Vertical rope with Emma Laule (acrobat from Common Ground specializing in vertical rope). Emma is a contemporary circus and performance artist who studied circus in Tilburg. She has won several awards and combines elegance and strength in aerial acrobatics. Handstand with Andreas Bartl (acrobat from Common Ground specializing in Chinese pole and handstand) Andreas studied handstand at the “ESAC” in Brussels and at the Academy of Circus Arts in Kiev and taught handstand at the ESAC alongside his stage career.

The workshop is open to all young artists aged 16 and over who are interested and accept the Open Space Bochum disclaimer. We will then focus on the circus technical level of the participants.

The Common Ground collective consists of 6 internationally successful and award-winning artists. The members met at the Academy for Circus and Performance Art in Holland, where most of them studied. The collective was founded in 2015 before the first show of the same name, ‘Common Ground’, premiered in 2019 and has been touring internationally ever since.
The content is about working as a collective, the common ground that connects us and makes it possible to move forward together. Contemporary circus as a medium visualizes this collaboration, the trust in each other, but also the risks and pitfalls of collective dynamics in a unique way.
The new creation AufIBruch (AT) continues this idea and raises the question of how a collective functions under pressure. What if external circumstances change drastically, what if the foundations are shaken?
AufIBruch (AT) is the collective's second production.

Performers: Andreas Bartl, Evertjan Mercier, Zinzi Oegema
Emma Laule, Lisa Rinne, Marius Pohlmann

Director: Aedin Walsh

Music composition: Vahakn Matossian

Set design: Clàudia Vilà

Set construction: Cirque Mechanique

Technician: Jakob Tewinkel