In 2025, the circus workplace CIRKLABO supports more than forty circus companies from home and abroad. In December, we present an exciting selection from that group, featuring three premieres and fresh work that took shape in our workplace.

The common thread is light—ranging from gentle to boldly experimental. During the darkest days of the year, creators explore how light can bend body, space, and rhythm, how it deceives and reveals again. Innovative circus that shines, flickers, disappears, and returns precisely when you least expect it!

Programme

Just the Moon

Close Call Company (BE)
Sat 13/12/2025 - 19:00

ARBO

!UKBUM! / Jef Kinds & Mia Drobec (BE/CRO)
Sat 13/12/2025 - 20:00

FOOD

Michael Zandl (AT)
Sun 14/12/2025 - 19:00

Insomnia

Jakob Jacobsson (SE)
Wed 17/12/2025 - 19:00

Cracks in the wood

Maria Madeira/Detail Company
Fri 19/12/2025 - 19:00

CIRKLABO-festival 2022

By Samuel Pennynck

Samuel wrote an article on CIRKLABO festival. He studies Theatre Studies at UGent. For ten years he performed circus. Now he no longer performs but writes about circus, including for Etcetera. (only in dutch)

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