JUGGLING THE ARTS
The Network for New Nordic Circus founded by contemporary circus
operators of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, organises artistic
laboratories with the title Juggling the Arts. One artistic
project from each country is selected by the mentor team. The artists and
projects selected will participate in both laboratories and will be granted a
production support. The project is
funded by a grant of Kulturkontakt Nord.
Juggling the Arts was organised for the second time in November 2010 at Subtopia in Sweden.
FINNISH PARTICIPANTS 2010:
Joona Kaakinen and Aino Hurri
Ilona Jäntti
Juho Sarno
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Juggling the Arts arranged its second artistic laboratory for professional Nordic artists in November 2010. Artists from each Nordic country were given the opportunity to work for five days with three mentors at Subtopia.
Juggling the Arts workshop focused on the artistic research processes in the field of contemporary circus. The international team of workshop mentors (Daniel Gulko, Sverre Waage and Maksim Komaro) guided the participants in developing their own artistic projects. Discussions, exercises, experiments and artist encounters encouraged the participants to test, challenge and deepen their ideas and artistic processes. Juggling the Arts programme aims at strengthening the artistic processes and the research aspect on the Scandinavian contemporary circus scene.
The mentors:
Daniel Gulko, director of Cahin-caha, has developed a "bastard" style: hybrid, irreverent, lyrical and dense. Born in the USA, Gulko has led a 30 year international career; navigating between experimental and political performance, street spectacle and modern ritual. Living in France since 1993, Gulko was a founding member and director of the group "Pocheros” before creating “Cahin-caha” in 1998. The result of this international criss-crossing of experiences and meetings are creations including raWdoG 1999, GRIMM 2003, Moby Locked-Up 2007, REV 2010.
Maksim Komaro is one of Finland's most established contemporary circus artists. He has over ten years’ experience of creating circus theatre and is co-founder of Circo Aereo with Jani Nuutinen. Komaro has worked with Compagnie Jérôme Thomas and has directed several works such as FUR!, Louisiana Circus, Espresso, one of his most famous works, with Les Objets Volants, and recently Petit Mal with Race Horse Company, one of the winners of Jeunes Talents Cirque Europe in 2010. He is renowned as a juggling innovator.
Sverre Waage is a Norwegian director, script writer and producer. He started 30 years ago working with performance art, new circus and street art, as a performer and creator. After an injury in 1987 he started working as a director and artistic director at theatres and festivals. In 2001 he founded Cirkus Xanti and that was also the year of his first big tent production of contemporary circus, "Ringen". In 2006 his circus-theatre creation "Trollprinsen" was awarded The Norwegian Theatre Unions Hedda-prize as best performance. He is the founder and leader of The Circus Village, a mobile international festival, network and resident space in Norway.
Artistic laboratory
The selected artists participated in a 5-day artistic laboratory at Subtopia, Sweden, 15-19 November 2010. The travel and transportation costs as well as the accommodation and meals were covered by Juggling the Arts.
In the previous edition of Juggling the Arts, autumn 2008, the following artists participated with their projects:
Niclas Stureberg: Human Timing (SE)
Petri Tuominen, Rauli Kosonen & Kalle Lehto: Petit Mal (FI)
Rudi Jensen: Goldfish is meant for dying (NO)
Mille Lundt: Somewhere/Nowhere (DK)
About Juggling the Arts & New Nordic Circus Network
Juggling the Arts is organised by New Nordic Circus Network with the support of Kulturkontakt Nord / Nordic Culture Point.
The partners in Juggling the Arts are:
• Denmark, Copenhagen International Theatre
(KIT). Katrien Verwilt, kv(at)kit.dk
• Finland, Cirko - Centre for New Circus&Finnish Circus Information Centre. Tomi Purovaara, tomi.purovaara(at)cirko.net
• Norway, Circus Village Network & Cirkus Xanti. Sverre Waage, sverre(at)cirkusxanti.no
• Sweden, Cirkus Cirkör & Subtopia. kiki(at)subtopia.se
The objectives of Juggling the Arts are
to:
• offer artistic and financial support to new
Nordic circus projects
• to support dialogue and building of
connections and networks between Nordic contemporary circus artists and
programmers
• to support the development of creativity and
professionalism within the contemporary circus field
Juggling the Arts give Nordic artists the opportunity to have 2 one week residencies to work on their project. The artistic teams have the opportunity to test ideas, to get inspiration and feedback from the mentors as well as their Nordic colleagues. Afterwards the artistic teams receive a production support as well as support from the partners of the Network for New Nordic Circus in terms of presentation and distribution aid on a national, Nordic and international level.
Lisätiedot Suomessa: Tomi Purovaara etunimi.sukunimi(at)sirkusinfo.fi
