Free Range is proud to present 'Head', a new show by renowned circus performer John-Paul Zaccarini, alongside 'Dark Light', a short film and performance from artists Mavernie Cunningham and Chris Hunt.
John-Paul Zaccarini is a renowned rope artist, actor, mime, director, professor of contemporary circus practice and inventor of Circoanalysis (a combination of psychoanalysis, therapy and circus performance). For this performance he will be performing a new piece devised in collaboration with sound artist and composer Peter Coyte, called Head, that he describes as ‘a piece about the co-dependent relation between artist and public. It combines a memoir of what brought me to circus with direct address to the public I have been flirting with for twenty years, whom I now want to dump’.
‘part lecture, part circus, part poetryand part performance art, it was a witty, raw and carnivalesque hour … extremely powerful, brave and thought-provoking’
★★★★★ Upper Circle Theatre
https://www.thecircusdiaries.com/.../head-by-john-paul.../
Dark Light is a collaborative film and performance by Mavernie Cunningham and Chris Hunt. It was developed as a response to the poem Remembrance by Friedrich Hölderlin, and reflects on the underlying history of slavery that is concealed within the poem’s image of Bordeaux, a slave port until the 19th Century. It draws upon a cautionary children’s tale learned by Jamaican schoolchildren in the 1930s, the politics of black hair, an encounter between a teddy bear and a Jinn, and an ambiguous plinth/boat in which a black woman gradually whitens.