Cirkus Cirkör subspecies 1-12 October 2014

Programme

Underart is based on director Olle Strandberg's own story of a crash. A shattering, transformative blow that could have been the end. Instead, it becomes a reboot and a way forward. Underart is a joyful celebration of what happens after a crash landing. To what happens thanks to a crash landing.

Filmed sample

In subspecies features seven performers who all have a connection to Olle's crash. With experience from the world's top circus stages, they mix balancing acts, acrobatics, street dance, juggling and intense coffee breaks with specially written live music. Inspired by their own and each other's crash landings, the performers find new, joyful and unexpected ways to explore failure. Also on stage is the musical duo Ripple & Murmur with their specially written epic indie pop.

"You stand in the ruins of your high ambitions and goals. You instinctively try to recreate them. After years of toil, the shocking realisation comes that you have built something completely different. Only then do you realise that you are no longer the same. The resignation. The regret that you didn't create an assembly manual when you had the chance. And then the acceptance and exploration of the new." Olle Strandberg

More about director Olle Strandberg:
Since 2011, Olle Strandberg has worked as director and artistic project manager at Cirkus Cirkör. His creativity has its core in the meeting of circus with music and dance. Olle was also the director and initiator of Cirkus Cirkör's world success Undermen. The show toured for more than 1 ½ years in Sweden, the Nordic countries and Europe, as well as in South America and Canada, including Montreal Complètement Cirque, Roundhouse in London and Polo Circo in Buenos Aires.