Area I - Cross-dimensional

Circus Island

A slackline crosses the lake. Some walk it.

About

The island that never sleeps.

Circus Island is our visual anchor and Samichay's absolute differentiator: a circus island that practically never sleeps. At any hour you find jugglers, contact staff, acrobats, dapo, and a slackline stretched over the lake that some actually walk - shore to shore, over the water.

It's a cross-dimensional area: it lives in Music when rhythms mix with movement, in Mind when circus becomes art, in Spirit when the body becomes practice. No other Italian festival has anything like it.

What happens

A day on the island.

  • Morning Warm-up, open acrobatics classes, first steps on the slackline
  • Afternoon Slackline over the lake, juggling jams, contact improvisation
  • Evening Circus performances on the island lawn
  • Night Fire, contact dance, continuous presence until dawn

Listen

Sounds of Circus Island.

People

Who keeps the island alive.

Artistic curation

  • Bozo Dotti Slackline & contact
  • Marta Reserve Contemporary juggling

Performers & facilitators

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Fragments

From past editions

2025 - Slackline on the lake
2024 - Circus performance
2024 - Juggling Jam
2025 - Night on the Island

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