Works

作品

Jumping, tumbling, falling, throwing, the circus performers onstage seem capable of extraordinary physical feats, almost as if they could do anything. Yet away from the stage, they are just like everyone else: they eat, brush their teeth, run for the bus, and once did homework and played tag with their classmates. Somewhere between everyday life and extreme performance, the same body is home to both an ordinary person and a seemingly invincible “superhuman.” The work begins with the performers themselves, transforming their everyday experiences, physical training and lives onstage into creative material. They leap from heights, flip through the air and land, moving between bodies and objects. Through juggling, acrobatic dance, Cyr wheel and other circus disciplines, the performers reveal bodies shaped by years of intensive training, while gradually exposing the inner states that lie beneath their precise and highly controlled movements. There are no lions, tigers, elephants or horses here. This is a circus made entirely of people and a work about the people who make circus. The work shifts our attention away from spectacular feats and back to the performers themselves. Somewhere between virtuosity and play, everyday life and the stage, the ordinary and the extraordinary, we encounter the circus body as it truly is. Because no matter how extraordinary a circus performer may seem, they are still human.