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cirqu’

2025

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With a joyful celebration at the heart of the city – featuring Circa Tsuïca and the Stadtmusik Aarau – the anniversary edition of cirqu’ opens. It concludes with Contes Immoraux – Partie 1: Maison Mère, the visually powerful and deeply affecting production by the acclaimed artist Phia Ménard, staged in the Alte Reithalle. And in between? Everything that defines cirqu’.

An undisputed highlight is the choreographic-acrobatic production Möbius by Compagnie XY. With an ensemble of 20 acrobats, it is the largest stage production in the festival’s history to date. The same company already left a lasting impression in public space in 2023 with Les Voyages. This memory is picked up again: the exhibition An Acrobatic Journey – Large Format brings images created in Aarau in 2023 back into the urban space. Staged impressively as a city walk, the images appear sometimes small, sometimes monumental, whenever possible at their original shooting locations. Particularly striking is the image over ten metres high that adorns the façade of the town hall for four weeks.

Equally unforgettable is the powerful and unconventional underwater concert Aquasonic by the Danish ensemble Between Music. Set in the Casino Park in the centre of the city and freely accessible, four aquariums containing musicians and instruments are enthroned on the elevated terrace of the city library, immersing audiences in a magical universe of sound and imagery.

What began ten years ago hidden behind the walls of the Alte Reithalle now confidently unfolds in Aarau’s public spaces. Different formats and aesthetics meet; the unsettling stands alongside the light – ranging from large-scale, brilliant acrobatics to abstract durational performances in the middle of everyday city life.

cirqu’ reaches its audience: around 12,000 spectators attend the many performances. And cirqu’ was selected by SRF’s culture editorial team as one of four theatre highlights of the year 2025.

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