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A STORYTELLING LABORATORY

Lars Gregersen in "Sisyphus Ascending" (2008)
Photo: Camilla Hey.

THE STORY OF SISYPHUS

"Sisyphus Ascending" is a solo performance about the prison of repetition. In a chaotic office we meet a modern Sisyphus in a suit fighting to find meaning in his work life.

“... new steps into the unknown for Danish Contemporary Circus. Sisyphus has become a small Kafkan office slave, whose life is a humdrum of climbing and paper pushing by his desk, until the moment where he starts to occupy his several meters high bookcase and to rebel.”

“... this performance is infused with lots of life giving ambition in its choreography as well as in its content.”

Berlingske Tidende (Denmark), Jakob Steen Olsen, 26th October 2008.

“An original Contemporary Circus performance”

“It looks agile, when the grey office worker hangs upside down while the bookcase shoots off teasing papers from its shelves.”

Jyllands-Posten (Denmark), Henrik Lyding, 24th October 2008.

“Sisyphus has donned a suit. The mountain is a high pole, the stone an attaché case, and the world is crammed with paper. All alone on stage Lars Gregersen lives through the exhausting Sisyphusian scenarium, where he must take the trip up the mountain with his attaché case time and time again.

“The style is called Contemporary Circus and includes eveything from funny gestures to acrobatic impossibilities – slack rope dance being one of them”.

Metro Express (Denmark), Marie Schwennesen, 29th October 2008.