11 Oct Zeit für Zirkus Double Bill : Reckless Play & Threading Lightness
Sonntag, 16.11.25 @ 17:00
15-20 € (sliding scale)
Reservations: mail@q-space.berlin
In Reckless Play, Liz Williams and Howard Katz transform aerial circus, live music, and contemporary dance into an intimate portrait of a relationship. With suspended ropes, tender duets, and raw stories, two performers tell how they met, argued, and grew—how struggle can dissolve into dance and distance can become connection. Each performance becomes a lively conversation about love, resilience, and the beautiful chaos in between.
In Threading Lightness, Marie Schmitz searches for a way out of the chaos she herself has created. Her only prop: the trapeze, sometimes a partner on the ground, sometimes in the air, becomes a symbol of control and letting go. Constantly alternating between challenge and unfolding, the piece shows how trying to control everything often has the opposite effect—and how much power lies in the ability to pause. Step by step, she discovers the lightness that allows her to soar ever higher.
ABOUT:
Liz & Howard – Howard Katz and Liz Williams have been partners in art and life since 2001, bringing over 40 years of stage experience to a shared, courageous, and heartfelt journey. Their work ranges from New York to stages worldwide—spanning theater, contemporary circus, dance theater, variety, and music—always driven by imagination, precision, and soul. As performers, directors, choreographers, educators, and producers, they combine risk with delicacy, spectacle with intimacy—always in search of honest, poetic art that touches the human spirit.
Marie Elin Schmitz – artist, acrobat, and storyteller in motion. Marie’s journey began at Tanzhaus NRW and the State Ballet School Berlin and continued at the State University of Performing Arts Berlin, where she graduated with a specialization in swing trapeze in 2017. Since then, her performances have merged acrobatics and dance into holistic works of art. Whether on the swing trapeze or in partner acrobatics, her pieces are characterized by strong expression and a profound connection between movement and music. www.marieschmitz-artist.com/
