Next Door Circus Magazine Next Door Circus Magazine #2 | Page 24

: Grete Gross “Confines” , photo by by Joonas Purastie (c) SOLO GRETE GROSS “Confines”developed out of Grete’s graduation solo at Salpaus Further Education circus department in Lahti, Finland. At the Lack of Art Festival, she will be performing her first work-in-progress presentation. Grete: “In the longer piece, I wish to delve deeper into the main subjects of my thesis act. In “Confines,” an individual tries to fulfill society’s expectations as a woman, a daughter, and the young bearer of a, brighter future. It is the story of a human being struggling to find a way to accept and love herself just as she is. “ MAGO “IN TIME” What no ear can hear, no eye sees, no hand could ever reach... What is actually going on in the secure shelter of the human mind? If one of us was given a chance, just for an hour, to turn the world into the place in which she or he would wish to be, how odd would it get out here? What happens when you let one mind full of the craziest fantasies pull the strings and control the others? *Three graduating students of Salpaus Further Education circus department, Amandine Doat, Grete Gross and Otto Tammivaara will present a challenge to open the door into secret innerworlds and discover what is hidden in the depths of each person. “What no ear can hear, no eye sees, no hand could ever reach... What is actually going on in the secure shelter of a human mind? If one of us was given a chance, just for an hour, to turn the world into the place in which she or he would wish to be, how odd would it get out here? What happens, when you let one mind full of the craziest fantasies pull the strings and control the others?” 23 Mago “In Times”, photo by Hanna Parman (c)