Perspectives Festival.
Lettuce that crunches under the tooth, blueberry blue that slowly drips down faces and invades mouths, a fridge that magically fills up... FOOD takes the audience into a playful, offbeat universe where consumption becomes spectacle, driven by the deeply human desire to want more.
Through acrobatics and misappropriated objects, five contemporary circus artists offer a singular, vibrant and unexpected theater of the body. What begins as a simple, everyday act (feeding oneself) gradually turns into an obsessive, mechanical ritual in which the boundary between need and desire becomes blurred. The result is a grotesque, surprising and fascinating world. Austrian circus artist Michael Zandl is a graduate of Codarts University for the Arts of Rotterdam (2017). In 2021, he co-wrote the hit show Sawdust Symphony, presented at the Perspectives festival in 2024. With FOOD, he directs his first show, affirming an artistic style composed of acrobatics, absurdities and abstractions. His universe, nourished by unusual situations and subtle humor, becomes effective storytelling.
With FOOD, Michael Zandl and his team present a neo-circus creation that is as funny as it is critical, questioning our consumer habits. On stage, nibbling, exploding and overflowing. Chips appear in this almost harmless space... A space which, at first orderly, is gradually transformed into a chaotic playground. In this pantry-turned-battlefield, foodstuffs clash in an escalation as absurd as it is jubilant. An extraordinary feast.
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