FANZINI PRODUCTIONS
Fanzini Productions is a critically acclaimed circus and street arts company, recognized nationally and internationally as a leader in its field. They create comedic and contemporary performances, from small to medium scale, often in public spaces. Fanzini Productions also founded and directs the National Circus Festival of Ireland, a member of the Circostrada Network.
“Talented, and hilarious” The Irish Times.
Fanzini Productions have worked with master clowns, Philippe Gaulier of Ecole Gaulier, John Lee of Fuse Performance Company, Joe Dieffenbacher of Nakupelle, Mooky Cornish, Jango Edwards, Adrian Schvarzstein, John Towsen, director Arne Zaslove and award-winning clown Fraser Hooper.
Fanzini Productions are supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and have received numerous project awards. They have also received 5 Culture Ireland funding grants to perform in America, India and South Korea.
Projects
Imeall / Llaeml
Imeall//Llaeml is an experimental, multidisciplinary performance that pushes the boundaries of contemporary circus. It creates an immersive sonic and visual experience, blurring the lines between artist and audience, and fostering an environment for durational artistic exploration. The show is a spontaneous exchange between movement and sound, as circus and dance artists engage in an improvised dialogue with sound artists, shaping a unique and unrepeatable performance in the moment.
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Spailp
Spailp is a new body of indoors/outdoors experiential work from Fanzini Productions. A brief but glorious experience of your life's most exquisite moments inside a beautiful bespoke venue. "Spailp" is a non-verbal show for 5 minutes for 5 people at a time. Inside the theatre tent, the audience is brought through five worlds on a theatrical journey.
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Ballet Poulet
Ballet Poulet is a non-verbal street show featuring clown, dance, circus, comedy, and absurdity. A comedic battle between dance and circus, elegance and simplicity, beauty and silliness, logic and absurdity. It has minimum tech requirements, is non-verbal, and family-friendly.
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Guido Fanzini’s Impossible Circus
Pogo sticks? Check. Plot to steal thunder from brother? Check.
Guido Fanzini has finally managed to demote his brother Ronaldo to a lowly
circus roustabout so he can shine as the star of Guido Fanzini's Impossible
Circus. But Ronaldo may have other ideas!
A circus tale of sibling rivalry, brotherly love and pogo sticks.
Deoraí
Deoraí is a spectacular piece of street arts, featuring a solo performer on fire, wearing a custom designed pyro suit. Exploring the concepts of difference, otherness, the stranger, migration, asylum, and variance, Hannes Jung plays the Deoraí, the wanderer stranger.
Hannes has many years' experience in pyrotechnic arts and is one of the foremost fire artists globally.
Director and sound design by Con Horgan of Fanzini Productions. The soundscape is played through a hidden body pack PA sound system which is worn by Hannes during the performance.
