Three by Three: Guest Artists in Focus

QUESTION 2.    In your recent video-art collaboration MANDELA – Pilot of the Winds, you are writer as well as performer. What shifts for you creatively when movement has to carry a message beyond the stage?

• ANSWER 2.  In all of my performances, I have always been the author as well, and I have consistently used movement to convey a message. This approach has evolved continuously over time.
  

  What distinguishes MANDELA – Pilot of the Winds is the depth and length of the research process behind it. For the first time, the work becomes explicitly political. Movement no longer speaks only on a personal or poetic level, but consciously takes a position and addresses a broader social context beyond the stage.

Crystalle Bobbe
Performance Artist

BIO:     I was born into a family where difference was the shared language – architects, artists, scientists, and anthropologists shaped a home filled with curiosity and creation. My path led me from Germany to Paris, from the structure of the forest and the line to the freedom of air and movement. Between architecture and flight, I found my voice – a body speaking where words fall silent. I do not belong to one place alone, but to the spaces in between, where memories, gestures, and emotions meet. My becoming is a quiet dance between worlds, carried by empathy and remembrance – and by the longing for the transient, the ephemeral, that flares up in a moment and gently fades away.

I completed my elementary training in Paris at the “Conservatoire National des Arts du Cirque et du Mime”, at the “Académie Fratellini” and at the “Conservatoire de Dance Classique”. I am trained in all subjects of circus arts and dance. I have specialized in tightrope dance and aerial techniques. I have worked with my performances in nine productions in the USA, among others.
 

WEBSITE:    Crystalle.eu

QUESTION 3.    Your work often holds vulnerability alongside strength. What keeps you returning to that tension as a central thread in your practice?

• ANSWER 3.     Opposites are the essence of performance. They create meaning, intensity, and presence. Vulnerability and strength exist simultaneously, and it is this coexistence that gives the work its power.

QUESTION 1.    Tightwire and aerial work demand extreme physical precision, yet your performances feel fluid and musical. How do you balance technical control with emotional expression in motion?

• ANSWER 1.  For me, the artistic dimension is always at the center of a performance. It is what moves the audience and allows them to step into another world. Technique is secondary to expression, even though it remains an essential foundation. Emotion does not come from control, but from being personally and deeply moved. When I truly become part of the music, that inner connection translates into movement. Technique is present, but not visible — it supports the moment without dominating it.

Dance for Peace

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