Hysteria | Chelsea McGuffin & Co and Backbone
I find circus to be a great interpretative tool to represent mental distress. Very much like mental health, the success of circus relies on balancing skills. The main act of Hysteria was funambulism (tightrope), with performers walking and even cycling on the rope throughout the show. What I appreciated the most about these acts of funambulism was when the performers walked together, balanced each other out, and helped each other getting to the other side of the rope. Again, just like mental health, circus is better with the support of other.
Be transported to an 'in-between' space in a cavernous and desolate warehouse for DISTURBO, a physical theatre piece exploring intimacy, alienation and connection.
DISTURBO takes place in a transitory space, somewhere ‘in-between’. Two characters inhabit the space, moving and merging, resisting and yielding. Their roles are blurred and the dynamics constantly shifting. Lights buzz, voices emerge: the space is taken up with more than just these two... It is full of potential. Pulsing between intimacy and alienation, what will they risk for connection? We use our relationship to our inner world and the space we are in to explore matters of connection and isolation through circus, dance, and lip-sync.