Smashed2
by Gandini Juggling
ONLINE PREMIERE – JANUARY 2023
Streaming is FREE 24/7, beginning with the premiere.
Captured at the Alexander Kasser Theater, April 2022
Theater/Circus, UK
The dark art of juggling revisited.
9 Performers, 80 Oranges, 7 Watermelons. THIS IS SMASHED2.
“Juggling becomes flights of inspired poetry, musical choreography with strong dance elements, crazy-comedy surrealism, breathtakingly dexterous virtuosity, darkly absurdist drama. Gandini opens windows in the mind.” Alastair Macaulay – The New York Times
In Gandini Juggling’s hit SMASHED, which made its US Premiere at PEAK Performances, the manipulation of forbidden fruit shrewdly explored the strained relations between seven men and two women—and kindly flayed traditions of juggling and circus. Smashed2 is the dark art of juggling revisited. Director Sean Gandini and Kati Ylä-Hokkala borrow elements of Pina Bausch’s gestural choreography and combine them with the intricate patterns and cascades of solo and ensemble juggling. Simultaneously evoking great pleasure and small disquiet, SMASHED2 lightly disrupts the rigid conventions of etiquette, dress, gender, and body language. The result is a new hybrid of juggling, performed with meticulous unison and split-second timing.
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December 18, 2018 | New York Times: “Review: The Inspired Poetry of Gandini Juggling”
September 08, 2021 | Boing! Magazine: “2021: An interview with Gandini Juggling”
Credits
Programs in this season are made possible in part by the Alexander Kasser Theater Endowment Fund, PEAK Patrons, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the FACE Foundation, and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music.
