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Maja Thommen’s beginnings as a performer sprang from her desire to create larger
works and collaborate with more people.
This first led her toward acrobatics and explorations in the concepts of bodies in balance.
Her fascination with fire also influenced these formative years of her performance work
and steered her toward experimentations with gunpowder and eventually her licence
to handle and employ explosives. As a member of performance collectives Bagger
and Elxt 90 she worked on cutting-edge pyrotechnic experiments utilizing gunpowder,
propane, and petrol.
It was this seminal period that eventually led to performances and collaborations with
Berlin fire artists: Eddie Egal, Logo Lard, Hannes Jung, Ivana Quiles, Bastian Maris and
Kain Karawahn. She continues these collaborations and friendships to this day.
The year 2003 ushered M. Thommen toward an entirely new direction in her performance
career as she joined the Kreuzberger gypsy band, Casino Gitano. As a 'Casino' she feels
that she has entered a completely new world; the nearly unlimited universe of music.
| 1997–2001: | Martial punk show Bagger |
| 1999–2003: | The acrobatic fire spectacle Elxt90 |
| 2002-2004: | The pyro-acoustic show project Free Radicals |
| 2003: | Assistance on Kain Karawahns Polkappenzündfonie, Bonn /D |
| Since 2003: | Playing the flute in the gipsy band Casino Gitano |
| 2004: | Fire installation for the European film premiere of Troy, Berlin /D |
| 2005: | Assistance on the LHPO show, by Geo Homsy, Bastiaan Maris and Stock,
Big Day Out Festival, Sydney /AUS |
| Since 2005: | Concept and artistic director of the mechanical water spectacle The Whale |
| 2006: | Juweliers Messe Basel, fire installation with Hannes Jung, Eddie Egal
and Udo Luckow, Basel /CH |
| 2008: | Assistance on the fire show of Eddie Egal and Sir Henry Hot in Thrash City,
Glastonbury Festival /GB |
| since 2011: | Tony Clifton Circus, Mission Roosevelt Spectacle, technical development
and show assistance, France |
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