TAKTiL

a contemporary circus piece about objects and connection.

Forty white blocks, a stone, a performer, a wine glass, a piece of rope, 5 white balls and an audience.

Everybody likes to play.

In TAKTiL the stage is encountered as a gallery where juggler, dancer  Benjamin Richter creates sculptures in a humorously poetic journey of images that seem to expand in time. Moving in a sensitive dialog of object manipulation, Benjamin makes the qualities of his non-human partners tangible to others.

He shares possibilities, before giving space to the audience to participate and discover for themselves what happens next. Play leads to connection, and with his 30 years’ experience of working subtly through humour, Benjamin gently invites people to cross the artificial boundary between spectator and stage, giving space for collaboration in playful presence.

The question of who is performing for who, eventually becomes irrelevant in the fun and connecting experience that is TAKTiL. A minimalistic soundtrack supports the game that delicately shifts between the aesthetic and the absurd. The resulting encounter is touching in its honesty, moving in its beauty and funny.