Photo by: Goran Jevtić i Luka Dakskobler The basic inspiration for this performance lies in transferring the human body mechanics that manipulates on the doll’s technology, using the skill of puppet animation and optical illusions. Filip Jevtić and Jelena Stanojević created Okira, a puppet dancing with a burning ball. After the Okira’s success, the authors decided to make more demanding and complex dolls with the idea of making a four-part puppet performance with two animators, adding a fire-hoop fireball and modifying the fireballs into birds and butterflies. The name of “Garden of…
Year: 2018
OPEN STAGE
We cordially invite all performance artists and circus workers to enter their: Skit, joke, illusion, attempt at performance, improvisation, saltomortale, pyromantic or pyrotechnic endeavor, sketch, gag, trick, artistic spasm and all other performative quips into the OPEN STAGE which will be held inside and around our circus tent. If you have a finished creation, or you’re just working on something and want feedback (are you about to reap what you have proverbially sown), or if you have a burning desire to bring back a long-forgotten act and revive it, bringing…
TO EVERY CLOUD
To Every Cloud uses the techniques of rope and silk on metal wire. The performance explores the relationship of the body and the material, of hard and soft; how the body leaves a trace on the metal and the metal on the body. The project was shortlisted for Cirkus Next 2013-2014 scheme under the title “Silver Lining”. On Cirkobalkana 6 festival Ilona will perform her solo extract of the show. Director: Ilona Jäntti Performers: Šárka Bočková, Eliška Brtnická, Ilona Jäntti Light design: Kauri Klemelä Duration: approx. 45 minutes Supported by:…
THE FISH
The show “The Fish” is a short but thrilling journey of two seawomen. The monotony of everyday life is broken by the arrival of a fish, which suddenly jumps out of the water and gives the duo a fishing lesson they’ll remember… The show at times resembles a videogame as the protagonists carelessly try to capture the fish, forgetting everything else. Once the game’s over, they are not pleased with the results. Burlesque, Theatre of the Absurd, music… no words spoken, but strong impressions nevertheless. Duration: 15 min Appropriate for…
LAZUZ
(showcasing in the frame of CircusNext PlaTFoRM) LAZUZ “to move” in Hebrew, is a dynamic meeting between an acrobat and a juggler. There to collaborate with each other, they find the task not as easy as they thought. Dancing in between collaboration and conflict, each tries “to move” the other-one, pushing him out of his comfort zone. Sometimes playful, always exciting, often funny, this moving encounter reveals an unusual and awkward synergy. performance 55 minutes. Age limit: 5+
193 PROBLEMS
193 Problems is an ironic reflection on the difficulties of a mixed group of humans. The use of circus arts, in parallel with bizarre situations in which the group finds themselves, creates a surreal world where the characters each face their own problems in a symbolic way. The artistic signature of the collective sways between the dreamlike and a garage-rock-band rehearsal. The 193 problems project takes its name from a real list which serves as an ironic inspiration for the group’s work, a device summarising unexpected events, mishaps and different…
BETWEEN EXTREMES
They’re like the sky and the earth… like black and white… night and day… like tutti-frutti… they are „BeTwEeN ExTrEmEs “. It is a show performed by two clowns, different in every way… but, somehow, they mesh well together. Trying to perform a variety of acts, Ludek and Žulee run into difficulties that only they can complicate even further and later on resolve… at the joy of everyone… primarily the audience. The show is sprinkled with juggling acts, partnered acrobatics, magic tricks and music, alsowith lots of audience interaction. Performed…
VAGOR & BELLAVITA
This is the story of a meeting between two vagabond-clowns. Vagor is a lonely traveler. No one knows where he comes from, perhaps from far away, maybe from another country. Bellavita lives under a busy bridge and spends her days dreaming and listening to the radio. They meet one day when they accidentally bump into each other. These two strangers will find their own way to share the same space and help each other through hilarious and poetic situations. Vagor and Bellavita live a simple life and share the good…
Ah, com’è bello l’Uomo
A man and a woman experience the evolution of humans in in the last few centuries/years/days. Their travel from “homo primaris”, naked and pure, to “homo superlativis”, a slave to technology, is a play colored by the circus. The third character, all-knowing and cynical, is entertained by the situation: like a cosmic director, he doles out gifts and incites change. A “History of history” is played out in front of the audience. Two humans, surrounded by actual context, do all they can to communicate with one another. Sociology? Psychology? Criticism? A question…
CIRKOBALKANA KAOS CABARET
A circus cabaret collage for all ages and orientations! A story about a group of people who are destined to go through life through countless simultaneous roles of cleaners/performers/coatroom attendants/entertainers/musicians/technicians, all of which outline the characters’ sub-textual relations and drive them towards unexpected situations. During the performance, a series of existential questions arise: Why does one yell at the other while they’re sweeping? Who shall get the desired spot at the beach? Does the glass hold a delicious cocktail or last year’s mop water? Who’s the strongest, and what does…