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The Genesis

Copenhagen Collective

Venue: Main Hall at Assembly Hall
Dates: 31 July – 05 Aug, 07-10 Aug, 12-17 Aug, 19-25 Aug
Times: 12:30
Length: 1h

Experience the breathtaking journey of The Genesis, which reflects a modern world where individual brilliance finds its ultimate strength in collective harmony. On stage, seventeen world-renowned artists create breathtaking visual poetry through complex formations and feats that defy the limits of human movement and emotion. Challenging conventions with powerful female bases and gravity-defying male flyers, this show celebrates the beauty of diversity in physique, heritage and artistic expression.

Wolf

Circa

Venue: The Lafayette at Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows
Dates: 01-05 Aug, 07-11 Aug, 13-18 Aug, 20-23 Aug
Times: 18:20
Length: 1h

Wolf. A gasp-inducing acrobatic thrill ride. Clad in designer Libby McDonnell’s form-hugging costumes and set to DJ Ori Lichtik’s relentless primal rhythms, the cast of ten extraordinary Circa artists grasp, tear, climb, leap and balance with fierce abandon. For Director Yaron Lifschitz, the wolf is a symbol of our untameable selves: liberating, anarchic and savage. The wolves evolve from disruptive forces of chaos into a ferocious pack whose intense choreographies overflow with raw energy and astounding physicality. Wolf is circus with fangs. Join the pack.

Ten Thousand Hours

Gravity & Other Myths

Venue: Main Hall at Assembly Hall
Dates: 31 July – 05 Aug, 07-10 Aug, 12-17 Aug, 19-24 Aug
Times: 18:00
Length: 1h

This is an ode to the countless hours needed to achieve great things. An acknowledgement of the backstory that is often more spectacular than the finished product. Eight elite acrobats investigate physical skill; how we obtain it, how we perfect it, and how it can transform our lives. Through highlighting the nuance of high-level acrobatics, audiences experience a heightened appreciation of the countless hours required to master the skills they are witnessing.

A Teen Odyssey

La Mecànica

Venue: Dissection Room at Summerhall
Dates: 31 July – 10 Aug, 12-17 Aug, 19-25 Aug
Times: 12:00 & 13:30
Length: 50min

A cutting-edge, immersive physical theatre experience combining live physical performance with smartphone interaction. Using La Fura dels Baus’ Kalliópê app, the show transforms audience members into active participants, exploring identity, belonging and intergenerational connection. Visually striking and sonically rich, this production is designed to captivate both teens and adults. La Mecànica crafts a unique, high-impact theatrical journey that resonates with contemporary audiences. Please bring your phone fully charged!

The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave

Oli Mathiesen with Lucy Lynch and Sharvon Mortimer

Venue: Main Hall at Summerhall
Dates: 31 July – 05 Aug, 07-11 Aug, 13-18 Aug, 20-25 Aug
Times: 18:05
Length: 1h
The award-winning endurance-based dance work to the booming techno album Nocturbulous Behaviour by Suburban Knight is the atmosphere and culture of a three-day rave condensed into an hour. Relentless movement, seamless without pause, detailed down to every beat. Exploring the movement used in techno and rave culture, witness the destruction of three humans. Indulge in the pain, the sweat: a display of pure endurance to achieve a goal. A spectacle of the human body as a victim to music, to passion, to our endless desire to achieve more. To win and win again.

Between the river and the Sea

Yousef Sweid & Isabella Sedlak (Maxim Gorki Theater)

Venue: The Studio at Zoo Southside; Playground 2
Dates: 01-09 Aug; 10-13 Aug
Times: 17:45; 21:50
Length: 1h

Palestinian-Israeli actor Yousef Sweid dives into the chaos of identity, truth, and family life in Between The River And The Sea. Raised as a Christian Arab kid in Haifa, now raising two Jewish-Arab kids in Berlin, he unpacks his in-between-ness — where contradictions clash and slogans fail. With biting humor and raw honesty, Sweid weaves personal stories, political reflection, and absurd everyday moments into a sharp, unflinching solo performance. This is no neat narrative—but a plea for nuance, for listening, and for stories that rarely get told.