Performance “The Labyrinth” | Belgium / Germany
Creator: Fabian Krestel
Direction: Fabian Krestel
Text: Alice van der Wielen-Honinckx
Music: Marco Giongrandi
Stage design: Anna Terrien
Production: Plusieurs
Cast: Sahra Blanchard, Keivin Benavides Hidalgo, Daniele Ippolito
Premiere: April, 2024
Date: August 22, 2026 | Saturday
Time: 4 pm, 5 pm, 6 pm
Place: Engine Room, Fuzja - Łódź, 6a Milionowa Street
Tickets: 20 PLN - early bird | 25 PLN - industry | 30 PLN - regular
Early bird tickets: on sale from June 23, 2026 until July 7, 2026 or until they are sold out | via biletomat.pl portal | online payment
Regular tickets: on sale from July 8, 2026 until they are sold out | via biletomat.pl portal | online payment
Industry tickets: for cultural workers, on sale one hour before the selected event, at the Festival Office | cash or contactless card payment | booking: from June 23, 2026, by mail:biuro@retroperspektywy.com
Duration: 30 minutes
Age restrictions: 5+
Language: English
DESCRIPTION OF THE PERFORMANCE
Writing with a tree branch balanced on paper, drawing while juggling balls dipped in ink, throwing pieces of charcoal onto a canvas to create a shape - Fabian Krestel explores new and playful ways of translating movement into visual form, using juggling as a tool for pictorial creation. Through the precision of his ambidextrous movements and the geometry of the lines and dots he uses, he invents an astonishing artistic grammar that seeks a path between process and product. The audience witnesses - and even participates in - the marriage of a circus discipline with a drawing technique. The patterns created by juggling then exist as works in their own right. Between performance and exhibition, it's a captivating “work in progress”.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Fabian Krestel - born in Munich in 1987, Fabian Krestel is an interdisciplinary artist now based in Brussels. His work bridges contemporary circus, choreography, and visual arts. In 2013, he graduated with honors from ESAC, the Brussels School of Circus Arts. During his studies, he specialised in two structurally different disciplines: Chinese pole and juggling. Since 2014, his work has incorporated dance and acrobatics, leading him to collaborate with artists such as: Kitt Johnson (Denmark), Claudio Stellato (Belgium and Netherlands), Moni Wespi (Switzerland), and the Panama Pictures Company (Netherlands). After several years as a performer, Fabian Krestel began to work on his first creation, “The Labyrinth”, in 2020. This project is defined as an exploration of the relationship between process and product. It is an interdisciplinary essay, a hybrid between performance, installation, visual art, theater, dance, and music. The central innovation of “The Labyrinth” is the abstraction of juggling in order to generate visual traces (lines, dots, and patterns) from ephemeral movements, thus connecting the performing arts with the visual arts. Fabian Krestel was selected for the Forecast programme under the mentorship of Yuya Tsukahara, in the theme “Post Punk Performance”. Supported and co-produced by several European institutions, including Les Halles de Schaerbeek, BRASS, Latitude 50, Perplex, Mira Miro, and Cirklabo, “The Labyrinth” premiered at the Festival des Arts de la Rue de Huy, in April 2024, and has since been programmed at festivals and theater seasons: HP24 at Les Halles de Schaerbeek, BRASS, Festival Cement, Festival Smells like Circus, Festival Scenar!o at Marni, etc.
