After the decision to cancel Festival Circolo 2020, we immediately started thinking about 'The Alternative'. After all, circus artists cannot just sit on their hands. They want and need to play, and we as festival organisers want to give them that chance and that stage.
From 19 to 24 October, Festival Circolo: The Alternative will take place. Not in the Leijpark but in Poppodium 013 and the Koepelhal and with a focus on a new generation of circus artists. Circus artists most of whom are based in the Netherlands or are still being trained at circus or dance academies. Mostly premieres or performances in development.
Circolo is very happy that the world premiere of Surface by Familiar Faces can go ahead after all. This is possible because Poppodium 013, in possession of a venue capacity waiver, immediately cooperated to host the performance there. This will allow around 200 visitors to attend the performances. Surface can be seen on 19, 20 and 21 October at 20:30.
For five days, the Dome Hall will be the circus tent for many short performances by new circus creators. Marta & Kim perform their premiere of Fase; an acrobatic performance that moves through the audience. Piet van Dijcke & Peter van der Heijden perform in the premiere of On/Off with straps and getting a light bulb on. 4 new circus creators who graduated this year from the Circus Academy ACaPA received a grant from the Keep an Eye Foundation to develop their first professional production. They too are on the programme.
In total, Festival Circolo: The Alternative presents 11 performances including four (world) premieres. Tickets are on sale from Friday 9 October via the Festival Circolo website. Tickets cost from €5 to €20. For more information on the programme www.festivalcircolo.nl.
Festival Circolo is trying to bring some of the international productions originally programmed to Tilburg later this year for Festival Circolo The Alternative 2
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