Double Bill: Bareroots & Corps à Cordes

This performance is still in development. During this try-out, the artists are happy to give you a unique glimpse into their creative process. So don’t expect a full, finished performance, but rather an engaging look behind the scenes.

Try-out: you’ll see a fragment or a few parts of a performance that the artists are testing in front of an audience. It’s a chance to discover how a circus performance takes shape step by step. You might even be able to contribute a little to the creative process!

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Bareroots - Nas and Lena ^(DE/IT)

This is a juggling dialogue for

2 performers
4 hands
9 white balls
20 toes
120 square tiles of cress

Mix it well, let it brew, add a pinch playful inventiveness, serve on a 2x2 meter stage, in good company.

Bareroots is a juggling show that explores space limitation. The gradual appearance of a carpet of cress, an alive scenography, fills the room with colour and its fresh scent.

It is a show of details: precise gestures, detailed juggling sequences and cress manipulation come into focus.

Corps à Cordes - Katell Boudrandi-Saj ^(FR)

This is an invitation to a collective and intimate circus experience.
“There she is, in front of us. And suddenly, she starts dancing, as if her
body remembers a waltz that her memory has erased.

In a landscape of taut ropes, the body in turn becomes a wreck in balance, seeking support, seeking counterweight.”

About the company

Nastasja and Lena met in 2020 during their studies at Codarts in Rotterdam. Starting from different juggling approaches — movement in space and body-based juggling — they found a shared language. Through their mutual love for foot juggling, they explore how spatial limitation can reveal new forms of interaction and movement.

Katell Boudrandi-Saj is a circus artist specialising in trapeze dance. She graduated from ESAC in Brussels in June 2024. She has always had a keen interest in choreography and staging. Thanks to her experiences working alongside various artists, she is exploring contemporary circus in search of authenticity and multidisciplinarity.

More info

Bareroots: outside eye Neta Oren grafish design Lily Schlinker support CIRKLABO, Perpxl, Effea, CirkLabo, La Maison des jonglages

With the support of the European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists (EFFEA), an initiative of the European Festivals Association (EFA), co-funded by the European Union.