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Everyone in the Medina knows the Hammich family. From the oldest grandfather to the youngest granddaughter, the Hammichs are famous acrobats, trained from an early age in skills that have been preserved through seven generations.

Members of the family used to tour the world, performing acts in the great traditional circuses, but in 2003 their lives took an unexpected turn when they met the French circus director Aurélien Bory and resolved to collaborate on a new work. Combining their vernacular style of acrobatics with Bory's exact vision for space, scale and transformation they made their first full-length show, Taoub.

Here we visit them at their home in Tangier, a shrine to the family's wide-ranging achievements, and hear how Taoub was made, as well as how later work Chouf Ouchouf was inspired by the bustle, the colour, the rooftops and markets, the dangerous alleys, the swarming cats, and the incredible everyday stories of the Medina – the city's bustling old quarter. [producer summary]

In the Ockham's Razor trilogy Arc, Memento Mori and Every Action... each episode builds an aerial choreography, and a narrative, around a different piece of custom equipment – in Arc a suspended raft made from a grid of scaffolding, inhabited by the survivors of a wreck; in Memento Mori a rigid metal portrait frame through which Death dances a young woman to her grave; in Every Action... a length of rope run over two pulleys to create a game of counterbalance and tenuous trust.

Here the company talk about their approach in making the trilogy, about the sweat and the work of circus, about the stories they find in exploring newly created pieces of aerial equipment, and about the debt they owe to the historic insight of a fourteenth century logician. [producer summary]