PACE / 8+
Language No Problem
By:
Below Zero
Age:
8+
Genre:
Circus theater
Rotterdam
PACE is the first production of the Scandinavian made circus company Below Zero. The show is an intimate duett with the hand to hand couple Axel and Sara. It touches on the idea of relationships - status, power imbalances, consent, and equality. Though the show concerns a lot of heavy subjects the piece is filled with humour, warmth, feelings, original movements and the highest level of modern circus.
To see PACE is seeing our human heritage. It’s a story of two people as well as a story about society, of equality, where society is going and where we wish society as a whole can go. With music ranging over different genres the soundscape is unpredictable which makes the performance even more alive as electric beats mixes with Scandinavian folk music.
With a simple yet impressive scenography PACE makes the stage come alive. From small intimate spaces to huge rooms with walls staring down at the artists, the scenography changes in an organic way together with the performance. The gentle light that the fatigued fabric imposes on the space creates a bridge between the industrial doorframe of solid steel and the human fragility of the artists bodies.
Circus4days
This performance is part of the Circusvierdaagse/ Circus4days at Maaspodium. Four days of circus theater! Combo tickets are also available to watch multiple performances. More info coming soon!
About the makers
During the summer of 2018, four circus artists set sail into the Swedish archipelago. When they returned to land, the dream of Below Zero had come to life.
Their dream was to create high-quality circus performances where they could explore circus as the primary language and allow rehearsals to take their time, with a strong focus on physical research and the development of new physical material, tailored to the performance.
The artistic processes are characterized by great care for the storytelling of the bodies, the circus arts, and the movements. How can one perform acrobatic tricks in a way that simultaneously tells a story?
Today, five years later, Below Zero is an established Swedish circus company, with three self-produced productions in its repertoire, touring all over Sweden and internationally.
Credits
Axel Ahl (SE) and Sara Runsten (SE/ESP)
Joel Jedström (SE), Saara Ahola (FIN), Evelina Jensen (SE), Villhelm Montán Lindberg (SE)
Jonatan Stenson
The University of Dance and Circus (SE), Benjamin Richter (DE), With support from The City of Stockholm (SE)
Isak Stockås (SE)
Saska Särkilahti (FIN/SE), Fanny Senocq (SE), Pau Portabella (ESP), Christina Simpson (SE), Johan Kivi (SE)
Sara Runsten (born 1991) and Axel Ahl (born 1997) grew up in different parts of Sweden but both started circus training in their teenage years. They both studied at the Circus High School in Stockholm and at The Stockholm University of the Arts.
They started working together in 2016 and have been inseparable since then. Together they've worked with everything from events and touring circus shows to musicals, operas and theatre shows. During their years together they've worked with companies such as Cirkus Cirkör, Kompani Giraff Gothenburg Opera and Malmö City Theatre. In 2018 they co-funded Below Zero together with Klara Sköldulf Philipp and Lukas Ivanow.
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