Tornado's Eye

In the organizer's words:

A contemporary circus piece by David Eisele

Tornado's Eye is a quiet, powerful solo piece about transformation, freedom - and the magic of dreaming. The term "Tornado's Eye" describes the quiet place at the center of a tornado. The piece revolves around the movement between the turbulent life on the outside of a tornado and the challenge of finding a calm point of inner clarity within it. A hypnotic journey between endlessly spinning objects - in search of calibration between madness and meditation. Water begins to fly as if weightless, a cello is deformed from the perspective of a juggler, a body falls into a spinning dance, and objects spin, roll and rotate beyond the limits of dizziness. Tornado's Eye is a delicate, hypnotic journey into the interior, in which conventions are transformed and lucid dreams are born from the still center of a storm. Finding calm in the storm - this is probably a deep need for many people today.

The artistic process of Tornado's Eye culminates - after many hours of creating and crafting the props - in a poetic solo performance between dream world, music and circus art. A cellist initially performs in a familiar manner - and gradually drifts into a world of inner images of movement and sound: everything spins, circles and flows. The props develop unexpected properties and the cello becomes a dance partner. Timbres emerge from unexpected sources of resonance.

Everything combines to form a stormy tornado that tries to balance itself at the point of total lightness in the middle. A lucid dream and process of self-expression that leads from the fast-moving vortex to stillness in the center. From a playful childhood dream, a dance of self-discovery unfolds around its own axis of rotation - and rounds off into an organic Gesamtkunstwerk of contemporary circus.

With

Author & Artist: David Eisele
Outside Eye: Federico Gagliardi
Inside Eye: Birgit Haberkamp
Artistic support: Paramjyoti (Carola) Stieber
Music: Juliano Abramovay, Gabriel Milliet
Technology of props: David Eisele, Wanja Grimm, Jan Ole Sierck, Pepijn Oude Vrielink
Lighting: Jan Ole Sierck
Lighting design: Federico Gagliardi
Costume: Joona Huotarii, Lena Martin

Play duration: 50 min

A production by David Eisele in co-production with KATAPULT - Performance Plattform Leipzig and PERPLX Circus-organization (BE). This project is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of the New Arts Ruhr funding program. Supported by CIRCUSSTAD Rotterdam (NL), DYNAMOworkspace Odense (DK), THEATERTOTAL and CirqueIntense.

Partners & supporters: CIRCUSSTAD (NL), PERPLX (BE), KORZO Theater Den Haag (NL),
DYNAMO Odense (DK,) LOFFT - das Theater Leipzig (DE), THEATER TOTAL Bochum (DE), CIRQUE, INTENSE Neuenburg (DE), WOLANG w.V. (DE)

Price information:

Admission 17€/ 13€ (reduced) | 8€ children