Cirkus Bombastico Praha
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Our circus is one of the smallest in the world and falls under ‘social circuses‘ even though it had been created long before ‘social circuses‘ became known in our country. It was founded by Frederico Bombastico, a world-famous jack-of-all-trades and an avowed circus performer.
In the course of our nearly nineteen-years history we have done a very intensive and thorough work focused on a community of people who have experienced or are experiencing mental, or else psychotic crisis. Our project was bound to the health and social non-profit organisation Fokus Praha for a long time but in 2013 it became independent and it has been running under the name DADA Extraart, z.s. ever since. The transition is perceived as another step forward and as a natural transfer from therapeutic care to ordinary everyday reality of our functioning within society.
Support our Cirkus
Cirkus Bombastico Praha today consists of:
· 12 artists of various professions who have experienced a certain form of aforementioned crisis
· 3 artists professionally oriented on mental health area – namely art therapy, drama therapy, psychotherapy, psychiatry
· 2 professional circus performers and their 2 children, professionally oriented on social circus, criss-crossing Europe there and back
The shows performed by our Circus have 3 forms:
· circus ‘charivari‘ – juggling, balancing, acrobatics, musicing, clown gags etc.
· fire show – juggling with fire, fire swallowing, firestick spinning, burning pois etc.
· ‘charivari‘ + fire show
Every single show has its own story, development and context; we work deliberately with the idea of fire being a metaphor within the image of mental crisis.
What our circus is and how it helps:
· We perceive circus as a place where in a very natural way mix ordinary with incredible, crazy with distinguished, quiet with loud, colourful with grey, norm and conformity with the possibility to see things from a different angle, to create and to go beyond oneself. The conscious use of these contraries over a long period has proved to be the right way how to hold a dialogue with society and how to interconnect both worlds.
· This is where one’s creativity, own skills and personal abilities erase and exceed stigma and shallow and hasty judgements about social and health differences that each of us constantly carries with himself even though we speak about integration or inclusion at ‘the highest levels‘.
· Our sessions within the Circus have positive character which is supported by corrective experience on both sides. They are based on respect, acceptance, appreciation, mutuality, creativity and imagination.
· Our performances take into consideration the meaning of the whole context as well as current needs of every single performer. We focus on the process and the readiness to perform rather than on systematic rehearsal of individual acts and series of the performance. The roles are the result of a careful search and they grow with the performers; essential part is to find one’s place within the performance, not to satisfy the ambition of the defined role.
How Cirkus Bombastico Praha works:
· Three times a year all of us meet on week-long workshops. In the meantime take place individual meetings as needed (preparations, support in times of crisis, facilitation, planning). In the last two years we have often given guest performances in other organisations with the aim to share experience in the sense of peer consultations.
· Each year 1-2 public performances take place, bigger and more important part is oriented on the community or the guest organisation. The aim is to work with oneself within the group-community-society, to actively work with one’s own qualities, otherness or sameness, to look into it and to translate own crisis into the context of ‘ordinary everyday reality‘.
Further information about the movement of our circus and photos can be found below. For information on how to support the project click here.
In the course of our nearly nineteen-years history we have done a very intensive and thorough work focused on a community of people who have experienced or are experiencing mental, or else psychotic crisis. Our project was bound to the health and social non-profit organisation Fokus Praha for a long time but in 2013 it became independent and it has been running under the name DADA Extraart, z.s. ever since. The transition is perceived as another step forward and as a natural transfer from therapeutic care to ordinary everyday reality of our functioning within society.
Support our Cirkus
Cirkus Bombastico Praha today consists of:
· 12 artists of various professions who have experienced a certain form of aforementioned crisis
· 3 artists professionally oriented on mental health area – namely art therapy, drama therapy, psychotherapy, psychiatry
· 2 professional circus performers and their 2 children, professionally oriented on social circus, criss-crossing Europe there and back
The shows performed by our Circus have 3 forms:
· circus ‘charivari‘ – juggling, balancing, acrobatics, musicing, clown gags etc.
· fire show – juggling with fire, fire swallowing, firestick spinning, burning pois etc.
· ‘charivari‘ + fire show
Every single show has its own story, development and context; we work deliberately with the idea of fire being a metaphor within the image of mental crisis.
What our circus is and how it helps:
· We perceive circus as a place where in a very natural way mix ordinary with incredible, crazy with distinguished, quiet with loud, colourful with grey, norm and conformity with the possibility to see things from a different angle, to create and to go beyond oneself. The conscious use of these contraries over a long period has proved to be the right way how to hold a dialogue with society and how to interconnect both worlds.
· This is where one’s creativity, own skills and personal abilities erase and exceed stigma and shallow and hasty judgements about social and health differences that each of us constantly carries with himself even though we speak about integration or inclusion at ‘the highest levels‘.
· Our sessions within the Circus have positive character which is supported by corrective experience on both sides. They are based on respect, acceptance, appreciation, mutuality, creativity and imagination.
· Our performances take into consideration the meaning of the whole context as well as current needs of every single performer. We focus on the process and the readiness to perform rather than on systematic rehearsal of individual acts and series of the performance. The roles are the result of a careful search and they grow with the performers; essential part is to find one’s place within the performance, not to satisfy the ambition of the defined role.
How Cirkus Bombastico Praha works:
· Three times a year all of us meet on week-long workshops. In the meantime take place individual meetings as needed (preparations, support in times of crisis, facilitation, planning). In the last two years we have often given guest performances in other organisations with the aim to share experience in the sense of peer consultations.
· Each year 1-2 public performances take place, bigger and more important part is oriented on the community or the guest organisation. The aim is to work with oneself within the group-community-society, to actively work with one’s own qualities, otherness or sameness, to look into it and to translate own crisis into the context of ‘ordinary everyday reality‘.
Further information about the movement of our circus and photos can be found below. For information on how to support the project click here.
Performances 2018
SPECIÁLNÍ ŠKOLA, DIAKONIE, Prague 4, Czech Republic
14. - 16.12. 2018
14. - 16.12. 2018
FARMA KOUT, Cirkus Bombastico Praha - 20 years on the road!
17.- 24. 7. 2018
TLOSKOV, Czech Republic
18. - 23. 6. 2018
DIAKONIE, Prague 5, Czech Republic
23. - 27. 3. 2018
17.- 24. 7. 2018
TLOSKOV, Czech Republic
18. - 23. 6. 2018
DIAKONIE, Prague 5, Czech Republic
23. - 27. 3. 2018
Performances 2017
KOMUNITNÍ CENTRUM HUSITSKÁ, Prague 3, Czech Republic
15. - 17.12. 2017
FARMA KOUT - Černý Důl - Fořt, Czech Republic
21. - 27.8. 2017 Agnes and Joachim party - 20years in Fořt!
GRIMMEN, Germany
9. - 16.7. 2017, special Guest and Host - Maestro Francesco Tutti
TLOSKOV, Czech Republic
26.6. - 3.7. 2017, Cirkus Bombastico Praha in cooperation with CSS Tloskov
DIAKONIE, Prague - Czech Republic
March 21 - 26. Special School Prague 5
15. - 17.12. 2017
FARMA KOUT - Černý Důl - Fořt, Czech Republic
21. - 27.8. 2017 Agnes and Joachim party - 20years in Fořt!
GRIMMEN, Germany
9. - 16.7. 2017, special Guest and Host - Maestro Francesco Tutti
TLOSKOV, Czech Republic
26.6. - 3.7. 2017, Cirkus Bombastico Praha in cooperation with CSS Tloskov
DIAKONIE, Prague - Czech Republic
March 21 - 26. Special School Prague 5
Performances 2016
FARMA KOUT, Černý Důl Fořt 14.10. 2016
Performance took place in cooperation with the "Week for Inclusion 2016" www.tydenproinkluzi.cz and Farma Kout, v.o.s
Performance took place in cooperation with the "Week for Inclusion 2016" www.tydenproinkluzi.cz and Farma Kout, v.o.s
CSS TLOSKOV 20.3. 2016
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Performances 2015
NERATOV 4.7. 2015
ROZTOKY U PRAHY - 10.4.2015
BAJKAZYL - PRAHA, NÁPLAVKA - 11.4. 2015
BAJKAZYL - PRAHA, NÁPLAVKA - 11.4. 2015
