MULTIVERSE invites to a fantasy world of light, sounds and matters flowing, spiralling and shaping like gentle giants. As the performance unravels, the ring fills with images of planetary constellations, minerals, elemental-biological ecological beauty and devastation, life and extinction, a universe folding and unfolding in and out of itself —a hypnotic and meditative experience.
By playfully and kinetically engaging with foil, sounds and light, CirkusPerspektiv's performer Marie-Andrée Robitaille explores the tensions that emerge from standing at the threshold of mastery and vulnerability, the beautiful and the horrific, the loud and the quiet, the beauty and desolation. Alone in the middle of the circular circus space, as the operator of an analogue semaphorical device, the performer signals urgency through slowness, identities through transformation, and hope through motion.
MULTIVERSE is an experimental and slow circus where new forms and movements of thoughts can rise at the horizon. Performed with care and a smile at heart, the piece is a playful, hypnotic and meditative experience accessible to all the family from 8 years old.
Multiverse has been presented at:
Festival Bauhaus Total Stage, Foundation Bauhaus Dessau Germany_Sept.2019
Circus meets Visual Arts, Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle Sweden_Sept. 2020
Alliances and Commonalities conference on Artistic research, Stockholm University of the arts, Sweden_Nov. 2020
Doctoral seminar, Public event, Stockholm University of the Arts, Sweden_May 2022
Public showing, Stockholm University of the Arts, Sweden_ Nov. 2022
Doctoral Seminar, Public event, Stockholm University of the Arts, Sweden_Dec. 2022
BrainTown presents L.A.B PRSC art Gallery Bristol, UK_Dec. 2022
Festival CirkusMania, Kristofferskolan_Feb. 2023
Festival CirkusMania, Kristofferscenen Feb. 2023
Nordic Summer University "Circle 7: The experiential in artistic practice and research: methods, knowledges and reflective processes", Swe March 2023
Circus Stuff, Kristofferskolan, Bromma, Sweden_April 2023
Dynamo Festival, Odense, Danemark_June 2023
Southern Sweden Circus Festival, Cirkus Syd, Malmö Live, Malmö, Sweden_Sept.2023
Theatre ArtEmotion, Circus and Its Others Conference, Bogota, Colombia_Feb. 20th to March 3rd 2024
Contempo Festival, Kaunas, Lithuania, August 2024
For Booking information please contact info@cirkusperpsektiv.se
LINK to Technical Rider (PDF_ discuss with Jomi what is the best way to do this, a PDF updated on the site or a link to dropbox?, or…)
Press & Articles (Should these be separately in NEWS instead)
Review_Otwn, June 15th 2023
https://www.otwn.dk/artikel/multiverse-the-last-human-on-earth-is-a-circus-artist/
Review_Danstidningen, February 15th 2023
https://www.danstidningen.se/2023/02/15/ut-i-rymden-med-nasas-folie/
Articles_Voices III: Re- thinking Objects
https://www.circus-dance-festival.de/en/cdfthek/circus-as-practice-of-hope-for-the-future/
Interview_Scen&Film April 21st 2021
https://www.scenfilm.se/2021/04/14/guldfolie-hjalper-marie-andree-tolka-cirkuskonsten/
2x video:
https://vimeo.com/793603282
https://vimeo.com/793603373
Images Multiverse Website