We are Fan-atticks
Fan-atticks is an international contemporary circus company founded in Stockholm 2003. Since this time Fan-atticks has produced and toured three original high quality shows with a wide appeal. "Lost and Found" 2004-5, "I will run away" 2006-7 and “CAGE” 2008-9 were performed in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, France and Senegal.
As a company we are always looking for new and more honest ways of working. We believe in something grown slowly and shown quickly, with dynamism, humour and emotional punch.
We are politically opposed to the use of gravity and so we stand together.
The two main actors of the company, Jonathan Priest and Anja Duchko-Zuber, are currently involved both collectively as Fan-atticks and individually in various projects, where they will be touring extracts of their latest show “CAGE” (see tour plan).Anja and Jonathan are also still working with “What about Charlotte”, more info: www.masreliez.se and Jonathan will be involved in a creation supported by “Jeunes Talentes du Cirque” 2010, more info: www.cryingoutloud.org
Jonathan Priest
Nationality: English
Main circus skills: Vertical rope
Other skills: Pole, Ladder, telling tall tales and bad jokes
onathan was born in London and quickly caught the tube onto the nearest stage. He studied at Slade School of Fine Art and then got a bus back into cabaret. He stood around in comedy for some time and then ran to Circomedia Academy of Circus Arts. He has toured with tented circus, performed in theatres, festivals, clubs of all kinds, in corporate events and on the street in the U.K. France, Spain, Ireland, Norway, Finland, Africa, Asia, and Sweden. He is currently fully involved with Fan-atticks and teaches at the Circus programme at the University College of Dance in Stockholm, where they force him to work standing up.
Jonathan enjoys sitting at the crossroads where circus and theatre meet and is inspired by anything, from the most graceful flying trapeze artist to a drunk staggering down a dirty street.
Anja Duchko-Zuber
Nationality: Swiss
Main circus skills: Hand balancing and vertical rope
Other skills: Arial silk, trapeze, flying trapeze, clown, theatre, dance and violin
Anja was brought into the world in Switzerland. Here she was raised in the ten safe hands of five mothers. Out of this childhood grew a violinist who wanted to become a circus artist. On stage Anja expresses herself using experiences from her life, giving the audience a glimpse of the things in between, of the invisible. Anja makes herself heard through silences, movements and words.
Download Anja Duchko-Zuber's CV
Olle Strandberg
Nationality: Swedish
Main circus skills: Juggling, Acrobatics and Teeterbord
Other skills: Dance and theatre