LISA BRÜNING – The Circles

WHAT Performative workshop
LANGUAGE English

Circular healing
Since ancient times, humans have sought healing in the collective wisdom of circles — a circle that is always as wise and strong as the shared experiences of its participants. In times marked by collective and individual traumas, climate anxiety, and a growing sense of disconnection from our surroundings, Lisa Brüning creates a series of three performative healing rituals.

In three acts, we explore the idea that our pain is interconnected and cannot be resolved alone. The first circle leaves behind deep personal, social, or environmental pain. A second circle of strangers takes healing action upon the pain left before them. A third circle releases the pain into the sea.
THE CIRCLES can be experienced as a series or as individual rituals. Participants become part of a larger dramaturgy focused on the recycling of collective anxiety.

First Circle: Embracing Pain
Second Circle: Taking Caring Action
Third Circle: Setting Pain Free

ABOUT LISA BRÜNING
LISA BRÜNING (DE) is a theatre director and primarily works internationally with site-specific, performative rituals that explore how people relate to nature and are connected to each other in our present. She mixes participatory art with installations to evoke feelings of community. A consciousness for a sustainable, mindful theatre-production is deeply integrated in her way of working and thinking. Educated of „Ernst Busch“ University of Theatre Arts in Berlin. She collaborates with Metropolis since 2020 when she was residency artist and created 2022 the large scale pilgrimage „Back to the Sea“ at Naturpark Amager with land-art artist Alfio Bonanno. 

PRACATICAL INFORMATION
Duration: 75 min.
Age: 12+
Participants: 12

CREDITS
Photos: Lisa Brüning (1), Marine Gastineau (2)