Sandscapes

A black circle. A pendulum traces a delicate spiral in white sand. The movement creates patterns, which become images. The images intertwine, one superimposed upon the other: disappearing and reappearing. The circle echoes the circus ring, where danger and vulnerability are real. Nothing can be hidden. Everything is there.

A long time ago, Ueli Hirzel was a circus acrobat – a tightrope walker, to be precise. He then began working behind the scenes and created a space at his Château de Monthelon in France for emerging artists. With Hirzel’s support, numerous successful and groundbreaking productions emerged outside the mainstream. Today, Ueli Hirzel no longer performs any great contortions when he takes to the stage. He brings a few brooms with him and shows us a kind of essence of circus life – or of life itself? One might call it radical wisdom of age. Even though Hirzel comes across as anything but old when he’s there, reasoning with himself and the audience
– Ursula Huber

The performance will take place on Friday 13 November in Swiss German and on Saturday 14 November in English.