Cie Nuua

Nuua is a contemporary circus and visual theatre company based in Finland. They will use the residency to develop their new show Taival.

Juggler, acrobat and performance artist creates a continuity of absurd scenes around the themes of control, manipulation and pain. Scenes follow one another creating a raw performance with a mixture of black humour and oddness.

A thin layer of white dust covers the floor and spreads around the air while a juggler is hitting his uncontrollable legs with his clubs. A man breaks through from a costume made of melted candle wax. People are manipulated with dog leashes and collars in animalistic struggles. Falls, crashes and physical games...

Taival mixes contemporary dance, juggling and visual theatre on stage to create a performance around human bodies, their functions and gestures. The natural presence of performers is mixed with amplified sounds of simple actions inviting the spectators to a more close-to-human experience. Freely mixing different performing art forms, Taival is versatile, rough and corporal work of contemporary circus.

This is part of Transmission 2015.
This annual circus residency programme returns for its third year, with companies from all over the world developing new work and testing new technological ideas in the theatre and around the building, with the results of their creations in exclusive sharings at the end of each residency.

This year they introduce new disciplines such as parkour, triple trapeze and triple cyr wheel.

Come share in Transmission 2015 and be part of the creation of tomorrow’s new circus, today.