The start of the IKF | The IKF-NIGHT
Central Foyer | Mo., 20.01.2025 | 18:30
Look forward to an evening full of magic, inspiration and impressive show moments! The First Mayor Ulrich von Kirchbach will ceremonially open the evening. Afterwards, Hanna Böhme, Managing Director of FWTM GmbH & Co. KG, will then address the audience.
The coveted FREIBURGER LEITER will also be awarded during the opening ceremony. In 2025, the award goes to Diana Salles for her work DELUSIONAL - I Killed a Man, a contemporary circus solo show that impressively stages the journey of a trans woman.
After the award ceremony, we invite you to a discussion about the piece with the director Firenza Guidi. The discussion will be moderated by Kathrin Wagner and will be held in English.
At 20:30 we can look forward to the WIP showing “Drift” by the Less Kuerdas collective. WIP stands for Work-in-Progress.
At the end, a DJ will provide beats for a relaxed transition into the well-deserved evening...
DELUSIONAL - I Killed a Man
DELUSIONAL “I Killed a Man” is a contemporary circus solo show that embarks on the journey of a trans woman. The show explores the agonizing feeling of having murdered one's former self, a common experience for many trans women as they leave their assigned gender behind. Through a multidisciplinary repertoire of aerial acrobatics, dance, song and movement theater, Diana Salles invites us to reflect on the physical and emotional strength it takes to honor one's deepest truth.
More about the FREIBURGER LEITER 2025
Conversation with the director of Delusional - I Killed a Man
Milan-born, award-winning Firenza Guidi is a writer/director for circus, theater and film as well as a performance creator. She first directed NoFit State Circus in 1995 and has since helped put the Wales-based company on the international map with her ground-breaking shows ImMortal, Tabú, Bianco, Lexicon and most recently Sabotage, currently at Salzburg WinterFest and at BIAC in Marseille in January 2025.
She recently co-directed the opera Death in Venice for Welsh National Opera, for which she received three nominations and two UK awards for Best Opera 2024. She is the director of Delusional_Killed a Man by Diana Salles, winner of the Best of Amsterdam Fringe Festival 2023/International Bursary Award. Her work is documented in her own book Theatre Without a Stage: in Contemporary Circus by Katie Lavers, Patrick Leroux and John Burtt and in Notes on Creation_Perspective from Contemporary Circus by Oliver Pinchbeck and Declan Mee.
Drift (Work-in-progress)
Hall 4 | Mo., 20.01.24 I 20:00 – 20:30
Drift explores the meaning of collectivity on and behind the stage. It is the connection between four women, three vertical ropes, a musician, the stage and the audience. Drift plays with alternative audience perspectives and questions the responsibility people have both during a performance and within a collective.