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Common Ground

Circus Arts

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Common Ground

How common is the ground? Quite normal if you stand on your feet. 
 But what if you are doing circus?

How common is the ground? 

Quite normal if you stand on your feet. 

But what if you are doing circus? 

When you stand on your partner, your ground is two hands. 

When you climb a pole, it’s a vertical line. 

When you hang on a trapeze, is the ground above? 

Often we share a place in the air,
but once back on the ground we go separate ways. 

Not so this time. 

We want to define the ground we share.
The ground where we can be both, an individual and a group. 

It’s ours and it’s yours. 

Welcome to this 


COMMON GROUND

Common Ground - how we define the ground we share, the ground we communicate on, the ground we grow on, the ground where we can be both an individual and a group.
At first we are this particular group of circus artists on stage, determining our common ground with the audience. To take it further we are part of a society and part of humankind, were common ground is still the basic principle for communication and understanding and the construction of our common future. A future based on the acceptance of the individual freedom as well as the positive experience of the collective.
Common Ground - because together we are more than just a sum of individuals.

Common Ground is a collective of six internationally experienced circus artists who have come together to create a show. They all met at the “Academy for Circus and Performance Art” in Tilburg, Netherlands, they all have successful careers as solo and duo artists as well as performing in different collectives, companies and circusses. They have always had the desire to get together again to share their collective experiences and produce something new and exciting. Common Ground are Andreas Bartl, Christopher Schlunk, Evertjan Mercier, Zinzi Oegemi, Iris Pelz and Lisa Rinne.

author / concept / direction

Kollektiv Common Ground

artists

Andreas Bartl
Christopher Schlunk
Evertjan Mercier
Iris Pelz
Lisa Rinne
Zinzi Oegema

outside eye

Stefan Schönefeld

photo

Bernadette Fink

video

Dirk Weiler

stage

theatre / chpiteau / big venues / outside
ca 4 x 10 m, height min 9 m
bi frontal
flying trapeze
anchor point for chinese pole

team on tour

6 artists
1 - 2 technicians
1 manager

audience

2 x 500
2 x 1000 - depending on stage situation

from 8 years on 

produced by

Common Ground vzw + Common Ground GbR

supported by

Theater op de Markt / Provinciaal Domein Dommelhof BE
Kulturzentrum Tollhaus ev. Karlsruhe
Festival Cirkl, Leuven BE
CirkArtiv, Gschwend
Kinder- und Jugendzirkus Paletti, Mannheim
Festival Perplx BE

creation

2019

SIGMA

SIGMA

Gandini Juggling

 
Pelat

Pelat

Joan Catalá

 
inTarsi

inTarsi

Cia de Circo "eia"

 
The Green

The Green

WHS