Performance

Stick-stok

The talented performers blend circus and dance in this ode to modern society. Each performer has their own stick, their own background, their own discipline. This is where the fun begins.
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With their first performance ‘Stick-Stok’, TeaTime Company played more than 500 times in 15 different countries. This was the first step of the artistic signature, an elegant combination of their three disciplines and backgrounds.

Together they can use the sticks to make life difficult for each other: pulling a stick away at a critical moment, almost dropping it on someone’s head OR they can help each other: making sculptures together, building courses to climb through, balancing the sticks and themselves. The sticks allow them to go into our own world where the performers can play, tease and unite together.

Leaning into the simplicity of the object, they discover the combination of their disciplines in a completely new way.

Credits

Production

TeaTime Company

Performers

Bavo De Smedt / Tommy Pham / Raff Pringuet
Hannah Rogerson / Laila el Bazi / Elysia McMullen
Pieter Visser

Concept & Choreography

TeaTime Company

Outside Eye

Erik Kaiel

Videography

Maarten Rutten

Music

Julian Vogel

Funding

Circusstad Festival | School Tour Award 2017
PLAN Brabant | 2 year Flex Trajectory
Makershuis Tilburg
Dance Ireland

Mentor

Pia Meuthen

Support

Circusstad Festival, De Nieuwe Vorst, Festival Circolo, Het Klooster Breda, Dance Ireland

Specs

Location

outdoor and indoor

Duration

17 minutes

Capacity

up to 700

Age

All ages

Setting

half-circular

Stage (length/width/height)

8 x 8 x 5 meter

Performances per day

max 3 per day

Persons on tour

4

Disciplines

Juggling, Dance, Chinese pole, Physical theatre

Download Technical Rider

“It’s impressive, this dance and acrobatic performance by TeaTime Company, and it never becomes an accumulation of tricks…,”

Boukje Cnossen
De Theaterkrant, About RIPPLE  2024

“Three sticks. Three individuals. Dozens of possibilities. Under the Le Channel tent, in front of hundreds of spectators, these juggler-acrobats propel themselves forward, taking turns swinging and turning. The sticks they use are like Chinese poles reminiscent of giant Mikado’s. We see the use of the sticks on one arm, on one hand, on one foot and even on one finger. These are the special and impressive feats performed by TeaTime Company, all with great ease.”

Le Plus Équilibré
Le Voix Du Nord, Stick-Stok // Feux D’Hiver

“The performance was delivered with precision, with care. A fine combination between the practicality of actions in circus with the ongoing transitional flow of dance.”

Heleen Volmans
Dans Brabant

“Their strength lies in combining the natural with the unusual. This makes you crave more as an audience and go home full of joy.”

Nikki Rasings
Spectator at New Seeds Arnhem

“Everything was very impressive, the pace was great, plenty of surprises, good mix of skills.”

Spectator at Dance Ireland
New Movements Showcase

“The concentration speaks from their faces(…)when Rogerson walks triumphantly across the stage with four poles on her hands and feet like a giraffe, you can see what kind of gold TeaTime Company has in its hands…”

Caroline Verduijn
Theaterkrant, LINEAR // Festival Circolo

“These three have found their own material, namely the stick.(…)it sounds simple, but therein lies its power. The sticks are recognizable, but abstract at the same time(…)a good thing about TeaTime Company is that no story or characters have been invented, in Stick-Stok, it is purely about the game.

Technique, aesthetics and humour are present. But here too, as soon as the playing becomes more virtuosic, a piece of music starts and the whole thing becomes one beautiful picture…”

Brecht Hermans
Theaterkrant, Stick-Stok // The Great Catch