Squarehead Productions works as a transient space for collaboration in the fields of artistic research and creation. Over the years the SHP has encountered several other artists who have either collaborated with the company on common or who’s ideas and working methods have contributed to the companies guiding principles. In order to honour them and their contributions they are featured below with links accessing their personal work.
Elena Kreusch
Elena co-founded SHP with Darragh in 2012. She is currently finishing her Phd in ‘Circus Mobilities’ and is working on her first creation ‘Articulations’.
Elena left the company in 2019 to pursue her own artistic and academic work under her own name and under KreativKultur. Her contribution was pivotal to SHP’s past projects and what it is today.
www.elenakreusch.com - www.kreativkultur.org
Sophia Kurmann
Sophia works as a part time producer for SHP. She is the founder of network and opportunity platform PerformYourArt a platform for artist support and dissemination and co-founded The Palace Collective - a world wide artist collective . Sophia’s physical practice lies in aerial rope, hoop manipulation and acrobatics.
www.performyourart.com - www.thepalacecollective.org
Joseph Summers
Joe is an essential part of the cast of STICKMAN. Besides his budding theatre career he co-founded independent music label First Terrance Records , and peruses his own multi-faceted artistic projects. He is a ‘musician’, instrument builder/destroyer and all round Joe and all trades.
https://www.firstterracerecords.com/
Marco Chenevier
Marco toured his work alongside The Whistle as part of the Best of BE Tour in 2015. Since then he has contributed to the creation of STICKMAN as a dramaturge. He is the director of TIDA - Theatre and Dance company and performs and creates his own work.
http://www.tidaweb.net/
Roman Skadra
Roman graduated from Die Etage in 2017. Since then Darragh has been collaborating as an artistic advisor for Roman’s work ‘Absurd Hero’ - an exploration of the relationship between a body and a large heavy walking globe. Inspired by Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus - this work presents circus as a potentially joyful, yet endlessly futile endeavour.
Bogdan Illouz
Bogdan and Darragh have worked together since 2015 by providing common artistic advice and more recently by sharing a residency in 2018 with the aim to research and gather material for a potential collaborative piece. Bogdan has worked as part of the cast of ‘Humanoptère’ by Clement Dazin, ‘Ballade à quatre’ by Vincent de Lavenère and more recently Collectif Petit Travers .Bogdan and Darragh are currently look for opportunities to continue their research together.
https://www.facebook.com/bogdanillouzpro/
Benjamin Richter
Benjamin is one of the main project leaders at the DOCH Circus Masters programme. Benjamin is currently developing his project ‘Taktil’ - which also shares some interesting parallels to the Improvised Abstract Strategy Game. Benjamin first coined the term ‘The Language of Objects’ (TLO), which he continues to share with the world.
http://benjaminrichter.net/
Charlotte ‘Charlie” Kachelmann
Charlie is a freelance illustrator who designed the logo for SHP and is also working as a designer for other circus companies. Charlie works on her own artistic projects that move between the spheres of performance, design, animation and illustration.
https://www.charlottekachelmann.com/
Declan Mee
Declan is a juggler, teacher and advocate for the DAS Arts Feedback method. He is an old friend, and has over the years provided invaluable insights which helped many of the projects in SHP.