CRUSH
Direction for Codarts Circus Arts 2026
CRUSH crashes through life—messy, fast, and completely unpredictable.
Twenty-one hearts beating together, twenty-one hearts at risk, and still jumping anyway.
CRUSH is a collective piece that embraces the paradox of loving and living.
Circus is our biggest love, our biggest crush: the place where falling is normal, trying again is expected, and love somehow sneaks in, keeping us moving
no matter how hard we hit the ground. With love, your CRUSH ️️
Made in collaboration with the performers:
1st year bachelor students Codarts Circus Arts
Niels Andersen, Sam Andriessen, Isabel Angeles Masset, Onni Auvinen, Cyrille Bisenz, Daphné De-Waële, Annika Eßer, Adam German, Annalena Hruby, Esmee Jacobs, Sofia Nielsen, Juniper Nolan, Inka Plate, Yaël Rabat, Naomi de Regt, Layla Stollbert, Gregor Straub, Simon Thiede, Mathilde Tholozan Hugon, Úlfgrímur Valgeirsson, Josephine Wystub
Saana Tolonen – direction assistance
Lucia Kiel - music advice & arrangement
Edwin van Steenbergen - lights
William Bakker - sound
Nikolay Pyasta, Saar Rombout, Erik Berkey - rigging
Vivian Hendriks - production
Lise Beaumard & Emilie Benešová - Photography
MEMORIES FROM TOMORROW
Direction for Codarts Circus Arts 2025
Picture by Jona Harnischmacher
What does tomorrow hold, and how can we shape it today?
20 artists unite on stage for the first time, blending circus and music to express their hopes and concerns for the near future.
Circus becomes their shared voice, a tool for dialogue, creation, and connection.
MEMORIES FROM TOMORROW is an invitation for hope and collaboration, a wake-up call infused with humor and poetry.
with:
Amelie Achminow, Antonin Ait-Taleb, Natalie Aldana Bedoya, Bella Bouchain, Lin van Brug, Jellica Collier, Nika De Cooman, Gaëtan Debien, Apolline Dubourg, Ellen Fäßler, Adrien Grammatico, Rune Jansen, Joell Kimpel, Mia Landauer, Lily Nolet, Lehel Odrich, Capuchin Patrux, Kira Ridzi, Valerie Weindel, Lucas Weston Lucia Kiel - music advice & arrangement Thomas Falk - artistic advice & coaching Edwin van Steenbergen - lights William Bakker - sound Nikolay Pyasta - rigging Vivian Hendriks - production
SEE ONE. A wish against loneliness
Direction for Codarts Circus Arts 2024
In times of screens, long distance bonds and political unrest, loneliness becomes almost inevitable.On stage, 17 young artists come together for the first time.SEE ONE highlights their shared desire for togetherness through the vocabulary of circus and music.For them, circus represents community, connection and joy.SEE ONE is an invitation, a celebration and a desire for genuine human connection.
with
Emily Benešová, Lydie Boisset, Edvin Broms, Luigi Fabia Valdatta, Anna Rosa Jacke,Manja Köhmstedt, Patricia Leon, Fer Mariscal Jiménez, Rafael Martins de Almeida Gonzalez, Christian Martinez Betancourt, Fabian Otte,Roos Ruitenbeek, Yoav Shemesh, Jerry Simon, Oskar Thomas, Ailvin Turmel,Julie VoisinLucia Kiel - music advice & arrangementThomas Falk- artistic advice & coachingEdwin van Steenbergen - lightsWilliam Bakker - soundNikolay Pyasta, Roshan Bhalotra - riggingVivian Hendriks - production