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Tall Tales Company - in Your hands
An ode to 300 years of St John Passion in a unique chamber version of the work with just four singers, strings, flute, synthesiser and electric guitar. Meanwhile, the essences of the selected arias and choruses are visualised in an emotional language of movement, tension and release, by four acrobats from Tall Tales Company. A unique musical and visual translation. Experience the work as you haven’t before, it’s Bach at the cutting edge and at incredible heights!
Perhaps Bach’s immortal setting of Jesus’ last days is essentially… about us. Although the music and text are centuries old, they invite us to reflect on the choices we make in our own lives. How do we take responsibility, face our fears, deal with loss and dream about a future, any future?
The premiere of this production was realized with the support of the Tax Shelter measure of the Belgian Federal Government through Flanders Tax Shelter.
Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion BWV 245 (arr. Kalle Kalima), tall tales company acrobats: Swantje Kawecki, David Mupanda, Charles Hession, Harm van der Laan, Kalle Kalima: electric guitar and composition, Cecilia Bernardini: violin and direction, Bobbie Blommenstein: soprano, Rosina Fabius: alto,
Thomas Köll/ Fabian Kelly: tenor, Hans Wijers: bass, Rebecca Huber: violin, Manuela Bucher: altviool, Patrick Sepec: cello, Tami Krausz/Kate Clark: flute,
Petteri Pitko: synthesizer, Andreas Küppers: choir preparation
Zirkus Chnopf - Le cours des choses
Le cours des choses, is Zirkus Chnopf's (CH) production for the 2024 season, featuring 5 professionals and 6 teenagers and young artists between 14 and 23 - in the open air.
Le cours des choses is about the big and small connections in a group or a system. What happens when everyone works together and what happens when more and more oppose each other?
The show playfully questions our fixed logic of consequences and challenges our imagination. Will the performers succeed in providing new paths? A play with risk and humour at the interface between circus, dance and music.
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Choreographer and director: Johanna Sofia Heusser, Artistic collaboration: Marc Oosterhoff, Assistant director: Andrina Frey,
Musical co-director: Roman Oskar Naef & Silvan Koch, Stage design: Marco Weber, Costume: Ernestyna Orlowska & Carolina Misztela
Circo de Natal - Coliseu Porto Ageas
The Coliseu Porto Ageas Christmas Circus (PT) was back with the best artists for a memorable edition that promises to unveil the most fantastic aspects of the circus arts. With an original story written by Gonçalo M. Tavares, staged by Nuno Cardoso, magic direction by Luís de Matos and music by Alexandre Soares, we invited children and adults to a unique, unrepeatable and surprising show.
Developed and programmed by the Coliseu, in partnership with the Teatro Nacional de São João, Circo do Coliseu combines the classics of circus tradition with the contemporary, resulting in a unique circus show in Portugal, rejuvenated and complete with a selection of artists from different countries.
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Tall Tales Company - Circusvierdaagse
16 to 19 November 2023 - Tall Tales Company (NL) and Maas theatre and dance will celebrate 10 years and they will celebrate it together during the Circusvierdaagse in the Maas stage. Circus theatre company Tall Tales will get the key to the stage and show what modern circus theatre looks like.
Acrobatic duet Charlie Hession and Swantje Kawecki combine contact improvisation and acrobatics. For this evening, they will create a duet about how we keep showing different parts of our personality with family, colleagues, friends or when we are alone.
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Tall Tales Company - A clockwork orange
The show A Clockwork Orange is a circus adaptation inspired by Anthony Burgess' cult classic of the same name, filmed in 1971 by Stanley Kubrick.
Exactly 50 years after the film's release, six circus performers bring this story to life. Experience the reasonless boundlessness of gang leader Alex and his companions in acrobatic feats of theatre.
Tall Tales Company (NL) takes you on a fascinating journey full of circus, violence and classical music.
Tea Time Company - Leverage
In Leverage, two women defy the balance point of a 2.5 meter long pole. The pole acts as a scale, enabling the performers to defy their physical limits, to define new hierarchies.
While climbing, relying on each other and folded under and over each other, the duo is completely absorbed in their relationship. Meanwhile, the pier and chasm below them is surrounded by the ever-threatening danger of more and more raging water.