Georgina Cassels, Dora Komenda, Klara Barišić, Domagoj Šoić, Georgiana Johnson | Artists in Residence | Kamov Residency

Photo: Lina Vitkus

• Biography
• The Project
• Organized by

• Georgina Cassels, Dora Komenda, Klara Barišić, Domagoj Šoić, Georgiana Johnson

  Circus Collective - organization for contemporary circus and related artistic practices is a NGO with main activities including education, production and distribution of circus arts with a goal to develop contemporary circus in Croatia.
  
  Some of the programs of Circus Collective are annual Cycle of shows, Artist in residence program, Open stage and Cirkviz - circus quiz evening. Regular activities include classes of different circus disciplines, workshops and masterclasses with local and international mentors. Circus Collective also produces performances and shows collaborating with artists doing different art forms.

• Periskop

  13.-18.10.2025.

  The tenth anniversary Periskop - a festival of contemporary dance and circus organized by the association Prostor Plus will take place this year from October 13th to 17th and will feature contemporary dance and circus performances, an educational program with dance and circus skills workshops, a residency, and a celebration of the festival's 10th anniversary.

   As part of this year's Periskop, the performance KONSTRUKT by Cirkus Kolektiv from Split will be held. Konstrukt is a performance that deals with failure through the deconstruction of aerial elements in the circus. The characters struggle with their own unrealistic goals, trying to perform circus techniques on equipment that is fragile, unstable, and unsuitable for use, investing a lot of energy and time in a battle that is already lost. Through three metaphors about failure, the question is raised: how does each of us deal with disappointment and what madness drives us to set ourselves Sisyphean tasks?

   Periscope's Georgina Cassels will deliver a ROLLING & ROLL-UPS circus skills workshop focusing on the torso and understanding C-shaping by practicing basic techniques to help achieve advanced torso-based skills for rolling up, down and in place. This workshop deals with technical elements on rope and silk.

   More info www.periskopfestival.com/en/

• Prostor Plus

  → www.prostorplus.hr

  The Association Prostor Plus was founded in 2002 to meet and educate individuals in various performance practices. By operating in the field of informal education, self-education, independent culture and production, the Association has marked the cultural and social scene of the city of Rijeka, creating a specific way methodology of working (through education and authorship) that is recognized even beyond the Rijeka framework. Since 2016, it has been the organizer of the Festival of Contemporary Dance and New Circus - Periskop. In its activities, it cultivates the research and experimental principle of work that has emerged from productions such as "Zone", "Dissonanza sjećanje", the research "How do female artists live in Rijeka and its surroundings?" and the research of new Rijeka narratives as part of the project "Stories Behind Cities". Since 2019, in cooperation with the Benčić Youth Council and children, it has co-organized the Plesni zbirkus festival and implemented the Festivalska smišljaonica program.