CDFthek

CDFthek is our digital documentation platform. It serves as an experimental and research space for forms of documentation and digital projects. As a library network, it contains a selection of texts published by us on circus and dance theory reflections. The documentary film series "About …", created in collaboration with Cologne-based filmmaker Filip Jacobson, focuses on the creative process of selected festival artists. You will also find recordings of our two symposia as well as insights into the creation labs we initiated as a collaboration between European dance and circus universities.

Enjoy browsing and exploring!

1 Min

Festival Teaser 2025

Festival Teaser

 1 min.

Festival Teaser 2025

by Michael Strassburger

 1 Min

Festival Teaser 2024

by Michael Strassburger

 2 Min

Festival Teaser 2023

Carte Blanche Artist: Marina Cherry

 1 min

Festival Teaser 2022

Carte Blanche Artist: Breno Caetano

 2 min

Festivalteaser 2021

by Overhead Project & Guests

 1 min

Festivalteaser 2020

by Overhead Project & Guests

Aftermovies

 1 Min.

Aftermovie 2024

by Filip Jacobson

 2 Min.

Aftermovie | Latibul CircusGarden 2024

By Filip Jacobson

 1 min.

Aftermovie 2023

by Filip Jacobson

 1 min.

Aftermovie 2022

by Filip Jacobson

Festival Artists

 1 min.

Mélissa Guex: Rapunzel

CircusDanceFestival 2025

 1 min.

Mélissa Guex & Clément Grin: DOWN (Single Version)

CircusDanceFestival 2025

Films

 28 Min

Duckumentary about Marija Baranauskaitė

Documentary by Filip Jacobson

 20 Min

About Julian Vogel

Documentary by Filip Jacobson

 14 min

About Laura Murphy

by Filip Jacobson

 19 min

About Overhead Project

Documentary by Filip Jacobson

 24 Min

About Tacho Tinta

Documentary by Filip Jacobson

 23 min

About Breno Caetano & Sergi Pares

Documentary by Filip Jacobson

 19 min

About Claudio Stellato

Documentary by Filip Jacobson

 3 Min

Breno Caetano: Title in suspension

Carte Blanche, VOICES I, 2020

 2 Min

Laura Murphy: Measuring Up

Carte Blanche, VOICES I, 2020

 1 Min

VOICES I Teaser

CircusDanceFestival 2020

 1 Min

Laughing for VOICES I

CircusDanceFestival 2020

Talks

 110 Min

Beyond the Status Quo

Podium in Cooperation with the ifc
CircusDanceFestival 2023

 25 Min

Meet the Artist

Marija Baransauskaitė & Team

Moderated by Jenny Patschovsky
CircusDanceFestival 2023

 85 Min (DE)

Contemporary circus on the brink of extinction - What next?

Panel of the BUZZ Professional Conference
CircusDanceFestival 2023

 47 Min. (DE&EN)

Setting the stage

Circus funding of tomorrow

Keynotes of the BUZZ Professional Conference CircusDanceFestival 2023

 51 Min

Circus magazines, media and it's topics

International Network of Circus Arts Magazins (INCAM)

CircusDanceFestival 2023

 30 Min

Meet the Artists

Jörg Müller & Cendrine Gallezot

Moderated by Tim Behren
CircusDanceFestival 2022

 20 Min

Meet the Artists

Julian Vogel & Filip Jacobson

Moderated by Mirjam Hildbrand
CircusDanceFestival 2022

 54 Min

Meet the Artists

Cherish Menzo, Benjamin Kahn & Chiara Caterina

Moderated by Afsun Moshiry
CircusDanceFestival 2022

 34 Min

Meet the Artists

Clemence Gilbert & Alejo Bianchi (Cie. XY)

Moderated by Tim Behren
CircusDanceFestival 2022

 75 Min

Re-thinking objects

VOICES Morning Talk
CircusDanceFestival 2022

 95 Min (DE)

Non-discrimination in Circus

Meet Up
CircusDanceFestival 2022

 35 Min

Meet the Artists

Eleonora Dall’Asta & Luuk Brantjes

Moderated by Valentina Barone
CircusDanceFestival 2022

 26 Min (DE)

Meet the Artists

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

Moderated by Dorte Eilers
CircusDanceFestival 2022

 32 Min

Meet the Artists

Crispin Bade & Bar Gonen

Moderated by Valentina Barone
CircusDanceFestival 2022

 25 Min (DE)

Opening

CircusDanceFestival 2022

 30 Min

Meet the Artist

Claudio Stellato

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

 29 Min

Meet the Artists

Breno Caetano & Sergi Pares

Moderated by Melanie Suchy
CircusDanceFestival 2021

 23 Min

Meet the Artist

Laura Murphy

Moderated by Mirjam Hildbrand & Bauke Lievens
CircusDanceFestival 2021

 20 Min

Meet the Artist

Toon van Gramberen (Carrying fathers)

Moderated by Tim Behren
CircusDanceFestival 2021

ArchiveLab

 3 min.

ArchiveLab 2024

A documentary by Filip Jacobson

Young Savages

 31 Min

Livestream Video

nologo kollektiv

CircusDanceFestival 2021

 32 Min (DE)

Meet the Artists

3xEva

Moderated by Katharina Klapdor
CircusDanceFestival 2021

University Cooperations

 2 Min

CreationLab Performance

ZZT & ÉSAC

CircusDanceFestival 2023

 21 Min

CreationLab Performance

ZZT & ÉSAC

CircusDanceFestival 2021

 50 Min

Talk

ZZT & ÉSAC

Moderated by Tim Behren
CircusDanceFestival 2021

 4 Min

Student Project

Can you hear it?

ZZT & Breno Caetano
for VOICES I
CircusDanceFestival 2020

Symposium: Circus and Heritage (BUZZ)

 9 min (EN)

Impulsspeech: Menno van Dyke

CircusDanceFestival 2024

 9 min (EN)

Impulsespeech: Diana Salles

CircusDanceFestival 2024

 61 min (EN)

Heritage - Retrospective & Renewal

Podiumsdiscussion hosted by BUZZ

Moderated by Diana Salles

CircusDanceFestival 2024

Symposium: Re-Writing Circus

 25 min

Opening

Tim Behren, Mirjam Hildbrand and Jenny Patschovsky

 70 min

Angélique Willkie

The relational body

Moderated by Mirjam Hildbrand

 47 min

Bauke Lievens

Thinking through Circus

Moderated by Jenny Patschovsky

 50 min

Laura Murphy, Bauke Lievens and Angélique Willkie

Artist Talk

Moderated by Tim Behren

 60 min

Sabine Reich and Claudio Stellato

Construction Sites

Moderated by Mirjam Hildbrand

 62 min

Franziska Trapp

Reading Circus

Moderated by Jenny Patschovsky

 15 min

Closing

Tim Behren, Mirjam Hildbrand and Jenny Patchovsky

About the Festival

 4 min.

WDR Westart

The CircusDanceFestival in Cologne

 8 min.

Festivalportrait 2021

by Filip Jacobson

VOICES V: Re-Clowning

Cover and content

 3 Min

Editorial

Jenny Patschovsky & Benjamin Richter

 8 Min

Instinct and Laughter

Leo Bassi interviewed by Jenny Patschovsky

 7 Min

Im Chaos tanzen

Jacqueline Russell

 8 Min

Can Clown change?

Amrita Dhaliwal interviewed by Benjamin Richter

 10 Min

Probing Matter out of Place

Three questions for Ante Ursić by Jenny Patschovsky & Benjamin Richter

Voices IV: Re-Exploring the Grotesque

Cover and content

 2 Min

Editorial

Tim Behren & Valentina Barone

 15 Min

A Freak Hauntology

Ante Ursić

 5 Min

Patterns of the Unfinished

Susanne Foellmer

 5 Min

Arms, tentacles, branches, grapevines

An Interview with Alexander Vantournhout by Franziska Trapp

 1 Min

Trailer

Through The Grapevine

Alexander VanThournhout

 1 Min

Trailer

VanThorhout

Alexander VanThournhout

 10 Min

FutureBrownSpace

John-Paul Zaccarini

 12 Min

Brother – an intersectional revenge fantasy

John-Paul Zaccarini & Peter Coyte

 8 Min

There is no such thing as zero risk

An Interview with Rémi Lecocq by Valentina Barone

 1 Min

Trailer

Extension

Cirque Inextremiste

Rémi Lecocq interviewed by Valentina Barone

 2 Min

Trailer

Extrêmités

Cirque Inextremiste

Rémi Lecocq interviewed by Valentina Barone

 8 Min

EZ - SOME PRACTICES OF NO

Elena Zanzu

 1 Min

Trailer

EZ

Elena Zanzu

 5 Min

Video-Interview

A Catalan Journey

Elena Zanzu interviewed by Tristán Pérez-Martín

VOICES III: Re-Thinking Objects

Cover and content

 3 Min

Editorial

Jenny Patschovsky

 7 Min

(More than) Human? Staging Strategies in Contemporary Circus

Franziska Trapp

 10 Min

Moving Objects

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

 10 Min

Circus as Practice of Hope for the Future

Marie-Andrèe Robitaille

 8 Min

Presence in Contemporary Circus

An interview with Prof. Tillmann Damrau by Jenny Patschovsky

 8 Min

The Dis_locating Object

Tim Behren

VOICES II: Re-Writing Circus

Cover and content

 3 Min (DE)

Editorial

Tim Behren, Mirjam Hildbrand and Jenny Patschovsky

 3 Min (DE)

Contemporary Circus: Origins and today's developments

Tim Behren, Mirjam Hildbrand and Jenny Patschovsky

 15 Min (DE)

Writing for Circus: A dramaturgy?

Barbara Métais-Chastanier

 10 Min (DE)

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

Jean-Michel Guy

 8 Min (DE)

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

Angélique Willkie

 4 Min (DE)

Thinking (through Circus) Together

Bauke Lievens, Quintijn Ketels, Sebastian Kann and Vincent Focquet

 7 Min (DE)

40 Fragen… Wege zu einer Dramaturgie des Zeitgenössischen Zirkus

Franziska Trapp

 2 Min (DE)

Thought movements between circus and dance

Tim Behren

 2 Min (DE)

Circus - Concepts, Values and a Great Love

Mirjam Hildbrand

 2 Min (DE)

Contemporary but circus

Jenny Patschovsky

 4 Min (DE)

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

 2 Min

Editorial

Tim Behren

 1 Min

I love you stranger

Katharina Klapdor

 7 Min

Laura Murphy

Interviewed by Tim Behren

 8 Min

Claudio Stellato

Interviewed by Tim Behren and Katharina Klapdor

 Photo Series

Selfination Series

Maiol Pruna Soler

 5 Min

Svalbard Company

Interviewed by Tim Behren and Katharina Klapdor

 5 Min

Watwilla and Kompanie Neun

(Young Savages)

Interviewed by Tim Behren and Katharina Klapdor

Foto: Stefan Sing
 5 Min

Stefan Sing

Interviewed by Tim Behren

 7 Min

International Visitors Program

Interviewed by Katharina Klapdor and Tim Behren

 5 Min

Overhead Project

Interviewed by Katharina Klapdor

 5 Min

Breno Caetano & Sergi Pares

Interviewed by Katharina Klapdor

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