Ceramic Circus
Festival ZirQus
| Date: | We 03.09.2025 |
| Time: | 18:00 hour |
| Location: | ZQ-Bühne |
| Price: | Hutsammlung |
| Duration: | 60 minutes |
| Age: | From 7 years |
Festival ZirQus 2025
Past dates:
- 04. September 20:00
Julian Vogel creates his own circus. He challenges the audience’s intuition. We long for the bang of bursting ceramics, while at the same time hoping to preserve the fragile. A paradoxical desire that manifests itself in an endless drum roll, in a bicycle that defies all habit, in plates that dance on the finest rods and in a person on roller skates searching for balance. In the middle, a calm, spinning ceramic ball.
If you open yourself up to the silence that hides behind the noise, new perspectives open up. Suddenly we hear things we were deaf to. Ceramic Circus is a festive invitation to question the obvious and transform the ordinary into the magical.
The piece is a contemporary reference to traditional circus, appropriating its qualities of making the seemingly impossible possible, building and breaking expectations, celebrating illusion and magic in newly created worlds. An ephemeral poetic gesture that lingers in the memory.
Note:
There are loud noises in this piece.
Trailer
Company
Julian Vogel – Cie. unlisted
Julian Vogel lives in Basel and is involved in various projects in Switzerland and Europe as an author, performer, producer and sound designer. Among other things, he co-founded Compagnie Trottvoir (2012) and KLUB GIRKO (2017), with whom he has realized several projects. He has worked with Compagnie sh. and Panama Pictures (NL) – where he has also been an associate artist since 2021. In 2023 he founded his company Cie. unlisted. Julian Vogel has been selected for the Artist-LAB program of the Kaserne in Basel for the season 25-26.
Supported by
| Co-productions | Les SUBS – Lyon, Le Plus Petit Cirque du Monde – Centre des arts du cirque et des cultures émergentes, Le Théâtre d’Arles, House of Panama, Südpol Luzern, Plateforme 2 Pôles Cirque en Normandie I La Brèche à Cherbourg – Cirque Théâtre d’Elbeuf |
| Partners and supporters | Arts Printing House Vilnius, Aargauer Kuratorium, Centre Culturel Suisse à Paris, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Pro Helvetia – Schweizer Kulturstiftung, Kulturfonds Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA), Luzern Plus, Kanton Luzern Kulturförderung – Selektive Förderung, Stadt Luzern/FUKA Fonds, Le Spot Sion, Le Théâtre Silvia Monfort |
| With the support of: | REVOL porcelain for the design and manufacture of the plates: The plates were made from recycled porcelain dough. The residue from the show is fed back into Revol Porzellan’s production cycle to make new plates |
Public information
This show is part of the ZirQus 2025 festival. You can find all information about the festival here
Hat collection
The show is based on a hat collection. This means that there will be a collection after the show and you decide your ticket price. Payment in cash or twint.
Free seating
Please arrive 10 minutes in advance.
Wheelchair accessibility
The Zirkusquartier is wheelchair accessible. You can find more information here.
Age
Please note the age information.
The ZirQus 2025 festival is supported by:
