Magali Bancel, born October 23, 1980 in Lyon, France, is a circus artist, circus director and development manager for circus at the Riksteatern. She has worked in the circus world since she was 17, including as a rubber artist, aerial acrobat, quick-change artist and Magic Creator. She is educated at the Académie Fratellini in Paris, the circus academy The Circus Space in London and the circus academy CNAC in Châlons-en-Champagne.

Together with her mother and siblings, she established a circus company, Compagnie Isis. As a circus performer, Magali Bancel has participated in various productions and for various institutions such as Gothenburg Opera, Östgöteatern, Royal Opera and Cirkus Cirkör.

Since 2021, Magali Bancel has been working at the Riksteatern after the government in autumn 2020 gave the Riksteatern an expanded mission with a focus on developing the contemporary circus. Through her mission at the Riksteatern, Magali Bancel works to ensure that circus art reaches all over Sweden and that the contemporary circus flourishes.

Kiki Muukkonen är konstnärlig ledare för Subtopias cirkusavdelning, där hon sköter dess konstnärliga programläggning, residens, utvecklingsprojekt och internationella relationer.

2009-22 producerade hon den årliga nordiska cirkusshowcasen Subcase.

Idag är hon festivalchef för CirkusMania, en årlig festival som hon skapade 2019.

Under sina 17 år inom cirkusområdet har hon initierat och lett många internationella samarbetsprojekt och nätverk.

Morgane was educated at Codards in Rotterdam, and Stockholm University of the Arts. She and Sébastien work in their own company Half In Company.

Morgane has a strong interest in working as a pair because life and stage are more interesting when you share them. She’s attracted to contemporary circus and enjoys questioning norms, and traditions.

Lina B Frank är cirkusdirektör och driver Cirkus Syd. Hon ligger även bakom Southern Sweden Circus Festival som sker 6-15 september i år. Programmet släpps i augusti. Missa ej!

Ben is a Scottish circus artist based in Sweden. He is mostly doing partner acrobatics with Elli Künkele as the lower half of Analogue Acrobatics, and he also has a range of unusual skills including hanging from his teeth.

For Ben, becoming a circus performer was an easy decision. After a couple of degrees and a couple of years of failing to get work saving the world, people started paying him to do really fun stuff in front of them. So he switched focus to doing fun stuff full time, which eventually led to a new country (Sweden) and a circus school (Doch).

Since then he has been keeping himself busy with various contracts and projects and extracurricular activities like making cider and roasting coffee. You can find him living at the opposite side of the world (Brottby). Welcome any time for a coffee or a cider.

Cirkuspodden presenterar ett samtal med Marie Wårell
Verksamhetschef &
Konstnärlig ledare på Dansinitiativet i Luleå.

Dansinitiativet i Luleå är Norrbottens produktionshus och scen för dans och cirkus. Hos oss kan du upptäcka nyskapad scenkonst, oavsett om du är barn eller vuxen. Du hittar oss ofta på turné i Norrbotten och i resten av Sverige. Vår egen scen finns i Skutviken nära ishallen. Vi tror på både tippade och otippade samarbeten, hör av dig om du har ett förslag!

Jay Gilligan has performed in 38 different countries, touring solo work and collaborating with companies such as Spiegelworld, The Gandini Juggling Project, Cie Jérôme Thomas, Les 7 doigts de la main, Cirkus Cirkör, Cie Ea Eo, and Cirque du Soleil. He has taught juggling at every major circus school in the world, including at the Stockholm University of the Arts for the past 25 years.

He has published a book about contemporary juggling titled "5 Catches," and co-hosts a podcast called "Object Episodes" which is published by the International Jugglers Association. His most recent work is the one-man Off-Broadway show in New York City titled "REFLEX," which is his magnum opus. The show is an homage to a lifetime of looking at juggling as art, and weaves the history of juggling together with stories about the space program and space travel.

Jay also runs his own contemporary circus company in Stockholm, called Kapsel which tours alongside his German collaborative company named Shaking the Sky.

For more information please visit: 

www.kapsel.se 

www.reflexshow.com 

www.shakingthesky.com

Cirkuspodden av Cirkuscentrum

S01E02 - Håkan Nordman

Håkan Nordman är aktiv senior och arbetade tidigare i Sundsvalls kommun i 29 år med att arrangera offentliga barnkulturföreställningar mm. De sista 7 åren har han arbetat med Cirkuslyftet Sundsvall. Han är initiativtagare och projektledare för verksamheten i samarbete med Sundsvalls Kulturskola, Scen Sundsvall - en del av Riksteatern, Cirkus Elvira och Sundsvalls Stadscirkus.

Cirkuspodden by Cirkuscentrum Sverige

S01E01 - Angela Wand

Angela Wand has 30 years of experience working professionally as a circus artist, entertainer, and physical performer on stage and television.  Angela had the privilege of being a part of the emerging Swedish contemporary circus community when it was just being established in the late nineties and continues to be a part of it today.  She has created, directed, performed, and toured performances within her community, in Sweden and around the globe.  As an artist, Angela hopes to continue to provoke, evoke, and create works that encourage empathy while reflecting the state of the human condition.