Day: 25 August 2023

RESTLESSLEGS (Hungary) Cie One Two Many Discipline: acrobatics, slack rope, vertical rope Duration: 60’ For ages: 5+ Ticket price: RSD 1,500 Restlesslegs is an exploration of this painful, electrical, creeping, itching, crawling, or numb sensation that ultimately stops you from finding rest. The primary inspiration for the project were Sophie’s restless legs, not just metaphorically but as an actual medical condition. The inspiration transformed into a contemporary circus performance in which the artists communicate restlessness. It exists both in our bodies and in our societies as conditions we are mostly…

SOLO BUT NOT ALONE GRETEL (Italy) Cie Quattrox4 Author and performer: Clara Storti Discipline: vertical rope Duration: 45’ For ages: 5+ Ticket price: RSD 1,500 for two performances Blank scene. A Square, several little objects, two cute and silent housemates. Gretel goes back and forth in her tiny house made of crazy little things. She is mindless and rigorous, chaotic and still very careful in making everything stick to her bizarre logic. Everything is out of range and out of place. Then, suddenly, the catastrophe happens. What is home? Who…

SOLO BUT NOT ALONE 2984 (Italy)  Cie MagdaClan circo Author and performer: Alessandro Maida Discipline: object manipulation, balancing, dance Duration: 65’ For ages: 12+ Ticket price: RSD 1,500 for two performances Hot winds lash and erode a planet reduced to a rocky desert, only the falling of stones and the shattering of rocks resonate in the silence. One being, perhaps the last of the human race, survives through a special symbiosis with stones, sand and boulders. This nomadic soul wanders in search of treasures with which to share the present,…

WAYS OF BEING (Serbia/Slovenia) Coproduction: Cirkusfera, MismoNismo and Tri groša Authors and performers: Danka Sekulović and TjažJuvan Directed by: Ana Pinter Discipline: partner acrobatics and juggling Duration: 45’ All ages event Ticket price: RSD 800 Deconstructing the idea of habit onto habit as discipline, as training, as form; habit as a compromise, as an agreement; habit as inertia, anticipation; habit as a pattern, repetition…; habit as a mode of existence…the authors play with crossed visions and views, both of their own space as well as that of the other. 

OPEN STAGE Performers: multiple Discipline: various Duration: unknown All ages event Free entrance, donations are welcome. Open Stage is a dynamic circus marathon. An evening on which the actors of the regional circus scene, together with a guest or two, have the opportunity to present some authorial performances in short form. But that’s not all! This evening has been known for years as the most popular and most entertaining festival program. Circus performers, musicians, organizers, and chefs are all there in the crowd that Open Stage attracts every year… including…

TO (BE)ECH (France) Cie IETO  Performers: FnicoFeldmann, ItamarGlucksmann Directed by: Benjamin De Matteïs Discipline: acrobatics, partner acrobatics, balancing Duration: 30’ All ages event Ticket price: RSD 1,200 Even though there are two acrobats on the stage, this creation was thought of as a quartet.They share their listening and their benevolence with this beech tree, this counterpart, another representative of the living, but also with the audience that will be invited to touch, climb and carry this fragile beech tree. This is a story about their way of resisting chaos, of…

OFFERING (France/Mexico) Cie Circo Nagual Author and performer: Jabber Daniel Bonfil Discipline: vertical rope Duration: 50’ All ages event Ticket price: RSD 1,200 This is the first chapter of the trilogy of the circus-theatre project that talks about the tradition and mysticism of the Mexican and Native American region. In Ofrenda, we follow a young man who shares with us an incredible story about his grandmother, an elderly woman full of joy and secrets and surrounded by amazing friends. We soon discover that this story speaks less about death and…

RUNA(Spain) Cia104o Author and performer: Amer Kabbani Discipline: acrobatics, object manipulation Duration: 50’ For ages 12+ Ticket price: RSD 1,200 Using circus techniques and the methodology of autofiction, AmerKabbani explores the contradictions of the European state of prosperity. As a racialized European, he is part of this world, but as a Syrian, he also belongs to the other part of the world that is constantly faced with war, even when it is most often imposed and triggered from the outside. Runa enables us to examine ourselves as human beings and…

40–60 (Serbia/Slovenia) Coproduction: Cirkusfera and Gledališče Ana Monro / AnàSfera Authors and performers: Milan Manić, GoraždOsojnik Discipline: equilibrium acrobatics, street theater Duration: 45’  All ages event Ticket price: RSD 800 The performance 40–60 is a product of the creative encounter between circus artist Milan Manić (aged 40+) and street theater artist GoroOsojnik (aged 60+). The authors, directors and performers were inspired by the classic work of the theater of the absurd, Waiting for Godot and the iconic Czech animated series A Je To! To this they add a pinch of…