INSIDE JUGGLING / HIPPANA THEATrE

- A solo juggling performance with clubs and camera -

Winner of the Circus Award at the Kölner Tanz- und Theaterpreise 2025.

Excerpt from the laudatory speech by Karina Syndicus: With Inside Juggling, Hippana Maleta has created a fascinating work of art of great power and poetic depth. Liza van Brakel combines masterful precision with touching devotion and leads us through worlds between reality and illusion. […] Inside Juggling is contemporary circus in its purest form: bold, clear and deeply moving. A work that stays with its audience – in their hearts and minds.

A show like a tracking shot: fast-paced, funny and virtuoso. A performer juggles between choreography, stage and her own image in search of order in the chaos of images. Entranced by her own diversity, she finds stability in disbalance and calm in risk.

30 years in the world, 20 of them juggling, 10 on stage. At home everywhere, always new encounters; audience and performer as a temporary community, routine follows ritual - the only things that remain the same are the personal objects that accompany her on her journey, travelling from bags to rooms and back again.

Together with Hippana.Maleta, Liza van Brakel dares to change perspective: she takes the audience into the intimate space of the solo and humorously thematises the price and poetry of restless adventurousness and contradictory dreams. Using a camera, object manipulation and live projection, she twists her and our perceptions of reality.

Hippana.maleta are Jonas Schiffauer (DE) and Alex Allison (IE). The company has been researching the language of juggling and object manipulation to explore aspects of the human condition since 2018. 

CREDITS CONCEPT • DIRECTION Jonas Schiffauer PERFORMER Liza van Brakel TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Timo Loffler MUSIC Manu Paschmann OUTSIDE EYE Roberto Magro • Marie-Lena Kaiser ARTISTIC RESEARCH Antonio D'angelo • Anna Katharina Andrees • Filip Jacobsen VIDEO Alex Alison SET DESIGN Julia Misiorny • Patrick buse PHOTOS Jona Harnischmaher • Tamara Mauss PRODUCTION Jonas Schiffauer PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Kirsten Engelmann • Jordan Tanner COSTUME Annalaura Beckmann COMMUNICATION/NETWORKING Valentina Barone