CDFthek

CDFthek is our digital documentation platform. It is an experimental and research space for forms of documentation and for digital projects. As a library network, some of our published texts on circus and dance theory reflection can be found here. The documentary film series "About ...", in collaboration with the Cologne filmmaker Filip Jacobson, is dedicated to the creative process of selected festival artists. There are recordings of our symposiums as well as insights into the creation labs we initiated as a cooperation between European dance and circus universities.

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Festival Teaser 2024

Festival Teaser

Festival Teaser 2024

Re-Inventing Circus

by Michael Strassburger

Festival Teaser 2023

Carte Blanche Artist: Marina Cherry

Festival Teaser 2022

Carte Blanche Artist: Breno Caetano

Festivalteaser 2021

by Overhead Project & Guests

Festivalteaser 2020

by Overhead Project & Guests

Aftermovies

Aftermovie 2024

by Filip Jacobson

Aftermovie | Latibul CircusGarden 2024

By Filip Jacobson

Aftermovie 2023

by Filip Jacobson

Aftermovie 2022

by Filip Jacobson

Films

Duckumentary about Marija Baranauskaitė

Documentary by Filip Jacobson

About Julian Vogel

Documentary by Filip Jacobson

About Laura Murphy

by Filip Jacobson

About Overhead Project

Documentary by Filip Jacobson

About Tacho Tinta

Documentary by Filip Jacobson

About Breno Caetano & Sergi Pares

Documentary by Filip Jacobson

About Claudio Stellato

Documentary by Filip Jacobson

Breno Caetano: Title in suspension

Carte Blanche, VOICES I, 2020

Laura Murphy: Measuring Up

Carte Blanche, VOICES I, 2020

VOICES I Teaser

CircusDanceFestival 2020

Laughing for VOICES I

CircusDanceFestival 2020

Talks

Beyond the Status Quo

Podium in Cooperation with the ifc
CircusDanceFestival 2023

Meet the Artist

Marija Baransauskaitė & Team

Moderated by Jenny Patschovsky
CircusDanceFestival 2023

Contemporary circus on the brink of extinction - What next?

Panel of the BUZZ Professional Conference
CircusDanceFestival 2023

Setting the stage

Circus funding of tomorrow

Keynotes of the BUZZ Professional Conference CircusDanceFestival 2023

Circus magazines, media and it's topics

International Network of Circus Arts Magazins (INCAM)

CircusDanceFestival 2023

Meet the Artists

Jörg Müller & Cendrine Gallezot

Moderated by Tim Behren
CircusDanceFestival 2022

Meet the Artists

Julian Vogel & Filip Jacobson

Moderated by Mirjam Hildbrand
CircusDanceFestival 2022

Meet the Artists

Cherish Menzo, Benjamin Kahn & Chiara Caterina

Moderated by Afsun Moshiry
CircusDanceFestival 2022

Meet the Artists

Clemence Gilbert & Alejo Bianchi (Cie. XY)

Moderated by Tim Behren
CircusDanceFestival 2022

Re-thinking objects

VOICES Morning Talk
CircusDanceFestival 2022

Non-discrimination in Circus

Meet Up
CircusDanceFestival 2022

Meet the Artists

Eleonora Dall’Asta & Luuk Brantjes

Moderated by Valentina Barone
CircusDanceFestival 2022

Meet the Artists

Mijin Kim, Silvia Ehnis & Seulki Hwang (Cie. Tacho Tinta)

Moderated by Dorte Eilers
CircusDanceFestival 2022

Meet the Artists

Crispin Bade & Bar Gonen

Moderated by Valentina Barone
CircusDanceFestival 2022

Opening

CircusDanceFestival 2022

Meet the Artist

Claudio Stellato

Moderated by Mirjam Hildbrand
​​​​​​​CircusDanceFestival 2021

Meet the Artists

Breno Caetano & Sergi Pares

Moderated by Melanie Suchy
CircusDanceFestival 2021

Meet the Artist

Laura Murphy

Moderated by Mirjam Hildbrand & Bauke Lievens
CircusDanceFestival 2021

Meet the Artist

Toon van Gramberen (Carrying fathers)

Moderated by Tim Behren
CircusDanceFestival 2021

ArchiveLab

ArchiveLab 2024

A documentary by Filip Jacobson

Young Savages

Livestream Video

nologo kollektiv

CircusDanceFestival 2021

Meet the Artists

3xEva

Moderated by Katharina Klapdor
CircusDanceFestival 2021

University Cooperations

CreationLab Performance

ZZT & ÉSAC

CircusDanceFestival 2023

CreationLab Performance

ZZT & ÉSAC

CircusDanceFestival 2021

Talk

ZZT & ÉSAC

Moderated by Tim Behren
CircusDanceFestival 2021

Student Project

Can you hear it?

ZZT & Breno Caetano
for VOICES I
CircusDanceFestival 2020

Symposium: Circus and Heritage (BUZZ)

Impulsspeech: Menno van Dyke

CircusDanceFestival 2024

Impulsespeech: Diana Salles

CircusDanceFestival 2024

Heritage - Retrospective & Renewal

Podiumsdiscussion hosted by BUZZ

Moderated by Diana Salles

CircusDanceFestival 2024

Symposium: Re-Writing Circus

Opening

Tim Behren, Mirjam Hildbrand and Jenny Patschovsky

Angélique Willkie

The relational body

Moderated by Mirjam Hildbrand

Bauke Lievens

Thinking through Circus

Moderated by Jenny Patschovsky

Laura Murphy, Bauke Lievens and Angélique Willkie

Artist Talk

Moderated by Tim Behren

Sabine Reich and Claudio Stellato

Construction Sites

Moderated by Mirjam Hildbrand

Franziska Trapp

Reading Circus

Moderated by Jenny Patschovsky

Closing

Tim Behren, Mirjam Hildbrand and Jenny Patchovsky

About the Festival

WDR Westart

The CircusDanceFestival in Cologne

Festivalportrait 2021

by Filip Jacobson

VOICES V: Re-Clowning

Cover and content

Editorial

Jenny Patschovsky & Benjamin Richter

Instinct and Laughter

Leo Bassi interviewed by Jenny Patschovsky

Im Chaos tanzen

Jacqueline Russell

Can Clown change?

Amrita Dhaliwal interviewed by Benjamin Richter

Probing Matter out of Place

Three questions for Ante Ursić by Jenny Patschovsky & Benjamin Richter

Voices IV: Re-Exploring the Grotesque

Cover and content

Editorial

Tim Behren & Valentina Barone

A Freak Hauntology

Ante Ursić

Patterns of the Unfinished

Susanne Foellmer

Arms, tentacles, branches, grapevines

An Interview with Alexander Vantournhout by Franziska Trapp

Trailer

Through The Grapevine

Alexander VanThournhout

Trailer

VanThorhout

Alexander VanThournhout

FutureBrownSpace

John-Paul Zaccarini

Brother – an intersectional revenge fantasy

John-Paul Zaccarini & Peter Coyte

There is no such thing as zero risk

An Interview with Rémi Lecocq by Valentina Barone

Trailer

Extension

Cirque Inextremiste

Rémi Lecocq interviewed by Valentina Barone

Trailer

Extrêmités

Cirque Inextremiste

Rémi Lecocq interviewed by Valentina Barone

EZ - SOME PRACTICES OF NO

Elena Zanzu

Trailer

EZ

Elena Zanzu

Video-Interview

A Catalan Journey

Elena Zanzu interviewed by Tristán Pérez-Martín

VOICES III: Re-Thinking Objects

Cover and content

Editorial

Jenny Patschovsky

(More than) Human? Staging Strategies in Contemporary Circus

Franziska Trapp

Moving Objects

A Conversation between Saar Rombout, Darragh McLoughlin, Benjamin Richter and Jenny Patschovsky

Circus as Practice of Hope for the Future

Marie-Andrèe Robitaille

Presence in Contemporary Circus

An interview with Prof. Tillmann Damrau by Jenny Patschovsky

The Dis_locating Object

Tim Behren

VOICES II: Re-Writing Circus

Cover and content

Editorial

Tim Behren, Mirjam Hildbrand and Jenny Patschovsky

Contemporary Circus: Origins and today's developments

Tim Behren, Mirjam Hildbrand and Jenny Patschovsky

Writing for Circus: A dramaturgy?

Barbara Métais-Chastanier

Reflections on the aesthetics of hybrid art forms between dance and circus

Jean-Michel Guy

On the danger of one-sided narration (in the circus)

Angélique Willkie

Thinking (through Circus) Together

Bauke Lievens, Quintijn Ketels, Sebastian Kann and Vincent Focquet

40 Fragen… Wege zu einer Dramaturgie des Zeitgenössischen Zirkus

Franziska Trapp

Thought movements between circus and dance

Tim Behren

Circus - Concepts, Values and a Great Love

Mirjam Hildbrand

Contemporary but circus

Jenny Patschovsky

10 years for contemporary circus in Cologne

Jenny Patschovsky, chairwoman of the BUZZ
(federal association of contemporary circus in Germany)

VOICES I

Cover and content

Editorial

Tim Behren

I love you stranger

Katharina Klapdor

Laura Murphy

Interviewed by Tim Behren

Claudio Stellato

Interviewed by Tim Behren and Katharina Klapdor

Selfination Series

Maiol Pruna Soler

Svalbard Company

Interviewed by Tim Behren and Katharina Klapdor

Watwilla and Kompanie Neun

(Young Savages)

Interviewed by Tim Behren and Katharina Klapdor

Stefan Sing

Interviewed by Tim Behren

International Visitors Program

Interviewed by Katharina Klapdor and Tim Behren

Overhead Project

Interviewed by Katharina Klapdor

Breno Caetano & Sergi Pares

Interviewed by Katharina Klapdor

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