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Presented by The Cultch, DanceHouse and PuSh International Performing Arts Festival Produced by Cirkus Cirkör (Sweden)
Canadian Premiere
The phrase “hanging by a thread” comes to life in Cirkus Cirkör’s colossal work Knitting Peace.
Under the auspices of director Tilde Björfors, the world-renowned Swedish circus company uses the ancient language of spectacle to address contemporary issues. Five performers take to a stage densely strung with the tangled stuff of existence. Ropes, yarn, webbed expanses of knitted material act as metaphors for human struggle.
Accompanied by musician Samuel “Looptok” Andersson’s live score, the aerialists, acrobats and performers navigate the fine line between safety and peril with exquisite precision and mutual support. The usual tropes of circus — trapeze, hoops, ladders — are replaced by seemingly gossamer threads. The allusions are multiple and shifting, moving from spider web to ship’s rigging to giant balls of yarn like those for an enormous cat. Out of this materiality emerges something radically transformative.
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