Catoptric
Black Box Circus

In Catoptric, the bodies of the performers are confronted with a stage set made of steel and mirrors. It consists of five rolling distorting mirrors about the size of a door, an equally large empty mirror frame and a 2m x 3m swivel mirror on wheels. The mirrors act at times as symbols of egoism, narcissism and madness, at other times as everyday objects. Sometimes the performers move in dance and circus sequences on, under and in front of the mirrors, other times they have (self-) conversations with their mirror images while a red thread develops during the performance. Thus the mirrors as leitmotif transport the interplay of narrative and abstraction. This two-sidedness forms the ground of the concept and runs from the artistic approach to the music through all levels of the production.