Svalbard Company - All Genius All Idiot

(c) Jakub Jelen

All Genius All Idiot is not another circus performance. It is a multidisciplinary, extremely imaginative and totally outrageous composition of explosive vitality, striking imagery, raw expression and eerie sound. The awarded, debut performance of Svalbard Company, a powerful ensemble of four international highly skilled performers, All Genius All Idiot oscillates between the elegant and the ridicule in a perfect mixture of artistic creativity and outstanding skill.

Poetic and philosophic, atmospheric and dangerous, loud and sensual, messy and absurd, this is a work of art that challenges all boundaries. A juxtaposition of different forms of expression that questions notions of sexual identity, beauty and magnificence in a uniquely extravagant language.

All Genius All Idiot is an authentic, provocative, on-edge and full of energy performance you will not easily forget.

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Performers & Authors: Benjamin Smith, John Simon Wiborn, Tom Brand, Santiago Ruiz
Albalate
Artistic Collaboration with: Peter Jasko
Scenography: Kasper Svenstrup Hansen
Light & Sound Technician: Jose Carlos Ferrer Hernandez
Exterior Eye: Methinee Wongtrakoon
Exterior Eye/Acrobatic Coach: Bahoz Temaux
Musical Exterior Eye: Mae Karthäuser
Costume: Michiel Tange van Leeuwen
Producer/Agency: Josefin Lindberg/Follow the Rabbit & Wolfgang Hoffman/Aurora Nova

Supported by: Konstnärsnämnden, Kulturrådet, Arts Council England, Glastonbury Arts
Commission, Stockholms Stad, Subtopia, Cirk la Putyka, Cirkör LAB & Jacksons Lane
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Svalbard Company is a multidisciplinary circus company composed of four young international performers (Ben Smith - UK, John Simon Wiborn -Sweden, Tom Brand - Germany, Santiago Ruiz – Spain), currently based in Stockholm.

They all graduated from DOCH in 2014 and have a multitude of high level skills in various circus disciplines. Previous work includes their collaboration with Animal Religion in site - specific performances such as Chicken Legz performed in Tarrega Festival and Japan, for which they won both the Moritz prize as well as the Zirkolika prize in 2014. In February 2015 they won ZirkolikaΆs biggest price, “best circus show 2015” with Sifonofor in another collaboration with Animal Religion presented in Barcelona.

All Genius All Idiot, their debut show as a group, premiered at Jatka 78 in Prague in 2016, followed by sold out performances at London International Mime Festival and a month run at Adelaide Fringe; it was awarded “best circus and physical theatre” at the Adelaide Fringe Weekly Awards in 2016 and has been touring around the world since.