Recirquel: Paradisum

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Natalia Fábics is a Budapest-based producer and international relations lead at Recirquel, one of the world's leading contemporary circus companies. She develops international touring, co-production and strategic partnerships for the company’s creations, including Paradisum and the immersive production Walk My World. Her work focuses on cross-border collaboration, artistic mobility and new models for site-responsive and interdisciplinary performance. She also teaches film and visual culture at university level in Budapest.

Paradisum is a large-scale contemporary circus production by Recirquel, directed and choreographed by Bence Vági. The work evokes a myth of regeneration in a world where human beings rediscover connection through movement and ritual. Created within Recirquel’s distinctive cirque danse language, it brings together contemporary dance, circus arts, original music and a powerful visual dramaturgy.

At the centre of the stage world is the transforming “fabric of life,” a scenographic presence that continuously shifts in dialogue with the performers. Rather than telling a linear story, the performance unfolds through symbolic images and physical states, offering a visually immersive and poetic theatrical experience.

Creative context and artistic motivation

Paradisum continues Recirquel’s artistic exploration within cirque danse, where contemporary dance, circus arts and visual theatre merge into a singular form of expression. The project is driven by an interest in expanding the expressive possibilities of movement beyond narrative storytelling, using physical language to approach fundamental human questions.

The work explores themes of rebirth, human interconnectedness and the search for harmony after destruction, drawing on mythic imagery and ritual structures. A central artistic motivation was to create a performance in which movement, music and visual dramaturgy function as equal forces, and where the relationship between human bodies and the transforming “fabric of life” becomes a metaphor for the organic interconnectedness of existence.

At its core, Paradisum reflects a search for a poetic and universal stage language capable of resonating across cultures, while contributing to the ongoing evolution of contemporary circus as an artistically rigorous form.

Discipline: Contemporary Circus

Intended audience: Youth (ages 12-18), Adult audiences (17+)

Duration: 1h

Number of performers on stage 6

COMPANY: Recirquel Cirque Danse by Bence Vági

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