CircusTalk PRO Member Showcase: Saar Rombout
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Saar Rombout – Creative Rigger
Saar Rombout is a circus artist and creative rigger, specializing in triple cloudswing, vertical dance, and rope design. She uses her own installations as a rope discipline to move with and explore connections. Rombout relies on her experience with creative rigging to incorporate play into her work.
Her circus experience began when she was a young child at the youth circus Circus Elleboog. She went on to attend the Fontys Academy for Circus and Performance Art in Tilburg, NL. She has toured with Ellen ten Damme, Acrobatic Conundrum, and the Envision Festival. Rombout also teaches aerial dance.
In addition to her aerial background, Saar Rombout is also an experienced (and curious) rigger. Her fascination with different forces between apparatuses and bodies has lead her down a long path of entertainment and stunt rigging. She began studying Contemporary Circus Practices at DOCH school in Stockholm in 2018. Currently, Rombout works as a circus rigger designing rope installations on the show Circus Days and Nights by Cirkus Cirkör, Malmö Opera, and Philip Glass.
Her medium of choice is cotton rope, which she associates with many different memories, fantasies, and metaphors. For Saar, moving, thinking, and rigging are permanently intertwined. Creative rigging is a cornerstone of her artistic practice–without it, she would be a drastically different artist.
Saar shared these words of wisdom on the greatest lesson she’s learned during her career:
“I have learned that the most important thing is that you find something that you enjoy doing and are interested in, not to work with something you think an audience will like.
For example, I love ropes and I want to get to know them, in what can do, how they behave and how they affect me. I know that is not everybody’s interest, but because I am so fascinated by them I create performances and interactive installations where an audience gets to experience a bit of the relationship that I have built with my ropes.”
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I asked Saar what is the most interesting part to her about rigging, to which she replied:
“For me rigging is a great combination of working technical and artistic. You have to understand all the different forces involved, know how different materials react and be able to assess the risks involved. But often to make everything work you have to come up with creative solutions and each place where you rig will be different, so you always have to adapt and be flexible with how you solve things. In the way I work with rigging in my research it also goes hand in hand with my movement, thinking and designing, they are all intertwined and together form my artistic practice.”
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