Just look at all the amazing acts that will dazzle you with wordless feats of new circus, extreme dance, physical imagery, fairground commedia and exotic Japanese puppetry at the London International Mime Festival 2015.

The event starts today (January 8) and will run throughout the month, bringing you more than 50 performances at seven venues across the city.

The festival opens in style at the Playform Theatre in Kings Cross with the UK’s Barely Methodical Troupe, winners of the inaugural Circus Maximus competition and a 2014 Total Theatre Award, bringing you Bromance in which handshakes become handstands and backslaps become backflips.

At the Royal Opera House, ballet dancers and jugglers will share a stage for the first time. At the Barbican, Basil Twist’s sly foxes dance through a hundred hand-painted Japanese theatre screens in Dogugaeshi and Peeping Tom from Belgium makes its UK debut with 32 rue Vandenbranden a thriller performance set in trailer park homes within a chilly landscape of wind and ice.

Oktobre at the Southbank Centre features three bizarre and enigmatic characters – acrobat, trapezist, and neurotic magician – who flirt with mystery and disaster at the maddest tea party since Alice visited Wonderland.

All this and more with shows also on at Jacksons Lane, Sadler’s Wells and Soho Theatre and as always, the line-up will be complemented by workshops, films and artists’ talks.

Various venues, January 8 to 31. Details: mimelondon.com