contemporary circus / installation /dance / electro-acoustic sound
- aerial mobilé, object manipulation, aerial harness, dance
- 2 performers on stage
- full length show
- 10mx10m indoor
- 2 rigging points on ceiling, 1 on the floor
- all audiences, frontal or semi-circular
It is an unusual circus apparatus: a mobilé made of metal rods, ropes and gray granite stones. In it the search for balance and the encounter between gravity and weightlessness are visualised. In Permeable Bodies, the installation slowly grows together over the course of the piece, with the individual parts being examined for their properties and treated with particular care and attention as encounter partners for the two performers. Underlaying is the question of a new valence of things in an anthropocentric world that is heading towards its own destruction through overconsumption and mass production. What if we were more mindful of ourselves? With the people around us, with animals and even with things? What if we were more permeable?
Team
Emma Laule (concept and artistic direction, performance)
Born in Berlin, Emma Laule graduated in 2016 from the circus school ACAPA in Tilburg specialised in vertical rope and since then she has been involved in numerous projects between dance, theatre, film and contemporary circus.
She currently performs with Black Box Circus Company, Common Ground, Cirque Bouffon and Hydra Collective. In the last few years she has been focusing on creating her own pieces. Her productions Wolfskind and Elective Affinities were supported by Fonds DaKu. She is part of this year’s PAP Mentoring Program, is involved in the Feminist Circus Initiative and is on the project leading team of Zeit für Zirkus Festival 2023, the German pendant of la Nuit du Cirque.
Alba De Miguel (choreographie and performance)
Alba graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Dance Mariemma in 2015 and continued her training at the SEAD Academy in Salzburg. She then toured internationally with various projects and companies, such as one of the most renowned dance companies in Germany Toula Limnaios.
Since 2022 she focuses on choreographing and directing her own works.
Cesar Balleyguier (music composition and performance)
Cesar is a jazz trombonist with international influences (New Orleans, Spain, Turkey).
He has been mixing acoustic instruments with synthesisers and synthetic sounds for about 7 years, creating soundscapes for dance productions. Examples are the Nein9 collective who presented their work Continuing with what has been selected & Cesar B. at Dock 11 last year or the circus dance production Catoptric by Black Box Circus.
Vito Walter (light design)
After studies in Architectural Lighting Design (HAWK in Hildesheim), Architecture (UPB in Medellín) and Theatre Lighting Design (ENSATT in Lyon) as well as working as Assistant Lighting Designer in Mexico City at Lighteam Gustavo Aviles S.C. he graduated with a B.A. of Arts in Lighting Design at the HAWK in 2019. Since then, he is collaborating as Assistant Lighting Designer and Lighting Designer with artists like Hendrik Aerts, Kat Válastur, Lea Moro, Jan Martens, Xenia Kogchilaki, Hannah Schillinger, and Daina Ashbee.
Collaborators
Ana Jordão: Artistic research
Sophia Kurmann (Perform your Art): Production
Fundings
Neue Künste Ruhr Funding
Partners
Studio e.V, Katapult, Q Space, Circus Schnick Schnack, Circus Schatzinsel, Säälchen
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