Another year of circus has passed! I realized that I have not blogged as much as last year, but that is because I have been doing so much circus!
Here is a resume and some reflections on what I have been up to 2015.
Here is a resume and some reflections on what I have been up to 2015.
Going back to juggling and visiting SJC in spring
In spring, a new member in the circus club had the patience to practice club passing with me. I already liked circus things that could be done in couples, and club passing in no exception. This also motivated me to practice juggling on my own.
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| Photo credits: Simon Dunder (who also filmed Evelinas and my partnerpoi choreography). Here we are doing a partners weave. |
Together with my partnerpoi partner I visited the Swedish Juggling Convention in Linköping, which was very small compared to the BJC, but I got to now many nice people there. I performed my worst performance ever at the SCJ opening show, woth a poi flying off stage. It was awful when it happend because it was one a the few times where the audeince almost only consist of other circus people but now it is just a funny story to tell.
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| Phire doing a Phire performance for Luleå Jujtsu club 5th years anniversary |
I performed quite much with Phire, and realized that I was going to miss them so much when I was moving to Göteborg.
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| Performing partner poi with Evelina |
A summer of teaching circus
During the summer, I was teaching a lot of circus: one at a children's camp in Vänersnäs next to the biggest (and coldest) lake in Sweden and one at a family camp in Pieksämäki in Finland.
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| Me and my circus teacher companion at the childrens summer camp |
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| Doing acrobatics at Balance Camp |
Starting the gymnastics and finding new circus friends in Göteborg in autumn
In the end of summer I attended Balance Camp in Gagnef where I picked all the acrobatics workshops I could. That inspired me to sign up for a beginners class for adults in gymnastics at Göteborgs cheer och gymnastik to learn some basic gymnastics. I also got to know new friends in Göteborg from SJC, and from the open training that are held every Wednesday night in a gym in central Göteborg. I tried acro yoga for the first time. |
| Photo Credit: Stefan Lindkvist People attending my juggling workshop at Höstglöd camp |
Winter - practising for the Christmas celebration opening fire show
I attended the Höstglöd alternativ art's camp outside Alingsås and spent one weekend doing a lot of different things. I met more poi spinners and got very inspired in their different workshops i stalls and expression with tools, as well as workshops in stage fighting, acro yoga, fire jam, massage and other things!Together with Vindla eldkonst I made a duo fire show for the lightening of the Christmas tree in Vänersborg, and started to do some fire fans again and made a nice partnerpoi choreography.
I also got involved in creating a opening fire show for the Christmas celebration of Göteborg, which has been very interesting as a project. I did chorography planning in a small group, did choreography i parts together with the others, bought and built equipment, had late night fire trainings and a wonderful time. I learnt a lot about how to make a big project as a group and how to build equipment for the show. Too bad the show was cancelled because of the storm Helga, but we made a film of the show instead!
Circus performances I attended
- 7 fingers - Cuisine et Confessions
- Karavan circus festival: children's performances, Circo Eia, Cia el Crue and Jay Gillian
- Cirque Inextremiste - Extrêmités
- Cirque Alfonse - Timber
- Cirkus Cirkör - Limits
- SJC shows
Among these ones, I must say that Cuisine et Confession was my favourite because of the joy and big involvement of the audience! That is a tradition from "old" circus that really makes circus different from other art forms such as dance or theathre and I liked how Cuisine et Confessions involved and played with the audience.
I hope there will be as much circus in 2016!
Happy New Year!
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