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Photo: Tobias Fischer

Welcome to “CAGE”. This show takes you inside the circus hotel, a bizarre guest house that shrinks and expands as it tries to contain the residents’ explosive desires. It is dynamite in a can.
We follow one extraordinary day in the life of the hapless staff and guests as they spin, tumble and fall in and out of the shifting architecture. Each player wants something different and it is against this backdrop of confinement that the circus will expand. Impossible leaps, silhouettes hanging by a burning thread, sleep walking climbers, dancing in the spotlight, handbalancing on flames and human birds all feature as method of escape. This is a humorous, dynamic and moving circus show that contains light and dark touches as in a fairytale. There is fire, water and emotional release. It is hotel with a mind of its own. A place where reason no longer rents a room. A place on the border between sleeping and waking. A place for your dreams to check into. This is the newest circus not to be missed.

See under SHOWS for the trailer of our last production!

Going back to Senegal!

		Photos: Fan-atticks

Fan-atticks is back in Sweden again from a three week project in Senegal. We have been continuing our work at the centre, "Empire des Enfants" in the city of Dakar and have produced another ensemble show with the street children there, for whom the centre provides such a vital resource offering shelter, food, activities and the possibility of relocation with their families. Last year the show was at the Serano Theatre, this year at the centre itself and we are pleased to report that the format works in both settings. This follows our belief in the possibility of inclusion for artists of all levels and backgrounds within the Fan-atticks circus environment, and forms the drive to redevelop our "Circus Hotel" concept into a work that can allow any kind of guest to enter and perform in the show. Over the next six months we will be researching this piece as a working show, involving artists from many locations. Due to the success of the Senegal project, we have just secured further funding from the Swedish institute to return to Senegal and the "Empire des Enfants" to continue the youth aspect of this work already in the end of May 2008. We intend to produce a show that takes the form of a Circus Hotel, one that will travel and include local artists as it does so, as guests in the performance. Circus artist, dancer, singer, musician, stand up, performance artist or poet, we want to include all abilities, disciplines, ages and styles in our bizarre guest house so please contact us if you would like to "check in" with an idea. We want to come to your area and invite you to stay in the show. Our proposal for this project is available for download on this site. The door is open...you can have your own room, even though it only has three walls... The project in Senegal is supported by "Svenska Institutet", and produced by Ida Burén. Please look under images to enjoy our photos from Senegal!

Fan-atticks Inspirations

picture: My Lambertsen		picture: Tobias Fischer

Fan-atticks is a New-circus company founded in Stockholm 2003. They have an international cast, English, Swedish and Swiss. For two years they have successfully toured their first show " Lost and Found". They are back with their new show “I will run away”.

Like many contemporary circus groups, because it is a young form, our work is a blend of disciplines that stands up, walks, talks and becomes something in its own right.
We like to work with objects and the body. The body is the same one we all wear but the objects can be anything from the known parts of circus to the kitchen sink. It is this kind of exploration that is central to our creation. Finding new relations or contexts for the performer and the things with which he or she chooses to share the stage. It is finding how we can entertain you with what we have, with what entertains us.
This physical work with objects and the body is what we call circus. We are also inspired by film and its story telling power and we try to use circus in the same way that film uses a zoom lens, to take the audience closer, to bring them nearer to the life of objects and the stories that may be contained there.
So in this way we see what is revealed when we focus in on the moment a candle is snuffed out by a girl’s body or observe in detail how a rope is really a telephone conversation.


picture: My Lambertsen		picture: Tobias Fischer