January 15th – June 1st, 2025 Chamäleon Berlin, Berlin*
July 28th – 29th, 2025 GREC festival, Barcelona
August 1st – 2nd, 2025 La Strada, Graz
August 8th, 2025 Danseu Festival, Piles
August 14th – 31st, 2025 Letní Letná festival, Prague
October 23rd – 25th, 2025 Circa Auch, Auch
November 5th – 6th, 2025 MAC Créteil, Créteil
November 15th – 16th, 2025 Cirkuliacija, Vilnius
November 27th – 29th, 2025 Le Diamant, Quebec
March 6th, 2026 Steps Festival, Neuchâtel
March 8th, 2026 Steps Festival, Vevey
March 11th, 2026 Steps Festival, Baden
March 13th, 2026 Steps Festival, Bulle
March 18th, 2026 Steps Festival, Sierre
March 21st, 2026 Steps Festival, St. Gallen
March 24th, 2026 Steps Festival, Delément
March 26th, 2026 Steps Festival, Schaffhausen
March 29th, 2026 Steps Festival, Nyon
Duration: 70 minutes
*adpated version with longer duration
Canadian Circus Sensation
With Play Dead, the Canadian company People Watching has created an astonishing debut work. The show will be re-staged exclusively for the Chamäleon in order to artistically expand the facets of the Chamäleon stage with its extraordinary and powerful aesthetic.
In a shifting universe of domestic trappings and interlocking stories, eight curious individuals dissect the beauty and absurdity of the human condition. A reverie, a purgatory, a place where anatomical logic and gravity don’t seem to apply. Through an otherworldly hybrid of acrobatics, dance and physical theatre, People Watching create contemporary circus that flows like water, sometimes gentle and reflective, sometimes relentless and impactful. Play Dead pushes physical boundaries at the intersection where circus and dance meet to celebrate life in all its eccentricity, the same way people desperately dance to the last song before the party ends.