Festival archive | Circus Dance Festival

The festival editions from previous years are archived here.
The CDFthek documents projects, conferences, talks and films and the magazine articles produced by the festival.

CircusDanceFestival 2025

Artists and Companies

Mélissa Guex (CH), Aapo Honkanen (FI), Justine Berthillot & Xavier Roumagnac (FR), Julian Vogel (CH), Ellie Barnard (UK), TweniTweni (SE), Crème Solaire (CH), Duo Bau (IT), Mélissa Guex & Clément Grin (CH), Jessie Rose & Rike Greusing (DE), Sirje Tolonen (FI), Arnau Pérez Company (ES), UNANIM Kollektiv (DE), Leles (BR), Crumble Club (DE), Les Têtes Chromées (FR)

Concert

Créme Solaire (CH)

Films

Antti Suniala (FI), Fu Le (PT), Stephanie Miracle, Auden Lincoln-Vogel, Philip Rabalais (DE/US), Elaine Briant & Joana Martinho (FR/LU), Danila Bim (US/BR), Odos Productions (CH/DE), arte - Gravity & Other Myths (DE)

Conference

TAKE CARE - Circus Life in a swing | European Conference on Mental Health and Well-being in the Circus and Performing Arts Sector

Publication

VOICES Special: Artist Portrait about Julian Vogel in Theater der Zeit

DJ*Sets

Fabian Laute, Adahsoe, Disko+

Here you find the whole programme.

CircusDanceFestival 2024

Artists and Companies
Circumstances (BE), Laura Murphy (GB), Diana Salles (DE/BRA), Sawdust Symphony (DE, AT/NL), Overhead Project (DE), Fliegwerk (DE), a movement of humans (DE), Anders und Kira (DE), Latibul Youth Group (DE), Selbstauslöser (DE), Sina Kiekbusch (DE)

Films
Clown*esses by Jana Rothe | Thinking Circus by Arne Mannott | Charlie Chaplin: How It All Began, an ARTE film by Serge Bromberg & Eric Lange

Workshops
Marija Baranauskaité, Mark Liberman, Greta Salgado, Valentina Barone, Simone Kieltyka

Discussions
Heritage, Remembering & Renewing by BUZZ | Archives of the Future with Melanie Suchy, Mirjam Hildbrand, Johanna Hilari, Thomas Thorausch | The Political in Clowning with Laura Murphy, Marija Baranauskaite, Ante Ursic, Jenny Patschovsky

Symposium
Circus and Heritage – European Encounters by the Federal Association of Contemporary Circus

Publication
VOICE V – Re-clowning Circus
Editors: Jenny Patschovsky and Benjamin Richter

Campus Project
ArchiveLab with Mirjam Hildbrand and Johanna Hilari

DJs & Party
Fabian Laute, Adahsoe, Kaffee Güzel

Here you find the whole programme.

CircusDanceFestival 2023

Artists & Companies

Knot on Hands (NL), Compagnie Barks - Bastien Dausse (FR), Sinking Sideways (BE/DE), Elena Zanzu (IT/ES), Piet Van Dycke (BE), Alexander VanThournhout (BE), Muovipussi (FI), Alice Rende (BR/IT), Marija Baranauskaitė (LT), Viktor Černický (CZ), Overhead Project (DE), Ensemble from ESAC and ZZT, KoEFFEKT, Young Ensemble Circus Schatzinsel, Less Kuerdas (DE/IT), Yotam Peled & The Free Radicals (IL/DE), Mikail Karahan (DE), Art for rainy days (LT), Rotem Greenberg (IL), Josefina Colli (AR), Zhao Kuan Ting (BE), Cie Kumquat (DE/FR), Ici'bas Company (CH/CA), Installation: "Mr. Skeleton" by Martin Zimmermann (CH)

Films
About Marija Baranauskaité by Filip Jacobson
The Adventures of Mr. Skeleton by Martin Zimmermann

Discussions
Cultural Politics Day: Setting the Stage by the Federal Association of Contemporary Circus | Beyond Status Quo by Initiative Feminist Circus | INCAM: Magazines & Media with Ruby Burges, Nick Zelle, Florence Schroeder, Elena Stanciu, Dominik Moos | VOICES Talk with Valentina Barone, Elena Zanzu, John-Paul Zaccarini, Ante Ursic

Publication
VOICE IV Re-exploring the Grotesque
Editors: Valentina Barone, Tim Behren

Campus Project
CreationLab with Breno Caetano
Young Wild with KoEFFEKT, Circus Schatzinsel

DJs & Party
Fabian Laute feat. Child May, Adahsoe, Noro

Cooperations
Latibul, Federal Association of Contemporary Circus (BUZZ), Initiative Feminist Circus (ifc), ZZT, ESAC

Here you can find the whole porgramme.

CircusDanceFestival 2022

Artists and companies

Overhead Project (DE), Laura Murphy (UK), Benjamin Kahn and Cerish Menzo (BE), Jörg Müller (DE/FR), Tumbleweed (BE), Ben Gonen and Crispin Bade (IL/DE), La TRIBU Performance (CRI), Luuk Brantjes (NL), Sandra Hanschitz (DE), KoEFFEKT (DE), Cirque Intense Ensemble (DE), make a move collective (DE), Installative Performance: Julian Vogel (CH)

Films
About Tacho Tinta by Filip Jacobson | About Julian Vogel by Filip Jacobson | Pugno by Chiara Caterina | Les Voyages / XY Exp. London & Copenhagen by Samuel Buton

Workshops
Eleonora Dall’Asta, Make a Move Collective, initiative feminist circus

Discussions
Voices Morning Talk with Jenny Patschovsky, Tillmann Damrau, Benjamin Richter | Beyond status quo by Initiative Feminist Circus

Publication
VOICES III – Re-thinking Objects | Editors: Jenny Patschovsky
Theater der Zeit: Circus in Flux | Editors: Jenny Patschovsky, Tim Behren

Campus Project
CreationLab with Breno Caetano
Junge Wilde with KoEFFEKT, Cirque Intense

Residencies
Make a Move Collective, Marija Baranauskaité, Lily & Janick

DJs & Party
Fabian Laute, Adahsoe feat SO

Cooperations
Latibul, Initiative Feminist Circus (ifc), ARTE, ESAC, ZZT

Here you can find the whole programme.

CircusDanceFestival 2021

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Artists and Companies
Overhead Project (DE), Svalbard (SE), 3x Eva (DE), Claudio Stellato (IT), Breno Caetano & Sergi Pares (BE), Toon van Gramberen (BE), Laura Murphy (GB)

Symposium
Re-Writing Circus with Tim Behren, Mirjam Hildbrand, Jenny Patschovsky, Angélique Willkie, Bauke Lievens, Laura Murphy

Campus Projects
CreationLab with Breno Caetano

Publication
VOICES II - Re-writing Circus

Residencies
Initiative feministischer Circus, Crispin Bade & Bar Gonen, Breno Caetano & Sergi Parés, Sinking Sideways

Cooperations
Latibul, ESAC, ZZT

CircusDanceFestival 2020

Publication
VOICES

Campus Project
CreationLab with Breno Caetano

Residencies
Overhead Project, Leila Millard & NuR, Roman Skrada, Erin Skye, Maria Madeira & Laura Schönlau

Cooperations
LATIBUL, ESAC, ZZT

In its premiere year 2020, the first edition of the CircusDanceFestival should have taken place at Whitsun on the grounds of Latibul. Due to a pandemic, the planned program had to be cancelled and an alternative had to be found instead. With the online magazine VOICES a replacement program was worked out in a few weeks, the publication was arranged in time for the actual festival start in a live stream format.
VOICES was born out of the idea of offering festival artists a platform and visibility beyond live performances on stages and in tents. A magazine as a mouthpiece for what has moved and troubled the artists in these times, for the issues that were important to them and especially for the issues that their pieces - usually "live" - deal with.
It was the desire for encounter that led us to conduct online conversations with the artists. These written conversations can be found in the magazine.
In addition to the conversations, we also wanted to invite the artists to experiment with currently possible forms of artistic creation.
This resulted in several "Carte Blanche" commissions. In this case, the "Carte Blanche" is an invitation, free in content, length and form, to develop a video work for the magazine within three weeks. These works can now be seen in the CDFthek.
Despite the pandemic, five one-week work-in-progress residencies were awarded to various companies during the summer, and work-in-progress shows were also held for each of the selected companies where the respective measures allowed: Overhead Project, Leila Millard & NuR, Roman Skrada, Erin Skye, Maria Madeira & Laura Schönlau.