Who says being sober must be boring?
JACK / XL
Language No Problem
By:
Monki Business and TENT
Age:
XL
Genre:
Circus theater, Music
Rotterdam
JACK
In his directorial debut JACK, circus maker Benjamin, ‘Monki’ Kuitenbrouwer strips three disciplines to the bone, before carefully rebuilding them info one story: circus, music and light.
A musician walks from instrument to instrument. He plugs and unplugs cables to get the sound he needs. The lighting designer manipulates light and décor by adjusting lamps and hoisting cables during the show. And the juggler… well she juggles. In her own creative style, a fluid mix of acrobatics, dace and juggling. Together they create new images in your head and live on stage/
JACK is an energetic, positive performance about the coming together of three artists and the power of storytelling. With purple neons, bright white juggling clubs and growling synthesizers. Because who said that sober had to be boring?
TENT supports and coaches Benjamin in a two-year process to further develop as a circus maker. With JACK he completes this talent development program. This is made possible by the New Makers development program by the Performing Arts Fund NL and the Amsterdam Fund for the Art.
Duration: 60 minutes.
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Credits
Monkey Business, TENT
Benjamin Kuitenbrouwer
Liza van Brakel
Roel Gosto Vermeer
Eva Donker
About the makers
Benjamin Kuitenbrouwer, better known as MONKI, graduated from Codarts Rotterdam in 2014 and received a scholarship from the Friends of Codarts for his graduation act. Since then, MONKI has produced two solo performances and is part of the French Chinese Pole collective Sous le Manteau. In the season 2018-2019 he was on the shortlist for CircusNext.
Liza van Brakel is a juggler and was nomination for the BNG Bank Circus Prize in 2017 with her graduation act Ain’t no easy way out from Codarts. Liza makes her own work and played with various companies such as Gandini Juggling and Blame Game. She stands out for her unique style in which she lets juggling and acrobatics come together.
Eva Donker did the Theatre Technology course at the Theatre School of the Amsterdam School of the Arts. Since 2011 she works as self-employed theatre technicist for companies as Opium voor het Volk and Huis aan de Werf, among others. Normally Eva isn’t on stage, but for AJCK she made an exception.
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