Marjolein Wagter

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Netherlands (residence)
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Falling in love with acrobatics more than 30 years ago enlightened the circus career she has today

Marjolein uses circus in performing arts, as a tool for personal development and a way of life.

She has two professional circus practices, teaching and performing. With her company (founded in 2007) Compagnie with Balls, she produces, choreographs and performs about 80 shows a year in and outside Europe. Highlights were at The Ansan festival in South Korea, Lowlands (NL) and Just pour Rire in Montreal (CAN) 


After a long career as circus teacher, she now coaches others to develop their teaching skills and help them becoming specialists in their field and in the field of social circus. She has a master of Education in Arts, specialized in learning through circus. Experiential learning and an eye for making arts in the environment available for all audience, makes her a passionate social artist.

 

‘What I want in life is to make people shine, put a smile on their face because they are amazed by what they see, or they amaze themselves by doing something they never knew they could’

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  • 4 sides of a triangle (last edited: 2023) author(s): Marjolein Wagter This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    Abstract, this research was done in the context of the master COMMA, master in choreography for dance, circus and community arts. Being a performer in outdoor circusarts, I am used to start a creation with an idea for an object, in this case a mobile triangle for aerial performance. I asked my self the question: ‘how to let meaning arise through the practice of creation, using ‘the other’ by listening to reflections and reactions during the creation process. Breaking boundaries with the audience and ask for feedback during the creation process to get informed about the meaning of the piece is the approach I use I am interested in how much of influence on the meaning of the piece is the material, the object we work with in itself? I decided to not know what the performance is about until the presentation in May.
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