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Come catch us here in different locations in Devon

Come catch us here in different locations in Devon, Gloucestershire, and Somerset. 🍎
We are super excited to collaborate with @takeartorg to bring our circus art to rural England!

Big shout out to @mimosa.percy for making this connection happen!

📸 FITS2023: Diana Racz

We’re grateful for the support of the Province of Styria, the Federal Ministry of Austria, and ACT OUT, a project of the IG Freie Theaterarbeit, funded by the BMEIA. 🙏

#fishandchipsherewecome

We are happy to kick off our summer tour on our fi

We are happy to kick off our summer tour on our first stop in the Netherlands next week!
Come find us Saturday the 22.06 in Harderwijk at the Staattheaterfestival Strabant.

We are performing at 15:30 and 20:00 at Vischmarkt.

Thank you @stadalspodiumharderwijk for inviting us to your sweet festival bringing art and fun to the streets!

We’re grateful to receive extra support for our summer tour from Province of Styria, the Federal Ministry of Austria, and ACT OUT, a project of the IG Freie Theaterarbeit, funded by the BMEIA. 🙏

🎪Date Announcement for our Summer Tour Across E

🎪Date Announcement for our Summer Tour Across Europe! 🎪

We’re excited to announce our summer dates, taking us on a journey through Europe to many wonderful festivals.

As sustainable travel is an important part of our collective's concept, we are choosing trains over planes to reduce our carbon footprint. 🚂💚

Here’s where you can find us:

🎪 22.06 - Strabant Festival @stadalspodiumharderwijk , Harderwijk, Netherlands
🎪 30.06 - Bondoró Festival @bondorofesztival Balatonmadi, Hungary
🎪 2.07 - Circuleum, @circuleum Stuttgart, Germany
🎪 4.07-14.07 - UK Take Art Tour through rural England 🇬🇧 @takeartorg
🎪 3.08 & 4.08 - Straßentheater Festival, Idar Oberstein, Germany
🎪 6.08 & 7.08 - Leslie Open @leslieopen Graz, Austria
🎪 9.08 & 11.08 - Kultursommer Wien @kultursommerwien Austria

We’re starting our tour at the Strabant Festival in Harderwijk, then heading to the Bondoró Festival at Balaton Lake. After that, it’s a night train to Stuttgart to Circuleum. 🚄🌿

Next, we’ll be taking the Eurostar to the UK as part of the Take Art tour, which supports bringing art to rural places in England. We'll be performing in various towns across Somerset, Devon, and Gloucester. In August, we’ll be performing in southern Germany, Graz, and Vienna. 🇦🇹

We’re grateful to receive extra support from Province of Styria, the Federal Ministry of Austria, and ACT OUT, a project of the IG Freie Theaterarbeit, funded by the BMEIA. 🙏

Follow us for updates and behind-the-scenes moments of our sustainable circus journey. See you there!

✨May marked our first performances of the season

✨May marked our first performances of the season!
Great to have been on tour again in Lustenau @freudenhaus_lustenau and Munich @munich_circus_arts .
Caravan e.V. was celebrating 30 years of cultural artistic work and bringing contemporary circus to rural places in the Freudenhaus since 20 years.
They do great work for the circus scene of Austria making political pressure for more cultural funding!
At their anniversary celebration, we had fun experimenting with our final scene placing some tricks amongst the audience.

Finally in our 5th year of ConTakt we brought out show to Yasmine's home town Munich and were hosted by her and her partner's families.
On the last day we gave a workshop for the children and young adults of the Sporttheater München, where Yasmine's inspiration for circus formed her as a child.

These performances also marked the first showing of our revised version of "Foley" and first shows with Josh and Cloé!

🎉Next stop June 22nd in Harderwijk. @stadalspodiumharderwijk

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🎪✨ Exciting News! Our Show "Foley!" is hittin

🎪✨ Exciting News! Our Show "Foley!" is hitting the road this summer🌞🎉 Get ready to be dazzled because we're bringing the ConTakt Team magic to these confirmed locations:

1️⃣ 8-9.05 Caravan, Austria @freudenhaus_lustenau
2️⃣ 11-12.05 Munich, Germany @pepe_arts
3️⃣ 22.06 Strabant festival, Harderwijk, NL @stadalspodiumharderwijk
4️⃣ 30.06 Bondoró, Hungary @bondorofesztival
5️⃣ 7-13.07 Take Art, Rural Circus Tour UK @takeartorg

Mark your calendars, gather your friends and family, and join us!
Stay tuned for more updates and additional show dates. See you there! 🎶

💜Big shout out to our audience!🎪 Check out

💜Big shout out to our audience!🎪

Check out these heartwarming snippets from FITS Festival (Romania) and Kinder Musik Theater Festival (Germany). Your reactions fuel our performances, and we can't thank our incredible audience enough for the positive energy! 🌟💖 #audiencelove

🎪 Exciting News! Introducing our dynamic duo,

🎪 Exciting News! Introducing our dynamic duo, Cloé Matter and Joschua Golaszewski @josh_and_cloe , to the heart of our circus collective! 🌟

Cloé, a former sports acrobat, brings her expertise from completing studies at the professional circus school INAC in Portugal. As a skilled flyer, she seamlessly merges physical theatre and acrobatics in her captivating performances. Cloé has been performing as a duo with Josh and contributing her talents to Cie Black Stroller, and Cie XY in "Les Voyages". You may have already seen her perform with us in 2022 in Imaginarius Festival in Portugal. There she jumped in and learned the show in one day, when lily was sick.

Meanwhile, meet Joschua, who, after a decade of mastering various martial arts, discovered his love for circus arts in 2017. A member of the National Team for Sports Acrobatics in Switzerland and a proud graduate of the Professional Circus School INAC in 2022, Josh is a force to be reckoned with. The Duo @josh_and_cloe developed their show "Dual" which combines theatre, circus and martial arts addressing the binarization in society. Beyond the circus ring, Josh brings a passion for physical theatre and a talent for music mixing.

📸Passos Zamith und Bruno Machad

Join us in welcoming these incredible artists to our circus family! 🎉🎭 #NewMembers #CircusLife

🌟 Farewell (for now) to Kerstin! 🌈 After ov

🌟 Farewell (for now) to Kerstin! 🌈

After over 3 incredible years with the ConTakt collective, we bid a fond goodbye to Kerstin. 🎭 Her invaluable contributions ranged from securing funding for performances to keeping our creative residencies on track. Not just an organizational wizard, Kerstin also dazzled us with her creative brilliance—sewing our outdoor costumes, facilitating acrobatic transitions, and even taking on the role of the smallest base when needed.

As she embarks on new adventures, we thank Kerstin for her dedication and wish her the very best in launching herself into exciting projects! 🚀✨
Follow her journey at @kerstin.cameo

Thank you, Kerstin, for being a shining star in our circus family! 🌟

📸: Andreas Stückl @andy_with_i

☀️Thank you Performance Paderborn! . Some say,

☀️Thank you Performance Paderborn!
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Some say, that the party was born here. 🥳
But nonetheless, we performed two shows for Programators, cultural organizers, other Artists and the general public surrounded by the castle garden.
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And it was hoooot, we were challenged to playing mid day under the unusually bright September sun. Happy that no rain canceled our show, as last week we were slipping from the rain and now we be slipping from sweat.
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Made nice connections with colleagues and friends and enjoyed this little adventure together. ✨
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This was our last show of the summer season and we are looking forwards to where this collective journey will take us next year!

The energy of the incredible audience has carried

The energy of the incredible audience has carried us through this summer starting in Romania @fitsibiu, going on to Berlin @kindermusiktheater_berlin and now at @spoffin in the Netherlands.

Not even rain could prevent them from coming in hundreds: The audience better prepared with umbrellas than us. Luckily we only had to stop one show @spoffin due to the rain after a few minutes.

Thank you for all the support, smiles, laughter, emotions and noises: You are the life of this show.

📷 1) Diana Racz
📷 2)&3) Calin Muresan
📷 4) @contakt_circus team
All taken at @fitsibiu
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#thankyou #audience #onthestreets #weathergamble #circus #fitsfestival #spoffinfestival #berlin #circusontour #colletcivecontakt #circusart #newcircus #perfomance

Some snap shots by @andy_with_i of a great show at

Some snap shots by @andy_with_i of a great show at @atze_luftschloss in Berlin this year.

Where to see us next?
This weekend 26. and 27. Aug @spoffin in Amersfoort, Netherlands.

#circusshow #contakt #contaktcircus #ontour #nextshow

Picknick before the show, a classic at Tempelhofer

Picknick before the show, a classic at Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin...

with one of our biggest supporters from the very beginning @andy_with_i:

👨‍🍳Providing us with the best food during our first residency and Spätzle when ever we need it!
🚲Getting our stuff from A to B with his cargo bikes across Berlin.
📸 Making us look and feel pretty by always catching the perfect moments on camera.

So greatful for all your support and help. Thanks a million. We wouldn't be here without you!
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#withalittlehelpfrommyfriends
#support #cargoadventureteam #picknick #circusfamily #contaktcircus

Sweating butterflies and hearts. @fitsibiu #summ

Sweating butterflies and hearts.
@fitsibiu

#summershow #backstage #aftertheshow #happy #needingashower #fitsfestival #contakt #circusshow #newcircus

Sleepertraining, little handstand training, ready

Sleepertraining, little handstand training, ready to start the journey!

As an international collective travelling is one of the biggest and most complex logistical challenges we have to overcome. Especially if you also choose to reduce environmental impact to a minimum.

This time we were very lucky to be able to take some sleeper trains. Now we just have to get rid of the border between Rumania and Hungary and we could have a good nights sleep.

20h Graz - Sibiu
22h Sibiu - Berlin
(+3h delays here and there)

I am excited that @spoffin festival is putting an emphasis on the topic of sustainable travel together with
Eco-operation. Looking forward to connect and move towards sustainable touring.
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Enjoying the views of Sibiu from up the three high

Enjoying the views of Sibiu from up the three highs @fitsibiu.

What a unique feeling:
Feeling the ground through other peoples feet.

📷 Diana Racz
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#threehumanhigh #humancolumns #humantowers #threehigh #threewomanhigh #grounded #threehighacrobatics #high #highacro #publicspace #culture #fitsfestival #sibiu #hermannstadt #circuscollective #circusshow #contaktcircus #circusinthecity #contemporarycircus #circusartists #newcircusartists

Flying bodies in space @fitsibiu 📷 Anca Nicola

Flying bodies in space @fitsibiu

📷 Anca Nicolae
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The techno party escalated quickly @fitsibiu.

🎥 @teodoravilcea & @irimie_teodora_elena
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@fitsibiu taking us to new hights! If you are eve

@fitsibiu taking us to new hights!

If you are ever in Romania during June/July you should definatley go to Sibiu (Hermannstadt)! 10 days of theatre, circus, dance and culture taking over the entire city. And all the inhabitants join in the fun: A city in state of cultural explosion.

We are so grateful we could be part of this. Finally we felt like we have arrived, that all our hard work and energy, which we put into this project for 3 years has found appreciation, honour and wonderful company.

Thanks @mimosa.percy for organising us and @diana.racz for catching the perfect moments.

📷 Diana Racz
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Who is this? Meet the newest ConTakt member Josh:

Who is this?

Meet the newest ConTakt member Josh:

Berlin based, multitalented floor and partneracrobat Joshua Frazer. We have lost track of how many circus projects and collectives he has been a part of since he graduated from the National Centre for Circus Arts in London. That makes us even prouder and very happy that he made space in his tight schedule to join us.

Combining beautiful floor work, crazy tumbling, a beautiful voice and a lot of laughter to the team.

📷 @andy_with_i
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#newteammember #circusartist #newcircusartist #contaktcircus #newcircusberlin #contemporarycircus #flowartist #movementartist #tumblingpro

Before - in the middle - and after. The first part

Before - in the middle - and after.
The first part of this years summer tour was incredible.
Starting with a rainbow of @fitsibiu festival and ending with a bunch of very happy and very tired acrobats (and musicians :p).

Finally we have had some time to breathe and got some beautiful pictures from the festivals and our favourite Kochograf. Enjoy reliving these past weeks with us 🙂

#circusontour #circusacrosseurope #internationalcollective #contaktcircus #newcircuscollective #circus #newcircus #contemporarycircus #artistsontour

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FITS Festival Sibiu

Görlitzerpark 2021

(c) Andreas Stückl

(c) Andreas Stückl

Murkultur 2020

(c) Patrizia Liebisch

Partnerakrobatik — (c) Patrizia Liebisch

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