9. Berlin Circus Festival /// 11. – 20.8.2023
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static

monki business "static" (NL)

9.8. – 11.8.2022   I   6.30 pm

​“We feel like loving him, applauding his modest victories that, to the young teenager, are actual conquests of imaginary Everests.” Tout sur la culture

“Adults and kids alike can recognize the transformation of little things into extraordinary childhood adventures.” Theaterkrant

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“What I find beautiful about STATIC is the joy we experience between audience and performer. And among us we celebrate the awkwardness, the fragility and the festiveness of life." Monki
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Length: 55 minutes

From age of 8 
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Language:
Some english


    Cksshhh...                STATIC is the crackle of the needle of the record player on the vinyl.            

Monki leads us to look in the rearview mirror at the beginning of his teenage years, where the simplest stories turn into extravagant adventures! We are transported into the past of Generation Y, in which video games, 8-bit music, tape players and lava lamps are the emblematic objects of the imagination.  
               
Around and on top of the 2 chinese poles Monki tells with breathtaking acrobatic skill a touching story of the awkwardness and insecurity of his teenage years. With a lot of humour, fun and a portion of human messiness, he manages to pull us into his world and leaves us with a wide smile.

STATIC is a tender, funny and touching show, a heart-warming experience about human connection and fragility, that let's us celebrate the awkwardness, the fragility and the festiveness of life.

Benjamin, whom everybody calls Monki, graduated from Codarts Circus Arts in Rotterdam. Since then, he developed a circus style, heavily infused with theatrical elements and live-music. He created a total of four shows, won several prices, is supported through the Dutch production house TENT and is part of the French ‘Collectif Sous le Manteau’. 
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  • Author and performer: Benjamin MONKI Kuitenbrouwer
    Production: Julia Simon
    Technical director: Cahit Metin
    Artistic friend: Cathrine Lundsgaard Nielsen
    Lights and rainbows: Carine Gérard
    Outside Eye: Lucho Smit
    Costumes: Fanny Gautreau
    Composition: Roel Gosto Vermeer
    Artistic counselling: William Thomas, Louis Vanderhavebeke
  • Support / Coproductions:  Shortlisted circusnext 2018-2019, co-funded by the EU programme Creative Europe; Le Prato – Théâtre International de Quartier, Pôle National Cirque – Lille (FR); Plateforme 2 Pôles Cirques en Normandie I La Brèche à Cherbourg – Cirque Théâtre d’Elbeuf (FR); Festival Circolo (NL).
    Residencies: Cirkus in Beweging, Leuven (BE); L’Essieu du Batut (FR); L’Espace Périphérique, Paris (FR); L’Espace Catastrophe, centre international de création des arts du cirque, Bruxelles (BE); La Ferme du Buisson, scène nationale, Noisiel (FR); Subtopia, Stockholm (SE); Cirqueon, center for contemporary circus, Prague (CZ); Kulturzentrum Tollhaus, Karlsruhe (DE); Latitude 50 – Pôle des arts du cirque et de la rue, Marchin (BE); Le Prato – Théâtre International de Quartier, Pôle National Cirque – Lille (FR); Plateforme 2 Pôles Cirques en Normandie I La Brèche à Cherbourg – Cirque Théâtre d’Elbeuf (FR

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