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memento mori

GALAPIAT CIRQUE

Galapiat Cirque tijdens een toonmoment van 'Memento Mori' in Dommelhof, juli 2021
© Dommelhof | Katelijne Boonen

5 acrobats sit on a wheel. They are making pendulum movements.

Will they go crazy in this round cage? Or will the audience go into a trance?

The actors seek answers to questions and they tell their own story through the circles.

5 performers balance, run, spin and jump, alone, in pairs or all together, on a rotating metal structure known as the Wheel of Death. With Memento Mori, the artists want to represent the symbolism of the passage of time. Physical risk is a challenge, but also a choice. This project is an ode to life and death, to both traditional circus and contemporary circus, and to man in all his splendor and awkwardness.

GALAPIAT CIRQUE

Galapiat Cirque
Galapiat Cirque was created in 2006 at the French National Centre of Circus Arts (Centre National des Arts du Cirque-CNAC) in Châlons-en-Champagne. The organisation originates...
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