Living Layers

Below Zero Company

A circus performance about memories that aren't our own and about time’s ability to move in cycles. 

In an archive of memories, four women meet, all of them carrying an echo of those who have lived before. What truth lies in the memories that have been told from generation to generation and have wandered through the layers of time? And where do we go when the last one who remembered us has disappeared? Living Layers takes the audience to a world marked by women's imprints and forgotten stories.

With the help of powerful acrobatics, tightrope dancing, rotating wheels and pulsating live music, a personal circus work is carefully crafted. The choreographic expression is strongly influenced by the company's previous acclaimed works that have toured the world. The music moves between strings and electronic soundscapes and is accompanied live on stage by accordion and singing.

Creative Team

Idea, concept and direction: Klara Sköldulf Philipp and Fridamy Roth
Cast: Fridamy Roth, Alva Harju Jansson and Klara Sköldulf Philipp
Live music: Agnes Kofoed Christianson
Music composition: Vincent Bahar and Agnes Kofoed Christianson
Costume: Pia Gyll
Scenography: Pia Gyll, Lukas Ivanow, Ulf Poly Nylin, Stefan Drake Karlström
Choreography: Methinee Wongtrakoon, Fridamy Roth, Alva Harju and Klara Sköldulf Philipp
Light design: Raimo Nyman
Video composition: Johannes Ferm Winkler
Technical consultation: Robbi Broggi, Mattias Lindstöm
Production: Elin Hammar
Artistic direction Below Zero: Sara Runsten, Axel Ahl and Klara Sköldulf Philipp