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Weightless on the Tollwood: The new artistic program "La Galerie" is so good

2022-12-14T14:29:23.217Z


Weightless on the Tollwood: The new artistic program "La Galerie" is so good Created: 2022-12-14 3:19 p.m By: Raphael Scherer That's what we're flying on: The seven artists of the Canadian "Machine de Cirque" don't seem to know anything like gravity. © Emmanuel Burriel/Anton Brandl Black and white becomes colorful: The Canadian athletes "Machine de Cirque" show in the Grand Chapiteau at the wi


Weightless on the Tollwood: The new artistic program "La Galerie" is so good

Created: 2022-12-14 3:19 p.m

By: Raphael Scherer

That's what we're flying on: The seven artists of the Canadian "Machine de Cirque" don't seem to know anything like gravity.

© Emmanuel Burriel/Anton Brandl

Black and white becomes colorful: The Canadian athletes "Machine de Cirque" show in the Grand Chapiteau at the winter festival how flexible visual arts can be.

You just stand there.

In black and white evening wear, the seven artists look straight ahead at the audience, surrounded by white screens.

After a few seconds, what feels like an eternity, a saxophonist comes along and underscores the atmosphere of the exhibition with pleasant jazz tones.

Then the seven get going - and don't stop until the final applause.

The athletes of the Canadian "Machine de Cirque" dance and jump back and forth at lightning speed at the German premiere of "La Galerie" in the Grand Chapiteau at the Tollwood Winter Festival.

They almost fly over the stage and show their artistic interpretation of a picture gallery.

In front of it, a queue of spectators is already waiting to be admitted: with the utmost elegance, a visitor winds her way forward and is thrown back again.

Even out of such trivial processes as jostling, waiting and pushing, the Canadians make real tricks.

From the bright gallery to the “night at the museum” flair

Luminous spectacle: Winter Tollwood invites you to the Theresienwiese again until December 31st.

© Emmanuel Burriel/Anton Brandl

It flows on smoothly once the gallery-goers have finally made it into the exhibition.

In a crowd they call out "Ah" and "Oh" synchronously and tiptoe gracefully from one white screen to the next, eliciting a few laughs from the audience.

Without a break for conversion, they then go to an art academy, where the athletes literally go back to school under the strict instructions of the teacher equipped with a triangle.

They spring up on the long white bench, stack on top of each other - and finally break a hole in the exhibition wall.

It's getting dark, only bright light streams through the opening.

In “Night at the Museum” style, the ghosts haunt through the darkness, accompanied by a play of colors with light and mirrors.

Accompanied by ever faster, louder tones, the acrobatics almost increase to frenzy with the help of a wheel.

Paintings created on the stage

It gets motley in the show, in which the body artists also create a painting.

© Emmanuel Burriel/Anton Brandl

For almost an hour and a half, the athletes jump, dance and fall across the Tollwood stage.

Popcorn flies and paint splashes until the dynamic (body) artists finally present a colourful, dirty and smudged painting created during the show.

The acrobatic tricks presented are nothing that you have never seen in any other circus program.

But the ensemble knows how to combine well-known stunts into an exciting, entertaining story and skillfully create an atmosphere full of surprises with light and music - far from musty circus box flair.

Further performances in 2022

Until December 30th (except December 19th, 23rd, 24th and 25th) in the Grand Chapiteau of the Munich Tollwood;


Tickets on 089/38 38 50 0.

Source: merkur

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