Duett MANIE is a collaboration between Nina Dafert (actress and circus artist) and Maja Karolina Franke. They developed a format where they use the connection of movement, in particular partner acrobatics and spoken text to tell (hi)stories.
Projects
FEAR THE WOMEN IN THE DARK!
The witch – for centuries she has haunted our fairy tales and myths. She was persecuted for a long time, and even today the term witch is used as a derogatory term for a malicious, unpleasant or ugly woman. FEAR THE WOMEN IN THE DARK! revolves around the witch, the sorceress, the malicious seductress and …
RE/ACT!
RE/ACT! puts topics such as moral courage and responsibility into a performance context. Like this the audience and the performers can experience and experiment with those themes. The performers, who have their roots in contemporary circus, dance and performance art, work with tools from these very fields. They play. They play with falling and being …
Memory
Memory combines science and performance in order to come to terms with circus under National Socialism. Contemporary Viennese artists are made familiar with historically researched biographies of artists persecuted during the Second World War. These biographies are implemented in small performances, which are shown during the walks around historical places. Places that have been found …
Spectacle müssen seyn!
There were quite a few „Spectacle“ in Vienna, a city with a rich circus history. The performative city walk visits the historic Viennese circus venues in the district of Leopoldstadt and sheds light on the glory and the dark sides of this „proletarian“ art form as well as the further development to today’s contemporary form. …
Über Piratinnen – Geschwestern der See
Do what you are told? Not these women! They defy traditional role models and assert themselves successfully in a male domain. Pirates, the sea is ours!
Wiener Teppich – an art video
A 250-meter-long red carpet – originally intended for an interactive performance – is cut into different sized parts in the wake on Covid-19 and thus converted into mobile stages in two municipal buildings. The image of artists and residents on a piece of carpet stands as a metaphor for “physical distancing” and at the same …
Les Valses de Vienne
Les Grands Airs Viennois An evening full swirls and twirls across the stage. Singers, dancers and an Orchestra create an evening full of Viennese flair and charm with the help of the famous melodies by Johann Strauss, Leo Fall, Franz Lehar and many more.
OUT-SIDE-IN
OUT-SIDE-IN is ego portrait’s current research project. The performance we are working on is not a show in a conventional way, we understand it as a performance process. All participants -the performers and the audience- can give information from their inside out, as well as take the outside information in. The aim is to create …
Lust-voll
Enjoyment, pleasure, hunger, desire. Using the language of contemporary circus Momomento is looking for the enjoyment of all facets of life, going into the extremes and beyond. With music and dance, playful and breathtakingly risky, the four member of the circus ensemble explore the varieties of pleasure under the branches of a tempting apple tree. …