things. Contemporary circus 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. We are the strangers who live amongst you – and if you run away to join us, you are throwing off your inhibitions, your conventions, the rules of settled society. You are taking to the road knowing that there is no destination - only a journey.

We believe in:

• • a central core – people, places, values
• • intersecting orbits – lives, dreams, needs
• • celebrating creativity – ordinary people doing extraordinary things
• • cultural identity – we celebrate the power of our diversity 

 Together we create great work and change lives.