Five circus performers and a musician search for new balance points.

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Venue

Main stage, Barnhusgatan 12-14

Duration

75 minutes

27 Dec

15:00

28 Dec

15:00

28 Dec

19:00

29 Dec

15:00

29 Dec

19:00

30 Dec

15:00

30 Dec

19:00

2 January

15:00

2 January

19:00

3 Jan

15:00

3 Jan

19:00

4 Jan

15:00

4 Jan

19:00

5 Jan

15:00

5 Jan

19:00

8 Jan

15:00

9 January

15:00

9 January

19:00

10 January

15:00

10 January

19:00

11 Jan

15:00

Note! Tipping Point, which is being shown at Dansens Hus during the 25/26 season, is a reworked version of a previous production and is now performed without an interval. Age limit in the auditorium: 5 years.

Through acrobatics, aerial acrobatics, hair hanging and contortionism, we explore those moments of imbalance, when we can suddenly choose to fall into new paths. We turn our gaze to the breaking point: when, for a breathless second, we don't know if the instability will pull us apart, or bring us together.

A ”tipping point” does not have to be the edge of ruin. It can be a springboard for change. Every imbalance carries with it an opportunity for renewal: new forms, a redistribution of weight, of power, new ways for something fragile to endure. What if collapse is our chance to rebuild? What if this is how we find new balance?

 

Cirkus Cirkör [SWE] | Tipping Point - Balancing in a Time of Change
Alexander Weibel Weibel Photo Carlos Zaya
Photo: Carlos Zaya

About Alexander Weibel Weibel

Is a Spanish-born circus artist specialising in balancing acts: both balancing himself on slackropes, wires, unicycles and objects, but also balancing objects on himself. Alexander is also a musician and often combines violin playing with his circus artistry. Alexander began his training at a circus school in Madrid and then studied at the National Circus School of Moscow and the Dance and Circus School in Stockholm, where he was also awarded the Sophie Hulten Circus Scholarship. Alexander has performed and toured at various festivals in Europe and received a number of awards, including the Special Jury's Prize at Cirque De Demain in Paris in 2011, the Innovation Prize at the IV Circus Festival of Albacete and the Audience's Prize at the Newcommers Show in Leipzig. The first meeting with the Swedish audience took place during the pre-production. Knitted Piece, the performance that was the start of what later became the Knitting Peace Alexander has over the years participated in several of Cirkus Cirkör's productions as a performer and director.

Photo: Håkan Larsson
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As an audience member, it's easy to be fascinated by and engrossed in the individual numbers that make up "Tipping Point" when everything appears to be so easily executed. Which is, of course, an illusion.

-SvD

It looks astonishingly easy when the acrobats in "Tipping Point" perform their tricks. But balance and structure are easily disrupted, which is the theme of Cirkus Cirkör's musically evocative work.

-SvD

The Swiss pair of trapeze artists Sébastien Klink and Morgane Stäheli also work with tensegrity elements but it is their flying trapeze act that charges the room.

-DN

... Cirkus Cirkör's production balances between displays of skill and strength, entertaining and thought-provoking.

-DN