Two Extracts: Stones and Bodies

18.00 - 19.00

Emma Laule - 'Permeable Bodies' extract

Permeable Bodies are those that allow themselves to be influenced by their surroundings, to be touched, to let the outside in.

In Permeable Bodies, an oversized mobile made of metal rods and granite stones slowly grows together and represents the clash between gravity and weightlessness, ruthlessness and tenderness. In it, the stones and metal rods enter into a relationship with each other and come to life in a certain way. The two performers treat them with particular care and attention, but also with respect for the power and potential destruction they could cause. Or is it they themselves who pose the threat? 

A rapprochement between these very different bodies, a search for equilibrium, a becoming permeable.

​ABOUT US

Project management and concept: Emma Laule

Artistic direction and choreography: Alba De Miguel

Performers: Alba De Miguel and Emma Laule

Music: César Balleyguier

Lighting design: Vito Walter

Set and costume design: Emma Laule

Outside eye: Benjamin Richter, Karoline Aamås

Artistic research: Ana Jordão

Assistance: Miguel Gonzalez Padilla

Jana Korb - 'Able Bodies and Stones'

"If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution."

But how can I be part of your revolution, when I am too hurt to dance? How can I change the world, when I cannot be present?

Jana Korb is interested in bodies. Bodies between fitness and disability, between circus body and injured body, between adrenalin-high and pain.

#AbleBodiesAndStones is an aerial performance with and on hanging, scattered, balancing stones - and on the trapeze. Jana Korb also challenges her audience, who may test their strength and self-confidence by holding the ropes with the stones. At the same time, they can push the performer to her artistic limits with improvisation tasks.

​ABOUT US

Jana Korb is an artist (guest Freie Klasse at UdK Berlin), aerial artist, and cultural scientist (FU/HU Berlin), and creates circus for public spaces. In her work she explores themes such as the body, age, vulnerability, usually from a queer-feminist perspective.

She has created and worked for Christoph Schlingensief, John Bock, Taylor Mac, Jill Greenhalgh, Fura dels Baus, bankleer, etc. She was artistic director of LuftFest Berlin and a board member of the Federal Association of Theater in Public Spaces.

She lives and works in Saxony-Anhalt, where she is establishing the residency and production house CircusMühle Kelbra.