La Strada 2016 I english programme

English

29th July – 6th August 2016

lastrada.at

When the streets and squares are stirred into movement, that means La Strada.

So you’ll never lose your way, do get yourself a La Strada Pocket Guide for a handy overview of the programme.

Legend Indoor

For the whole family

Tent

Mobile Theater

Especially for children

Open air

Contents opening show at the Graz Opera House: Cirkus Cirkör (SE) ................ 6 nouveau cirque Sartori do Vale (BR/FI) ....................... 9 Cheptel Aleïkoum (FR) ................... 10 Marcel et ses drôles de femmes (FR) ................................. 12 street theatre Murmuyo (CL) .................................... 15 Joan Català (ES) ................................ 16 Theater am Ortweinplatz (AT) ... 17 co.LABse (ES/AT) ............................... 18 Wandering Orquestra (ES) ............ 19 Cie Lézards Bleus (FR) ............. 20 & 21 Rara Woulib (FR) ............................... 22 Zygos Brass Band (FR) ................... 24

puppet theatre Handmaids Berlin (DE) .................. 30 United Puppets (DE) ........................ 32 community art aXe:körpertheater:graz (AT) ....... 35 Benjamin Vandewalle & Yoann Durant (BE) ............................ 36 Adrian Schvarzstein (ES) ............... 37 Spielraum Ensemble (AT) .............. 38 Strijbos & Van Rijswijk (NL) .......... 39 Finale at Freiheitsplatz: Transe Express (FR) ......................... 40 Preview: Cirque Noël Circus tales in Graz Cirque Éloize (CA) ........................... 44

open dance at Kaiserfeldgasse: Zygos Brass Band Trio Infernal AORA – Oriental Expressions .... 25 nouveau cirque

puppet theatre Les Zanimos (FR) .............................. 27 Handmaids Berlin (DE) .................. 28 Theater Zitadelle (DE) .................... 29

puppet theatre

community art street theatre

The creative city Europe’s cities were built according to the same models and currently also share the same challenges: structural change, migration, regeneration and the development of new city quarters are just a few of the related topics. Reflections on urbanity are European reflections. Artists are looking for answers, working in and with public space. Together they’re defining it anew whilst including local citizens and the local community in the process - on a quest for a joint, European identity.

Since 2003, La Strada, integrated within the international network IN SITU, has been accompanying artists in their development of innovative projects in public space. To date, 180 productions have been supported. IN SITU ACT is the title of the current programme, the subsidies for which, stretching till 2020, were recently decided upon by the European Commission, thereby bringing 24 institutions from 15 nations together.

With the opening production, Limits, Cirkus CirkĂśr from Sweden goes to its limits, striving to overcome them.

Compagnie Rara Woulib from France takes us on a nocturnal trip to undiscovered places, on a journey to our deepest fears.

Young Graz-based artist Lisa Horvath, with her Spielraum Ensemble, asks herself and us: what paths are traced out by the boundaries between the self and the other, the familiar and the unfamiliar? Dutch artist duo Strijbos & Van Rijswijk will, together with us, explore the new urban quarter of 4

Graz-Reininghaus, intertwining a real walk with means drawn from the digital world.

Contemporary questions can also be addressed using humour and a lust for life. And you’ll be able to find a lot of that in this year’s festival programme, in the streets and squares of the city, in the theatre, in courtyards, in the park.

The artists from Cheptel Aleïkoum, Luis & Pedro Sartori do Vale and Marcel et ses drôles de femmes illustrate what contemporary circus is and can be. From Chilean Clown Murmuyo to charismatic façade climber Antoine Le Menestrel – in the 19th year of the festival too, street theatre will take over the city, right up to the grand finale with Transe Express on Freiheitsplatz square. International puppet theatre artists will pull the strings behind great historical personalities and make Salome and Andy Warhol come to life on stage. And: 21 shows are specially designed for our little guests.

Of course there will also be music and dance: with Zygos Brass Band in the streets of the city, at Open Dance in Kaiserfeldgasse and Zwischen den Bäumen in Ortweinplatz square.

Together we will build a “creative city” and both artists and the entire team are looking forward to it.

Werner Schrempf Artistic Director, Festival La Strada 5

6

Cirkus Cirkör

SE

Limits “When I was little, I thought that people were moving around the Earth in order to keep the globe in equilibrium. When we close borders and build fences, we cause this balance to be lost and the Earth tips up”, says Tilde Björfors, who has been applying her artistic energy to borders and overcoming them since founding her Cirkus Cirkör. Never was this topic more current than now, and the celebrated production “Limits” deals with the question as to how real or imaginary borders of all kinds are. As to the extent to which the boundaries of what is possible through acrobatics and artistry can be stretched and perspectives can be stood on their heads, this is demonstrated in a unique manner by this year’s La Strada opening production, presenting the audience with a real test of perception.

Opera Graz: 29/7, 30/7, 2/8, 3/8, 4/8, 5/8 / 8 pm Recommended from age 10 With the friendly assistance of: Tickets: Category 1: € 50 Regular Price / € 42 Reduced Price Category 2: € 44 Regular Price / € 37 Reduced Price Category 3: € 38 Regular Price / € 32 Reduced Price Barrier-free access. € 12 Wheelchair users / € 6 accompanying persons Family package: Our special family package is available at all advance ticket sales points but cannot be booked online.

Length: 110‘ (excl. 20‘ break)

7

nouveau cirque Since childhood days, we have held our breath at the circus, fascinated by this very special atmo­sphere between circus ring and circus dome. “Cirque nouveau“ has preserved this kind of magic and expanded on it by engaging with the big themes of our time. This year, grand companies such as Cirkus Cirkör and Cheptel Aleïkoum along with Marcel et ses drôles de femmes and the Sartori do Vale brothers, are proof of how deep a relationship the circus builds with its audience. They will show us impressive acrobatics, make us reflect – and marvel, just like back then ...

“The word ‘circus’ is often used disparagingly, but I think the opposite is true – the world should practice more circus!”

Tilde Björfors Founder of Cirkus Cirkör

Luis & Pedro Sartori do Vale

BR FI

Dois Inspired by classical myths and characters like William Tell, Luis and Pedro Sartori do Vale get to grips with their symbolic weapon, the “bow and arrow”. During residence in Graz in 2015, these brothers from Brazil developed a production somewhere between comedy and tragedy, packed with risk, precision and concentration, surprise and fragility.

This year they present the piece as a stage production that fills an evening.

Next Liberty: 1/8, 2/8, 3/8 / 7.30 pm / Recommended from age 7 With the friendly assistance of: Tickets: € 26 Regular Price | € 22 Reduced Price Barrier-free access. € 15 Wheelchair users | € 10 accompanying persons Family package: Our special family package is available at all advance ticket sales points but cannot be booked online.

Length: 50‘

9

Cheptel Aleïkoum

FR

Maintenant ou Jamais & Fanfare Circa Tsuica The great dream of a better world in which there is room for differing opinions; the artists of Cheptel Aleïkoum believe in it and ensure that it comes alive again in their circus tent.

With the powerful, intoxicating music of a “Circus Brass Band”, with great acrobatics on wheels and see-saws, on the trapeze, in the air and on the ground, continuously interacting with the audience, these exceptional artists create a world that’s crazy and humorous and makes you dizzy. And with “Fanfare Circa Tsuica”, Cheptel Aleïkoum brings a high-energy mix of Balkan sounds and American jazz to the streets.

Maintenant ou Jamais Tent in Augarten: 30/7, 31/7, 1/8, 4/8, 5/8, 6/8, 7/8, 9/8, 10/8 / 8 pm Recommended from age 7 Tickets:

Length: 90‘ (no break)

€ 38 Regular Price / € 32 Reduced Price Barrier-free access. € 23 Wheelchair users / € 18 accompanying persons Family package: Our special family package is available at all advance ticket sales points but cannot be booked online.

Fanfare Circa Tsuica Hauptplatz Graz: 3/8 / 5 pm STAINZ: 3/8 / 8.15 pm Hauptplatz Free entry!

Length: 30‘

11

Marcel et ses drôles de femmes

FR

Miss Dolly Failing with style at main square: when Marcel et ses drôles de femmes swing from trapeze to trapeze and it doesn’t always look like the realisation of the dream of flying, it’s actually on purpose – and immensely entertaining. Because these four graduates of those legendary artists’ academies, the National Circus School of Rosny Sous-Bois and National Centre of Circus Arts in Châlons-en-Champagne, don’t plummet inadvertently from dizzying heights; rather, they counter the risk with conscious naivety, lightness, professionalism and, above all, with a huge amount of humour. A breathtaking production, described by the artists as “a poem of strange bodies, a language that speaks to all, a mixture of trembling and adrenaline, limitless commitment and a circus of hideous beauty“.

Hauptplatz Graz: 30/7, 31/7 / 5 pm & 7.30 pm 1/8 / 7.30 pm 2/8 / 5 pm STAINZ: 3/8 / 7.30 pm Hauptplatz Free entry!

Length: 35‘

13

street theatre It’s the most immediate form of theatre, doesn’t need a curtain or a stage: street theatre reaches people where they live and shows them the places of their everyday lives from entirely new perspectives. This year, for instance, when Rara Woulib enter unknown terrain with the people of Graz in an eerie procession, or when Compagnie Lézards Bleus climbs the façades in town. Theatre on the street is fabulous fun; when strolling along the streets with the Wandering Orquestra or experiencing with co.LABse everything that can go wrong as soon as a hip, new restaurant opens. Not to mention the grand finale on Freiheitsplatz square!

“After my visit the walls will still stand.

But they will be different because your point of view will have changed.“ Antoine Le Menestrel, Compagnie Lézards Bleus

Murmuyo

CL

¿Quieres ser mi amigo?

Last year Murmuyo “managed” the traffic in a wonderful way and won the hearts of passers-by; this year he returns in search of friends. ¿Quieres ser mi amigo? – Do you want to be my friend? – is the title of his new production, which has people and a town plan at its centre – and ultimately, for sure, no end of new friendships.

starting point at Kunsthauspassage WEIZ: 2/8 / 6 pm starting point at Eisernes Tor: 3/8, 4/8, 5/8, 6/8 / 11 am starting point at Tummelplatz: 3/8, 4/8, 6/8 / 5 pm starting point at Hauptplatz: 4/8, 5/8 / 7 pm starting point at Südtirolerplatz: 6/8 / 7 pm MURPARK: 5/8 / 5 pm Free entry!

Length: 50‘

15

Joan Català

ES

Pelat It all starts with a man and a tree trunk and develops into a performance based on a study of the human body and movement, the behaviour of the audience, technical ability and traditions. Dance, theatre and circus are unified in virtuoso style by Joan Català. What’s more, this fascinating production also has something to say about sharing, listening and, moreover, being part of a whole.

Mariahilferplatz: 2/8 / 7 pm STAINZ: 3/8 / 6 pm Bahnhofspark Karmeliterplatz: 4/8, 5/8 / 7 pm Hauptplatz: 6/8 / 11 am & 7 pm Free entry!

16

Length: 45‘

* ... and what’s more

...

earsal “Globokar”, reh l ica us m a by visit ich laboratory in wh ments tru ins of rld wo the down. e sid up gets turned 0 pm TaO!: 6/8 / 6.3 ts ke tic red be m nu d from Recommende : 50‘ age 5 / Length

TaO! – Theater am Ortweinplatz

AT

Zwischen den Bäumen Sometimes there’s Fellini playing on Ortweinplatz square too.

With their production called “Zwischen den Bäumen”, eleven young people from the TaO! workshops and five musicians bring the flair of an Italian piazza to Graz. In a poetic parade to the sounds of Nino Rota, they present a rhythmic play on love and loneliness.

Ortweinplatz: 30/7, 31/7 / 8.15 pm / Recommended from age 10 Cheerful coffee-house atmosphere before the performance and, afterwards, live music from “i love milk” (30/7) and “Some Species of Fish” (31/7).

Free entry!

*TIP

Length: 50‘

Premiere: 4/10 / TaO!, Graz; further performances at La Strada 2017. / Numbered tickets available at Graz Tourismus and the Ticketzentrum. Production: Studio Dan, KinderKinder, Theater am Ortweinplatz; coproduction: Wien Modern, Dschungel Wien, Big Bang and La Strada Graz, with financial support from the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union; with the friendly assistance of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung.

17

co.LABse

ES AT

Mesa para 2 A new restaurant opens; the list of reservations is long; a table for two has been reserved. Just how many accidents and other catastrophes can take place before these places can themselves at last be taken? Director Sergi Estebanell and his collective of five artists show us by means of street theatre, clownery and dance.

starting point at Sparkassenplatz: 2/8, 3/8 / 7.30 pm Free entry!

18

Length: 60‘

Wandering Orquestra

ES

What wonderful madness: first a strange orchestra with old-fashioned instruments turns up in an even stranger vehicle. At this point the flamboyant musicians would indeed be ready to start their concert – but nobody knows where they’re playing, where it’s all headed or whom to talk to.

Well that’s just fine and doesn’t matter one jot!

starting point at Tummelplatz: 30/7, 31/7 / 11 am starting point at Freiheitsplatz: 30/7, 31/7, 1/8 / 5 pm Free entry!

Length: 60‘

19

Compagnie Lézards Bleus

FR

L’ Aimant Antoine Le Menestrel climbs up the façades of the buildings, dances to the rhythm of the architecture and interprets the city’s walls anew. In his piece called “L’ Aimant”, this façade climber is in search of that great love, crests balconies, taps on windows, presents roses or a smile – and hopefully ultimately finds his Juliet.

Südtirolerplatz WEIZ: 2/8 / 7 pm STAINZ: 3/8 / 5 pm Hauptplatz Free entry!

20

Length: 50‘

Compagnie Lézards Bleus

FR

La bourse ou la vie?

In his staging of “your money or your life”, Antoine Le Menestrel, the “artist of elevation”, toys with the fears and decision processes of inhabitants of the façades of the city.

A performance that turns on the question of what is greater, courage or fear. When it ends, the walls will indeed still be standing, as for so long – but perhaps thought processes will have changed.

Joanneumsviertel: 4/8, 5/8, 6/8 / 6 pm Free entry!

Length: 55‘

21

Rara Woulib

FR

Bizangos Holy clowns, story tellers, monsters and a fortune teller like the erstwhile Cassandra take their audience along on a journey on which long forgotten memories and feelings are relived in unexpected places.

The artists of Compagnie Rara Woulib know that binding force and how to make superb use of processions in order to bring out the characteristics not only of special places but also of participants in the night time.

In forlorn areas of the city, the actors awaken an atmosphere of isolation, despair, emptiness and fear of the invisible through the media of theatre, music and the impromptu; all those feelings with roots in our childhood. An eerily exciting journey through the city and to one’s personal fears.

starting point at RaiffeisenstraĂ&#x;e 27: 31/7, 1/8, 2/8 / 9.30 pm We recommend comfortable shoes! Recommended from age 10 A coproduction with the international streetart-network IN SITU. Free entry!

Length: 180‘

23

Zygos Brass Band

FR

Nola 2 Line – Opus 2 nd

They bring the vitality and music of the Mississippi to the Mur. Last year the Zygos Brass Band stirred up movement on the city’s streets; this year they’re returning with a new production that will involve masks, whilst also being shrouded in secrets. Perhaps hardly surprising that elements of voodoo have a big part to play ...

MURPARK: 30/7 / 11 am Lendplatz: 30/7 / 7 pm Burggarten: 31/7 / 11 am Griesplatz: 31/7 / 7 pm Tummelplatz: 1/8 / 5 pm WEIZ: 2/8 / 8 pm Südtirolerplatz, Volksgarten: 3/8 / 11 am Free entry!

24

Length: 40‘

Open Dance

FR AT TR

Zygos Brass Band / Trio Infernal / AORA – Oriental Expressions “Dancing is dreaming with your legs” – that’s the theme when Open Dance invites one and all to dance the tango with Trio Infernal in the open air on Kaiserfeldgasse, the Zygos Brass Band brings movement to the street with music from the Mississippi and Murat Aygans, along with AORA – Oriental Expressions, delivers pulsating rhythms.

Kaiserfeldgasse: 3/8, 4/8, 5/8 at 7.30 pm Start DJ-Line / Live music from 9 pm 3/8: DJ Vesna, Trio Infernal 4/8: Zygos Brass Band “Le Bal des Zygos” 5/8: DJ Muratti, AORA – Oriental Expressions In collaboration with Tango-Baustelle Graz Free entry!

25

puppet theatre They pull the strings behind renowned personalities of contemporary history, wear masks and create entire universes out of paper. The masters of puppet theatre combine craftsmanship with acting and, with the greatest of ease, they provoke the entire audience into hearty laughter. But to believe that puppet theatre is for kids is a misconception: productions such as “The Little Witch“ or “Die gestiefelte Katze“ are indeed primarily aimed at a younger audience, but the story about Salome and the evening with Andy Warhol are definitively adult fare too.

“If I succeed in turning adults into children once again, then I’ll be quite happy: because children need fairy tales!“ Daniel Wagner, Theater Zitadelle

Les Zanimos

FR

Caffe Sola At the table of exile, puppeteers Maria Dicanto and other fugitives spread out their treasures. The songs and memories they bring with them and moving stories they tell of flight and migration. Posing themselves, the children and their parents this question: what identity does one bring along and what identity does one adopt in the new country?

Lesliehof in Joanneumsviertel: 30/7, 31/7, 1/8 / 11 am & 5 pm LEIBNITZ: 2/8 / 11 am Schloss Seggau STAINZ: 3/8 / 11 am Rauch-Hof Recommended from age 5 With the friendly assistance of: Free entry!

Length: 55‘

27

Handmaids Berlin

DE

Die kleine Hexe Little witches too have dreams that help when growing up.

This is what Handmaids Berlin show with their interpretation of the famous children’s book, in which a young woman learns to stand up for her own ideals and views, and to defend them. A reinterpretation without any moral fingerpointing, with a good deal of fun and a bit of magic.

Lesliehof in Joanneumsviertel: 2/8, 3/8 / 11 am & 5 pm MURPARK: 5/8 / 11 am Recommended from age 4 With the friendly assistance of: Free entry!

28

Length: 50‘

Theater Zitadelle

DE

Die gestiefelte Katze Doesn’t that look good? The evil magician is dead, her master is a happily married king and she is the first female minister.

The path to this happy ending for this queen puss in boots is told by Daniel Wagner from Theater Zitadelle in his lively and humorous puppet show – with the generous concession that parents and dog lovers are allowed to come too.

Kunsthaus WEIZ: 2/8 / 5 pm MURPARK: 3/8 / 4 pm Lesliehof in Joanneumsviertel: 4/8, 5/8, 6/8 / 11 am & 5 pm Recommended from age 4 With the friendly assistance of: Free entry!

Length: 50‘ 29

Handmaids Berlin

DE

Salome She is a dangerous person and dares to wish for something unbelievable: to be equal and emancipated. Just like that, even though she’s a woman. Salome has always stirred things up, and so it is again this year at La Strada. The artists of Handmaids Berlin have addressed the many facets of this dangerous character and offer the free-thinking woman a new stage, on which the story is portrayed of Salome personifying the powerful, self-determined disempowerment of the existing system and struggle for more freedom and equality.

As a paper universe in which rulers are folded up and kingdoms torn apart. But questions are also asked of the prophets – ultimately we do indeed need to know what resides in the texts of that woman who survived the bible and dances in every third night club.

Next Liberty: 4/8, 5/8 / 7.30 pm Recommended from age 15 Tickets:

Length: 60‘ (without break)

€ 26 Regular Price / € 22 Reduced Price Barrier-free access! € 15 Wheelchair users / € 10 accompanying persons

31

United Puppets

DE

A No Man Show – An Evening with Andy Warhol If Andy Warhol chats with Mickey Mouse and Nico sings along, that’s intriguing. United Puppets from Berlin invite you to an evening of “A No Man Show – An Evening with Andy Warhol” with the grand master of art, self-portrayal, medialization and consumption, looking back from today’s perspective at the concept of Andy Warhol. Here they follow the tracks left behind by his Factory, revive the old myths of US pop culture and allow the almost one-metre-tall, pallid puppet of the master to meet his globalised revenants.

The basis for this piece of puppet theatre and installation project is a large theatre project that Warhol developed together with Peter Sellers and Lewis Allen for Broadway, but was unable to realise before his death. Till now as, inspiringly animated, he does indeed appear with it on stage in Graz.

Next Liberty: 30/7, 31/7 / 7.30 pm Recommended from age 14 Tickets:

Length: 60‘ (without break)

€ 26 Regular Price / € 22 Reduced Price Barrier-free access. € 15 Wheelchair users / € 10 accompanying persons

33

community art When the boundaries between protagonists and audience are blurred, and the spectators become part of the performance, community art is born, arguably the most intensive art form in public space. For years now, La Strada has played a pioneering role in the promotion of this genre, and emphasizes that with a total of a full five productions this year. Which will make people in tents, on squares and in the park become part of art with all the senses – despite their being blindfolded or wearing headphones.

“With Final Season we leave the protected theatre space – we venture outdoors.

Spectators and stage are no longer separated – everything is in movement.

There isn’t just one point of view anymore, rather there are exactly as many as there are visitors.”

Lisa Horvath, Spielraum Ensemble

aXe:körpertheater:graz

AT

ich:sucht:leben The Graz Stadtpavillon: social focal point. For two years now, the principal location for an artistic ensemble resident in the Stadtpark. Led by actors and social workers, it works on improv pieces. Their means of expression: their bodies, speaking to the audience. Vividly and provocatively, they talk about life’s cravings. Directed by Michael Labres this piece of spoken and physical theatre constitutes an overdose of life’s reality, which interprets failure as a process necessary for renewal.

At the end it is people from the margins of society who occupy the centre of our attention. Encountering eye-to-eye with acoustic soft furnishing by the composer Patrick Dunst.

Stadtpark Pavillon: 1/8, 3/8, 4/8 / 9 pm Recommended from age 16 Free entry!

Length: 60‘ 35

Tryout & Workshop

Benjamin Vandewalle & Yoann Durant

BE

Hear Following on from his success with “Birdwatching 4x4” during La Strada 2015, this year, the Belgian artist Benjamin Vandewalle has brought along musician Yoann Durant.

Together, they will create both an acoustic sculpture and a visual universe. An exciting game of perceptions and interpretations, in which some can’t see whilst others can’t hear.

La Strada presents the first results from residencies associated with the festival.

Visitors‘ centre Joanneumsviertel: Tryout / 5/8, 6/8 / 5 & 7 pm Length: 50‘ / Recommended from age 10 Tickets: € 15 uniform price

36

Workshop: 25/7 till 6/8 / Recommended from age 15 / Registration required / in English / More information about participating in the workshop at info@lastrada.at / for free!

ks Wor h op

Adrian Schvarzstein

ES

Never before was the La Strada audience so close to Adrian Schwarzstein. This actor and theatre director directs a street theatre workshop that offers an introduction to the practice of street theatre. What opportunities and challenges does the public space offer? How does the interaction between artists and spectators work? How is it that, though body language, improvisation, the setting and collaboration, the magical moment of performance emerges.

Workshop: 1/8 till 6/8 / Recommended from age 15 / More information about participating in the workshop at info@lastrada.at / in English Workshop fee!

37

Spielraum Ensemble

AT

Final Season Theatre, film, installation – Lisa Horvath is at home everywhere. With her Spielraum Ensemble, this multidisciplinary artist creates in “Final Season” a link between art, nature and city. Awaiting the audience at a tent camp is a fusion of theatre, dance, audio drama, performance, music and multimedia installation. A place where no one knows who’s an observer, who’s a participant or who’s an intruder?

IN SITU FOCUS: Following the premiere performance on 30/7, artist Lisa Horvath will give a speech on the boundaries between the self and the other, the familiar and the unfamiliar.

Graz-Reininghaus: 30/7, 31/7, 2/8, 3/8 / 9 pm We recommend comfortable shoes / Recommended from age 16 A coproduction with the international streetart-network IN SITU Tickets: 38

€ 15 Regular Price / € 12 Reduced Price

Length: 60‘

IN SITU FOCUS Saturday, 30/7, the artists will be on-site!

Strijbos & Van Rijswijk

NL

Walk With Me With their sound installation, the Dutch artists invite the people of Graz to a specially designed walk through the ever-changing Graz-Reininghaus grounds. On their smart phones, participants can listen to sounds from the past and the future of this place, and get a feel for its auditory identity.

The tour can be started individually anytime.

The app is available for free at apple.co/1drKubo (for Apple iOS).

There is the possibility to borrow an iPad – on production of an I.D. – between 10 am and 5 pm.

Graz-Reininghaus: 30/7, 31/7, 1/8, 2/8, 3/8, 4/8, 5/8, 6/8 from 10 am to 5 pm / Recommended from age 16 A coproduction with the international streetart-network IN SITU Free entry!

39

Grand Finale!

The return of Transe Express to Freiheitsplatz.

Entrypm from 8

Transe Express

FR

Mù, cinematique des fluides The grand La Strada finale takes us into a land full of acrobatics, poetry and fantasy. With a ballet between heaven and earth, surrealistic creatures from other dimensions blur the boundaries between this world and the next, water creatures conquer the airspace, floating acrobats douse the audience with water and everything shines in fluorescent colours.

With his “journey from the Earth to the Moon“, “Mù“ follows the tracks of Jules Verne and shows his marvelling audience how graceful and, at the same time, monumental it can look to move between illusionistic reality and realistic illusions.

By means of contemporary circus, the French artists ensure gaping mouths and powerful emotions – taking the odd spectator quite literally to dizzying heights.

Fina

le

Freiheitsplatz: 6/8 / 9 pm Access only via Karmeliterplatz and the street intersections of Hofgasse with Sporgasse and Bürgergasse. In the event of cancellation due to extremely bad weather, the show will be postponed to Sunday 7/8.

With the friendly assistance of: Tickets: € 20 Regular Price / € 7 children up to age 15 (Reduced Price: € 15 Spark7 and € 5 KNAX-Club members) We recommend purchasing tickets at the advance sales points.

The evening box office is open from 7pm till 8:30pm.

Length: 50‘

41

IN SITU The European Platform for Artistic Creation in Public Space IN SITU brings together a group of programmers who are passionate about new forms of art and public space. They have been working together since 2003 to develop joint European projects.

The expertise and activities of IN SITU covers scouting and promotion of artists, organisation of project laboratories and incubators, co-productions and promotion of emerging creations, organisation of conferences and seminars, etc.

To date, IN SITU has supported over 180 European artists.

It gathers 24 institutions from 15 countries from as many practical and aesthetic backgrounds which all contribute something vital to the network. Whether members come from a sprawling metropolis or a rural area, whether they are seeking to rehabilitate industrial wasteland or redesign landscapes, the goal is always to serve artists working with, in and for public space.

IN SITU is now working across two complementary projects: PLATFORM 2014–2017 & ACT 2016–2020

42

The network

Partners Associated Partners Residencies outside Europe

43

shows:

st

th

2017

December 2

6 to Janua ry 201 4

1

21/12 7 pm PREMIERE / 22/12 7 pm / 24/12 11 am CHRISTMAS SHOW 26/12 3 & 7 pm / 27/12 7 pm / 28/12 7 pm 31/12 11 am NEW YEAR SHOW / 2/1 7 pm / 3/1 7 pm / 4/1 7 pm

CIRCUS TALES IN GRAZ With its current production Cirkopolis, internationally acclaimed Cirque Éloize presents contemporary circus at the highest level – a spirited act of liberation made up of circus, dance and theatre. By means of video projections and turning walls, director Jeannot Painchaud creates a futuristic world of images reminiscent of Fritz Lang’s legendary silent movie, Metropolis.

The desire for freedom drives acrobats and dancers to physical extremes. They rise against monotony and free themselves from the claws a of a technocratic city.

The wheel of time begins to spin and, with it, the artists‘ bodies – breathtaking dance with the Cyr wheel captivates the audience.

On poles, the springboard and whilst juggling, the sky will be conquered. Ultimately, through their light-footed dance, the world is at their feet, until the line between reality and fantasy dissolves.

An explosion of colours, pace, music and humour that no longer allows space for anonymity or solitude. When the impossible becomes possible, Cirkopolis has touched all our senses, using no words at all.

INFORMATION & TICKETS T i c k e t z e n t r u m : + 4 3 ( 0 ) 3 1 6 8 0 0 0 / w w w. t i c k e t z e n t r u m . a t

W W W. C I R Q U E - N O E L . AT

For those who want to stay up-to-date on events, we made the La Strada app – download for free .

Here you’ll find all the groups and shows, venues and prices, as well as a calendar that shows at a glance what’s happening and where at that moment. You can also order tickets as well as look at photos and videos of the individual groups.

And, last but not least, here you’ll find the links to all artists’ social media presence. ... and for those who always want to be on time, there’s “qando Graz”, the app of Graz Linien: up-to-date departure times for busses and trams in zone 101, route queries, announcements and news in real time.

Both apps can be downloaded for free from the App Store and the Google Play Store!

46

Tickets & Info Tickets & Information: +43 (0) 316 26 97 89 / ticket@lastrada.at / www.lastrada.at/ticketshop or at the advance ticket sales: Graz Tourismus: Herrengasse 16, 8010 Graz, +43 (0) 316 80 75 0 Ticketzentrum: Kaiser-Josef-Platz 10, 8010 Graz, +43 (0) 316 80 00 oeticket-sales points all over Austria: www.oeticket.com Kleine Zeitung Ticketing: Tel. +43 (0) 316 871 871 11 Reduction: Schoolchildren, students, senior citizens, annual ticket or half-year ticket holders of Holding Graz Linien public transport and season ticket holders of Freizeit Graz GmbH. Special prices are available with valid ID at all advance tickets sales, but cannot be booked online. Ö1-Club-members get 10 % off 2 tickets each.

La Strada family package: Special prices for families are available at all advance tickets sales, but cannot be booked online. www.lastrada.at On the La Strada website you’ll find all productions, performance dates, times and venues as well as ticket information at a glance – also interesting news, downloads and background information about La Strada and the IN SITU European network.

Imprint La Strada is an event produced by die ORGANISATION in collaboration with Graz Tourismus / Publisher: ARGE La Strada, Opernring 12, 8010 Graz, AUSTRIA © La Strada 2016 / Photos: Press material of the groups / Graphics: Sylvia Zannantonio / Design: taska.at / Repro + Print: Medienfabrik Graz / Translation: Susanne Baumann-Cox / For readability purposes, no gender-specific terms are used below. The masculine form is used generically and fundamentally refers to both genders equally. Subject to change, errors and misprints without notice.

47

Thank you for your support Major Sponsor:

Organiser:

An event in collaboration with:

Public Sector:

Project Sponsors:

Cooperation Partners:

La Strada is culture-partner of Steiermark Tourismus. For everything about enjoying culture in the green (heart) go to www.steiermark.com/kultur Media Partners:

Festival Hotels:

Festival Cafe:

open dance in collaboration with Tango-Baustelle Graz:

La Strada is co-organiser of the European street art network IN SITU:

Official Carrier:

With our thanks for their excellent cooperation to: Weiz, Stainz, Schloss Seggau!