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Psychological Art Circus // Human Document

pac2 Psychological Art Circus (UK / Sweden / Columbia): Human Document
Jedinstvo Hall, Trnjanski nasip bb
30.11.2009., 20:00
Duration: 30 min
Ticket price: 60 kn
standing places only

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www.psychologicalartcircus.net

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Parodying poses of Egyptian wall paintings on sand covered stage in performances by Wilson, Keppel and Betty, the stars of music hall, was carved in into Great Britain's collective memory. Psychological Art Circus recreates their famous sand dance in an entirely surrealistic manner, combining it with electrical tides of virtuous corporeal mime and extraordinary double trapeze sequences, accompanied by an original soundtrack. “Human Document“ has developed into a singular act of visual theatre, a vehicle for hypnotic fusion of aerial circus, mime and sound.

“Human Document“ is named after one of the books from the series where Olive Pixley, English spiritual medium, describes the story of intensive psychic connection that outlives death, the story of her brother Jack who, after being killed in the battlefield in 1917, returns to make contact with her from “the other realm“. In “Human Document“, there are voices inside the performer's (Olive's) mouth, too – the one pertaining to Jim Jones, the founder of the People's Temple (whose followers committed one of the largest mass suicides in history in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978, with more than 900 people dead), and the other belonging to Franklin Jones, a spiritual teacher also known as Avatar Adi Da.

pac1 Psychological Art Circus is a resident of the Area 10 Project Space in Peckham, London, and in 2008 they were artists-in-residence at the London's Roundhouse. Unauthorized performative invasion of public spaces created PAC's local reputation. The Company was started by Myles Stawman who is the artistic director. He initiated the process of "Human Document“. Stawman graduated from University of Arts Central St Martin's Drama Centre, London, where he studied under Christopher Fettes and Yat Malmgren. He has since worked internationally across the entire spectrum of live performance, within companies such as Tom Geoghegan's Unappointed and Siraj Izhar's Strike Foundation as well as a solo creator. Lina Jungergård studied at Swedish Växjö athletic and theatre school, at Desmond Jones School of Mime and Physical Theatre in London, then at Circomedia, the famous circus school in Bristol. She also cooperated with La Fura dels Baus and Ear Cinema. Andrea Meneses Guerrero founded the Theatre R101 in Bogota and graduated at the International School of Corporeal Mime in London, with a postgraduate in teaching and directing. She has been working with rope and trapeze since 2005.

“I could not fail to be impressed by the gradual unfolding of drama and tension, and the seemingly casual insertion of incredible circus skills into the performance. (…) The spotlight came up on an exhausted but exhilarated cast, who took their applause from an amazed and noisy crowd.“
Jenny Singfield, bbc.co.uk/dna/collective

“The show consisted of a series of pictures, or moving tableaux. (…) It reminded me of the Caravaggio paintings I saw this morning: they had the same kind of movement, full, expressive and forceful, and yet arrested and frozen. (…) It was magical.“
London Mink, londonmink.blogspot.com

“Psychological Art Circus is one of the most talented acts of the modern circus genre, and their mixture of superb theatre, special effects and how-do-they-do-that acrobatics is spell-binding.“
londonist.com