Circus Work - Killing Time

Maybe everything that is truly significant happens in the random, unplanned moments. In the “gaps” of history.

But who are we in these moments without definition, and what do we use them for? For waste, intoxication and celebration? For harmony and beauty? For debate, confrontation and conflict? For theoretical discovery? Which events are burned into our collective memory and force us, despite our achievements in humanistic thinking, to repeat the same cycles, thought patterns and historical processes?

The artists of the Zirkuswerk ensemble have examined transgenerational traces in their own biographies to find out how the spiral of our collective history is connected to our individual character. In a combination of acrobatics, contemporary dance and theater, the Zirkuswerk ensemble moves with humor and self-irony along the edges of the kairological moment, arguing, loving, crying, sweating, and exploring why we apparently cannot escape the eternal cycle of war and peace.

However, things may turn out completely differently than planned.

Ensemble Zirkuswerk: Ben Bräuning, David Finscher, Dennis Hauer, Jan Stein, Jonas Wacker, Kim Boller, Lena Biedlingmaier, Linda Werz, Melissa Tosun Escamilla, Richard Below, Tanja Strass

Direction+Conception: Veronika Reichard-Bakri

Conception+Material development : Esther Falk

Music+Sound: David Finscher

Lighting technology : Jens Volpp

Graphics+ Layout: Falk Krohmer

Recommended age: 14 years

Note: The piece deals with the theme of war and uses strobe effects