Trànsits

The company was born from the union of four multidisciplinary circus artists based in Euskal Herria (Oihane Larraza, Gaspar Illoro, Zoe Aldekoa, and César López). Their aim is to explore the poetics of the rural world to reach a shared sensitivity through the language of circus. Their main disciplines include aerials, juggling, Chinese pole, Cyr wheel, acrobatics, and dance. They met while attending the technical training program at INAC (National Institute of Circus Arts) in 2018, in Portugal. After separating and continuing their professional training independently, the artists decided to reunite and create the show Herrari. Driven by shared interests in contemporary language, they work by taking artistic risks rooted in emotions and sensations to engage the audience.

‘Herrari’

Herrari is an itinerant contemporary circus show that invites us to reflect on natural and rural spaces, which have changed significantly due to human presence and, paradoxically, its absence. It delves into the nostalgia for rural life, sparked by the longing for calm and a sense of community in today’s world. Life in cities is becoming increasingly unsustainable due to factors like gentrification, which disrupts collectivity, stripping places of their identity and further severing our connection with nature. The show seeks to build a bridge between rural and urban spaces, fostering a symbiosis between the two. It aims to propose alternative ways of living that are sensitive to the environment, encouraging us to be an active part of the world around us.

Elisa Oliva discovered her love for circus arts while attending film school in London (2016-2018). After completing her studies in the seventh art, she decided to pursue a professional course as a circus artist at Flic Contemporary Circus School (2019-2020), specializing in aerial rope. During that year, she began exploring creative possibilities by incorporating a skateboard into aerial rope performances. After working as a teacher and performer for the Circo all’Incirca company (2021), she decided to move to Barcelona in 2022 to continue teaching and developing her project, TreNotturno, in the European capital of skateboarding.

Gabbie is a dance and circus artist who works as a performer, teacher, stage director, and movement director. She specializes in contemporary dance, acrobatics, and Chinese pole, with over 10 years of stage experience. Throughout her career, she has collaborated with several dance, circus, and physical theater companies, covering a wide variety of performance genres. She has toured both nationally and internationally, performing for theater audiences, street theater festivals, and under the circus tent at various festivals.

Her workshops on acrodance and Chinese pole have been sought after by various higher education institutions and professional companies, such as the Institut del Teatre (Barcelona), CREAT (Valencia), Movement Andalusi (Granada), UNSAM (Buenos Aires), Accademia Dimitri (Switzerland), 2Faced Dance, and NoFit State Circus (United Kingdom).

Girl with a Curl

Girl with a Curl is a fantasy about power and liberation. It delivers a public service announcement on how women have historically been taught to ignore and internalize their anger, conveniently sustaining the patriarchy and ensuring that violence remains on the side of the oppressor. This multidisciplinary and immersive solo piece combines Chinese pole, contemporary dance, acrobatics, physical theater, and text/comedy. The work is comedic, absurd, and carries a strong political charge.

Hristina Šormaz began practicing circus and focusing on aerial rope while studying scenography in Belgrade. She trained as an artist through non-formal education, artistic collaborations, and masterclasses in circus and contemporary dance. She is a member of the Cirkusfera association, dedicated to the development of the contemporary circus scene in Serbia and the region.

Discovering different physical practices became for her a way to question human relationships with their environment and society, which led her to engage in artistic, pedagogical, and social work driven by circus. Since 2018, she has been pursuing doctoral studies in scenography, where she investigates the use of space and matter from a circus perspective.

Currently, she is based in France, where she continues to work in the circus field, as well as in Serbia and Croatia.

‘Traces’

Mariana Fernández is a performing artist specializing in aerial acrobatics and contemporary dance. She has worked with circus and dance companies such as Cirko de Mente, Inside the Body, and Cia. Cracoviana, and has collaborated with the company NonGratos Teatro. As an independent artist, she has participated in international festivals and is the co-director of Mujer Barbuda, Women in Contemporary Circus. Additionally, she co-created projects like Colectiva 9 Gramos and currently directs the company Otra Vez Lunes. She has also been an international teacher and workshop facilitator in the field of circus arts.

La casa está en llamas

La Casa está en Llamas is a project that celebrates functional diversity as a powerful way of living and transforming the world. Using tools from circus, dance, theater, and visual arts, workshops and dynamics will be conducted to highlight the participants’ perspectives, revealing their transformative potential. In a safe space, topics such as self-perception, recognition, self-validation, and personal desires will be addressed, emphasizing the value and creativity of our differences. The circus concept of risk will be used to create performative spaces that will showcase the final proposals.

Morgana was born in Bologna in 1995, with a twin sister. After training in rhythmic gymnastics and studying Psychology at the University of Bologna, she discovered contemporary circus. She trained at the FLIC Circus School in Turin, where she studied clowning, contortion, and contemporary dance. She also obtained a master’s degree in Psychosomatics at the Villaggio Globale in Bagni di Lucca. In 2022, she founded the street circus and theater company Le Vamp and, eventually, resumed playing with Barbies, becoming Miss SBarbie.

Miss SBarbie

Once upon a time there was a plastic body. Maybe 2, maybe 10, maybe a 100… Or maybe a 101! There were once a lot of little cyborgs that brightened the lives of little girls, allowing them to imagine all the possible worlds, places, and moments that those inanimate creatures could materialize and experience. There’s Morgana. 
And there are the Barbies: my friends, my doubles, my audience, my enemies, my superpowers, my bullets… There’s Franchina, the automated car… And, of course, there is Ken… Human!

Arrel trains at the CAU School of Circus and Theatre in Granada, specializing in fixed trapeze. The artist creates and participates in various shows, both circus and other disciplines, standing out in performances such as La Ira, La cultura del odi, or No-conformes. Arrel works as a circus workshop leader and trainer at the Aire Circo Vivo School, La Volta, TuSí(K)Circ, La Rogelio Rivel, Del Revés, and the Caixa d’Eines program, among others, while continuing to train in other scenic and circus disciplines, and is part of Cata Aguayo’s Aerial Creation and Research Laboratory. He/She has also completed a degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology in Barcelona.

Lutum

Lutum invites us to contemplate the fragility and mutability of the body, a living and perishable weave that sinks into paralysis. It raises the question of how the idea of death, linked to the conception of illness, maintains an analogous (and anal) relationship with sexuality and gender questioning. Lutum offers a raw and organic scenic experience, revealed under the gaze of the spectator through trapeze, balloons, cameras, and video projections.

Otra Vez Lunes is an emerging contemporary circus company formed by Sofía Demicheli and Mariana Fernández, two trapeze artists with over ten years of experience on the scene. Their exploration on the trapeze is based on movement research, the search for breaking conventional forms, and using this technique as a poetic and expressive tool through the body in suspension. It also involves supporting each other on stage and on the trapeze, creating a space of trust and mutual support.

This is Not a Love Song

This Is Not a Love Song is a contemporary circus show that explores the complexities of love in pop culture, using satire to question romantic conventions and how they affect female self-perception and relationships. Through the skills of Sofía Demicheli and Mariana Fernández on the trapeze, stereotypes are challenged while creating a poetic narrative through movement. The stage space and visual elements enhance the experience, merging circus art with storytelling in a unique way.

The Circus Company “eia” («unforeseen impulses agreed» in French, “yes” in Sardinian) was founded in 2009 through the fusion of various artists: Armando Rabanera, Fabrizio Giannini, and Cristiano Della Monica (Cirque Vague, Circo de la Sombra, and Le Grand Osim Orchestra), and Francesca Lissia and Celso Pereira (Celso i Frana). With fifteen years of collective experience, five active creations, and over 800 performances in 25 countries, it has established itself as a leading company in contemporary Catalan and Spanish circus. At the core of its creations is a human circus, capable of evoking the complexity of human relationships.

Secrets

Secrets is a creation project for a contemporary indoor circus for five acrobats that will premiere in the Spring/Summer of 2026. In this project we will question ourselves about the passage of time and the transformations that it causes, with special attention on making visible and giving value to those things that we often hide. What would we ask of our last shooting star?

The collective was formed in 2024 following its first creation, Scandale. It originated from an invitation by Martina Monnicchi, who brought together Sofia Zambrano, Karine Saroh, Aïna Duc, Cecilia Stock, Yann Champelovier, Nathalie Maufroy, and Victor Marre-Cast in search of a collective writing process. Beyond this creation, the group aims to produce hybrid performances that engage with and adapt to aerial space.

Scandale

“Let’s try, for once, not to be right.” How does scandal take root in bodies that fight against domination? In bodies that are altered, embodied, and that confess themselves? Scandale aims to explore the construction of norms and the gaze projected onto them. With aerial space as its starting point, the collective works and positions itself at the crossroads of circus, performance codes, and visual arts.

Cie. Le Bar à Chiens is composed of artists Florencia Galimberti, Matthias Elgueta, Lina Ramírez, and Stefano Zacchi, hailing from Chile, Argentina, Colombia, and Italy, brought together by their desire to explore acrobatic lifts as part of the same language.

‘A braccio’

A braccio is a sensory experience that invites the audience to connect with their own emotions and memories, resonating with the deepest parts of their being. A journey where circus becomes the perfect vehicle to explore the depths of the human soul.

Cía. Mesa para Dos, founded by Bryony Fowler and César Bonilla, is a creative entity forged within mutual coexistence, infused with resilience, humor, community, and the unconventional. The artists’ paths crossed in Turin, where they shared an apartment and specialized in aerial rope at the Flic Scuola di Circo, while life took them down absurd paths that challenged social norms. For their current project, they are working with the artistic guidance of Alejandro Dutra.

‘DesMother’

DesMother is a circus exploration based on the satirical narration of this bond, working between the beauty of the margins and imperfection. Through aerial rope and humor that leans toward the absurd and the poetic, it explores the notions of the dirty, the vulnerable, the familiar, and the strange, the shifting of relationships, and everyone’s expectations in art and life. It celebrates friendship, mutual care as a revolution, and the beauty found in the obscene and in what society rejects.