The Me You Us play is the first production of the group created for very young children. Children and adults sit together in a circle in a comfortable and secure space. The stage set is designed as a huge activity pad full of surprising twists and turns. Through their movements, the dancers reveal before the small babies an extraordinary universe where a combination of sensory stimuli, sounds and gestures is a response to the children’s curiosity concerning the reality around them and their own body. An atmosphere of proximity and mutual astonishment is created between the dancers and the audience as well as between the children and their parents or care-givers. After the 30-minute show, the space is left at the disposal of the spectators, and both children and adults can satiate the curiosity aroused in them a while before.

The show was nominated to the most prestigious Danish theatre award, the Reumert Prize.

Light as a descending feather, “Me You Us” by Aaben Dans is a veritable milestone in the development of theatre for toddlers.
Børneteateravisen, Danish website publishing information on and reviews of theatre performances for children

In The Cubes Circus two dancers-clowns conjure up an extraordinary cubic world on the stage. It turns out that anything can be a square! The artists use the simple form to conjure up the figures and props that accompany them. Even their costumes are square. The stories they spin are innovative and unpretentious. The scenes of taming circus animals are interspersed with dance sequences and the cubes of the performance affect the unique movements. The Cubes Circus is a precisely imagined and performed show, created with an extraordinary sense of humour, offering excellent entertainment to whole families.

The performance received the main prize for the best performance for children at the New Puppet Theatre Festival “Bábkarská Bystrica” in Slovakia.

Two young actors have managed to create a finely chiselled and masterfully composed performance, which is moreover light, intelligent and imaginative.

Shay Bar Yaakov, Yedioth Achronot

The Magic Egg is a poetic play of a dance theatre which is deliberately balancing between an animated film and traditional mythology. The show groups five extraordinary dancers from different parts of the world: Africa, Asia and Europe. They tell a tale of a small, dirty and sick planet whose dwellers try a number of diverse solutions to save it. Serious reflection on the world and nature is interspersed here with the tricks of the curious creatures inhabiting the planet. All the nonsensical plot and the choreography of the play are only seemingly incongruous. The choreographer consistently uses the idiom of children’s imagination and creates a performance that invokes the abstract thinking of the youngest. The show offers the audience a lot of freedom of interpretation; its huge dose of extraordinary humour, greatly imaginative costumes and funny animations makes it attractive for the youngest spectators.

The performance was nominated to the Cologne Theatre Prize 2010.

The consistent avoidance of tacky effects and the creation of indeterminate space makes ZauberEi a master production, with a soft music by Harald Zieglers, charming animations by Timothée Ingen-Hous, costumes by Sabine Schneider, and the participation of amazing dancers.

Melanie Suchy Rheinische Post

We have a surprise in store for kids to celebrate Children’s Day! To mark the launch of the project Old Brewery New Dance for Children, Janusz Orlik will conduct a movement workshop for kids aged 8 – 12 on the Chessboard in the Old Brewery.