CDFthek

The CDFthek is the digital platform of the CircusDanceFestival.
It brings together documentation, archiving, and digital projects. The CDFthek offers access to festival recordings, documentary films, multimedia content, and a selection of texts and publications exploring topics related to contemporary circus and dance.
All articles from the festival’s own Voices Magazine, dedicated to theoretical reflection on circus and dance, are fully available – as a growing archive and a source of inspiration for further exploration.
Enjoy browsing – and welcome to the CDFthek!
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Trailer
1 Min.Festival Teaser 2026
by Michael Straßburger
1 min.Festival Teaser 2025
by Michael Strassburger
1 MinFestival Teaser 2024
by Michael Strassburger
2 MinFestival Teaser 2023
Carte Blanche Artist: Marina Cherry
1 minFestival Teaser 2022
Carte Blanche Artist: Breno Caetano
2 minFestivalteaser 2021
by Overhead Project & Guests
1 minFestivalteaser 2020
by Overhead Project & Guests
Documentaries
28 MinDuckumentary about Marija Baranauskaitė
Documentary by Filip Jacobson
20 MinAbout Julian Vogel
Documentary by Filip Jacobson
14 minAbout Laura Murphy
by Filip Jacobson
19 minAbout Overhead Project
Documentary by Filip Jacobson
24 MinAbout Tacho Tinta
Documentary by Filip Jacobson

About Breno Caetano & Sergi Pares
Documentary by Filip Jacobson
19 minAbout Claudio Stellato
Documentary by Filip Jacobson
Podium
69 min.Take Care Conference
From the individual to the collective care
CircusDanceFestival 2025
110 MinBeyond the Status Quo
Podium in Cooperation with the ifc
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 MinCircus magazines, media and it's topics
International Network of Circus Arts Magazins (INCAM)
CircusDanceFestival 2023
75 MinRe-thinking objects
VOICES Morning Talk
CircusDanceFestival 2022
95 Min (DE)Non-discrimination in Circus
Meet Up
CircusDanceFestival 2022
Creation Lab Talk
CircusDanceFestival 2021
Artist Talk
28 min.Meet the Artist
Julian Vogel in conversation with Tim Behren
CircusDanceFestival 2025
25 min.Meet the Artist
Mélissa Guex in conversation with Ariane Gros
CircusDanceFestival 2025
25 MinMeet the Artist
Marija Baransauskaitė & Team
Moderated by Jenny Patschovsky
CircusDanceFestival 2023
30 MinMeet the Artists
Jörg Müller & Cendrine Gallezot
Moderated by Tim Behren
CircusDanceFestival 2022
20 MinMeet the Artists
Julian Vogel & Filip Jacobson
Moderated by Mirjam Hildbrand
CircusDanceFestival 2022
54 MinMeet the Artists
Cherish Menzo, Benjamin Kahn & Chiara Caterina
Moderated by Afsun Moshiry
CircusDanceFestival 2022
34 MinMeet the Artists
Clemence Gilbert & Alejo Bianchi (Cie. XY)
Moderated by Tim Behren
CircusDanceFestival 2022
35 MinMeet 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 MinMeet the Artists
Crispin Bade & Bar Gonen
Moderated by Valentina Barone
CircusDanceFestival 2022
30 MinMeet the Artist
Claudio Stellato
Moderated by Mirjam Hildbrand
CircusDanceFestival 2021
29 MinMeet the Artists
Breno Caetano & Sergi Pares
Moderated by Melanie Suchy
CircusDanceFestival 2021
23 MinMeet the Artist
Laura Murphy
Moderated by Mirjam Hildbrand & Bauke Lievens
CircusDanceFestival 2021
20 MinMeet the Artist
Toon van Gramberen (Carrying fathers)
Moderated by Tim Behren
CircusDanceFestival 2021
VOICES V
Editorial
Instinct and Laughter
by Leo Bassi
Dancing in the Chaos
Probing Matter out of Place
three quetions to Ante Ursic
Can Clown change?
Interview with Amrita Dhaliwal
VOICES IV
ENEditorial
A Freak Hauntology
by Ante Ursic
Patterns of the Unfinished
by Susanne Foellmer
Arms, tentacles, branches, grapevines
by Franziska Trapp
FutureBrownSpace
by John-Paul Zaccarini
There is no such thing as zero risk
Talking to Rémi Lecocq from company Cirque Inextremiste
EZ - SOME PRACTICES OF NO
by Elena Zanzu
VOICES III
3 MinEditorial
Jenny Patschovsky
7 Min(More than) Human? Staging Strategies in Contemporary Circus
Franziska Trapp
10 MinMoving Objects
A Conversation between Saar Rombout, Darragh McLoughlin, Benjamin Richter and Jenny Patschovsky
10 MinCircus as Practice of Hope for the Future
Marie-Andrèe Robitaille
8 MinPresence in Contemporary Circus
An interview with Prof. Tillmann Damrau by Jenny Patschovsky
8 MinThe Dis_locating Object
Tim Behren
VOICES II
Editorial
DEZeitgenössischer Zirkus: Ursprünge und aktuelle Entwicklungen
von Tim Behren, Mirjam Hildbrand und Jenny Patschovsky
DEÜberlegungen zur Ästhetik hybrider Kunstformen zwischen Tanz und Zirkus
von Jean-Michel Guy
DEGemeinsam (durch Zirkus) Denken
von Bauke Lievens, Quintijn Ketels, Sebatian Kann, Viencent Foquet
DEDenkbewegungen zwischen Zirkus und Tanz
von Tim Behren
DEZirkus – Begriffe, Wertvorstellungen und eine große Liebe
von Mirjam Hildbrand
DEZeitgenössisch aber Zirkus
von Jenny Patschovsky
DE10 Jahre für den Zeitgenössischen Zirkus in Köln
von Jenny Patschovsky
Exhibition XY
LES VOYAGES XY - EXP. 0 | Nablus, Palestina 2017
LES VOYAGES XY - EXP. 1 | Vieux-Condé, France 2018
Les Voyages Exp. 5 | London, England 2019
LES VOYAGES XY - EXP. 8 | Lille, France 2021
LES VOYAGES XY - EXP.12 | Chalon-sur-Saône, France 2021
LES VOYAGES XY - EXP.19 | Derry-Londonderry, North Irland 2022
„Zirkus im Gespräch“ Edition #1
Writing contemporary circus: On physical language and a modest approach by Lukas Arndt
Contemporary for Whom? On gatekeeping and access in circus by Tana Onochie
Negotiating the in-between: Circus in the city by Thusnelda Marín Jungmann
Come Closer … with Tim Behren by Thusnelda Marín Jungmann
Come Closer … with the audience (Lower Level) by Thusnelda Marín Jungmann
Come Closer … with Ina Brandes by Thusnelda Marín Jungmann
Stickman, Manstick, Men by Lukas Arndt
Invitation lost? by Swantje Kawecki
Workshop with XY: Melting in hugs by Swantje Kawecki
Let’s play a game called networking by Swantje Kawecki
An Opening Act full of risk by Thusnelda Marín Jungmann
The Reinvention of the Wheel by Lukas Arndt
Handle with care - a little bit of dreaming is allowed by Swantje Kawecki
Come closer … with Fabrice Dominici (Compagnie Inextremiste Circus) By Thusnelda Marín Jungmann
360 ° I: What Remains? by Tana Onochie
Guys, keep your shirt on! By Lukas Arndt
Come closer … with the audience (Entre deux) by Thusnelda Marín Jungmann
Let’s burn down the patriarchy by Thusnelda Marín Jungmann
The latest gossip about applause by Thusnelda Marín Jungmann
Too good to be true? By Tana Onochie and Thusnelda Marín Jungmann
Are you a steamboat or a sailing boat? by Thusnelda Marìn Jungmann
Come closer … with Luciana Luthi by Thusnelda Marín Jungmann
Coffee and coffee by Lukas Arndt
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