On programme : two evenings, two venues, two work-in-progress presentations

Wednesday 18 November

16:00


Sola · Aurora Dini

16:40


Don Baltha · Christian Padilla

Thursday 19 November

21:00


Les choix tremblants / cirkus nevkus · Daniel Kvašňovský


21:30


Holding on to everything I've got

Verena Schneider


Aurora Dini (IT)

Sola

If the mind forgets, the body remembers everything that passes through it. As the daughter of an anaesthetist, Aurora explores the proximity between the artist's gestures on stage, and those of the surgeon in the operating theatre. Text, contortion and aerial hoop intertwine in a fragmented, intimate, and tragi-comic writing. Sola is a performance-journal, the story of a body discovering itself as a keeper of memories.

Cie L’Art Nak · Christian Padilla (EC)

Don Baltha

Don Baltha is an autobiographical project blending juggling and Afro-Surrealism, inspired by the artist's own experience: as the only Black child at his school, he was always cast as King Balthasar in the Christmas nativity play. From this experience of having an identity imposed on him, he questions the place of non-white artists in today's cultural landscape.

Daniel Kvašňovský (SK) · France

Les choix tremblants / cirkus nevkus

Inspired by the codes of Slovak folklore, this solo paints the dreamlike portrait of a non-clownish clown, searching for his place in the world. A quest for perfection, by turns comic and tragic, somewhere between physical minimalism and the grand gestures of the sequin shows, between the circus ring and a shepherd's barn at winter solstice. The choices that tremble...

Verena Schneider (AT)

Holding on to everything I’ve got

How do we destroy the landscapes around us, and the ones within us? Holding on to everything I've got explores our connection to the Earth through the complexity of the inheritances that shape us. In dialogue with a musician, the artist embodies ecological ruptures and scars. A circus of relationship and mutual dependence, and a search for shared ground.