Get ready to be surprised. This Maag is a clown without a clown nose, and he has a subtle talent for improvisation. Every performance is unique and tailored to the specific audience – sophisticated interactive theatre at its best. Look forward to a round of alpine madness and skiing at the height of summer. This Maag serves unexpected gags and great interaction with the audience – he is a true crowd-pleaser.
Das ist der gipfel (This is the summit) has some English language and enough universal clown and physical language for everybody to understand.
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Duration: 45 min
About the company
Born in Switzerland, This Maag has been performing on the streets and stages in Europe and overseas for over 30 years. He studied classical acting at the “Ernst Busch” University of Dramatic Arts in Berlin, where he currently lives, and can also often be seen on television and on stage.
For more info: www.thismaag.de
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Artistic Team and Technical Team: This Maag
Foto: Karsten Piper & Martin Neuhaus
You will meet Mr. Loyal, the Ringmaster, and his assistants, the acrobats, the strong woman, and her menagerie of wild animals. As the one-man band plays enthralling and lively music, you are transported into an offbeat creative universe of wacky, humoristic, and poetic burlesque acrobatics, and popcorn! A quirky, silly, and lovable performance with no words, but lots of slightly different circus acts full of partner acrobatics, balloons, penguins, a cowboy, a lion and a lady in a very large dress made of life jackets. Let’s play!
Haute Heure reinvents the circus tradition. No fuss, no blah, performing simple and raw acts, though there may be difficulties and obstructions for the creative and surprising characters. Inspired by the spirit of Cirque Calder.
About Alexander Calder and the circus: In 1926, the American artist Alexander Calder created his Cirque Calder: an artistic rendering of a circus. It involves wire models of circus performers, from contortionists to sword eaters to lion tamers. The models were made of wire and a spectrum of found materials. During his time in Paris, Calder began improvising circus shows.
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Duration: 50 min
About the company
BaroloSolo has been working with new circus and music since 2006. They create poetic and cross-aesthetic performances that reach young and old; in gyms as well as on the streets. They have performed in most of the world with their musical and engaging performances.
For more info: www.barolosolo.com/
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Idea: Mathieu Levavasseur
On stage: Léa Passard, Clémentine Fleury, Mathieu Levavasseur, Samuel Perronet
Technical: Marc Boudier
Scenography, costumes and regi: Thomas Debrossia
Costumes: Céline Perrigon
A mother and her children are taking a casual walk in the city. They are not quite ordinary though – they are giants. The children are very boisterous: they play tricks on kids and adults alike, while the mother, with her baby in the XXL baby carriage, tries in vain to restore order. ‘The Big Family’ is an itinerant colorful show without words. Nobody will remain indifferent to it.
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Duration: 60 min.
About the Company
Fadunito has specialised itself in street arts for all audiences since 2003, founded by performers Ferran Orobitg (Fadu) and Ivan Alcoba (Nito). In their performances, Fadunito has dealt with issues such as cooperation, social problems, the family, disabilities or the scholar culture.
For more info: www.fadunito.com
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ldea & artistic direction: Ferran Orobitg and Ivan Alcoba
Actors: Ivan Alcoba, Ferran Orobitg, Jordi Pedros, Ivan Ensenyat, Lidia Zapatero, Nuria Pellisa, Alina stockinger, Judit Ortiz, Cristina Aguirre
Scenography: lgnasi Fernandez, Xevi Planes
Costumes: Teresa Ortega
It’s already too late. It’s daylight. They’re out in the open, in the middle of the city, vulnerable. They shave the walls with their stolen 2 x 1.40-metre painting. The sidewalks lay traps for them, the bus shelters, posts and benches are an incomprehensible labyrinth. All eyes are on them. They have no choice but to do everything in their power to disappear. And that’s precisely what’s leading them to disaster. They are like two castaways clinging to the stolen work like a raft.
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Duration: 30 min
About the company
“Les Etablissements Lafaille” was founded in 2017. “La faille” in French means “the Flaw”. Being trained as clowns, imperfection calls on them, moves them. ”At the bottom of every flaw exists a thread that we do our best to pull because this is a golden thread. We are imperfect so we are precious. A flaw is a space, an empty space, in which everything can exist, from where everything can come out.”
A duo influenced by the imaging and language of Chaplin and Lloyd’s silent movies.
For more info: www.lesetablissementslafaille.com
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On stage : Marion Gouvernet, Arnaud Nedelec, Caroline Violier, Tony Noyers
Concept: Tony Noyers + assistants: Emilie Goupil and Isabelle Osmas
Painting: Camille Besnard (reproduction af “Raft of the Medusa” af Théodore Géricault)
Scenography: Bernard Fournier
Meet Arthur – a surreal and bewildered vagabond is moving in at the town square with his two improvised carts and a bed. However, Arthur does not only carry his home with him but also a veritable street food stall, that, as if by magic, takes shape in front of our eyes. For Arthur, cooking is a way to earn a living – and to meet new friends. However, impossible recipies and kitchen equipment that has a life of its own sends us all on a funny and more or less culinary journey.
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Duration: 45 min
About the company
Max Maccarinelli is an actor, clown, illusionist, director, playwright and musician. He has worked with street theater for many years, and in 2021 he started his own company, where he works with visual comedy and theatrical magic. For more info: www.maxmaccarinelli.com/fr
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Concept and interpretation: Max Maccarinelli
Direction: Giacomo Gamba and Max Maccarinelli
Scenography: Mario Bresciani, Giacomo Gamba, Max Maccarinelli
Music: Matteo Melchiori
Costumes: Emilie Piat
Artistic collaboration: Johan Lescop, Mario Gumina Fabrice Groléat
We live surrounded by people and other living beings. Why do we take into consideration some lives and others don’t? Can we empathize with a bird, a fish or a tree? How can the attempt to put ourselves in their shoes transform us? Sfumato is a poetic, immersive and itinerant reflection on the relationships we establish with other species in public space. A journey that seeks to blur our limits as humans, opening cracks through which new sympathies, care and solidarity can begin to circulate.
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Duration: 50 min
Age recommendations: +5
About the company
Llum de Fideu was born at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona. The company explores poetic, multilayered dramaturgies in public space, blending artistic languages. With Sfumato, they’ve performed at major festivals in Spain and France and received several awards for their sensitive and detailed work.
For more info: www.instagram.com/llumdefideu.cia
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Artistic direction: Anna Claramonte og Marc Guillén
Performers: Anna Claramonte, Marc Guillén, Mauricio Sierra, Francesco Sinopoli
Technician and support: Ximena Cañas
Costumes, puppets and masks: Llum de Fideu
Mask painter: Martí Doy
Production: Guillem Fuster
Artistic consultant: Sergi Estebanell and Nuria Legarda
Management: Ana Sala – Ikebanah Performing Arts
Sfumato in Nordvest is presented in collaboration with Kunst på Banen
Tape That! is a playful exploration and reinterpretation of the world we live in today; Completely wordless, the two performers create a visual world using colourful tape, object manipulation and partner acrobatics. A simple roll of tape is transformed from a DJ booth into binoculars and stretched to create physical boundaries that the performers must work together to navigate through. With humor and artistic skills, Hands Down Circus plays with the infinite possibilities of tape, and inspires a playful approach to life.
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Duration: 30 min
About the company
Hands Down Circus is a young new circus duo with a special love for colored duct tape. They have performed in large parts of the world, surprising young and old with their visual acrobatic world. Tape That was commissioned by Applause Rural Touring and The Roundhouse, in partnership with FiraTàrrega’s Support for Creation programme. Also supported by Arts Council England and 101 Outdoor Arts. For more info: www.handsdowncircus.com
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Idea, creators, directors and on stage: Carys Nicholls and Graham Milligan
Tape That was commissioned by Applause Rural Touring and The Roundhouse, in partnership with FiraTàrrega’s Support for Creation programme.
Also supported by Arts Council England, 101 Outdoor Arts and Culture Ireland.
This Maag is a master of clowning and improvisation. Each performance is engaging and tailored to the audience present. Unique interactive theatre at its best.
In his latest, already award-winning performance, This Maag presents analogue, interactive snapshots captured in motion in a unique, action ‘film’ created live with the audience in front of a brilliantly simple rotating screen! Everything is illuminated with Swiss humour and Alpine madness and complemented by an interactive audience.
Selfies are a thing of the past – in this performance, everything is out of the ordinary. Stay in the picture and miss out on anything else. You are in the very real film.
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Duration: 45 min
About the company
Born in Switzerland, This Maag has been performing on the streets and stages in Europe and overseas for over 30 years. He studied classical acting at the “Ernst Busch” University of Dramatic Arts in Berlin, where he currently lives, and can also often be seen on television and on stage.
For more info: www.thismaag.de
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Artistic Team and Technical Team: This Maag
Everybody can join when Gerlev Centre for Play & Movement activates their playground with classic games from all over the world games.
The games are for anyone: Children, young people, adults and elderly!
Opening hours
MONDAY 28th of JULY
NØJSOMHED
Time: 15:00-17:30
Festpladsen / Entrance from Sydvej
TUESDAY 29th of JULY
VAPNAGAARD
Time: 14:00-16:30
close by Kulturhus Syd
WEDNESDAY 31st of JULY
Time: 13:00-15:00
Kulturhuset Bølgen, Ålsgårde
The workshop is inspired by the performance Sfumato by the Catalan company Llum de Fideu, shown during PASSAGE Festival.
We are inspired by the poetic universe of Sfumato, where human and nature blends and become wonderful creatures.
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It is free to participate in the workshop – just drop in.
Tuesday 29th of july at 1 pm – 6 pm | Kulturhus Syd, Vapnagaard
Wednesday 30th of july at 1 pm – 6 pm | Kulturhus Nordvest
Practical info: We will use paint – wear clothes that can withstand a splash of paint.