BeaTch N Candy
Free try-out
This week, Amina Riccetti & Viola Wild from Austria/Germany are working in the Predikherenkerk on their creation BeaTch N Candy. In this circus performance, they combine sugar sculpting and aerial acrobatics to stimulate all senses.
During their try-out, they will focus on their "Medusa": an aerial hoop with recycled plastic ribbons. This innovative apparatus, which combines the properties of plastic with aerial acrobatics, celebrates diversity and emphasizes the beauty of difference. Through the "Medusa", they aim to promote dialogue and understanding surrounding (dis)ability, and to showcase the strength and resilience of the human spirit.
BeaTch N Candy
a circus performance that combines sugar sculpture and aerial acrobatics to stimulate all the senses. Amina Riccetti and Viola Wild create a sugar sculpture that partially dissolves during the performance, symbolizing the transience of history and the lasting traces it leaves behind. The performance explores the duality of life: transience and beauty, feminism and patriarchy, sculpture/puppets (immobile, passive) and circus.
Amina and Viola ask themselves questions such as: What is the relationship between sculptures, puppets, and the female body? What does it mean to dissolve into the air? The real world and the body dissolve in a unique performance that celebrates femininity, beauty, and self-love.
About Amina Riccetti & Viola Wild
Amina discovered that feminism, aerial acrobatics, environmental awareness, and patisserie strongly influence her work. Together with Viola, a professional makeup artist and designer, she explores themes such as gender, eating habits, and self-acceptance by examining the female body, stereotypical images, and the patriarchal and capitalist system. They do this with edible sculptures and experimental performances.
The Leuven-based circus workplace CIRKLABO welcomes and supports many circus artists in developing their performances.
Try-out:
A piece or several fragments of a performance that artists want to test for an audience. The artist gives you a glimpse into how a circus performance comes to life. Who knows, you might even contribute to the creation.
