Lotta and Stina: ’20 Years Later Still Here!’ circus performance at Jacksons Lane

Lotta and Stina bring their performance 20 Years Later Still Here! to Jacksons Lane on Saturday 13 April. 20 Years Later Still Here! is an autobiographical show about two women’s wild joyride working in circus. Told with warmth, humour, and dizzying acrobatics, this show invites the audience to share the highs and lows of a life in showbusiness. From the glitz and glamour to the countless hours of practice, the blood, the sweat and the tears.

Lotta and Stina (opens a new window) began working together on the rola-bola in 2001, while performing with a youth circus in Finland. They spent three years perfecting their technique at the prestigious and demanding Ecole Supérieure des Arts du Cirque in Brussels, from where they graduated in 2008. Since then, they have worked for example in the Wintergarten Variety, Krystallpalast Variete, Circus Flic Flac, Palazzo dinner shows, Oh la la -production from Rolf and Gregory Knie, Le plus grand cabaret du Monde tv show, La Strada Bremen and Buskers Bern street music festival just to name a few.

Performance and creation: Lotta Paavilainen & Stina Kopra

Co-directors and devising: Heidi Niemi, Troels Hagen Findsen

Costume design: Enna Paavilainen

Light design: Vilma Vantola

Sound design: Satu Kankkonen, Palle Nothlev

20 Years Later Still Here! at Jacksons Lane (269a Archway Road, London N6 5AA) on Saturday 13 April at 7.30pm. Tickets £12-£16, buy them via Jacksons Lane’s website here (opens a new window).

Read the interview with Lotta and Stina here (opens a new window).