Our Team
Lisa Chudalla graduated 2013 from Codarts Circus Arts specialising in aerial rope, cyr wheel and taxidermy manipulation. Since then she has performed on anything from beer crates to cruise ships. Lisa is a hoarder of circus skills and can now after 8 years in the arts count graceful acrobatics in steel chains, rigging, balancing on her own head, swallowing swords, and creating couture with staple guns into her repertoire.
Since graduating in The Netherlands she has been seeking the different approaches of European contemporary circus companies. The scottish circus collective ‘No Show’ brought her to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2017 and with the show ‘Mä Hyrrä’(2018/19) she got a bit of insight into how german audiences receive fresh circus. She is currently on a mission to establish ‘Contemporary Sideshow’ as a new performative sub genre.
Jakob Jacobsson escaped the cold of northern Sweden in search of circus and has since lived in Russia, France and the U.K collecting anecdotes to combine with his multi-instrumental musicianship. After having learned how to pretend to play half a dozen instruments on stage he settled down in Rotterdam to finally devote himself to the aerial rope.
Unhealthy amounts of coffee and Tom Waits fueled him to graduate Codarts Circus Arts in June 2018 with a rope solo about forgetting, giving up and drowning.
He is the co-founder of the nordic circus collective ‘The Nordic Council’, revealed a couple of depressing statistics about feminism in the circus in his thesis “Strength in Numbers” and occasionally writes essays for the platform CircusTalk.com .
External support
Here are the phenomenal directors, artists, producers and friends who assisted us in the creation of Dear Doubts (2021).
Adrian Berry, Dave van der Waal, Volker Reker
Adrian, Dave and Volker are all the voices personifying our fox Søren. Since Dear Doubts is an international performance we adapt the language to the audience, and this is made possible by our fantastic cast of foxes.
Susanne Piwonka
Susanne Piwonka is the artistic director for Kulturwelt, a theater organisation in Ludwigsburg, Germany. She has been on board with Dear Doubts since 2020 and has been a vital part to our creation, both in the production office and on stage as a dramatic outside eye.
Cox & Alex
Cox Ahlers and Alexandra Henn were assigned to Dear Doubts during the residency program Zirkus ON and assisted with conceptual advice and guidance for both the residency process and beyond.
Björn & Kenneth
Björn Hartenstein and Kenneth Danielsen are light designers working in Tollhaus (Karlsruhe) and Dynamo Workspace (Odense) respectively. They assisted Dear Doubts during the creation period with light design and programming advice, and Björn has continued to be a technical advisor to the company.
Gerindo Kartadinata
Gerindo Kartadinata is a physical theatre performer who became part of Dear Doubts in one of the earliest residencies and lent hard hitting feedback to the artists.
Yolande Sommer
Yolande Sommer, performer and choreograph, worked on Dear Doubts during a residency in Open Space in Bochum and worked on the dramaturgy and structure of the piece.