In TAKTiL the stage is encountered as a gallery where juggler, dancer and performer Benjamin Richter creates sculptures in a humorously poetic journey of images that seem to expand in time. Moving in a sensitive dialog of object manipulation, Benjamin makes the qualities of his non-human partners tangible to others. Everybody likes to play, and audiences are gently invited to cross the artificial boundary between spectator and stage, giving space for collaboration in playful presence. The question of who is performing for who, eventually becomes irrelevant and the resulting encounter is touching in its honesty, moving in its beauty and funny.
About the Company
Benjamin Richter is a performing artist working at the intersections of contemporary circus and dance since 1991. He has developed a unique choreographic voice encompassing his playful somatic, object-oriented, and improvisational practices. He likes to laugh.
Benjamin creates and performs both as a soloist and in various collaborations with, amongst others, the Bauhaus Dessau foundation, The Czech Association for Choreographic Development and Cirkus Cirkör. He has collaborated with Gandini Juggling in three productions since 1993, and has performed his own works in theatres, museums, galleries and at festivals worldwide.
About the Location
The Haus der Architektur Köln (hdak) is a architectural culture centre that serves as a stage, showcase and forum for architecture, urban development, open space planning, building culture in the region. The centre is run by a non-profit association for the promotion of architecture and urban development. It is being used as a performance space for Zeit für Zirkus for the third time.