Fragile

2 tightwire artists, 2 dancers, a trampoline duo and a dancing clown search for the beautiful in the fragile & the fragile in the seemingly beautiful.

Maresa von Stockert’s latest cross artform collaboration for the outdoors combines contemporary circus, dance and physical theatre.

FRAGILE’s architectural set creates the illusion of the performance being on a rooftop. Imagine a flat concrete roof where someone has put up a garden with a few plants in pots and some grass.
One layer of the piece will expose the microcosm of human activity taking place in this garden. It will look at the lives of those who visit the roof terrace and explore what the garden means to them.

For the creator of the garden it may be an oasis or even an obsession.
Others make it their hide-away, a place where they can escape reality.
Some may see it as a playground, others as a forbidden space.
For one person it may resemble paradise, for another a foreign world of green discomfort, bewilderment and fear.

While intricate relationships tenderly and brutally entwine, a strange transformation happens to the garden itself enhancing the sense of a warped reality and other worldliness unfolding…

Tilted Productions’ work combines contemporary dance and circus, object manipulation, physical theatre and performance art.

Artistic Director Maresa von Stockert creates illusionary worlds that are inspired by social, environmental and political observations. Real life issues are dissected, played with and taken into the realm of the surreal with thought provoking consequences.

Maresa works with a team of collaborators, including contemporary dance and circus artists, actors, designers and composers,  bringing together people from a broad range of ages and challenging artform boundaries.

The work features a constantly evolving interest in the physical dialogue between human bodies and objects. Whether every day objects, specifically designed props, transformable sets, architectures or landscape elements, their role is integral as catalysts for movement  and metaphors within the theatrical concept.