Paradisum will be performed seventeen times at the Müpa Festival Theatre between 15th January and 17th June 2025.

The production debuted with great success last year in Hungary and internationally as well: it was selected in the top nine most innovative contemporary works at the CINARS Biennale in November, and in August, it was widely praised by the critics at the world’s biggest arts festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Directed by Bence Vági, Paradisum explores the myth of rebirth after the silence of a destroyed world. It seeks the ways in which the new human being can exist in this Edenic, utopian state. The creatures of this idyllic existence unfold from the ever-changing, swirling natural forces of the ‘fabric of life’ pulsating around them to reach the anima mundi, the world soul, through scenes of purification, birth, awakening and ritual.

The performance features six world-class cirque danse artists with six genres: swinging pole, aerial hoop, aerial straps, ladder juggling, drum and dancing, handstand. The choreography draws on the aerial and ground genres of circus arts through the medium of contemporary dance to take the cirque danse genre, already well known from Recirquel’s productions of the past few years, to new dimensions.