Double bill: Movement, light & sound, with Extricate and Everything brings us back to the body. with C-TAKT

Extricate is a project that shares an intimate, dark and slowed down universe through a circus performance and somatic de-stressing sessions , as a reaction to an overloaded world. It is an "ode to the greatness of the small and the unnoticed" that aims to make an audience disconnect in order to reconnect.

A wordless circular circus performance about (hand)balancing, illuminated by flashlights, with live musical compositions, foley effects, dance,... The performance takes the audience on a journey that explores the hidden universes that we often overlook.

Circus performance, à partir de 9 ans
Duration → 50 minutes

Production

Financial support
Flemish Government & Miramiro
Other support
Miramiro & UP - Circus & Performing Arts

Distribution

Creation & Circus performance : Bert Berg
Composition & musical performance : Suntapes (Tomas Vanderplaetse)
Dramaturgy : Margot Jansens
Choreography & final direction : Roseta Plasencia
Production : Toes Up
Co-production : PERPLX, Circuswerkplaats Dommelhof & CIRKLABO
Costumes : Elise Goedgezelschap & Leentje Kerremans
Lighting design : Casper Van Overschee
Exterior ear : Stijn Dickel (Aifoon)
Production : Lien Vanbossele
Thematic expertise : BlinkOut

Website → Bert Berg

Bodies are so much our own and yet they feel strange. Much has to do with a flood of filtered and manipulated images, inside and outside of social media. The new perfection is quietly ridiculous and unachievable. Brussels-based choreographer Ehsan Hemat tackles this in his new performance Everything brings us back to the body. A quest for more balance, a call to become less dependent on technology.

Inspired by the poetry of Rumi, he explores the possibilities of the human body interacting with an eighteen-kilogram copper plate. The result is a ritual of both visual and auditory reflections. Equating subject (human) and object (plate) invites a dialogue between the earth and our human essence.

Circus performance, tout public
Duration → 59 minutes

Distribution

Choreography and performance: Ehsan Hemat
Sound design: Donia Jourabchi
Dramaturgy: Yasen Vasilev
Scenography: Erki De Vries
Voice coach: Selma Banich
Production: Julie De Clercq / 2nd to the right

Website → Ehsan Hemat