SPiEGELSPiEL combines texts from Michael Ende's ‘Mirror in the Mirror’ with aerial and floor acrobatics to create an imaginative play with different elements: Text and image, voice, movement, silence and light.
We are inspired by Michael Ende's great power to bring inner images, which often seem fantastic and dreamlike, to life with his language. The most important aspect of our project, however, is the story behind the creation of this collection of texts. Michael Ende takes up the working methods of his father Edgar Ende, a surrealist painter, and uses them for his art form, literature.
We will take up some of the texts and images and their atmosphere and relate them to body language and movement. The texts will be read or scenically suggested. Selected pictures by Edgar Ende will be on show. The two acrobats develop their work from the encounter with both. They accompany, comment on and find new images from their inspiration. The innovative use of various aerial acrobatic devices and their contact with each other will set the scene. The project will thus resemble a theatre performance with acrobatic means and create a space of fantasy that expands our imagination.
We want to give people interested in literature and art a glimpse of the New Circus, let circus fans experience new forms of circus and also arouse the curiosity of onlookers who regularly visit the venue.
