CELLULA

A mobile stage for balance, trust, and human connection

Dance · Acrobatics · Music · Spatial Installation

CELLULA is a performance that does not explain, but lets you feel: how balance emerges and wavers; how a room without walls opens up when people truly meet.

An embrace, a touch — sometimes light and fragile, sometimes powerful and supportive. Three bodies lean, breathe, climb, glide. And suddenly, you are no longer just a spectator. You feel the tension in your own body, sense height, gravity, risk.

Why this project? How do we hold each other? How is trust built? CELLULA consciously addresses people who rarely go to the theater. The performance takes place in public spaces — in squares, neighborhoods, schools, or halls. Art is not consumed here, but experienced together. A moment of deceleration in the midst of everyday life.

CELLULA is in the research phase.

  • Residencies: Katapult Berlin, Tollhaus Karlsruhe, Zirkusquartier Zürich.
  • Showings: ATOLL Festival Karlsruhe (2025) , Zirkusquartier Zürich (2026)
  • Supported by: Zirkusbündnis Zirkus ON, Migros Culture Percentage, Cassinelli-Vogel Foundation, IB-FT GmbH, private sponsors.

 

CREDITS

Concept, Artistic Direction, Choreographie  Maja Zimmerlin

Design, Artistic Direction Umberto Freddi

Performance Kritonas Anastasopoulos, Branca Scheidegger, Leon Börgens

Music Johannes von Buttlar

Artists participating in Research Aurore Allo, Joshua Frazer, Elisa Arciniegas Pinilla

Production Company ANASA (ANASA CH and ANASA e.V.) 

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Cassinelli-Vogel-Stiftung

Zirkusquartier Zürich