Circus artists are under incredible pressure to be perfect. Perfect technique, perfect acts and perfect bodies. We must neither age nor show what we really look like. We hide our bodies in costumes that hide what we think we shouldn’t show. We train, starve and mold our bodies to reflect the image we believe audiences …
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.
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 …
Contemporary circus meets dance, meets performance art. Two performers create their own game: They play with falling, with being caught, with unexpected risk and blind trust. Again and again, the game threatens to tip, pushing trust to its limits. This negotiation takes place not only between the two performers but also between them and the …
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 …
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. …
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!
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 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 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 …
