INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY CIRCUS FESTIVAL
CIRKULIACIJA’21
6-13, JUNE 2021
KAUNAS | KAIŠIADORYS | SMALININKAI | RASEINIAI
2021 edition of the festival - “Private Zone(s)” - presents guests from Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Spain, as well as the latest performances by Lithuanian contemporary circus artists, various circus disciplines both in the air and on the ground.
⭕️ PROGRAMME IN KAUNAS
📍2021 06 09 21:00
Sisus sirkus (Finland) | Mosh Split
Duration: 45'
Premiere: 2016
Performers and authors: Iida Sipilä, Inka Pehkonen, Enni Lymi/ Milla Lahtinen, Rosa Tyyskä/Heidi Latva, Sofia Defour
Outside eye: Mirja Jauhiainen
Producer: Farina Berndt
Co-production: Circus Arts/Burnt Out Punks
Financial Support: Circus Arts, Finnish Cultural Foundation, The Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Svenska kulturfonden.
With a support of: Telepart Grant
This 45-minutes show is built around a 9,5 meters high truss structure. In the scenery there is a camper van and from there surprising characters and crazy ideas come out following one another. Dresses are made out of toilet paper and hairstyles get their finishing touches with vacuum cleaners. This energetic show contains a huge variety of circus skills both in the air and on the ground. Washington trapeze, moshing, skipping rope dancing, partner acrobatics, swinging trapeze, splits, group spirit, humor and girl power – that's what Mosh Split is made of.
AUDIENCE COMMENTS OF “MOSH SPLIT”
"Suomi people do it better"
"Sisus rocks so bad"
"The best circus from Finland"
"What a show! Crazy energy combined with ironic chick humor"
"Loved the Fresh and unrestricted style of Sisus"
Sisus is a circus company based in Finland. It was founded by five women Iida Sipilä, Inka Pehkonen, Milla Lahtinen, Sofia Defour and Rosa Tyyskäin 2014, although the roots of the company have been growing much longer. The idea started to grow back in 2003 when the girls met each other in the youth circus. They became a tight group of friends, growing up together, unified by a great sense of humor.
After graduating as professional circus artists from Lahti Circus school, the Sisus members have been touring the world as solo artists, continuing their circus studies abroad and been part of different kinds of art projects. Since 2014 the dream of a circus company together has been reality.
The artists have done several projects as a company, and in August 2016 they premiered their first full length outdoor show, Mosh Split, which has been touring around Europe ever since.
“Mosh Split” will be performed for the last time at the international contemporary circus festival Cirkuliacija (Kaunas, Lithuania) in 2021.
Cirkuliacija'20 podcast with Sisus Sirkus (Finland)
Trailer: watch in here
📍2021 06 10 18:00 and 21:00
ENT Company (Sweden) | Plast
Duration: 60'
Premiere: 2019
On stage: Hege Eriksdatter Østefjells, Karoline Aamås, Love Kjellsson
Colleagues/Collaborators: Circus Xanti, Mari Stoknes, Emma Laule, Ilona Jäntti (Ilmatila), R.E.D, Sundsvalls Kommun, Swedish Arts Council (Kulturrådet), Subtopia, Jatka78
Plast is an exploratory circus performance interwoven with live music. Opening the realms of the magnificent, humble and the calm ‘Plast’ touches and moves.
A plastic floating magically like the sea. The light touching it with a shimmering veil. A body wrapped in plastic suspended by the hair, unravelling, music flooding. Two bodies climbing and spinning in a rope, balancing a block of ice on the head. Will the balance break? How do we listen to each other?
I feel the polar ice melt on my forehead. I dance with the plastic that floods the oceans. I hold the weight of your body in my arms and your voice fills all of me. I am scared but not alone. We are here now. Together.
Light and darkness.
Sound and silence.
Reviews:
Also the ice stands for a type of dramaturgy, through melting and finally dropping down on the floor with a crash. This after Hege Eriksdatter Østefjells achieved the feat of climbing a rope simultaneously as she balances the ice on her head.
-Danstidningen 2019-11-18
It can be the image of a melting polar ice and relate to the climate debate, but can also represent change, coldness, beauty and much more. In the ensemble is also Love Kjellsson with live music on fiddle, syntheziser and singing, and it frames the visual with a traditional soundscape – dreamy as well as a bit raw, primitive and timeless.
-Sundsvalls Tidning 2019-10-31
ENT company is a collective of artists working with music and circus to create performances that touches people. With a foundation in ethics of care, interest in nature and an interdisciplinary approach, ENT aims to communicate with openness, honesty and simplicity as leading principles.
Cirkuliacija'20 podcast with ENT Company (Sweden)
Trailer: watch in here
📍 📍 2021 06 11 19:00 DOUBLE BILL
Total duration: 70'
Teatronas (Lithuania) | Mood
Premiere: 2021 m.
Created and Performed by: Džiugas Kunsmanas
Dramaturgy: Gildas Aleksa
This performance is an acrobatic expression of a passive state. In the social media, term „Mood“ is used to describe recognizable situation in which emotions exceed all limits of human logical behavior. The creative process focuses on the action of falling and the images it raises, as well as the "depressive body", its recognizability in the physical and psychological sense and how such a passive body affects active disciplines of performing arts.
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Lizeth Wolk (Estonia) | Therapy
Work in progress
Idea and performance by: Lizeth Wolk
Therapy is a spectacle that talks about loss, devastation, stress and emptiness through the eyes of six people that did everything that they could to help them recover from these harsh emotions and heal their souls. Hoping that we are strong enough to carry the burden on our own, without really noticing you are slowly falling apart, might lead us to drown the problems into the weirdest places just to get away from our own thoughts. Anything goes as long as it gets your mind away from the emptiness. Grab a drink or five, dance a little, watch through all the seasons of “Game of Thrones”, work out until you get a nosebleed, run away from yourself.
"The fragile and bold theme was brought to the stage by Lizeth Wolk with her solo performance "Therapy". Wolk presented the intermediate stage of the work-in-progress at the festival, but it was such a heavily charged performance that it became one of the most influential experiences of the festival for me. The theme of the solo is depression. The piece portrays, stories of "dead ends" presented through the eyes of three (note: more stories now) people. The beginning, end and possible escape routes of which are primarily in our own head. Wolk is impressive as a mover and, in addition to the songs from the recording, was able to convey emotions and internal struggles exceptionally well with circus instruments, which quickly resonate with the show's theme in the viewer's head (ropes, bottles, ring)."
Work in progress review from EPICIRQ 2019: Keiu Virro
📍2021 06 12 20:00 and 2021 06 13 19:00
Compañía de Circo "eia" (Spain) | inTarsi
Duration: 60 min.
Premiere: 2016 m.
ORIGINAL IDEA: Compañía de Circo “eia”
DIRECTED BY: Compañía de Circo “eia” in collaboration with Jordi Aspa
AUTHORS AND PERFORMERS: Armando Rabanera Muro, Fabio Nicolini, Amer Kabbani, Manel Rosés Moretó
CHOREOGRAPHY: Michelle Man
MUSICAL DIRECTION: Cristiano Della Monica
ARTISTIC COLLABORATIONS: Roberto Magro, James Hewison, Giulia Venosa – Oiné Ensamble
SET DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION: Compañía de Circo “eia” and El Taller del Lagarto
LIGHTING DESIGN: Sarah Sankey
SOUNDSCAPE: Diego Rada Antoñanzas
COSTUMES: Fanny Fredouelle, Rosa Crehuet, Maru Shima
PRODUCED BY: Compañía de Circo “eia” and La Destil.leria
IN COPRODUCTION WITH: Mercat de les Flors – Barcelona (ES), Cirque Théâtre Jules Vernes. Pôle National Cirque et Arts de la Rue – Amiens (FR), CIRCO INTERIOR BRUTO, Lo Máximo – Madrid (ES), Festival Temporada Alta – Girona/Salt (ES), Festival Pisteurs d’Étoiles – Obernai (FR), HAMEKA. Fabrique de création des arts de la rue – Communauté de Communes Herrobi (FR)
WITH THE SUPPORT AND THE COLLABORATION OF: La Central del Circ – Barcelona (ES), Trapezi. Fira del Circ de Catalunya – Reus (ES), Espace Catastrophe. Centre International de Création des Arts du Cirque – Bruxelles (BEL), La Grainerie. Fabrique des Arts du Cirque – Toulouse (FR), L’Estruch. Fabrica de Creació de les Arts en Viu – Sabadell (ES), Atelier Culturel de Landerneau (FR), Flic Scuola di Circo di Torino – Turin (ITA), Escuela de Circo Carampa – Madrid (ES)
INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS: ICEC – Institut Catalá de les Empreses Culturals, INAEM – Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte del Gobierno de España, Institut Ramon Llull – Llengua i Cultura Catalana
With a support of: ACCIÓN CULTURAL ESPAÑOLA
A few smallish platforms, a trampoline, a teeter board and four men…
Four acrobats watch each other, gauge, run into, carry, throw each other and sweep us along in their metaphoric farandole: meetings, exploits, mistakes, power games, seductions, manipulations, an “intarsio” made up of fragments of life, a glimpse into the kaleidoscope of human relationships.
A circus in constant movement, strong, poetic, funny and heart-warming, a moment which inspires real tenderness for the strange beast that is the human being.
Awards:
MAX Award 2017 (id. Tony or Olivier Award) as Outstanding New Show
Special Prize of the Jury at Zirkolika Catalonia Awards 2016
Reviews:
“From the beginning to the end, a gift of circus beauty and good vibes”. Jordi Jané, RECOMANA.CAT
“Human above all, inTarsi reveals the value of human relationships”. Laurence Bertel, LA LIBRE
“inTarsi offers some remarkable moments about new possibilities for vulnerability over bravado among men in the circus ring”. Maria Folguera, CIRCUS TALK
It all started one afternoon in 2009, and more than 10 years later, here we are with the same motivation, to make circus performances that place human relationships at the heart of our artistic creation.
With over a decade of experience, four creations and 700 performances in more than 25 countries, we will keep promoting a human circus, looking at the future with expectation and responsibility, and defending a free culture that can makes for a progressive and evolving society.
In an era where difference is often seen as a problem, we seek to make our particularities a strength and a source of invention to be explored over a period of truly collective research, as a reflection of the colour and variety of the world we live in.
Cirkuliacija'20 podcast with Compañía de Circo “eia” (Ispanija)
Trailer: watch in here
📍2021 06 12 11:00
Kanta Company (Lithuania) | Clothes and Us
Duration: 60 min.
Premiere: 2021
Idea and performance: Lyla Goldman, Eino Kaisanlahti, Kęstas Matusevičius, Aino Mäkipää
Clothes. We wear them every day. They come in all sizes, colours, and patterns. We spend countless hours buying, washing, drying, folding, and wearing them. In this show clothes take over the world. As fabrics change shape and come alive, you realize that no human being is on stage but somehow something is still breathing. Human shaped hoodies, priests, brides, silk draped ghosts, monsters and moving piles of clothes - a world ruled by clothing, surreal but recognizable in its proximity to everyday life. What do clothes mean to us? Who are we without clothes and how do they change us? Can they protect us? What do they hide? As clothes take over our world, we delve into the memories and stories they hold and the important role they play in our lives, and come to cherish them dearly.
Welcome to the world of Clothes and Us as we follow three humans and a cast of clothes donated from around the world on a journey that evolves from the everyday drudgery of laundry to fantastical scenes of T-shirt puppets and flying ghosts. This show includes object manipulation, aerial silks, acrobatics, Chinese pole, and more in a cozy, intimate atmosphere. Created for kids and families, it aims to turn your closet into a place filled not just with clothes, but with memories, stories, and friends.
Kanta Company is three circus artists from three different countries - Finland, Lithuania, and USA. The crew met at SaSak circus school in Lahti, Finland where they worked together on numerous productions before forming their own company in 2019. They aspire to create entertaining but thought provoking circus with a multi disciplinary approach that combines aerial acrobatics, Chinese pole, object manipulation, and physical comedy. Through circus they create a world where the everyday is extraordinary, and the real becomes surreal. Clothes and Us is their first full length show and has been performed at ReRiga Festival in Riga, Latvia and New Circus Weekend Festival in Vilnius, Lithuania, among others. The final version will premiere in April 2021.
Treiler: watch in here
LOCATION:
Volfas brewery, Radvilų Dvaro str. 2A., Vilijampolė, Kaunas
Box-office TIKETA
The EDUCATIONAL program of the festival prepared together with the first contemporary circus center in Lithuania CIRCUS SAPIENS.
📍 𝗜𝗻𝗸𝗮 𝗣𝗲𝗵𝗸𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗻 & 𝗦𝗶𝘀𝘂𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 ‘𝗨𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀’ REGISTRATION OPEN TILL 25th of May in here
📍 For romantic couples with Lizeth Wolk (Estonia). No experience necessary. REGISTER in here
📍For performing arts critics with artistic director of Cirkuliacija Gildas Aleksa. More in here
⭕️ FESTIVAL GOES TO:
📍KAIŠIADORYS June, 6 | DAY PASS
Stadium of the Kaišiadorių Algirdo Brazausko gymnasium, Gedimino str. 65, Kaišiadorys
Kanta Company (Lithuania) | Clothes and Us | TICKETS
Teatronas (Lithuania) | Mood | TICKETS
ENT Company (Sweden) | Plast | TICKETS
📍SMALININKAI June, 12 | DAY PASS
Old customs yard, Nemuno str.. 3, Smalininkai
Lizeth Wolk (Estonia) | Therapy | TICKETS
Teatronas (Lithuania) | Mood | TICKETS
ENT Company (Sweden) | Plast | TICKETS
📍RASEINIAI June, 13 | DAY PASS
Stadium of the Raseinių kūno kultūros ir sporto centras, Vilniaus str. 11, Raseiniai
Kanta Company (Lithuania) | Clothes and Us | TICKETS
Teatronas (Lithuania) | Mood | TICKETS
ENT Company (Sweden) | Plast | TICKETS
Supported by: Lietuvos kultūros taryba, Kauno miesto savivaldybė
Partners: Baltic Nordic Circus Network CircoStrada Nordic Culture Point ACCIÓN CULTURAL ESPAÑOLA Baltic Circus Grass-root Network TelepART Grant
