A performance about words and body – between self-determination and speechlessness. A relationship between two individuals, two bodies, two voices. The audience gains insight into the depths of human communication and acts as a witness, a confidant, an ally. What is needed to speak at all, to be heard, to be understood? How much pressure …
With PASSAGIEREN, the public space of Vienna is explored in seemingly random music-theatrical encounters. A contemporary composition by Michael Tiefenbacher is transformed in a spatial choreography by Anna Knapp for musicians and performers into an artistic space for encounters with passers-by.
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 …
Maja Karolina Franke questions traditional gender roles and their reproduction in partner acrobatics practice: “It is time to scrutinize my tools through a feminist lens. Which aspects of the technique adhere to gender stereotypes, which perhaps do not, and how can I use them choreographically? I am interested in various perspectives: both physical and social. …
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!
