HOMELESS - the Wandering of the Circus
Start date: May 1, 2011,
The project Homeless aims to promote circus theatre in its modern variations as a peculiar cultural expression of a Country and as a means of social intervention. To this end the project aims to produce three workshops; a circus theatre show created by four partners coming from three different european countries: Italy, Hungary and Poland and an international conference on social circus. Project's purpose is to promote the exchange of circus artists across Europe, the spread in Europe of a new artistic production resulted from the creative dialogue of artists of different nationalities and intecultural dialogue as an opportunity for enhancing the circus visibility and practical support on issues related to social exclusion. Circus is a popular and immediate performing art which speaks an universal language and can be a vehicle to address difficult and important issues without losing effectiveness. Homeless wants to use this art and this language to recall some stories that have tragically united our continent and suggest a gentle delicate epiphany. Stories are those of concentration camps, both expressions of Nazi Germany and Soviet Union period. Stories that reduce human beings to a minimum as a homeless as a "clochard" of mankind. Project partners come from Italy -whose geographical location and history gives the opportunity to look at the facts from a particular position: cause and victims at the same time- and two States of Eastern Europe : Hungary and Poland which lived close and painful tragedies of the concentration camps. The project is divided into four significant steps: the training workshops, the creation of the show and its debut, the tour of the show and a conference on social circus.
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