Residency of Lena Kautz and Nastasja Jagodic

hosted by CIRKL

Participating countries:

  • Belgium
  • Germany
  • The Netherlands
  • Circus
  • Dance
© Igor Ripak

Period

  • From 29-04-2026 to 10-05-2026
Generation #4

Website

Address

Leuven

Project summary

Four circus festivals want to give small-stage circus – quite literally: circus performed on 2x2 meters – plenty of space. How do throwing and catching become an act of care? Can a plant become a resonating body for precision? – At the CIRKL festival in Leuven, the jugglers and artists Lena Kautz and Nastasja Jagodić will spend two weeks structuring the research they have accumulated for their piece Bareroots. Hand positions, finely woven sequences, and somewhere in there, gardening; oscillating between dance and juggling. A performance built around principles of care and coexistence between people ... and plants. This is an opportunity to strengthen the ties between four circus festivals, and explore what’s possible with lots of cress, two feet, two hands, and a few white balls.
© Igor Ripak

Artist

Lena Kautz and Nastasja Jagodic

Biography: We are Nastasja and Lena, two jugglers who met in 2020 during our studies at Codarts University (NL).
Lena, (2000) from Cologne, graduated in object manipulation at Codarts in 2024 and is now researching dramaturgy at HMT in Leipzig. She has, directed a dramatic reading at DLL (DE) and performed in Cirque Mania and VITRINE PERPLX. She participated in "call me",by Aedín Walsh, the FEDEC project CIRCLE, and "Square two" by Tall Tales Company.
Nastasja, (1998) from Florence, studied dance and circus at FLIC (IT), at Codarts and graduated from Esacto’Lido (FR), with antipodism. Nastasja's work includes the France tour of “FOAM – L’estasi dello scarafaggio”, the collective production "Smooth as Fiasco", and "A Cricket’s Dream" Collective RUYA at the Gümüşlük Music Festival 2022.
Contact: lena.nastasja@gmail.com
Social media: https://www.instagram.com/nas.and.lena/
Work: https://youtu.be/FfTTmnvpMAU https://youtu.be/0ub8VQMCMYg

Participating festivals

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