Contemporary Circus Festival

El Goma transforms ordinary situations into hilarious comedy sequences. Using music loops from famous movies and cartoons, he interacts with the world around him by taking advantage of the new technologies and proposes a clever game to amaze audiences through improvisation.

Duration: 30min
Author and performer: Juan Manuel Gomez

For the last 15 years, El Goma aca Juan Manuel Gomez has been performing and learning the most precious secrets of street theater around the globe. His unique approach to the street art phenomenon gave me the possibility to perform in more than 35 countries in 4 continents... the list keeps growing. Juan Manuel Gomez has become popular in the International Street Theater scene, because of his hilarious comedy improvisations, uplifting self created comedy gags, and a remarkable skill to juggle up to 7 objects. His shows are usually speechless, so that they fit a universal audience, and are equally acclaimed by children and adults, of the most diverse nationalities.

Hollows and empties is a juggling play with elements of new magic. Author project of Domagoj Šoić, conscious and subconscious from the inner world of a juggler interpreted by light, movement and juggling balls. The play was created as a result of many years of work on stage and behind the scenes, in the role of the artist and the technician. In it, experiences and ideas are woven along the way, found, lost, collected and preserved.

Duration: 40min
Author and performer: Domagoj Šoić
Technician: Klara Barišić
Outside eyes: Georgiana Johnson
Music: Henry Marić i Domagoj Šoić
Illustration: Marko Balaban
Trailer: Klara Barišić i Matej Lesi
Production: Cirkorama
Co-production: Kazalište KNAP, Sub scena

Domagoj Šoić has been involved in circus and street art for twenty years, and ten years ago he started working as a light designer and technician for circus tents. He has extensive experience on the circus scene as a performer, but also behind it as a mentor, outside eye and lighting designer. As a performer and lighting designer, he collaborates with numerous circus organisations and some institutions in Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia and France. On the circus scene, he is known by the nickname Kuga.

Financial support: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia.

Part stand-up, part sketch comedy, and part glorious disaster. "The Greatest Hits" is a one-man variety show where everything that can go wrong… does. In a style that blends physical comedy, improvisation and unpredictable audience interaction, unexpect the expected. The show is set to work as a fail compilation of comedy sketches, executed in an anarchic "whatever" modus.

Duration: 40 mins
Author and performer: Juan Manuel Gomez

For the last 15 years, El Goma aca Juan Manuel Gomez has been performing and learning the most precious secrets of street theater around the globe. His unique approach to the street art phenomenon gave me the possibility to perform in more than 35 countries in 4 continents... the list keeps growing. Juan Manuel Gomez has become popular in the International Street Theater scene, because of his hilarious comedy improvisations, uplifting self created comedy gags, and a remarkable skill to juggle up to 7 objects. His shows are usually speechless, so that they fit a universal audience, and are equally acclaimed by children and adults, of the most diverse nationalities.

A woman enters the stage with a strange tic and throws a question to the audience: “What makes me different from an animal?” Through a world steeped in magical surrealism, where lamps come to life and women resemble animals, we reread history as written by a non-dominant subject, searching for an answer to this question and for the key to the essence of humanity. Why live this way if we could live differently? La Donna Lampada is not an attempt to romanticize imagination, but to conceive it as a social and collective practice with the power of rebellion, the force that enables us to write the history we desire and move toward a more sustainable future.

Duration: 40 min
Author and performer: Laia Picas Rodoreda
Props construction and creation support: Paolo Tonezzer
Photography: Lucrezia Ficetti
Video: Alessio Ferreri
Text: Laia Picas Rodoreda, Gaia Vimercati
Artistic mentoring: Griselda Juncà, Gaia Vimercati, Flavio d’Andrea
Lampshade construction: Michael Genovese (Abat-Jour Udine)
Technician: Jacopo Lunazzi
External support for lighting design: Tullia Luce
Illustration: Arianna Taretto

Laia’s trajectory combines intellectual curiosity with artistic experimentation and contemporary circus. She graduated in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (2019) at Pompeu Fabra University. Alongside her studies, she trained in circus, specializing in aerial rope at Rogelio Rivel (2019–2021) and FLIC Scuola di Circo (2021–2022). She later completed a Master’s in Cultural Management (2024) and furthered her research through the course Methods and Forms of Writing in Relation to Artistic Practices at the Stockholm University of the Arts (2025). As an artist, she is co-founder of the aerial rope collective Less Kuerdas, developing site-specific and participatory works such as "Drift". She also created her first solo piece, "La Donna Lampada", supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture, which toured small towns in Friuli as part of a project to bring circus to peripheral regions in Italy. More recently, she participated in a community-based creation with Nilak and is currently developing a new mediation piece, "De l’embolic al Rastre", with Dolça Alcanyís. While her work has mainly been presented indoors, she is increasingly focused on public space, and will be part of the new creation "SKWAIR" by the company BeFlat. Alongside her artistic practice, she engages in research and cultural work, including lectures, feminist awareness initiatives at festivals, and collaboration in the organisation of circus festivals.

A sci-fi performance about a dancing alien invasion as a metaphor for historical and contemporary forms of colonialism and cultural assimilation. Innocent sci-fi fun ending with a disturbing reflection on when unsolicited help becomes oppression and how only we can protect ourselves from ourselves, and only consciously and voluntarily.

Duration: 40 min
Author and Director: Zuzana Psotková
Mask production and idea: Michaela Králiková, Jana Ryšlavá
Performers: Michaela Králiková, Jana Ryšlavá, František Psotka, Zuzana Psotková
Music: f/error
Production support: Katarína Jakubovie
Production: PORT o.z.

"Human ~" was born out of a desire to spend time together — through play, creation and the joy of doing things we love. Each of the makers has their own artistic project; Human ~ is their shared adventure.

Zuzana Psotková is a performer, cultural activist and curator, co-founder and long-time dramaturg and manager of Tabačka Kulturfabrik.

Jana Ryšlavá is the founder of Move Ostrava and Move Fest, a festival now in its eighth edition that regularly brings together leading Czech and international artists in dance, mime and new circus, alongside workshops, discussions and artist residencies.

Michaela Králiková is a Slovak dancer, performer and educator based in Prague, a member of the physical theatre company Farma v jeskyni, who leads movement classes for seniors and develops her own somatic movement platform NŌMA people.

František Psotka, performing as f/error, is a musician, producer and key figure of the alternative scene in eastern Slovakia — he creates industrial electronic music under the project Standard Society, plays in post-punk band Fara and runs the community Orgon Studio at Tabačka Kulturfabrik.

Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council.

A day in the life of an overworked, jaded man, trapped in his office and his routine, He juggles his work, doing repetitive and absurd tasks, while fighting against boredom and stress, torn between his will to leave and his fear of leaving his current life behind, he tries to find ways to enjoy his work and tests the limits of what little liberty he has left. Through his obsessions, his rituals, his failures, his frustration, and the little moments of happiness in his day, he experiences the absurdities of a meaningless job in modern working culture.

Duration: 40 min
Production: Compagnie Circographie
Created and performed by: Asaf Mor
Light and sound technician: Karolyne Laporte
Outside eyes: Michaël Wiame, Matthias Romir
Residencies: Maisons Folie Wazemmes et Moulin, Centre Régional des Arts du Cirque de Lomme, La Roseraie, Latitude 50, Danse Création, UP!, Cie Bruit de Couloir, Maison Des Jonglages, Katapult

Asaf Mor is a juggler, dancer and choreographer based in Lille, France, in 2019, he co-founded Cie Circographie. In his work, juggling objects become an extension of the body, as well as dance partners that lead the body's movement. Cie Circographie's work explores both social issues and cross-disciplinary research, mixing juggling with elements of different movement and dance styles - including partnering, contact dance, hip-hop, and contemporary dance.

With the support of the French Institute in Serbia and Teatroskop, a program initiated by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the French Ministry of Culture, and Institut français Paris.

The workshop introduces the fundamental dynamic technique on aerial rope. Participants will explore movement principles through progressive technical exercises.
*It is highly recommended to be able to climb the rope to join the workshop.

Price: 35 EUR / 30 EUR *for pupils ans students
Registration: via the form

Laia’s trajectory combines intellectual curiosity with artistic experimentation and contemporary circus. She graduated in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (2019) at Pompeu Fabra University. Alongside her studies, she trained in circus, specializing in aerial rope at Rogelio Rivel (2019–2021) and FLIC Scuola di Circo (2021–2022). She later completed a Master’s in Cultural Management (2024) and furthered her research through the course Methods and Forms of Writing in Relation to Artistic Practices at the Stockholm University of the Arts (2025). As an artist, she is co-founder of the aerial rope collective Less Kuerdas, developing site-specific and participatory works such as "Drift". She also created her first solo piece, "La Donna Lampada", supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture, which toured small towns in Friuli as part of a project to bring circus to peripheral regions in Italy. More recently, she participated in a community-based creation with Nilak and is currently developing a new mediation piece, "De l’embolic al Rastre", with Dolça Alcanyís. While her work has mainly been presented indoors, she is increasingly focused on public space, and will be part of the new creation "SKWAIR" by the company BeFlat. Alongside her artistic practice, she engages in research and cultural work, including lectures, feminist awareness initiatives at festivals, and collaboration in the organisation of circus festivals.

Join Asaf Mor (Cie Circographie) for a unique workshop that blends juggling, and dance. Together, we’ll investigate how an object can create urgency in our movement and become a natural extension of the body, and how to apply dance tools to your objects, allowing objects to animate the body or highlight existing juggling ideas.
*The workshop is aimed at all levels of juggling, no previous knowledge of dance is necessary.

Price: 35 EUR / 30 EUR *for pupils ans students
Registration: via the form

Asaf Mor is a juggler, dancer and choreographer based in Lille, France, in 2019, he co-founded Cie Circographie. In his work, juggling objects become an extension of the body, as well as dance partners that lead the body's movement. Cie Circographie's work explores both social issues and cross-disciplinary research, mixing juggling with elements of different movement and dance styles - including partnering, contact dance, hip-hop, and contemporary dance.