Circus Arts | Comedy | juggling | physical theatre
Spot the Drop
DE
Stehfleisch & Sitzvermögen / Catch of the day
Where does habit stop and madness begin?
Spot the Drop combine their obsessive object manipulation with snappy tunes and wonderfully absurd irreverence. Caught up in a time loop, waiting in vain, they juggle themselves through their eternal day, filled with peculiar quirks and strange rituals. Chairs, balls, rings, clubs, various odds and ends become representatives of a complex, desperate world, inhabited only by our tragicomic protagonists. The show is minutely choreographed and clocked to the second; what starts off as extreme boredom quickly escalates and develops into a Beckettian Theatre of the Absurd, where the conflicts are old yet far from resolved.
And so it all revolves around one question: where does habit stop and madness begin?
Spot the Drop are the two jongleurs extraordinaires Niels Seidel (ESAC, Brussels) and Malte Steinmetz (Circomedia, Bristol). They first met in 2009 in Wuppertal and started working in cabaret, corporate events and dinner shows. British met Belgian humour. In 2010, Spot the Drop started to collaborate with Smashed by Gandini Juggling, also creating the street show Vorwürfe & Handgreiflichkeiten. An abundance of material for two jugglers – accumulated in hotels, train stations, airports and elsewhere – lead the two to conceive the stage show Stehfleisch & Sitzvermögen,
(And by the way: don’t even try to understand the German title Stehfleisch & Sitzvermögen!)
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Idea + concept + performer
Niels Seidel
Malte Steinmetz
direction
Ben Richter
artistic consultant
Gaston Florin
light design + stage technics
Lars Leyendecker
music
Analogik
Aikido
Andreas Poggel
costume
Sabine Kreiter
management
Melanie Maier
photo
Stefan Nölle
Jakob Terlau
video
Chris Mersmann
website
Birgit Pardun
production
Seidel + Steinmetz GbR
stage
8 x 6 m (Mindesthöhe 5 m)
Black box
team
2 Darsteller
1 Techniker
audience
< 400
Alter: 9 - 99
duration
ca 65 Minuten
prouction
Spot The Drop, Seidel, Steinmetz GbR
artistic residency
Flottmann-Herne Herne
creation
2016