Numerous venues and independent groups have joined forces to present Contemporary Circus for an entire week at a wide variety of venues citywide. This gives Contemporary Circus a local platform in addition to a nationwide one. The public is invited to experience circus, celebrate circus, rediscover circus in its visual language, and spread circus!

Find out more at www.zeitfuerzirkus.de and https://tickets.qultor.de/zeit-fuer-zirkus-2022

On Friday, September 16 & Saturday, September 17, 2022 we will also be guests at EinTanzHaus with the performance "My Body is Your Body". The venue, founded in 2017, celebrates its fifth anniversary this month - and of course we're happy to be there!

The whole anniversary program to watch & participate can be found HERE.

Da die Kölner Theaternacht in diesem Jahr ein Jubiläum feiert, wirft sie mit dem einminütigen Trailer diesmal einen Blick zurück auf die letzten Theaternächte und gibt einen kleinen Vorgeschmack, worauf sich Besucher:innen auch 2022 freuen dürfen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppBmuYdyN4Q&t=1s

With analyses, interviews, commentaries and great visual material, it is dedicated to contemporary circus and presents artistic positions of German and international actors. More information & order (in German).

The publication is accompanied by this year's VOICES magazine "Re-thinking objects". A glimpse of the VOICES magazine was already available at the CircusDance Festival 2022 in Cologne!

A big thank you for this common and inspiring time goes to all artists and companies, technicians, supporters and the team. And of course to our (new) audience, who came to the festival in such large numbers for the first time. A festival photographer has accompanied the 5 days and captured many beautiful moments. You can find these and an aftermovie on the impressions page.

In the CDFthek the festival continues digitally, with the documentaries shown for the first time, the artist-talks and the new VOICES magazine "Re-thinking objects".

Photo: Filip Jacobson

The Tabori Prize is the nation's highest award for the independent performing arts. In addition to this, the jury awards three prizes. In doing so, it reacts to current developments and honors experimental, courageous formats of artists and groups that have convinced through a unique upcoming or through continuous developments of an experimental format. For the first time, Overhead Project, a company dedicated to contemporary circus, will receive an award. More information (in German)

On May 25, 2022, in the presence of the Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth, the Fonds Darstellende Künste presented the Tabori Prize and the Tabori Awards for the thirteenth time in a hybrid award ceremony at HAU Hebbel am Ufer and online in a live stream.

Our artistic director Tim Behren and performer Mijin Kim accompanied five students for several weeks and worked with them on a short version of "What is left", which was shown at the HfMT at the end of March. The second choreography "Soundtracking the stage" was supervised by Özlem Alkış. The trailer of Impactzone 22 can be viewed on the website of HfMT Cologne.

Photos: Paul Leclaire / Tom Dachs

Our team was accompanied for a day in the fall of 2021 during rehearsals for the current production "Circular Vertigo" as part of the campaign. The result is a comprehensive report in pictures, text and moving images: In addition to the article (in German), there is a multimedia, interactive Pageflow story that can be accessed via this link (in German).

Photo: Kulturkenner NRW, Screenshot Website
(Photography & Video: Markus J. Feger; Text & Redaktion: Annika Wind / A production of K.WEST Verlag)