Cie Babafish

• 2009
• Belgium

While travelling through the north of India, Jo Ackerman met a Yogi who predicted that he would one day found a company called BabaFish...

In 2009 that prophecy came true, when Jo Ackermann created BabaFish with circus artistes Anke Bucher, Michela Henle and Anna Nilsson. The company was originally founded to stage their performance I, Mistress & Wife, winner of the European Young Circus Talent award in 2010, and premiered in Strasbourg that same year.

Jo Ackermans subsequently left BabaFish to focus on his video art and documentary work, with the company “Locomotif”.

BabaFish went on to create three new original performance pieces: Hymne National (2013), Carte Blanche for Voix des Femmes (2013) and Bazilik (2015). Bazilik saw Jo Ackermans reunite with BabaFish.

BabaFish has also come to serve as a platform for the individual projects of its members: Expiry Date, presented by Anna Nilson in 2012 (and still touring), Crève Corps (2014) by Anke Bucher, and another new project from Anna in 2014 entitled Driften.