At first glance, Antilia appears to be a classic circus arena where five artists perform their acts in rotation. Upon closer acquaintance, it is much more than that. It is a collective, a community that seeks to explore the relationship between the artist and the organizer, between the artwork and the audience, as they travel with a touring circus arena in Europe.
In Antilia, you can experience, among others:
Hanger? by Mario Levis (IT)
Did you ever think about the fascinating and amazing possibilities of the objects, we all use distractedly every day? Hangers, for instance?
The eccentric clown and object manipulator has – and after he has taken you on a journey with his hangers, you will never think about them the same way again. Silently, the hangers come alive, fly, trasform in unexpected ways and even become part of a love affair with a dramatic final duel.
INFO
DURATION: 45 min.
TICKET PERFORMANCE
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Inbetween the performances, you can meet and have a chat, not only with the artists but also with many Italian cultural figures who have traveled with the company (and who have brought an espresso machine and good Italian coffee with them…).
What is it like to be a circus artist in contemporary Europe? How do we create sustainable frameworks for European performing arts that ensure artists from the east and west, north and south can showcase their work throughout Europe?
Antilia will be located on the lawn by Sankt Olai Church throughout the festival.
Antilia is a touring circus arena inspired by circuses of bygone times when tents did not yet cover the stages. Antilia is a desire to share, dream, and create circus in an arena that encompasses not only performances but also places and emotions. Inside Antilia, you can feel the lively and direct connection between the audience and the artist in a magical and welcoming atmosphere.
At first glance, Antilia appears to be a classic circus arena where five artists perform their acts in rotation. Upon closer acquaintance, it is much more than that. It is a collective, a community that seeks to explore the relationship between the artist and the organizer, between the artwork and the audience, as they travel with a touring circus arena in Europe.
In Antilia, you can experience, among others:
Between the Boxes by Giulio Lanzafame (IT)
Giulio is a slightly clumsy and constantly stumbling character who does his best to perform classical circus disciplines. However, it is only with the help of the audience that he can succeed. It may seem like a demonstration of classical disciplines such as juggling and tightrope walking, but it is everything in between that creates the performance, and Giulio ends up becoming a supporting character in his own show. Giulio Lanzafame is an atypical clown who hides his true nature behind balls and juggling pins.
INFO
DURATION: 30 min.
TICKET PERFORMANCE
Click the TICKET icon to the right: next to TIME + LOCATION or buy a festival-wristband and get free tickets to all ticket-performances. There are different categories of wristbands – for families or individuals.
READ MORE and buy PASSAGE FESTIVAL WRISTBAND HERE
Inbetween the performances, you can meet and have a chat, not only with the artists but also with many Italian cultural figures who have traveled with the company (and who have brought an espresso machine and good Italian coffee with them…).
What is it like to be a circus artist in contemporary Europe? How do we create sustainable frameworks for European performing arts that ensure artists from the east and west, north and south can showcase their work throughout Europe?
Antilia will be located on the lawn by Sankt Olai Church throughout the festival.
Antilia is a touring circus arena inspired by circuses of bygone times when tents did not yet cover the stages. Antilia is a desire to share, dream, and create circus in an arena that encompasses not only performances but also places and emotions. Inside Antilia, you can feel the lively and direct connection between the audience and the artist in a magical and welcoming atmosphere.
They are there to listen. Here. Now.
Two performers dive into both composing and visualizing the soundscape at a selected location in Helsingør.
With physical theater, drumsticks, and plenty of humor, they create a symphony in multiple movements, varying in key and tempo – and constantly discovering new instruments: In an increasingly frenzied stream of spontaneous interactions with the city’s life and elements (both stationary and moving), they make the place come alive.
All means are used in “L’air de Rien” (Nonchalantly). From lampposts to remote-controlled cars, cyclists, buses, and pedestrians – nothing escapes becoming part of the music.
We are not in the presence of a work of art, which is a thing, but of an action which is implicitly nothing.
John Cage, lecture on something.
There is a challenge to listen, to stay alert. This obsession gives them looks that may evoke the animal, the idiot or the visionary: an uninhibited lyricism that is undoubtedly contagious, a
wobbly rigour that is joyfully touching.
Events are like lights or flashes.
They compose, they somehow pretend. Gesticulating has a lot of taste. It is not a skill but rather vertigo, a vibrating desire.
INFO
DURATION: 50 min
AGE: From 8 years
LANGUAGE: The performance has some english language.
TICKET PERFORMANCE
Click the TICKET icon to the right: next to TIME + LOCATION or buy a festival-wristband and get free tickets to all ticket-performances. There are different categories of wristbands – for families or individuals.
READ MORE and buy PASSAGE FESTIVAL WRISTBAND HERE
CANCELLED: THURS 3 + FRIDAY 4 AUGUST.
All audiences with a ticket are contacted directly.
Among soil, plants, bones and glass, we move into a dissolution of the inherited choreographies of colonialism. Making ourselves known. And examine our will to change.
The work travels around the colonial and post-colonial terrains of the North and makes itself available as a performative situation in the local debate on decolonization.
NOTE: The audience will be actively involved in parts of the work and since there is a lot of soil in the space, it is an advantage to bring clothes that can get a little dirty.
INFO
Duration: 60 min
Age: From 15 years
Language: The performance will be in Nordic Languages
TICKET PERFORMANCE
Click the TICKET icon to the right: next to TIME + LOCATION or buy a festival-wristband and get free tickets to all ticket-performances. There are different categories of wristbands – for families or individuals. READ MORE and buy PASSAGE FESTIVAL WRISTBAND HERE
Desperate Men return to Helsingør to investigate reported otherworldly psychic paranormal phantasmagoria. Three spectral specialists on a spiritual pilgrimage attempt to investigate trace phenomena, such as Hamlet’s ghostly father, poltergeist activity, and reports of the UK haunting Europe.
Delving into Shakespeare, Dracula, the after-shocks of Brexit,16th Century English song, and a fine collection of coiffured wigs, these experts will weave storytelling, apparitions, and apparent disinformation that is being spouted to lay bare the truth about what is actually going on.
More Scooby Don’t than Scooby Do.
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Duration: 30 mins
LANGUAGE: The performance will be in English
Chris Lynam, the infamous iconoclastic clown, brings you his interactive, acrobatic, manically musical & gloriously epic Clown show!
With his raw physicality, an exquisite grasp of the grotesque and a seemingly endless supply of explosive tricks, he has been feverishly subverting the tradition of alternative comedy, shattering our cosy pre-conceptions with his extraordinary off-the-wall surrealism.
The script isn’t written ‘till the end of the show, so …Don’t be afraid to caress the beast – it only wants to play!
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Duration: 55 min.
During the piece, fifteen performers move along concealed pathways carrying portable speakers that each play one layer of a composition, enveloping the public setting in a mesmerising aural sphere. As the sound sources are completely hidden from the audience, it’s the spatial movement of these subtle, continuous tones that gradually unravel the piece’s choreography – and morphing the public space into something that is about more than solely transit.
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Duration: 40 min.
Age: From 6 years
Vertigo is usually described as a fear of falling, but what happens when the ground deserts us, when it just… lets us go? We’d be falling up, into a boundless, infinite emptiness.
Our purpose in this piece is to sustain an illusion of weightlessness that connects directly to the audience body using a language that was devised for this very performance. Because there is no trick behind all this; the body ends up believing it. The performing space is public space, so passersby will ultimately become an audience through the sheer act of witnessing the performance.
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Duration: 15 minutes
When their car suddenly breaks down, six friends become stranded in the middle of nowhere, confronted by the unpredictable Nordic Summer. Still, even being attacked by mosquitoes, or struggling to hitch a ride, the characters take their time to enjoy the moments of bliss and as well as awkwardness they find themselves in…
High energy and acrobatic circus based on Finnish culture, nature and absurd humour.
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Duration: 70 min
In a swirling sports stadium, two juggling brothers compete against each other. All the codes of known, lesser known and invented sports are used: heroism and fair play, injury, and sponsorship, doping and bended rules. Enthusiastic supporters, a strict referee and a not always objective reporter complete the picture. One thing is certain, one brother will leave the arena as a victor and one as a loser.
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Duration: 55 min.