In between fast-paced energy and slow breaths, Blauwal is floating into the open and bringing you along for the experience.
Blauwal Company is a deep dive into physical exploration, site-specific creation and teeterboard innovation.
Through their practice, they are continuously exploring an unknown biome of rhythm and comedy based on a foundation of trust, individuality and relentless effort.
Composer: C S Cook, Dim Out
Blauwal consists of four teeterboard practitioners, with diverse voices:
August Rohde Aass
A collage of ever-increasing dreams meeting the reality of the descent, again, again, and repeating.
I dream of never getting stuck, yet I am stuck in the frame of the teeterboard. Now working to fill out the frame with a plethora of paint, beside and layering one another, I hope you will never understand what layer of paint you are on. I think I am lost in it too.
I wanted to become a bouncing tiger “tigergutt” when I was four, through a detour of cross-country skiing and juggling, I eventually started at a youth circus in Trondheim and later found back the bouncing when discovering teeterboard at Cirkus Cirkörs upper secondary school. Now I only miss being a tiger.
Lovisa Wengersink
Lovisa was an active child with parents who encouraged her to be self-sufficient. Starting at Norrköping’s Youth Circus at the age of five, she developed a taste for athletics and being in the spotlight.
With a big interest in learning new things, Lovisa felt challenged in a new way at Cirkus Cirkörs High School where she got to know the Teeterboard. With her perfectionistic mind and striving to close the gender gap, this woman has been pioneering the teeterboard field showing that everything is possible.
During her final year at Stockholms University of the Arts (SKH), Lovisa has found a liking to programming lights which she combined with Teeterboard for her Artistic Research called “What do you see(saw)”.
Lovisa has been challenged by her teeterboard partners during the process of making this Closing Act. With four equally strong minds and only a few minutes on stage, it has been a journey that has pushed the group and herself further technically and emotionally.
Tobias Niemöller
Tobias never learned how to walk, he learned how to run. His parents desperately dressed him in shining red clothes while going for walks or traveling. As a teenager, he grew up trying all kinds of sports and eventually find love for skateboarding and acrobatic movement in gymnastics. This naturally led him to the circus gymnasium - after graduation fleeing Sweden to Denmark to breathe, laugh and do more circus at AFUK.
Now he is back in Stockholm again and soon, very soon! after graduation here at Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH), he will leave Sweden to spread his skill and love for movement across the globe. <3
Process -> discipline
Freedom, depth and curiosity. This is the homebase between Tobias and his apparatus. Being in a group of four excellent jumpers the possibilities of what teeterboarding means have changed and the dream is becoming more concrete. Creating a teeterboard show that makes your brain itch. This closing act is just a little taste of what is to come.
One is never afraid of falling if one knows how to fall.
Simon Malmsten
Simon lately found the passion to jump on a plank. It is not the difficulty that's pushing him – it is the
joy of jumping. Teeter-board is a simple apparatus - wood and metal. Simon likes to feel the wood
bend.
It is hard to find your place in a group. To agree is not always easy. But Simon believes in the beauty of working in a group and says: It’s like a laundry machine. Throwing in four different socks and letting them tumble around. One might stretch, one might shrink or change color.
Simon also once was a kid. He played in the woods and felt a need to move. In training parkour, the door into the world of circus opened. Simon did not at first know his place, but felt warmly welcome. Over time it became a lifestyle.
Simon hit his brother in the head with a golf club, twice.
Contact: blauwalcompany@gmail.com
