Cirko \u2013 Center for New Circus organises for the first time a new mini-festival called What the Cirk?\u00a0which takes place on 15th to 19th of November in Helsinki, Finland. The festival presents three fresh contemporary circus pieces. The three performances float on the borders of different performing arts, aiming to question previously accepted categories.<\/p>\n
The mini-festival will host a premiere of Sivuhenkil\u00f6t\u00a0(Sidekicks)\u00a0performance by Lehmuskallio & working group. The piece uses elements of contemporary circus and theatre to explore what it feels like to touch and to have to go without being touched.\u00a0Sivuhenkil\u00f6t (Sidekicks)\u00a0takes the audience to unexpected situations:\u00a0meeting\u00a0a lady who is missing a limb and a man who has lost his face,\u00a0dining with a\u00a0misbehaving grandmother\u00a0and\u00a0dangling upside-down from a bedhead.\u00a0 The\u00a0performance\u00a0combines\u00a0text with physicality and visual elements\u00a0and has been created by a team of theatre, dance and circus professionals. The performance will take place at\u00a0Tenaille von Fersen banquet hall,\u00a0a former 18th\u00a0century granary and one of the historic venues, located on Helsinki\u2019s idyllic Suomenlinna island.<\/p>\n
Another new Finnish production is Salla Hakanp\u00e4\u00e4\u2019s Dive. Hakanp\u00e4\u00e4 is an aerial acrobat whose previous solo piece was the awarded and visually stunning Pinta (Surface). \u00a0The performance is created especially for\u00a0swimming halls and it offer rope acrobatics above and under the water plunging time to times into another reality. The work produced by WHS which is a visual theatre \/ contemporary circus company from Finland. The piece is directed by Ville Walo.<\/p>\n
Festival\u2019s guest performance is Swedish Svalbard Company with their work All Genius All Idiot. The performance revels in the absurdities of life, using extreme circus artistry to highlight human behaviour at its most animalistic. Svalbard bends the edges of contemporary circus and blends it with theatre, physical comedy and live music to create a truly original piece that you will remember for its surreal quality as well as its awe-inspiring acrobatic skills. \u00a0The performances at London International Mime Festival and a month run at Adelaide Fringe were sold out. \u2018All Genius All Idiot\u2019 was awarded \u201dbest circus and physical theatre\u201d at the Adelaide Fringe weekly awards in 2016.<\/p>\n
The curtain between theatre and contemporary circus festival will be cracked open as well while Cirko \u2013 Centre for New Circus togehter with Baltic Circle International Theatre Festival invite their audience to celebrate together at the\u00a0Love me in November Club at Cirko. The coming together of two festivals aims at cross-pollination, cross-experiencing and dialogues between both artists and the public.<\/p>\n
Cirko \u2013 Center for New Circus is a house for contemporary circus; performances, residencies and a festival.<\/p>\n
(Source: Cirko \u2013 Center for New Circus 17.10.2016)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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