Paradisum - Recirquel Cirque Danse - Bence Vagi

Paradisum at Radiant-Bellevue: Recirquel returns under the vision of Bence Vági

At Radiant-Bellevue, we are delighted to welcome Recirquel and the artistic direction of Bence Vági with their immersive creation Paradisum, a work that fuses contemporary dance and virtuosic circus into an enveloping theatrical experience. From our stage, audiences will encounter a world built through sinuous choreography, weightless aerial work, and sculptural hand-to-hand acrobatics that mirror the pulse of nature. Paradisum unfolds as a sensory landscape rather than a spoken narrative, drawing on the company’s signature “cirque danse” language—fluid bodies, precisely braided formations, and a visceral score that deepens the emotional arc. Our technical teams are working closely with the artists to shape a scenography that breathes in our space: lighting that blooms and recedes like dusk and dawn, a sound design that travels across the room, rigging lines set to open vertical space for silks, straps, and hoop. Seen at Radiant-Bellevue, the piece becomes intimate and expansive at once, inviting the audience to lean into stillness, flight, and the fragile balance between human presence and a larger, living world.

The artistic moment: Recirquel’s evolving language with Bence Vági

Recirquel’s recent seasons have traced a compelling arc, each creation refining the company’s blend of acrobatics and dance into a poetic dramaturgy. With works such as My Land and Solus Amor, Bence Vági and his ensemble deepened a movement vocabulary that communicates without words—bodies as instruments, silence as counterpoint, ritual as staging. Paradisum extends that research into an elemental realm. The performers draw circles and spirals with their weight, suspend in collective balances, and return to earth in patterns that suggest renewal. The original score breathes alongside them, while the design elongates space to frame the ensemble as a single organism. For audiences at Radiant-Bellevue, this new chapter arrives at an ideal moment: Recirquel is touring widely and resonating with a generation seeking contemplative spectacle, artistry that is both rigorous and tender. Bence Vági’s direction attends to details—the pause before a catch, the exhale after a landing—so that each feat becomes a human gesture first, a technical triumph second. What emerges is a theater of sensation, an invitation to experience time differently, together.

Hosting Paradisum at Radiant-Bellevue allows us to place this distinctive work in dialogue with our stage and our audience community. Our house emphasizes clarity of sightlines and meticulous sound, qualities that support the precision and breath of Recirquel’s ensemble. We have shaped configurations that frame aerial sequences with intimacy, allowing the suspended body to read as a line of calligraphy against the air. Before the curtain rises, you will feel the atmosphere gathering in our foyer; once inside, the room settles into a listening hush that the performers fill with motion—lifts that seem to hover, lifts that return to ground with the softness of leaves. Our collaboration with the company ensures that every cue—light, music, and movement—unfolds with the right cadence for this space. As a destination for dance, theater, and contemporary circus, Radiant-Bellevue is proud to host Recirquel and share Paradisum with everyone who seeks the union of physical excellence and poetic design. This is a living event that rewards attention: a theatrical garden tended by artists at the height of their craft, presented on our stage with care.

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