Kathrin Wagner

I Was Told. is a 60-minute interdisciplinary piece of ring juggling and slam poetry suitable for indoor venues, which deals with the influence of language in the literal and figurative sense, on the perception of self and others. The artist Kathrin Wagner deals with the emerging identity conflict in an authentic, honest, humorous and empowering way. A first impression of the piece can be found here:

https://youtu.be/tCGLrWoj6Nk

Kathrin Wagner Kathrin is self-taught, specializing in ring juggling and spoken word. She discovered her passion for circus through the juggling community, where she also took her first steps on stage in 2011. Since then she has participated in numerous workshops on diverse topics such as creation, dance, composition, dramaturgy, lighting and the Chekhov technique. She also attended the Juggling and Music summer course at DOCH University for Dance and Circus. In 2017, she co-founded the Outer Circle company, which toured its show in Germany and the UK in 2018/19. With her solo act In Line, she has had the opportunity to perform and teach workshops in Europe, the US and Canada over the past few years. Her great affinity for communication, foreign languages and their inferences to the cultural identities of the speakers* led her to a BA in English Studies and in 2019 to Poetry Slam. Since then she has been writing and performing her own texts, mainly in English and French. Since 2020 she is part of the 7 Women, which, directed by Anna Katharina Andrees, will premiere in 2021 with a contemporary circus piece. In parallel with the 7 Women, she began in the same year with the creation of I Was Told.