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The company "the kickpäck"

consists of 2 performers as the core and various directors and actors who live in 3 cities: Berlin, Zagreb and Zurich.

All members and collaborators have already gone long ways with their art and all of them have shows of their own – together they bring expertise in acrobalance, dance, drama, clowning and music into the studio. Above all, however, they share the need to create pieces that ignore these art forms as such but use all of them to create something new. They are the vocabulary with which they write their pieces, and their language could best be described as “physical theatre” or “contemporary circus”.

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CLOWNFISH - of the things only my body knows| 90 minutes

Clowns have no gender - is this sentence by Annie Fratellini a fact, a promise, a delusion? As a border crosser, adult child, clumsy acrobat, between laughing and crying, male and female, the clown with its paradoxes gives us an opportunity to escape the fixed social patterns. Can we even escape the concept of binarity? On stage we meet four examples of clowns who negotiate the parameters of gender in their own world and vulnerability, consciously or unconsciously, marvelling or narrow-minded. This is how they slip and slide through the continuum of gender. And: What actually are trousers? Clownfish is inspired by Kim de L'Horizon, Paul B. Preciado, Kae Tempest and everyday life.

Idea & concept: Kirsten Burger & Franziska Pack
Director: Kirsten Burger
Performance: Franziska Pack, Alejandro Notas, Christian Peter, Tammo Trutz Boje Winkler,
Rocío Rodríguez
Music: Christian Peter
Stage design: Tammo Trutz Boje Winkler
Costume: Alexis Mersmann
Video: Rocío Rodríguez
Production management: Andrea Oberfeld (ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro)

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Premiere: 21.06.2024 Flottmann-Hallen Herne

Show: 22.06.2024 Flottmann-Hallen Herne

zwi

for stage | 50 minutes

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The "ZWI" looks at the moments “in between” through the magnifying glass. Making these invisible moments visible is the game of the piece. What happens between inhaling and exhaling, between balancing and tilting, between dancing and not dancing, between us? "the kickpäck" shows us their interpretation, consequently between the genres - between physical theatre and contemporary circus, they play with their bodies and a trumpet, with noises and a handstand, with themselves and with the audience.

genre: physical theatre

duration: 50 minutes

stage size: 6x5m (minimum), 10x10 (ideal), 4m height required

indoors, for stage like situations, all ages

two for joy

outdoor/indoor | 30 minutes

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Two for Joy | 30 min

The kickpäck wants to celebrate with everyone – the duo goes about it light-footedly and their chaos is skillfull. The audience experiences the pitfalls and joys of the party preparations. A mix of lovable clownesque theatre and swing dance acrobatics with handstands and small interactions, before a background of a live created sound scenery, leads to a rousing electro swing party with a drink for young and old.

genre: street theatre

duration: 30 min

Stage size: 6m x 5m

outdoors or indoors, all ages

workshops

lindy hop aerials workshop

workshop|2 hours per module

Learn acrobatic moves from Swing dance!

- dynamic jumps & flips -

Lindy Hop Aerials are the acrobatic elements from the Swing Dance called Lindy Hop. This means that one of the dance partners leaves the floor with both feet - and flies! So it is a dynamic kind of dance acrobatics, and in each of our three modules we teach you three different jumps & flips. Our focus is on the acrobatic elements, so it is not necessary to know Lindy Hop. But we will show you how dance and acrobatics connect. We will also take care of spotting and make the workshop a safe experience.

duration: 2 hours per module

participants: 6-10 couples

For Lindy Hoppers, acrobats and everybody else with movement experience!