Artistic laboratory 2010 in Subtopia, Sweden
Juggling the Arts workshop in November 2010 focused on the artistic research processes in the field of contemporary circus. The international team of workshop mentors guided the participants in developing their own artistic projects. Discussions, exercises, experiments and artist encounters encouraged the participants to test, challenge and deepen their ideas and artistic processes.

The artists participated in a five-day artistic laboratory in Subtopia, Sweden.

Participants were:
Bjørn Olav Hauknes (NO)
Hege Østefjells (NO)
Karoline Aamås (DK)
Lisa Marie Ødegaard (DK)
Klara Mossberg (SE)
Lisa Angberg (SE)
Linn Brodén (SE)
Kajsa Bolin (SE)
Ilona Jäntti (FI)
Aino Hurri (FI)
Joona Kaakinen (FI)
Juho Sarno (FI)

Mentors were:
Daniel Gulko (US/FR)
Maksim Komaro (FI)
Sverre Waage (NO)

Daniel Gulko, director of Cahin-caha, has developed a “bastard” style: hybrid, irreverent, lyrical and dense. Born in the USA, Gulko has led a 30 year international career; navigating between experimental and political performance, street spectacle and modern ritual. Living in France since 1993, Gulko was a founding member and director of the group “Pocheros” before creating “Cahin-caha” in 1998. The result of this international criss-crossing of experiences and meetings are creations including raWdoG 1999, GRIMM 2003, Moby Locked-Up 2007, REV 2010.

Maksim Komaro is one of Finland’s most established contemporary circus artists. He has over ten years’ experience of creating circus theatre and is co-founder of Circo Aereo with Jani Nuutinen. Komaro has worked with Compagnie Jérôme Thomas and has directed several works such as FUR!, Louisiana Circus, Espresso, one of his most famous works, with Les Objets Volants, and recently Petit Mal with Race Horse Company, one of the winners of Jeunes Talents Cirque Europe in 2010. He is renowned as a juggling innovator.

Sverre Waage is a Norwegian director, script writer and producer. He started 30 years ago working with performance art, new circus and street art, as a performer and creator. After an injury in 1987 he started working as a director and artistic director at theatres and festivals. In 2001 he founded Cirkus Xanti and that was also the year of his first big tent production of contemporary circus, “Ringen”. In 2006 his circus-theatre creation “Trollprinsen” was awarded The Norwegian Theatre Unions Hedda-prize as best performance. He is the founder and leader of The Circus Village, a mobile international festival, network and resident space in Norway.