| Collective | Framing Effekt |
| Duration | 50 min |
| Part of | Cirque Mania |
One rope – four bodies – always connected
As a new and emerging contemporary circus company, Framing Effekt has the strong ambition to express relevant social issues through their art. Their debut creation Systema explores the connection between bodies and an object, finding moments of empathy by sharing the importance of physical contact and emotional intimacy. Four individuals are constantly interconnected by a single rope, forming a complex system of gears and bodies.
Each performer acting like pieces, numbers, functioning as a constructed system inside a larger machine. Until it reaches a breaking point. Through awareness of the others and themselves, a discovery of physical interaction begins. A chain reaction of events leads into an exploration of physical and emotional contact. Alternating between jumping, catching, bouncing, and spinning, transitioning to more intimate movements like supporting, hugging, balancing, and melting. Passing from a mechanical contact towards an intimate one, the physical memories of this experience are etched into their bodies, providing a lasting imprint of the journey together.
Four young circus artists, four countries, three different circus disciplines and three different languages. This is what shapes Framing Effekt, which is a new contemporary circus compagnie. Together as a collective without hierarchy, they explore circus and circus apparatuses to shift from a solo-prop to a group-discipline. Through the merge of four different perspectives, four opinions and four heads new symbiotic circus performances are created.
| Artists and Project Coordination | Julie Micheneau, Lara Schönthal, Marius Cavin, Shalom Gramiccioli |
| Out-Side Eye | Ganna-Poppea Veenhuysen, Pia Meuthen, Yotam Peled |
| Dramaturgy + Light Design | Margot Jansens |
| Music Composition | Claudius Leopold |
| Pictures | Jona Harnischmacher |
| Special Thanks to | Nicolás Stocco, Noé Colin |
Visit circus for less!
For this Cirque Mania have the following deals available:
Friday 22 March €37,50 (instead of €43,50)
Cirque Dinner Special + Systema (Framing Effekt)
Buy the Friday deal
Saturday 23 March €30,00 (instead of €37,00)
Cécile (Sinking Sideways) + CONCRETE (Knot On Hands)
Buy the Saturday day ticket
Sunday 24 March €22,50
Circaso + Facades (Tall Tales Company)
Buy the Sunday day ticket
Cirque Dinner Special
Curated by Michael Zandl
During Cirque Mania, in-house maker Michael Zandl invites you to the Cirque Dinner Special: a dinner curated by him with delicious food and surprising performances. Michael shares a colourful peek of where he’s at right now as a circus artist, while you enjoy a welcome drink, a main course and a dessert. With short performances by up-and-coming circus talent in between.
The table is set in the Korzo Club, will you join us?
Friday Afterparty
Friday 22 March || 21:45 - 23:45
After the performances on Friday 22 March, the dance floor in the Korzo Foyer will go wild with Marieke McKenna.
Marieke McKenna is a well-known face in The Hague’s artistic scene. A refined musical selector, she strives to find eclectic hidden gems, often placing them in the bigger tapestry of culture and society. Aside from her work as an academic philosopher, poet and writer, she runs recordlabel Mink Records, hosts her weekly radio show on NPO Radio 2 Soul & Jazz & made a podcast on ethnomusicology called ‘Roots & Threads’.
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