Multiverse Show & Tell with circus artist Marie-Andree Robitaille from CirkusPerspektiv

After the performance Multiverse (August 11, 14:50), you are invited to the Multiverse Show & Tell with circus artist Marie-Andree Robitaille from CirkusPerspektiv.

The circus performance Multiverse has been created within the doctoral artistic research project Circus as Practices of Hope: A Philosophy of Circus by Marie-Andree Robitaille at Stockholm University of the Arts, Sweden between 2019 and 2024.  In her project and through multiple choreographic studies and iterations of Multiverse,  Marie-Andree explored a posthuman approach to circus, addressing the limits of her ageing body, integrating vulnerability to circus, fostering a body-reorienting practice while working with different material, notably foil. 

Developed by NASA’s in 1964, the foil or the metalized polyethylene terephthalate (MPET), reflects up to 97% of radiated heat and is used on the exterior surfaces of spacecraft for thermal control. The material is also manufactured as safety blankets since its properties can protect us from heat and hypothermia. Foil serves and protects us.  Foil is actively participating in the human project that is to explore and conquer the universe. Rerouted from these functions, in the research project of Marie-Andree, the Foil is a grand illusionist that magnifies and tricks our perceptions.

Join us straight after the performance for 45 minutes to 1 hour session where Marie will Show & tell (and you get to try!) how her work with the foil relates to posthuman vulnerabilities, entanglement and circus as practices of hope for the Future!