Circus Puzzles
Circus Puzzles is a new circus performance from Kulta Productions. The production is about Mini, Midi and Maxi who are friends. Their mutual language is circus acts, and they often find themselves in wonder over all the strange things that can possibly be done. Next to them lives Vam. He is different, he looks different, and his language is music.
Information
(Objekt ID 1620)| Object type | Production |
| Produced by | Kulta Productions |
| Coproducers | Brageteatret |
| Audience | Children (from 6 to 10) |
| Number of events | 139 |
| Language | Norwegian |
| Keywords | Theatre, Contemporary circus |
| Running period | 2004 |
| Website | Sirkusgåter, Brageteatret |
Requirements to venue
| Minimum stage width | 9m |
| Minimum stage depth | 9m |
| Minimum stage height | 5m |
| Blackout | Yes |
| Rigging time | 120 minutes |
| Downrigging time | 90 minutes |
| Audience | 120 |
Circus Puzzles by Kulta Productions is a different circus experience, whether one has been to a circus before or not. This circus is tiny: Three artists and one musician/actor – offering a magical journey into a world you have never before experienced. What is different is that this circus tells you a story.
Circus Puzzles was made in 2004 and was KULTA Productions first new circus production. It was made with support from Arts Council Norway via The Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority, and it was first performed as part of the performing arts platform of The Cultural Rucksack in primary schools in Tromsø.
The production was made from scratch using improvisation as a method, based on the performers own abilities and ideas, and put together into a final unit by director Bente Reibo.
Circus Puzzleswas made as a touring production with four performers – three circus artists and one actor/musician. The production is not dependant of speech to be understood. Technique is an integrated part of the production and it can be performed without the use of technical staff. The production is part of support network The National Touring Network for Performing Arts and is regularly performed. Per 2010 it had been performed more than 130 times, visiting Finland, Estonia and Japan in addition to Norway. The production has toured the counties of Troms and Finnmark in collaboration with Hålogaland Theatre and The Cultural Rucksack and has toured the county of Møre og Romsdal in collaboration with The Cultural Rucksack. It has also been performed at several Norwegian festivals.
Source:
Kulta, kulta.no, 10.12.2010, http://kulta.no/2009/03/sirkusgater/
*Not yet translated into English. The title within parentheses is the Norwegian title's literal meaning.
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Bente Reibo | – Playwright |
| Bente Reibo | – Direction |
| Tor-Bjørn Gundersen | – Stage design |
| Kristian Overrein | – Sound design |
| Åse-Lill Bjørklund | – Actor |
| Kristoffer Jørgensen | – Actor |
| Vegard Krane | – Actor |
| Anne Mette Sætra | – Producer |
| Klaus Løkholm Bergli | – Other |
| 2005 | Show |
"a very beautiful, visual and understandable little performance for the very smallest and the very largest. Kulta offers candy in the foyer, but the real candy is staged candy. The kids sit like hypnotised while the four performers onstage dive over each other, climb on each other, stage fight, juggle and jest. Vegard Krane and Åse-Lill Bjørklund perform an amazing climbing scene, proving to the full that Kulta has professional artists it can be proud of."
Nordlys