Årsmøte i SIRKUNST 21. oktober 2010

Det innkalles med dette til allmøte og årsmøte for nettverksorganisasjonen SIRKUNST. Vennligst se vedlegg.

SIRKUNST ble stiftet i 2007, med formålet å være nettverksorganisasjon og profesjonelt forum for alle i Norge som har sirkus, nysirkus, kunstsirkus og/eller sideshow som en del av jobben sin - som utøver, skapende kunstner, pedagog, rigger eller tilrettelegger.

SIRKUNST har ennå ikke oppfylt potensialet sitt, men vi mener vi trenger en slik organisasjon, mer enn noensinne. Vi er relativt få her til lands, men likevel samsnakkes vi ikke tilstrekkelig på tvers av nord-sør, øst-vest, sentrum-periferi. Det vil vi gjøre noe med. Sammen blir vi klokere og flinkere, og sammen står vi sterkere overfor bevilgende myndigheter.

Vi ønsker derfor å samles til møte, med en nødvendig restrukturering av det som har vært, og som kick-off for det som kommer.

Hvis du er enig - eller saklig uenig - så hjertelig velkommen til møtet i Oslo torsdag 21. oktober 2010. Nøyaktig sted for møtet vil bli annonsert senere.

Litt organisasjonsjuss hører med: Deltakelse med stemmerett på møtet forutsetter at man har betalt medlemskontigent for i år, og vi ber om forståelse for dette. Men siden det er seint på året settes denne til trivelige NOK 50,- ; dette kan betales på møtet, eller også direkte til SIRKUNST sin konto nr 6045 05 54238.

For mer informasjon eller saksliste, ta gjerne kontakt: post@sirkunst.no

JUGGLING THE ARTS: Open Call for professional contemporary circus artists

Deadline: October 1st, 2010

Artistic laboratory at Subtopia in Alby/Botkyrka (Sweden), November 15-19, 2010. Juggling the Arts is arranging its second artistic laboratory for professional Nordic artists in November 2010. Artists from each Nordic country will be given the opportunity to work for five days with three mentors at Subtopia.

Juggling the Arts workshop focuses on the artistic research processes in the field of contemporary circus. The international team of workshop mentors (Daniel Gulko, Sverre Waage and Maksim Komaro) guides the participants in developing their own artistic projects. Discussions, exercises, experiments and artist encounters encourage the participants to test, challenge and deepen their ideas and artistic processes. Juggling the Arts programme aims at strengthening the artistic processes and the research aspect on the Scandinavian contemporary circus scene.

Artists can apply individually or as a team, and it is not necessary to be working on a specific project. The main purpose is to develop the artistic research work.

The mentors:

Daniel Gulko, director of Cahin-caha, has developed a “bastard” style: hybrid, irreverent, lyrical and dense. Born in the USA, Gulko has led a 30 year international career; navigating between experimental and political performance, street spectacle and modern ritual. Living in France since 1993, Gulko was a founding member and director of the group “Pocheros” before creating “Cahin-caha” in 1998. The result of this international criss-crossing of experiences and meetings are creations including raWdoG 1999, GRIMM 2003, Moby Locked-Up 2007, REV 2010.

Maksim Komaro is one of Finland’s most established contemporary circus artists. He has over ten years’ experience of creating circus theatre and is co-founder of Circo Aereo with Jani Nuutinen. Komaro has worked with Compagnie Jérôme Thomas and has directed several works such as FUR!, Louisiana Circus, Espresso, one of his most famous works, with Les Objets Volants, and recently Petit Mal with Race Horse Company, one of the winners of Jeunes Talents Cirque Europe in 2010. He is renowned as a juggling innovator.

Sverre Waage is a Norwegian director, script writer and producer. 30 years ago he started working with performance art, new circus and street art, as a performer and creator. After an injury in 1987 he started working as a director and artistic director at theatres and festivals. In 2001 he founded Cirkus Xanti and that was also the year of his first big tent production of contemporary circus, “Ringen”. In 2006 his circus-theatre creation “Trollprinsen” was awarded The Norwegian Theatre Unions Hedda-prize for best performance. He is the founder and leader of The Circus Village, a mobile international festival, network and resident space in Norway.

Application process
1. Open call for proposals – deadline 1 October 2010
An open call for professional Nordic contemporary circus artists or circus oriented performers wishing to participate in the artistic laboratory with the aim of developing as an artist/performer and creator. Applications for participating in the laboratory must be given in the application form attached.

2. Selection
2 artists from Denmark, 2 from Norway, 2 from Sweden and 4 from Finland will be selected. Applicants will be informed about the results of the selection not later than 8 October 2010.

3. Artistic laboratory
The selected artists will participate in a 5-day artistic laboratory at Subtopia, Sweden, 15-19 November 2010 (arrival 14 November, departure 20 November). The travel and transportation costs as well as the accommodation and meals will be covered by Juggling the Arts.

The objectives of Juggling the Arts are to:
- support artistic research processes within contemporary Nordic circus art
- offer artistic support to young Nordic circus artist
- support dialogue and building of connections and networks between Nordic contemporary circus artists and programmers
- support the development of creativity and professionalism within the contemporary circus field

In the previous edition of Juggling the Arts, autumn 2008, the following artists participated with their projects:
Niclas Stureberg: Human Timing (SE)
Petri Tuominen, Rauli Kosonen & Kalle Lehto: Petit Mal (FI)
Rudi Jensen: Goldfish is meant for dying (NO)
Mille Lundt: Somewhere/Nowhere (DK)

Please find the application form at the bottom of this page. Find more information about Juggling the Arts and New Nordic Circus Network here.

Mobil Sirkuslandby 2010

I desember 2009 mottok Cirkus Xanti en unik støtte fra Norsk Kulturråd, Rom for kunst, til utvikling av et produksjons-, visnings og treningssted for sirkus.

I løpet av juli, august og september 010 har Sirkuslandsbyen gjestet Kristiansand, Sarpsborg og Oslo. I tillegg til Cirkus Xantis forestilling LOOP som ha spilt gjennom hele perioden har nærmere tyve norske og utenlandske kompanier gjestet landsbyen med sine forestillinger.

I tillegg har landsbyen vært arena for sirkusskole for barn og unge, workshops, masterclasses og seminarer. Landsbyen har også hatt både norske og internasjonale kompanier i residens.

For mer informasjons se Cirkus Xantis hjemmeside og Sirkuslandsbyens blogg.