INSIDE JUGGLING

In the organizer's words:

a co-production of Hippana.Maleta,
T-Werk Potsdam and studiobühneköln

The performances will take place in the TanzFaktur's outdoor venue
in the Müngersdorf Technology Park (Halle Vitalis).
Address: Vitalisstraße 314, 50829 Cologne

with: Liza van Brakel
Director and production: Jonas Schiffauer
Technology: Timo Löffler
Music: Manuel Paschmann
Outside Eye: Roberto Magro and Marie-Lena Kaiser
Research: Antonio d'Angelo, Anna Katharina Andrees and Filip Jacobson
Mentoring and video: Alex Allison
Photo: Jona Harnischmacher
Management: Ute Classen

A show like a tracking shot: fast-paced, funny and virtuoso. A performer juggles between choreography, stage and her own image in search of order in the chaos of images. Entranced by her own diversity, she finds stability in imbalance and calm in risk. 30 years in the world, 20 of them juggling, 10 on stage. At home everywhere, always new encounters; audience and performer as a temporary community, routine follows ritual - the only thing that remains the same are the personal objects as companions that wander from bags into rooms and back again. Together with Hippana.Maleta, Liza van Brakel dares to change perspective: she takes the audience into the intimate space of the solo and humorously addresses the price and poetry of restless adventurousness and contradictory dreams. Using camera, object manipulation and live projection, she twists her and our perceptions of reality. Jonas Schiffauer and Liza van Brakel interweave contemporary circus, dance and cinematography to create a show about the interstices of time, in which new things emerge from sudden irritation - and celebrate the poetry of things that cannot possibly fit together.

Hippana.Maleta
are Jonas Schiffauer (DE) and Alex Allison (IE). The company has been researching the language of juggling and object manipulation to explore aspects of the human condition since 2018. studiobühneköln has already co-produced Milk and Ashes (2018) and supported Tunnel (2019) and Runners (2021). Hippana.maleta are touring Europe with their productions. The current production is the first collaboration with Dutch juggler Liza van Brakel.