majakarolinafranke

PERFORMANCE ART – DANCE – CIRCUS – THEATER

Creations

Choreography

Stand.Punkte

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

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Projects

PASSAGIEREN

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.

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Projects

Beyond Beauty – a circus body perspective

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

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Choreography

Duett MANIE

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. 

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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

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Choreography

RE/ACT!

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

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