Artistic collective and Glastonbury Festival favourites Arcadia will be producing four new performance pieces for the 2020 festival.

The company lit up the 2019 festival with the first outing in the five-year Pangea show, including huge balls of fire shooting across the sky as part of their stunning projected light show.

A continual feature of the festival, Arcadia will now be given licence to provide even more incredible spectacle to Glastonbury in 2020 after being awarded a grant to develop pieces for the festival. 

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The group has been awarded £49,000 to be able to put together their show for the 2020 festival, with the south west branch of Arts Council England stating on Twitter that the collective would be developing four new pieces to be debuted at Glastonbury later this year.

What is Arcadia's history with Glastonbury?

Fans flock to Arcadia's centrepieces to see them in action
Fans flock to Arcadia's centrepieces to see them in action

 

Arcadia has been a fixture at the festival for a number of years, with the enduring image of a giant mechanical spider being the image most associated with the creative group.

Using recycled and recovered military and industrial hardware, the installations they create are intended to showcase the potential of recycled materials and machinery.

Fans have long flocked to their exhibits to see the stunning lights, sights and sounds they bring - but the team's contribution to the festival changed a bit last year.

2019, which saw the first part of what is a five-year evolving installation at Worthy Farm, represented something of a departure from tradition for Arcadia at Glastonbury, with their iconic giant spider having been notable only by its absence.

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Their main offering in previous years, the giant fire breathing spider called Metamorphosis that festival goers could dance around and underneath, was a landmark of the festival up to 2018.

However, last year it was replaced by a 50m-tall crane, transported from Avonmouth Docks by Pip Rush and Bert Cole.

Beneath the crane sat a huge globe which provided a mesmerising 3D projected light show.

Michael Eavis even stated before the 2019 festival that Pangea was one of the things he was looking forward to most out of the festival's plethora of offerings.