“The Circle of Everything”

Public Premier CAMDEN FRINGE: 18.08.2024
Location: Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone, London.

An interdisciplinary solo performance featuring live painting, aerial dance and moving images.

Using the shape of the circle, the work celebrates the life force that holds us up and gives us momentum to move, think, live and create. Invisible, infinite energy. Transpiring through the cyclical nature of existence from sunrise to sunset, birth & death, conscious and subconscious, throughout time and space. The continuous flow of movement on the ground and in the air.

Integrated into the performance is live Japanese Enso painting. A spiritual practice where the artist paints the work in one masterstroke, one breath and no corrections afterwards. The practice gives form to the flow of the energy in the moment, making invisible synchronicities visible. Symbolically, the iconic Zen symbol represents the circle of life. The Enso painting will remain on stage as an art installation for the audience to see it up close afterwards.

Simultaneously, the work reveals the duality at play; higher and lower, light and shadow, our sense of connection to oneself, others, and the world, as well as our sense of separation.

This work bridges and redefines boundaries between movement, painting, music, moving images and installation creating a unique visual art language.

Prepared to be transported into a different dimension!

Tickets: £12.50 via Camden Fringe or Cockpit Theatre website.
Duration: 40min

VIDEO TRAILER

Full performance video is available as
a documentary footage using this link on YouTube here (9min).

An elegant, universal and timeless representation of the sublimity of the circle
— Angele Galea, Artist & Performer, Malta
Mesmerising, Risky and Hypnotic
— anonymus from the private audience 3.12. 2023


CREDITS:
Choreography, Performance, Moving Image - Kamila CK Artist
Videography & Photography - Julian Kessler

Music:
"Corpo" - Divan Gattamorta
"Satisfied (Ambient Reprise)" - Catching Flies
Electric cello sounds by Lola from "Lola and Yukao Meet" French audiovisual duo


DURATION:
12min (short version) or 40min (extended theatre version)

TECHNICAL RIDER:
Performance space:
dark room/stage with aerial rigging (single point to hang aerial hoop) and video projection on screen/wall.
Audience size: 20-120 people
Installation: 45min
Deinstallation: 15min
Minimum stage dimensions: Floor 3m x 3m / Height 3m

Due to the live painting element during the performance, a site specific exhibition of large scale Ensos paintings and fine art photographs is possible at the same time.

Artworks produced as part of development period 2023/2024 are part of "Enso - The Circle of Everything” Collection and are available for sale via online shop or Laura I Gallery in London.

Open to collaborations with directors, producers, programmers, venues.


© All copyrights are retained by Kamila CK
The material cannot be reproduced without consent from the artist.