Cirkus Cirkör

Cirkus Cirkör is a Swedish circus company, and is today Scandinavia's leading performing circus company within the art form of contemporary circus.^{[citation needed]} Cirkus Cirkör has toured the world with a number of circus shows. The company has also been influential in establishing new schools and training courses for aspiring contemporary circus artists in Sweden and Scandinavia.

History

Cirkus Cirkör emerged as a small independent contemporary circus group, founded in Stockholm in 1995. The company was formed Tilde Björfors.^[1] Cirkus Cirkör was one of Sweden's very first contemporary circus groups, inspired by Cirque du Soleil, among others. Cirkus Cirkör, however, moves more towards vaudeville- and variety show-inspired circus shows in expression, preferring small and intimate stage shows (in smaller playhouses and older theatre stages), in contrast to big, Las Vegas-style circus shows.

The company's style in contemporary circus often mixes elements of street theatre, rock video aesthetics, and various other forms of theatrical expression such as theatre, dance and film.

Cirkus Cirkör tours regularly with several shows each year, both in Sweden and abroad. Cirkus Cirkör's famous base and home arena, the "Subtopia", is located in the Stockholm suburb of Alby (in Botkyrka Municipality), south of Stockholm.

The Circus Cirkör was chosen as a featured company for the second edition of the Biennale Internationale des Arts du Cirque held in 30 cities across the south of France in early 2017.

Europe Theatre Prize

In 2018, the Circus Cirkör was awarded the XV Europe Prize Theatrical Realities, in Saint Petersburg,^[2] with the following motivation:

Conceived as a non-profit organisation, Cirkus Cirkör combines the production of shows with intense social and educational activity with its added interest in theatre and comic routines. This circus has since 1995 offered popular spectacles of great professionalism, amusing and full of energy, in which the arts of circus, expressed with extraordinary grace, technique and courage, interact in turn with pop music, music hall or street theatre, while at other times serving classics such as Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Cirkus Cirkör prefers to work in confined spaces, where contact with an enthusiastic audience is not buried under huge installations and scenery that run the risk of not merely surprising, but also distracting the spectators: it is circus that comes from the heart, with a social spirit that brings back to the art of circus its most enjoyable and poetic dimension.^[3]

Shows

A selection of shows by Cirkus Cirkör:

2024 Tipping Point
2022 Circus Life
2022 Pippi at the Circus
2021 Puff, Circus Days and Nights
2019 Bloom, God's Disobedeant Rib
2018 Epifónima
2017 Under
2016 Limits
2015 Borders
2014 Underart
2014 Knitting Peace
2011/2012: Undermän
2010: Wear it like a Crown
2008/2009: Inside Out
2007: Odyssén, Dada Aitsch, Mannen i ballongen, Olika, Cirkusliv
2006: Momo eller kampen om tiden, Cirkusliv, Havfruen
2005: 99% unknown, Havfruen, Cirkusliv, Ung Cirkör:Kalla Balla Lik
2004: 99% unknown, Cirkusliv, Ung Cirkör:Kalla Balla Lik
2003: Fantastix, Romeo & Julia, Miss.Lyckad, T.I.D. – This is dangerous, Cirkusliv, Ung Cirkör - 10.000 Volt
2002: Romeo & Julia, TRIX
2001: Dom Vuxna?, TRIX, Crash, Cirkusliv, Virus 02, Pieces, Cirkusliv
2000: TRIX, Bensin, Mr Pain, 00:00
1999: 00:00, URGA Marimé
1998: Supercirkör 98, URGA Marimé
1997: Kod XY, På
1996: På, Ur kaos föds allt
1995: Skapelsen (Creation)

Artistic director

1995–2023: Tilde Björfors^[4]

Managing directors

1995-1999: Tilde Björfors
2000-2000: Yvonne Rock
2000-2002: Linda Zachrison
2002-2005: Malin Dahlberg
2005-2007: Kajsa Balkfors Lind (Cirkör Ideell Förening), Pia Kronqvist (Cirkör AB)
2007-2008: Pia Kronqvist
2008–2020: Anders Frennebrg
2020-2022 Elin Norquist
2023- Kajsa Giertz^[5]

References

^ "nycirkus". Nationalencyklopedin (in Swedish). Retrieved 6 November 2010.
^ "XVII EDIZIONE". Premio Europa per il Teatro (in Italian). Retrieved 15 January 2023.
^ "Catalogue XVII edition - Europe Theatre Prize" (PDF). p. 63.
^ ”Cirkus Cirkörs grundare slutar”. Göteborgs-Posten. 6 december 2023.
^ "Kajsa Giertz the new CEO of Cirkus Cirkör", November 23 2022 https://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/cirkus_cirkor/news/kajsa-giertz-the-new-ceo-of-cirkus-cirkoer-457813

External links

Cirkus Cirkör (Official website)
Subtopia

[ne-1] "nycirkus". Nationalencyklopedin (in Swedish). Retrieved 6 November 2010.

[2] "XVII EDIZIONE". Premio Europa per il Teatro (in Italian). Retrieved 15 January 2023.

[3] "Catalogue XVII edition - Europe Theatre Prize" (PDF). p. 63.

[4] ”Cirkus Cirkörs grundare slutar”. Göteborgs-Posten. 6 december 2023.

[5] "Kajsa Giertz the new CEO of Cirkus Cirkör", November 23 2022 https://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/cirkus_cirkor/news/kajsa-giertz-the-new-ceo-of-cirkus-cirkoer-457813

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