Cirkus Cirkör | Tipping Point - Balancing in a Time of Change - Dansens Hus

A circus performance that challenges and stretches structures - our human structures and what holds our societies and democracies together. Why do they look the way they do? What keeps them in balance?

Venue

Elverket, Linnégatan 69

Duration

120 minutes (including break)

7 Jun

19:00

8 Jun

15:00

9 Jun

15:00

11 Jun

19:00

12 Jun

19:00

13 Jun

19:00

14 Jun

19:00

15 Jun

15:00

16 Jun

15:00

Note! Recommended age: Tipping Point is created with an adult audience in mind. However, we know that Cirkör's performances are well attended by a happy and enthusiastic children's audience. We therefore have no actual recommended age - you know your child best.

In a tensegrity structure, the shape is held together by tension, balance and by forces pulling in different directions. The slightest change can bring the whole structure down. And what happens when the most fundamental thing collapses? Who gets squeezed and who gives it freedom? Tipping point serves as a reminder that nothing is inevitable and that change is possible. Actually, it is quite simple. Every action, regardless of size, can be part of a larger change.

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.

Share the event:

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.

a palpable poetic quality in the performance itself that makes, for example, Italian circus artist Delia Ceruti's aerial acrobatics hanging from her hair as gracefully airy as they are astonishing.

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.

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.

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