Lenght of time
An invitation to heightened listening, where sound can be seen and movement can be heard.
Un projet exploratoire où l’art du cirque rencontre l’art plastique
Fabian Krestel transforme la jonglerie en outil pictural, traduisant l’éphémère du mouvement en traces visuelles tangibles. Un labyrinth entre cirque et arts plastiques.
Lenght of time is Fabian Krestel’s next project, currently seeking co-producers and residencies for a creation to be completed in 2028.
Lenght of time unfolds like a musical score for dancers and jugglers. The show takes the form of an auditory and rhythmic exploration, where music and dance emerge from the presence of bodies and the manipulation of objects.
It is about shifting the gaze to what we hear, reflecting on a principle of total transparency, where everything is visible. We see where the sounds come from, what triggers a movement, what motivates a trajectory. The audience is invited to follow the path of the creation as it is performed live.
The project draws inspiration from Steve Reich's musical experiments and John Cage's playful spirit (notably Water Walk).
The research focuses on archetypal notions such as time and impulse, applying principles of contemporary music (repetitions, phasing, canons) to gesture and sound.
Length of time is based on three fundamental characteristics:
Hybrid form : The project deliberately straddles genres, combining the intensity of a concert with the physicality of a performance. The performers—musicians, dancers, and jugglers—explore a common grammar in which sound, movement, and the manipulation of objects are inseparable.
Live creation : The piece is constructed as a playful situation in which the partners respond to each other, shift positions, listen to each other, and where the composition arises from their sensibilities. Rather than following a fixed score, the performers forge the sound and visual landscape of the work together.
Music through movement : The central idea of the project is that music and dance emerge directly from the physicality of the actions. Every movement, every manipulation of an object, every body present becomes a potential source of sound, turning the stage into a veritable instrument.
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credits
Concept and artistic direction : Fabian Krestel
Musical structuring : Fabian Fiorini
Technical and musical design : Richard McReynolds, specialist in electronic music and sound design
Performers : Carla Kühne, Sarah Blanchard, Keivin Benavides Hidalgo
Production : Plusieurs
Co-production : in progress
Support : in progress
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Biography
Born in Munich in 1987, Fabian Krestel is an interdisciplinary artist now based in Brussels. His work bridges contemporary circus, choreography, and visual arts. In 2013, he graduated with honors from ESAC, the Brussels School of Circus Arts. During his studies, he specialized in two structurally different disciplines: Chinese pole and juggling.
Since 2014, his work has incorporated dance and acrobatics, leading him to collaborate with artists such as Kitt Johnson (Denmark), Claudio Stellato (Belgium and the Netherlands), Moni Wespi (Switzerland), and the Panama Pictures company (the Netherlands).
After several years as a performer, Fabian Krestel began work on his first creation, The Labyrinth, in 2020. This project is defined as an exploration of the relationship between process and product. It is an interdisciplinary essay, a hybrid between performance, installation, visual art, theater, dance, and music. The central innovation of The Labyrinth is the abstraction of juggling in order to generate visual traces (lines, dots, and patterns) from ephemeral movements, thus connecting the performing arts with the visual arts.
Fabian Krestel was selected for the Forecast program under the mentorship of Yuya Tsukahara, in the theme “Post Punk Performance.” Supported and co-produced by several European institutions, including Les Halles de Schaerbeek, BRASS, Latitude 50, Perplex, Mira Miro, and Cirklabo, The Labyrinth premiered at the Festival des Arts de la Rue de Huy in April 2024 and has since been programmed at festivals and theater seasons: HP24 at Les Halles de Schaerbeek at BRASS, Festival Cement, Festival Smells like Circus (2026), Festival Scenar!o (2026), at Marni, etc.
Associate Artist
Since 2024, Fabian Krestel has been an associate artist at Plusieurs, an agile service structure dedicated to undisciplined and multidisciplinary creative projects. This structure is currently mainly active in Belgium and is headed by Laurent Pirotte. Its main objective is to act as a space for interstices by relieving artists of administrative, financial, and operational constraints, in order to give them back time and creative freedom.
Plusieurs develops solid, long-term support for its associate artists by pooling essential skills such as production management, administrative management, grant research, HR monitoring, and distribution and communication.
Associate artists, including Fabian Krestel (since 2024), Moni Wespi (since 2021), and François de Saint-Georges (since 2019), benefit from this ecosystem to give their work the necessary scope.