Circus street show
AVITAL AND JOCHEN / Limo
Avital and Jochen are partners in life as well as on stage. With a combination of humor, live music and technical prowess, the two put on an impressive, breathtaking performance. Avital & Jochen’s performance builds on their trust in each other and the harmony between the artists. The show begins on stage with live music and comedy and evolves into a poetic creation of top-class Aerial acrobatics, Straps and Juggling. Follow Avital and Jochen when they fly nine meters high through the air in the grand finale of the show as they elegantly dance their choreography.
FLAME RAIN THEATRE / BIG FLAMES AND LITTLE DISASTERS
“Big flames and little disasters!” is a unique mixture of a breathtaking fire show at the highest level with clownish humour and theatre. It was specially developed for street art festivals with a lot of passion and dedication. Flame Rain Theatre impresses in each moment with a rich variety of skills. In one moment explosive acrobatics and special effects take away the breath. In the next moment the poetry of harmonious dance choreographies enchant the audience. Continuously the show gets interrupted by little disasters and cheeky audience interactions. A fire show is a beautiful but also dangerous performance. It requires high precision and concentration. Jokes normally don’t belong there, and specially no pranks or accidents. But luckily things don’t always turn out the way they are supposed to. And even if the stage and the performers are set on fire, one thing is clear: THE SHOW MUST GO ON!!
THE SQUEEZED PEACHES / HOOP-O MAGIC
From absurd to specular: The Squeezed Peaches take you into a fantastic world of Hoop-Magic. Phenomenal tricks combined with eclectic dance moves and a little bit of magic bring full femme hoop-power to the floor and into the air! The two wannabe magicians unfold the perfect symbiosis of hula-hoop-artistic and enchanting humor
TRICYCLE TRAUMA / VUČKO; KABARET
VUČKO, THE MAN OF PRINCIPALS
Who is a wolf to whom? What are Mica and Red Riding Hood doing here? Is it worth it to put your principles on a test or you should be running further without compromise? These questions are on Vučko’s mind, he is running trough the stories searching for the answers. This story hangs in the air maybe has safer ground than most stories, and is made for kids and their parents.
Author team:
Lidija Kraljić
Sandra Dunaj
Ivana Pedljo
Jasmin Dasović
Tina Janežić
Cooproduction: Teatar Cirkus Punkt i Tricycle Trauma
PICNIC CABARET
Picnic party – circus picnic around the construction, where everything is possible- small acts and BIG ONES, everything on the upside down.
POANTA PRIČE / MR. & MRS. FRANTIC; ZDESLAW D. FRANTO
MR. & MRS. FRANTIC
Welcome to the world of comedy and circus! Mr. and Mrs. Frantic will take you on a journey to see magic tricks, amazing actrobatics, dance with hula hoop and fire surprises. This duet brings new acting transformations and live music every minute of the show. Come and take a peek at the fun world that will change your day!
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIAvAQOhvXo
ZDESLAW D. FRANTO – EKO SUPERCLOWN
Using ancient techniques of kung fu, fu-fo i pinchi-bachi, Zdeslaw cleans the city as the last superhero for all generations. With interaction, short comedy acts and visual movement comedy, streets that are visited by Zdeslaw stay clean and smiling.
Video link: https://youtu.be/PIgR4SOmgL0?si=qpI-04nStDQHso2z
QUOZ A'DURAC / STATIVE
Stative (Goalposts) are collaboration between two circus artists with different backgrounds, but with one connection- lifelong feeling that they are close to score a goal, always with the same outcome- hitting the goalpost. One square of green grass, DIY construction for aerial acrobatics, white juggling balls, two music instruments and two bodies are tools that artists use in their quest to answer the question- will they ever score a goal?
RICO
Rico is oldest magician in Croatia, he enjoys preparing magic tricks for the festival audience!
LUDEK
Wandering trough the city, amazed Ludek stumbles upon “ordinary” suitcase on “unusual” place… This is a story of life in circus, told on Ludek’s distinctive way. Interactive circus show filled with laughter, sadness, ups and downs, transformation of feelings and juggling that you have rarely seen on your (and our) city streets. This show is for everybody aged 4-154, everybody that is capable to find a little kid inside himself and play..
CIRKOKOLAŽ
CirkoCollage is a cabaret for preschool children, full of positive energy, great circus acts, dance, acrobatics, juggling and colorful costumes.
CirkoCollage is produced by Cu’fus organization team, who are also performing artists in the cabaret, with guest acts of other circus artists.
CirkoCollage is a story of a dreamy clown who is fantasizes about a stage full of circus acts, where clusters of juggling balls jump up in the air to greet the flying juggling clubs, where you are not seeing the future in the crystal ball but the world upside down (because it’s funny!), where you can see shiny, colorful hoops that are spinning in large numbers,.. His dream becomes a reality and his friends help him to show the magic of circus to the audience!
Mikroteatar
CIRKUS LUMINENSZESZ / ILLUUH
“illuuh” is an Audiovisual Installation where the participants are invited to experience a trip driven by the effects of stroboscopic lights; patterns, colours and shapes appear as some kind of illusion created by our own self; a trick of perception.
NAJMANJE LUTKARSKO KAZALIŠTE
You don’t have time to go to the Theatre? Shows are too long? You can’t eat or take a photo there? You have to wear nice clothes? Pfff We are calling you to the Smallest Puppet Theatre where everything is possible. We collect small group of people on the street and play a short show (3-5min) in our Theatre. You can choose between: action chase, Antartica story, opera or a show for adults? It’s up to you to come in the Smallest Puppet Theatre, and it’s up to us to entertain you quickly
Experimental park
TRICYCLE TRAUMA / KARAVANA MRAČNOG CIRKUSA
Dark circus caravan – short performance formats delivered by cultural underground of circus, dance, theatre, music and visual arts to form monstrous mixture of performances in this extraordinary program. Format is set from Dark circus night program, program that is organized by circus collective Tricycle Trauma for the last 8 years in Zagreb. Dark circus night program has travelled to Zadar, Čakovec, Županja, Križevci, Split and Sisak. This year’stour starts in Samobor, on Cu’fus festival. Dark circus caravan is traveling with the support of Clubture platform, Kultura nova foundation, with partner association Cirkultura.
Musical program
SKIJAŠI I YETI
Skier ad Yeti are two odd figures who will ride music giant slalom trough funk, drum&bass, low rock, electro, ethnic,… Yeti’s mini set electro-acoustic drums is enough for the groove, Skier is imaginative in using his hand made inventions – Baskija, Skitara i Skimburica, with various collection of processers. This odd duet from Belgrade’s artistic underground started in 2016 and is bringing real show enriched with improvisation that is inspired by the audiance and ambience of performance. Wear layered clothes, we are going on a musical rollercoaster!
CHILLIBAR
PIPAL, YANTAR, RICHMA, PILA, UYULALA, LOONEY GRANDPAS
Contemporary circus show
CIRK POZOR / CARGO
“Give me your cargo, I will carry it” We all carry our cargo – emotional, physical, spiritual.. I always carry three bags- one basic, with documents and credit cards. One with pills, pins, pods, candy, .. and a swiss knife, you never know.. Third one with gold, earings, valuable stuff. I always pack too much wardrobe, for cold weather, crazy weather, just in case. I can barely carry all of this stuff. I can barely carry myself.. I cannot bring anything to the other world. We carry the cargo of our inheritance, parents, everything they taught us, right or wrong. We carry the cargo of our misapprehension and fantasies, load of our hopes and expectations, wrong assumptions, disappointments,… It’s all overweight! You should be like a cricket on the grass, not thinking of tomorrow, and be light like a feather, not dragging it all with you. “Give me your cargo..” Yeah right, no thanks, I like it.
Olga Author, choreographer, director: Staša Zurovac
Music author: Nikola Nedić
Light designer: Marko Mijatović
Visuals designer: Jasmina Dupalo
Performers: Iva Peter Dragan, Bojan Ban, Nikolina Majdak
Festival opening
CIRKOSAFARI
Grand opening of street program starts on Tomislav square at 19:30 and heads to Matica square. Join in on a psychedelic safari in a concrete jungle and visit places where you can see authentic speciments of human animals. WARNING! Keep your kids close on this trip, don’t let them run away with circus! Director: Mario Kovač Performing artists: organization team and guest artists
Presentations
Presentations of circus course participants
Saturday and Sunday
14:00 – 17:00 h
Around Movie Theatre Samobor
Cirkultura Triko
cirkus teatar
Traumatic arts
Workshops
Circus skill workshops
Saturday and Sunday
14:00 – 17:00 h
Around Movie Theatre Samobor
TRAPEZ / Avital
POI / Diana
MONOCIKL / Hana Matović