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Balkan Zirkus.eu - Albany |
Rubin Zuma
Juxhina Madhi
Roi Dingu
Ali Jucja
Tirana Circus School A selection of 4 artists is coming from this great circus school. These four artists have a large experience, performing in different circuses.  We are glad to bring from Tirana these great acrobats; they will bring to Brussels the essence of circus: Rubin Zuma (20 years old) and Juxhina Madhi (15 years old). They will perform an aerial equilibrium number.  Roi Dingu (9 years old, -yes, 9!-) and Erand Jucja (20 years old). This duo will present a very unusual acrobatic number.  Ali Jucja. He works in Tirana's Circus since 1967 and he started performing professionally 1971. He’s a Circus Master and his main profile is equilibrium. He has performed in 25 premieres and has created more than 24 acrobatic numbers. |
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Balkan Zirkus.eu - Slovenia |
Klemen Slavic
Masa Ceglar
Ana Spik
Borut Bucinel
Dejan Smolnikar
 Klemen Slavic, 24 years. Ljubljana.A many-sided amazing guy. Klemen started his acting career way back in his teens after a wild party, coming home telling his parents he only had "a little sip."After a boring elementary school existence, he joined his high school debate club, where he cultivated his rhetoric skills. Later, he joined the underdog improv team in 2000, staying with the same team mates to this day. Since then, he's participated in various improv groups, performing as MC, actor, director, producer or lighting and sound engineer. Lately, he started to head his own improv group, Kivi Koktejl (Kiwi Cocktail).After graduation (and an abandoned biochemistry and genetics academic career) he decided to shift his efforts towards theatre and music, while keeping up with the other love of his life - comics and cartoons. He now works as a software engineer.. Masa Ceglar, 24 years. Ljubljana. I was born on 16th February 1983 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I study Slavic languages. When I was younger I used to do hip-hop and gymnastics. For the last three years I've taken classes in contemporary dancing and I am a stilts walker. I perform in dance-theatre performances and play in two children shows. I also work as a mentor of creative workshops (mostly puppet workshops) and as a coordinator in the Channel Zero club for concerts and international exhibitions. I e.g. organize the catering there as well as on different music festivals in Ljubljana (Druga Godba, Škuc, ...). I also participate in organizing street theatre festivals (Ana Desetnica, Metelkova festival,...).  Ana Špik, 22 years. Ljubljana.She started on the theatre and dance. Later she learned to walk on stilts and she tried some experiences joining theatre and circus. Also a hybrid artist, the last years she has being performing with Artizani, among others experimental theatre groups. She told us about her experience in Artizani: “There I’ve realized what is really possible in theatre”. Their work combines circus skills, shadows, puppets and theatre in a really magic show.Ana and Masa will lead the equilibrium and stilts workshop for the Balkan Trafik Festival.  Borut Bucinel, 24 years old. Ljubljana.The only artist in BZ.eu coming as a scene director and also as a performer: he is an independent artist, choreographer and dancer. He’s a brilliant promising creator in Slovenia, author of seven independent full-length dance theatre performances, the three last ones being, Čuda so potna gospodova, 2005 (investigative performance – premiere 30.11.2005), Speče celice, 2006 (with Bara Kolenc and Radovan Jaušovec for Teater Pozitiv theatre), and Lunatik, 2007, more short dance videos, music videos and many short dance performances. His stage and film work is always based on research of light, scenography and space, and also of the atmosphere, brought by the vivid artistic composition. He will create the scenography and lead the direction of the creation of the Slovenian Balkan Zirkus.eu Crew. We cannot wait to see the hybrid outcome of this interesting experience! Dejan Smolnikar, 26 years old. Ljubljana. Dejan comes from a small town in Slovenia, near the Austrian border. When he was 17 years old, he discovered breakdance electro-boogie and started to teach himself this weird dance. After that, he discovered gymnastics and two years later, he started teaching kids basic figures on the trampoline.At 21 he began with breakdance power moves. Now he can do a handstand...without having legs on a wall...for a few seconds...When he was 23, life was really hard for him...but this is another story...What I mean to say...hummm...what he means to say is that his life completely changed...he discovered balls...he became what is he now...a juggler...a juggler with all his heart...and I will juggle, till the end! This versatile artist, one of the best jugglers in Slovenia, is also a very rare one: combining very different genre, his style becomes unique: break-dance, gymnastics, theatre and juggling. He’s developing a new way of doing circus, shaker of different styles and he’s the circus pole in the range of Slovenian artists in this project. He’s also the official manager of the Slovenian team in BZ.eu. |
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Balkan Zirkus.eu - Romania |
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Marius Serbanica
Ion Laurentiu
Imre Nagy
Flavia Matei
Gabriela Ionita
Fundatia ParadaIts aim is to support families, young people and homeless children, through their education and socio–professional integration. One of their projects is a circus school, and its objectives are to motivate children and youngsters for the performing arts (mainly circus). This school is now the most important one in Bucharest and produces a very high quality show. We are honoured to have two of their members in Balkan Zirkus.eu crew.  Marius Serbanica, 25 years old. Magician. He lives in Bucharest.He has been studying magic and some other circus genres like jugglery during the last 8 years with Fundatia Parada. He made himself what he is, works hard and became a surprising magician. He has already been in several tours with Italian and Romanian circuses and in one show with Goran Bregovic. He will perform a magic show for the Balkan Zirkus.eu… and lead the magic Workshop during the Balkan Trafik Festival. Ion Laurentiu, Lary, 16 years old Acrobat & juggler.He lives in Bucharest, where he met Fundatia Parada and discovered circus was his life. He has been practicing acrobatics and juggling in the Parada School. He has an enormous talent and a great energy on scene. You’ll see him on the aerial tissue in the Balkan Zirkus.eu show. The Serious Road Trip. TSRTFrom 1991 to 1997, the Serious Road Trip brought humanitarian aid and its own unique brand of therapeutic entertainment to people in Eastern Europe, from the war-torn former Yugoslavia to Romania, Chechnya and beyond. Today, groups started by Road Trip members carry on the work and the goals of the Road Trip - to help people in difficulty of any kind, here, there and everywhere, particularly through the use of circus and street art.    Imre Nagy (22), president of one of these groups, TRST-Romania, with two of their members, Flavia Matei (20) and Tudor Bancioiu (19) are the other half of the Romanian crew in Balkan Zirkus.eu. They live in Timisoara. They are specialised in fire acrobatics and juggling. They worked on several circus projects with the TSRT group in France and developed in their performances a very interesting point of view on fire as performing element on stage. They will create a trio show for Balkan Zirkus.eu where the elements will be fire poi, fire snakes, fire fans, torch swinging and more.  Gabriela Ionita is the manager of the Romanian crew at Balkan Zirkus.eu. She’s an actress, is involved in several theatre projects in Bucharest as the Gestual Art theatre group or the Momo art theatre group; she’s also Acting teacher in the «Pygmalion» Film Acting School, and one of the exceptional teachers (and also the cultural coordinator) of Fundatia Parada. |
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Balkan Zirkus.eu - Hungary |
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Ferenc Potocki
Bàlint Turai
Martina Sülli
Adrienn Fehergyarmati
Veronika Gallyas Ferenc Potocki and Bàlint Turai - 25 years old. Jugglers, Budapest.
Ferenc Potocki
I got to know juggling in 1999. At that time it was just a hobby for me: I spent my spare time juggling during my school years but I soon realised I wouldn’t stop at this point. In 2001 I tried performing, mainly fire-shows. I started to collaborate with all the Hungarian juggling teams of that time (eg. Tűzmadarak, Néró Zsonglőrszínház).
After graduating at high-school, I travelled to see the world. I did several street performances to get more experience and I also learnt from everybody I could possibly learn from. I was lucky to meet a retired fakir who taught me some tricks that I still use in my shows.
In 2004 I started unicycling, but it was pushed into background for juggling. However, I still organise competitions and other programmes with my friend, Tamás Pintye for the ambitious youth. In the meantime, I polished my knowledge in the studio of the Hungarian Circus and Varieté.
In 2005 I took on the organisation of the Hungarian Juggling Convention which now runs as the Hungarian Juggling Parade and Convention.
In 2006, thank to the Hungarian Juggling Association and Veronika Gallyas who submitted and gained a competition, I went to Berlin to the Jonglierkatakomben which is the only juggling school in Europe. Here, I learnt from great jugglers such as Valantin Valantin Tovartchi, Stefan Sing, Luke Wilson, Ben Richter and Alan Blim. I hope this list of names will grow in the future! I made the debut of my first solo show in 2007, I hope it will be successful..
Balint Turai
So, where should I start...
Maybe at the beginning :I was very young when I was born... No! It's overly the beginning.
I started with juggling about five years ago. I just did it as a hobby while I was at university, but I juggled every single minute in my spare-time. Then it became more than a hobby. I met some Hungarian jugglers and I learnt more and more from them. We performed some fire shows in festivals, in juggling conventions, etc. These days juggling is the most important thing in my life.
In 2006 I created a solo act with flower sticks and a club passing number with my partner.
In 2007 I participated in the creation of a performance of the Artus movement and dance theater company. We performed it with great success in a Hungarian theater, the Palace of Arts. During that time we created the Trio - juggling theater company with my two friends. Now we have a 20 minute performance where each of our solo acts are part of a story. We are also preparing a second show. It will be a club and bouncing ball passing act. This year I will also graduate in traffic engineering at a technological university and next year I will hold another diploma as a Bothmer gymnastic teacher. But my plan for the next 10 years is to work as a juggler. Now they work together in Budapest in their own juggling show.
They will perform a juggling routine for the Balkan Zirkus.eu show…and lead the juggling workshop at the Balkan Trafik Festival.
Martina Sülli and Adrienn Fehergyarmati , 18 & 17 years old. Acrobats.
They are students in the Baross Imre Circus School in Budapest, which is the most important school of acrobats in Hungary. Before heading circus art, further in the past, they both have a fitness background. They started circus studies in 2002.
In 2005 finishing their preparatory classes in the circus school, they started their specialized circus training. They both specialized in aerial acrobatics with the help and leading of their teacher : László Molnár.
Their joint has been going on since 2005 until the last year have arrived to complete this trapeze duo act, which will be performed during Balkan Zirkus.eu. Beside this specialization Adrienn also train flying trapeze with the same master.
Two young acrobats with a big experience and amazing skills! They will present an aerial number on fix trapeze. You can see them on online TV
Gallyas Veronika – Cirkuszínház Production Director and founder of the Cirkuszínház Production (www.cirkuszinhaz.hu) – the Hungarian agency of new circus, street theatre and walkabouts. This company organise most of the country's new circus shows from abroad and with the participation of hungarian artists, also making unique performances for diferent occasions.
She is the organiser of the circus programs on the Sziget festival, which a one-week multicultural event – one of the biggests in Europe. (www.szigetfestival.com)
Beside her main job she takes part in several non-profit projects.
She is the managing director and one of the founders of the Hungarian Juggling Association (www.zsonglor.hu) and also reppresents in Hungary the European Juggling Association.
She is not „only" an organiser and promoter, but also active in circus art. She has been juggling for 6 years and during her trips europe-wide, especially in Jonglierkatakomben (Berlin), where she learned from the big masters of the European scene: Valentin Romanov, Stefan Sing and Maxim Komaro. |
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