A performance about words and body – between self-determination and speechlessness. A relationship between two individuals, two bodies, two voices. The audience gains insight into the depths of human communication and acts as a witness, a confidant, an ally. What is needed to speak at all, to be heard, to be understood? How much pressure …
Duett MANIE is a collaboration between Nina Dafert (actress and circus artist) and Maja Karolina Franke. They developed a format where they use the connection of movement, in particular partner acrobatics and spoken text to tell (hi)stories.
Contemporary circus meets dance, meets performance art. Two performers create their own game: They play with falling, with being caught, with unexpected risk and blind trust. Again and again, the game threatens to tip, pushing trust to its limits. This negotiation takes place not only between the two performers but also between them and the …
Maja Karolina Franke questions traditional gender roles and their reproduction in partner acrobatics practice: “It is time to scrutinize my tools through a feminist lens. Which aspects of the technique adhere to gender stereotypes, which perhaps do not, and how can I use them choreographically? I am interested in various perspectives: both physical and social. …
Just turning in circles is not yet a ballroom dance. Three women and three men from different generations therefore want to try new steps and dare to step on the slick floor of the free labor market. Hopefully they will learn leaps and turns, kicks and twists that this Plan B requires through competence analysis, …
A piece about loosing and finding identity, about wearing and changing masks. A piece about dreams.
What if I had superpowers? I would do good things and help other people. I would unite my powers with my fellow combatants. A piece about superheroes.
