KARST

You can’t get back the time once it has passed. Regret is a woeful place where the choices we have made haunt us for generations and where would’ves, should’ves and could’ves are played on loop. With the world engulfed in natural disasters, endless wars, and extreme evolutions, we were left with few choices. The signs were right in front of us, we just had salt in our eyes. In time we all understood that for the weary yet unbroken and for the sorrowful yet hopeful, that deep hollow underground awaits. We must begin anew and all signs lead to KARST. Follow the signs. All who seek are welcome.

Salarium Karst is set within a fictional dystopian world, thousands of years in the future, where civilization has collapsed and rebuilt itself countless times. We join our story more than 3000 years after humanity has gone underground and the citizens are beginning to question the cultural microcosm in which they are living.

Salarium Karst is an immersive, contemporary circus installation performance hosted within the Halifax Central Library (main floor and Paul O’Regan Hall). The story of Salarium Karst will be told via several chapters. Audience members (aka seekers) can choose to watch one, a few or all of the chapters that will be presented over the 6-hour span in which the performance.

SCHEDULE:

5:30pm-6:30pm Juggling, pizza and music mash-up outside Halifax Central Library (Spring Garden side)
(Lou Pecou pizza rations are free while supplies last!)

7:00pm & 9:30pm Chapter 1 - Storytime with Billy (Paul O’ Regan Hall) – 15min
Billy the conspiracy theorist takes us through the history of the Salarium Karst with the help of community members.
Performances: vocals by Dawn Shepherd and dance trapeze performance by Richard Ramcharan, musical accompaniment by Mohammad Sahraei (tar,
djembe) and Evan Syliboy (guitar), character cameos by Breaking Circus Collective/mentees & friends

7:30pm & 10:00pm Chapter 2 - The Chamber and the Oracle (library main floor) – 15min
Welcome to the Chamber, let the battle begin! Oracle consults the Akashic Records.
Performances: spoken word/rap by Black Rook (aka Kyle McKenna), breaking/acro by Natorious (Nathaniel Dooks), animal flow by Richard Ramcharan,
contemporary dance by Lydia Zimmer, aerial hoop performance by Dawn Shepherd, character cameo by Danielle Toner, Ryan Gray)

8:00pm & 10:30pm Chapter 3 - Billy’s Conspiracy and the Waterfall (library main floor) – 15min
Billy tinkers and tries reach the Greys with the help of the apprentice. The apprentice immerses herself in the mythology of the waterfall rock goddess.
Performances: aerial straps by Ryan Gray, aerial silks by Ciara Gabriel-Okafo and Esther Kisembo and clowning by Ryan Gray, Danielle Toner

8:30pm & 11:00pm Chapter 4 - Geology and Mining (Paul O’Regan Hall) – 15min
The Geologist (aka The Breaker) finds a new opponent and the Miners get to work.
Performances: breaking/acro by Natorious (Nathaniel Dooks) and juggling by Jayden Gigliotti and Brandon Skeete, character cameo by Nithin
Nedumparambil.

9:00pm & 11:30pm Chapter 5 - The Book and the Unclimbable Tree (Paul O’Regan Hall) – 15min
The Apprentice discovers a shocking truth and the unclimbable tree is put to the test.
Performances: dance trapeze/clowning by Danielle Toner, Chinese pole by Nithin Nedumparambil, character cameos by Breaking Circus Collective/mentees
& friends