RUNNERS at Dance Cork Firkin Crane

The Headline show of the inaugural UpDown Circus Festival.

RUNNERS is a circus show that combines excellent juggling, stunning objects and incredible sounds. Two jugglers, Alex and Jonas find themselves bound to the rules of running machines while a musician, Moises, orchestrates them through a series of games and experiments. This vivid circus performance celebrates juggling and running.

Running in itself is an incredibly effiecent form of human locomotion. Have you ever thought about how many muscles are needed to run, how many nerve pathways between head and leg are used with every jump? What does this mean in terms of coordination that the body performs - for something that seems to happen automatically? Just watch Maradona score a goal in the world cup final or feel the exhaustion of a Marathon runner when crossing the finish line. The run has so many emotions: It has stress and it has survival, it has adrenaline, desire, fear, whether you are being chased, chasing or escaping.

Juggling is a similar phenomenon. Throwing and catching are also complex biomechanical processes. To celebrate the evolution of the human walk and throw in an increasingly immobile culture, we created RUNNERS: A circus show combining excellent juggling, stunning objects and incredible sounds.

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