Creative chaos: Tornado’s Eye inspires at the Katapult Festival!

Creative chaos: Tornado’s Eye inspires at the Katapult Festival!

Leipzig, Deutschland - The performance festival catapult in Leipzig sets new standards in the contemporary art scene. Today, June 21, 2025, the festival celebrates the premiere of "Tornado’s Eye" with the artist David Eisele. This performance takes place in the Lofft and combines impressively elements such as live music, dance and object manipulation. Eisele, who sits on a piano stool, carries out an endless rotation and pours bright liquids, which puts the viewers into a hypnotic atmosphere reports the LVZ .

In the center of Eiseli's work, the cello, which is integrated into the performance, is the performance, while props like a rotating chair that works like a potter and a glass that acts as a diabolo. Eisele invites the spectators to get into a state of deep relaxation and focus. The performance is suitable from the age of six and does not require any language to create a deep emotional experience How the event instructions explain .

variety of performances

The Katapult Festival shows a total of six productions that are characterized by different topics and approaches. Three of the pieces follow an archival approach. Among these is "Home/Not Alone", which is listed in the Schaubühne, particularly highlighted. It deals with a fictional future after a great collapse and designs a utopia that is inspired by eco-science fiction and biological research. This staging addresses how man can connect to nature again So the LVZ .

In addition, the performance "Oh" of the group "New care Pom Pom Pom" takes illuminating the topic of the "hole" as a symbol for human empty spaces. Both productions, "CHIRP" and "OH", use archive logic in the context of species death, but with very different aesthetic approaches. The concept of Soheil Boroumand and his team for "Home/Not Alone" is described as particularly ambitious and contains both acting elements and an archive with text and audio documents, which is designed from the perspective of 2065.

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The Katapult Festival has set itself the task of presenting a wide range of performance forms and gathering artists from different genres. With the impressive start of David Eisele and the diverse topics of the other productions, it becomes clear that Leipzig once again stands out as the center of cultural innovation.