TORNADO'S EYE

In the organizer's words:

"Tornado's Eye" - 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 weightlessly, 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 tender, hypnotic journey into the interior, in which conventions are transformed and lucid dreams are born from the still center of a storm.
14.07.25

To find the calm in the storm - that is probably a deep need for many people in our time. A step away from megalomania and consumption, towards one's own potential. A step closer to your own core.

When David Eisele once freed himself from the structures and expectations surrounding him, a memory was able to unfold - of an almost forgotten dream from his childhood. A modest vision of uniting two beloved objects: the cello and the diabolo. But how is such a symbiosis possible?
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 floats. 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 towards the point of total equilibrium 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.

The team

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

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)