Two circus performers create living sculptures from common objects and their own bodies. Through acrobatics and magic, they find moments of balance. With elegant movements they create installations where the different kind of elements have to interact, keeping the picture from falling apart.
In the performance of Tvärslöjd the story is not an ordinary story but is open for the children’s interpretation and imagination. Two characters are creating balancing games with old-fashioned everyday objects. They surprise themselves to find various uses of the tools on stage. Where are they? Maybe inside a giant paint bucket? Or in a magical forest? The performance is about how imagination gives us an opportunity to go from nothing to something, from nowhere to anywhere. To encourage children to learn new things - things they did not know that you could possibly learn.
Kompani Giraff is a Stockholm-based contemporary circus company driven by the passion of movement, poetry and magic. The company consists of director Viktoria Dalborg, magician Axel Adlercreutz and designer Sus Soddu.
Link to the website
http://www.kompanigiraff.se/tvarslojd/
http://www.cirko.fi/ohjelma/kompani-giraff-tvarslojd
Working group and performers
Performers: Jenny Soddu & Julietta Birkeland
Director: Viktoria Dalborg
Music: Hans Appelqvist
Scenography and costume: Ellen Utterström