We work around choreographic systems that facilitate artistic diversity and equity. Not to see deviations and disagreements as a problem to be artistically demonstrated or solved but something to be promoted and celebrated. Working on co-existence we want to highlight what constitutes a partnership that doesn’t demand the normalization of abilities but run on the logic of versatile possibilities.

MOONLIGHT, work in progress:

MOONLIGHT is a choreographic project that focuses on poetic structures, a staged exploration of boundless meanings, a malleable queer reality. Working within it we want to cultivate a stage micro-culture where statuses, labels and understandings grow or ingrown into something(s) else.

I think you think I think about you when you think I think you think about me, and that’s so cool. And sometimes, I think I think you think about me while you think you think I think about you. Even that it’s so fucking cool.

MOONLIGHT is a moon and it has light and it is a practice. It is pattern and, surely, does not repeat itself. It is structural, and Post Structuralism for the ones who want it; Aurora and Snow White are part of it.

MOONLIGHT is a project born out of togetherness and time spent close to each other. We are interested in co-authorship within family constellations, building intuitive material, growing reciprocal manners to motivate each other. Moonlight as a summary of conversation s between Ace and Darío.

We would like to share with you the shape that MOONLIGHT has taken for now.

MOONLIGHT will be premiered in the fall 2018 supported by KINOKULTURA, space for contemporary performing art and contemporary culture, and Ministry of Culture of Macedonia.

Choreography and performance: Aleksandar Georgiev & Darío Barreto Damas.

Music: the Internet.

Visuals collaborators: Francesco Visone Díaz and Leni von Geleva.

aleksandargeorgiev.com

bardam.blog 

IlAria

A delirious show that combines the twirling technique with street theater and will leave the audience breathless during the aerial acrobatic numbers.

from Italy

Music Play Bulgaria is a cultural organization. Its goals are to create a healthy cultural and musical environment for children and adolescents; to introduce them to the love of art; and to discover and develop children’s musical talents. The Music Play Team organizes a Music School for Children that brings new ideas into the music education in Bulgaria. The system of teaching is based on the complex music education, including various components such as rhythm, singing, notation, history of music and practical part – playing of musical instruments. Children have the opportunity to try different musical instruments and to choose the one they most like to play. The team of lecturers guides each child through his/her personal development, enriching sensitivity and musical perception.

Music Play will be a part of Mini Art Fest 8 and invites everyone, young and old, to the concert “From Children to Children” followed by a music workshop.

We are looking forward meeting you there

Dimitar Germanov presents the contemporary circus performance Mementos

“Mementos” is dance, yoga, a crystal ball and juggling. Everyday feeling is of

a linear passage of time; by some superior force. Gravity? Events of personal

time – words, looks, flashes of an eye – we throw them like balls that glide

through space, and fall in the pits of our existence. Mementos of our life pass

before our eyes as on a film strip to remind us that there is no time.

Dimitar Germanov web page

They are a genre mix between theater and circus, combining a portion of laughter, a certain amount of fear, interactive games with audiences, showing dexterity and balance.

Igrachka and Plachko are fascinated in games, they juggle together, but always one wants to surpass the other to show who is best.

This puts them in a row of comic situations on the stage and, like the life of a toy, becomes crying.

Igrachka-Plachko is suitable for both younger and older parents …

The show consists of 3 stages. The first stage predisposes the audience to relax and entertain curiosity in the circus world.

It includes gentle soap bubbles combined with contact juggling. The second stage is interactive, with the participation of a volunteer by the audience.

It has a street clown as a technique and is totally comedy. Third stage is the most dynamic.

The audience can enjoy lightning juggling and mastering the world’s most dangerous wheel-giraffe.

from Bulgaria

Public: all ages

Fb page Igrachka-Plachko Circus

“il Grande Lebuski show” is a comedy-theater street show that has been played in almost every square in Italy for 5 years.  il Grande Lebuski is an eccentric, extravagant and clownishness character that through the circus arts and verbal comedy attract crowds into his crazy universe.

Laughter spreads contagiously through the crowd while watching a combination of gags and technical skills.  Balance is sought throughout the show, whether its handstand on top of a fly case, a 2 meter unicycle or on a 30 cm minibike.  The show finishes with il Grande Lebuski balancing on a 2 meter high unicycle, while balance a club on his nose and somehow at the same time he juggle 3 flaming torches.

A comic performance that shows the parodies of a man and his behavior,  enticing the audience to embrace the clown inside us all.

Public: all ages

Circus Tværs is a socio-cultural project where they use circus as a tool in educational and social work.

Circus Tværs has existed since 1986 and is today a fully equipped circus.

Circus Tværs is a non profit organisation where young people can enter from the street, free of charge and learn how to do circus. In the Circus, you can cultivate all circus disciplines like juggling, unicycle, trapeze and acrobatics. Circus Tværs perform approximately 50 times a year – Anywhere and for (almost) anyone – and have performed throughout Europe from Moscow to Florence. Circus Tværs is not a circus school, but a place where young people get good healthy values and find that they can do much more than they think. The goal is not to train professional artists for the general circus, but to help children and young people get some good tools and prerequisites for a good living.

Director of Cirkus Tværs, Søren Stockmar.

CIRKUS TVÆRS at MINI ART FESTIVAL 8^th edition  1-8. June 2018.

10 members from the Danish Social Circus Group ‘Cirkus Tværs’ will be giving performances and workshops at the Modern Circus Festival in Sofia, Mini Art Fest 8. 

One of the main purposes of MAF8 (Mini Art Fest) is to include and engage socially disadvantaged groups from the societies of Sofia’s districts and primarily young people in the society, using circus activities that gives the youth social and creative skills.

                             A INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

THE SOCIAL CIRCUS OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEVELOPMENT IN SOFIA.

     7. June 2018       at: The French Institute in Sofia from 09 -13:00

Presenting Danish experiences in the field of Youth Circus – Cirkus Tværs with their 30 years’ experience they are in the lead of this conference with topics of: How to build up Social Circus in the society, how to run a Social Circus, what is the effect of having a Social Circus in the society.

Mini Art Foundation presenting their spring 2018 pilot project “Social Circus”, their 2020 vision with a Social Circus Space in Sofia and their plans in the field of Social Circus activities for Sofia districts and the integration of The Social Circus Methodology for the developments in the social sector for young people in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The conference will also contain small circus acts to freshen up, coffee breaks and debate.

For participation and questions:  miniartfest@gmail.com  or phone:  +359 897 555 484

Watch “Mosaic”  of Cirkus Tværs from 2016:

“We’re doing something like a show, but not exactly, or rather something like a performance or a theater that includes acrobatics, juggling, fire, dancing, contact movements, towers,

shouting and even pinching. We also leave a loophole of freedom to do what we think “in the name of art.” This could also be defined as a game. Play among all. The goal is for people to be filled with a sense of dynamism and diversity. Thus, the game is always different, because everyone perceives it differently. No one knows what’s going to happen – a sound from an instrument or flying object or man. This may seem strange at one time, but it is definitely worthwhile if you take a closer look. ”

involved:

Dario Tabakov, Vyara Bolgradova and Victor Teofilov.

From Bulgaria

They pose real challenges and issues like the air we breathe, our sense of modernity and development.

They haven´t been in Sofia, but they already feel at home. They carry dreams from distant ports, aim at the heart of the city and the audience. Every meeting or situation is a springboard for special moments filled with laughter and emotion.

From word games to street games, … they tell the story of the city as a dream to make you love your city even more.

artists participate

Pamela Leiva, Annie-Marie Rhode, Ariel Toledo, Bernard Guerrand

from FRANCE

Performance for all ages

more info: http://www.toutsambal.fr/blog/