Spinning Compass Performance & DYNAMO Workspace presents a mad circus attack from the sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unlike the pillaging norsemen of the past whose arrival meant \u201cRUN \nFOR YOUR LIVES\u201d, the crew of Johanne are conquering new land with aerial\n equilibrism from the masts, death defying stunts along the wharf and \n\u201chand to hand\u201d in high seas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The North has a long seafaring tradition and the ocean has always played a big part in defining us as peoples; binding us together and in turn keeping us apart. From this rich nordic mythology full of tales of the sea, \u201cCircus from the Nordic Sea\u201d finds its visual and musical inspiration, and introduces it in a modern and highly relevant context:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCircus from the Nordic Sea\u201d is a social circus experiment set in a near and imagined future. Here politics and society has developed in an extremely conservative direction with no room left for dreamers and performers of the arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A group of Circus artists \u2013 a ship of freaks and clowns \u2013 refuses to take part in this world. And so they sail, adrift in international waters free from national restraints. Here they can create their art, and their own society. \u2013 \u00a0But what madness will come from isolation at sea?<\/p>\n\n\n\n