To shed a safe house. The Circus Festival Re Riga will take place in August! / Day

We know that a person is fragile and at the same time incredibly strong. Man is one of the few animals with a sense of humor and self -irony. Therefore, this year, in the festival program and in its communication, we are talking about an animal in a person, about the animal in us we can use, tame, care, caress and calm down. Man is a part of nature and is subject to all the same rules as all other living beings, but we want to be those who are able to control their instincts, even when it is difficult. So we invite you – get used to the animal in yourself! – Riga Circus Director Mara Paul from 13 to 16 August invites to the festival Re Riga!, For the 12th year, Latvian audiences will introduce high -quality and innovative performances from European and world circus arenas.

This year, too, the festival offers a diverse program: performances at the Riga Circus and other art rooms, a wide range of free programs in the urban environment, master classes for circus professionals and performing arts students, circus workshops and activities for children, young people and families.

Brave, intimate, human

« This year’s festival Re Riga! Invites viewers to encounter a circus as it is today – brave, intimate and humane. Spectators will be able to experience an absurd hero meeting with a large, red ball in the poetic perseverance ritual, a woman’s balancing performance not only with her body, but also with the severity of history, home as a metaphor and at the same time building an object, stories and ropes in a single memory network. Re Riga! Call for you to feel and witness the fact that we are all living in us who are longing for jumping, flying, playing and being a bit wild, « says the Riga Circus team.

« New and original manifestations and forms demonstrate that contemporary circus is one of the fastest development of the 21st century. Festival Re Riga! There is a place to see it at the same time, where the audience is delighted with both the original performances and breathtaking outdoor performances, « says Martins Kiber, creative director of the festival.

The beauty of the imperfections

On the first day of the festival on August 13th 17-18 Camerts will ask a discussion on the « contemporary » contemporary circus (Arena), at. 12-13.30 in Vermanes Garden If Circus workshop Knitting Women aged 60. The rope will be knit together and memory stories will tell. No knitting skills are required. Preliminary application will be announced, free of charge. The stories of the workshop members will be played in the show Melic. At At 6:30 pm there will be the opening and introduction of the festival to the guests. Federico Menini (Argentina, Spain) LLAR is selected as the opening show, which will be on view at. 19 Riga Circus. In this show, the material is awarded to the material – wood. The show is based on the search for the artist and the creation of a space to live and feel safe and peaceful. Referring to the most up -to -date political events in the modern world, juggler creates and balances wooden elements to achieve stability. Federico Menini has studied architecture and art in different countries around the world until turning to the modern circus. The shows reveal his wide sight: sculpture, social theater, video, engraving, photography, art criticism, landscape design and much more. It is the circus men who see as a fascinating multidisciplinary art in which everything meets.

August 14 at 17 The Riga Circus Technical Courtyard will be able to watch Circrodini show The amazing Katleenthat revives forgotten circus traditions. The performance honors the role of women and mother in the circus, revealing both strength and human fragility. The show allows you to scream and delight you to accept a loophole as a component of beauty.

At 18 There will be a tension full musical show at Vermane Garden One shot!in which acrobatics, ax throwing and Chinese card meet perfectly in a polished ornament. The Belgian duo Maxim Dotremon and Fuko Falerol prove that sometimes there is only one option in life and they use it completely. After performances – conversations with artists.

It will also be possible to get acquainted with the ability of Riga Circus students and young artists. Tickets and application for master classes from June 1st.

Full program: Circles.lv.