| Duration | 60 min |
| Part of |
Cirque Mania
Ticket to Utopia Season 26-27 |
Fresh out of school, but already ready to reshape the circus landscape and introduce audiences to entirely new worlds. Unleashing the Next showcases the work of four recently graduated artists from Codarts Circus Arts and Fontys Circus and Performance Art Tilburg. Discover why they’re set to become some of the most exciting names in the future of circus.
This time around we are letting them LOOSE:
Julia Tanner with the aerial hoop in Weightless
Lise Beaumard with handstands and contortion in Filage
Mikk Bernadt with juggling in SIMULARCUM
Tara Lovise Kvarving with rope in CANNED
In Weightless, aerial hoop performer Julia Tanner does not pretend that she is naturally weightless. Instead she examines weight in relation to the body and trust. She uses hope, rope and a self-balancing pulley system to trigger a genuine conversation between the human and the object, between control and submission. Her performance affords us a glimpse into the hidden world behind the circus illusion, in which power, fragility and balance are all intricately linked.
In Filage, Lise Beaumard tests the boundary between repetition and transformation, standing on a rotating round platform, with white curtains around it. The uninterrupted, gentle flow of handstands and almost impossible contortions is the result of enviable body control. Like a thread that is never cut, Filage refers to the costume Lise wear, made from yarn and crocheted shapes, and to the movement itself. Endlessly fascinating.
Remember Neo in The Matrix? SIMULARCUM is Mikk’s humorous and absurdist retelling of Neo’s story. His goal? A wake-up call to make people aware of our digital reality. Because this reality of zeros and ones clouds our judgment. Combining the art of storytelling with ball juggling, Mikk lets us experience how important critical thinking is and continues to be.
A human in a can. Ready to opened, viewed, and exhibited. In CANNED, which was inspired by the film Metropolis (1927), Tara depicts a human who was designed by technology: with all the power of a machine and a human heart. The artist is extricated from her packaging and pulled up into the air in this raw, playful and absurdist performance. But how much of this dystopian vision of the future has become reality in 2026?
Cirque Mania is Korzo’s festival for experimental circus.
Cirque Mania
For two weeks, Ticket to Utopia invites you to escape into worlds that are more loving, more equal, and more free – glimpses of a hopeful future taking shape.
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