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“Take a place” is a work by Cristina and Dora, two architects with practice in performing arts. The idea is to create an unusual and intimate spatial, emotional and sensory impression of the performance.
Subsequently, the work also treats audience and performers as equals, by moving the audience from the position of passive observers into active participants, who make decisions, position themselves in space freely and by doing so affect and even create the performance itself, on the spot. Hierarchy between roles is erased, and the relationship is based on interaction and exchange between everyone involved. Instead of a classic leading role as a protagonist, the performer transforms into a facilitator, someone who shares the proposed rules of participation, leaving the outcome open.
The scenography is imagined as a “playscape” made out of familiar everyday objects, whose position in space is designed with specific goals — to create different spatial qualities, as a network of relationships of empty and full, open and closed, different levels in space and degrees of intimacy of spaces, like a small scale architecture made of people and furniture.
Organised by eight partner organisations and co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, CIRCUS WITHOUT CIRCUS is an interdisciplinary research project for artists from the circus field and from other artistic fields such as music, film, dance, theatre, design, architecture, visual arts, etc.
Eighteen emerging European artists, nine from the circus field and nine from other artistic fields, have been selected for a residency programme (2021—2023) aimed at sparking artistic exchange between disciplines by facilitating one-on-one research residencies. The overall aim is to facilitate cross-boundary research and to develop and explore cross-disciplinary working methods. The selected artists are invited to step out of their comfort zone, to let go of habits, give up control, and open up their artistic process in the encounter with another artist.
CIRCUS WITHOUT CIRCUS presentation in Split is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, the Kultura nova Foundation, the Creative Europe Desk Croatia and the City of Split.
Entrance is free of charge but the reservation is mandatory!
The workshop is intended for critics, journalists, editors and performance theorists, regardless of their media experience or knowledge of contemporary circus art, from Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Kosovo. Applications are open until 23:59 p.m. Sunday, April 2 2023.
You can purchase tickets at the WEBshop and one hour before the start of each performance at the venue (circus tent, Dom mladih, Kopilica). The festival pass is valid for all days of the festival and includes eight performances with tickets (Duel, Juggling Concert, My Death and Me, Piti Peta Hofen Show, Restlesslegs, Runa, The Thin Line and #Manifesto), nine performances with free entrances (entry priority) and a festival bag. If you would like and can afford to support the organization of the Festival and the structures behind it, you can purchase a bit more expensive festival pass and help the future development of contemporary circus and outdoor arts in our city and region.
“Take a place” is a work by Cristina and Dora, two architects with practice in performing arts. The idea is to create an unusual and intimate spatial, emotional and sensory impression of the performance.
Subsequently, the work also treats audience and performers as equals, by moving the audience from the position of passive observers into active participants, who make decisions, position themselves in space freely and by doing so affect and even create the performance itself, on the spot. Hierarchy between roles is erased, and the relationship is based on interaction and exchange between everyone involved. Instead of a classic leading role as a protagonist, the performer transforms into a facilitator, someone who shares the proposed rules of participation, leaving the outcome open.
The scenography is imagined as a “playscape” made out of familiar everyday objects, whose position in space is designed with specific goals — to create different spatial qualities, as a network of relationships of empty and full, open and closed, different levels in space and degrees of intimacy of spaces, like a small scale architecture made of people and furniture.
Organised by eight partner organisations and co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, CIRCUS WITHOUT CIRCUS is an interdisciplinary research project for artists from the circus field and from other artistic fields such as music, film, dance, theatre, design, architecture, visual arts, etc.
Eighteen emerging European artists, nine from the circus field and nine from other artistic fields, have been selected for a residency programme (2021—2023) aimed at sparking artistic exchange between disciplines by facilitating one-on-one research residencies. The overall aim is to facilitate cross-boundary research and to develop and explore cross-disciplinary working methods. The selected artists are invited to step out of their comfort zone, to let go of habits, give up control, and open up their artistic process in the encounter with another artist.
CIRCUS WITHOUT CIRCUS presentation in Split is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, the Kultura nova Foundation, the Creative Europe Desk Croatia and the City of Split.
Entrance is free of charge but the reservation is mandatory!
Contemporary circus collective ROOM 100
(Association for culture and sport Positive force)
Biskupa Jurja Dobrile 6, 21000 SPLIT
OIB 72990924436
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