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Cherry Matakila is a company formed by Barbara (Argentina) and Simona (Switzerland), who met during their training at Ésacto’lido (2021–2024). Three years of sharing intimate and challenging moments brought them together, and little by little they felt the desire to create together. Bleu et rouge is their first creation.

The creation starts from a limitation: what happens when you place a cyr wheel in a 2×3 space? And what happens to the rest of the elements of the space and to the characters that inhabit it? Barbara and Simona embark on this first project together: a playful exploration with circus and absurd humor as protagonists, reflecting on the limits of time and space.

Kolektivo Konika is a circus-theater company established between Italy and Spain, composed of Candela, Elisa, Greta, Naikel, and Michela. In 2018, they came together to share their passion for hand-to-hand acrobatics and make this project a reality, initially based between the Basque Country and Catalonia. In March 2021, they premiered La punta del meu nas, a show that has been awarded both in Italy at “Trampolino Vetrina 2022” and in Spain with the “Festival Territori Violeta 2022” Award. In 2024, it will be the final year of the tour for La punta del meu nas, which has had over 80 performances since its premiere, and the beginning of their second production: Matrimonio.

The current work reflects on the coexistence between traditions and modernity today. It does so through a very old ritual: marriage. Matrimonio is a comedy disguised as a tragedy, disguised as a ceremony, disguised as circus. A look at the black-and-white nature of this ancient and universal institution through circus techniques: acrobatic doors, cyr wheel, balancing, and humor. A street performance where the language is physical, acrobatic, and absurd.

OLGA_cirqAnalogique is a Uruguayan-Catalan company based in Barcelona, formed by Cata Aguayo and Alejandro Dutra. The artists founded the company in 2018 after training at Le Lido – The National Circus Arts School of Toulouse. At OLGA, circus, dance, and music converge to create a hybrid and sensitive language. Their driving force is to transform personal experiences into universal symbols. As migrant and queer people, they understand the stage as a space for representation, resistance, and possibility.

In Utopia for a Ruined Landscape, their second show, they reflect on the end that awaits us as humanity. The end is revealed, and with it, the possibility to live it as we wish. Everything we know crumbles, and with it, our cages. We choose to build a space in which to reconcile with who we are; a present where, even if just for an instant, freedom is possible. Utopia for a Ruined Landscape constructs ways of receiving the end: circus as a poetic, relational, and performative ally; objects as metaphors and music as landscape. The last song, with its last dance.

Anna Pascual and Wanja Kahlert are two artists and co-founders of the company Psirc. Since its creation in 2011, the company has developed several performances, exploring and defining its own circus language. In addition to performing on stage, they have taken on other roles within the creative process of other projects. The core of their work is their love for beauty, humor, mystery, and art as a way to intuit a reality beyond the human scale. Rolando San Martín is a multidisciplinary artist dedicated to the direction and dramaturgy of performing arts projects. His close relationship with Psirc began with the creation of El meu nom és Hor and continues with the performance saga Després de tot. His work as a director and dramaturg is linked to creation and processes that generate language, exploring the friction between different artistic and intellectual disciplines.

In their current project, La casa intempèria, two acrobatic door artists, globally known in contemporary circus, experience an earthquake during the performance. They find themselves stranded, without a show, without a house, without a home. After assessing the pain from the wounds received, both physical and emotional, the disaster’s health authorities mandate the use of clowns to heal. Both characters become aware of their existential failure: they realize they are absurdly trapped inside a space with invisible walls. Desperate, they seek a way to escape this glass cage. In the open air of this abyssal interior, two clowns try, with 2,000 tent poles, to build a house to save themselves.

The company founded by Clara Poch and Marçal Calvet was born in 2008 and has developed its own language combining circus, theatre, dance, and live music. Their creations —Merci Bien, Amigoo, Flou Papagayo and Lady Panda— have been presented in numerous countries and festivals such as Fira Tàrrega, Trapezi Reus, Fira Mediterrània de Manresa, Umore Azoka, Fira de Circ de la Bisbal d’Empordà, La Strada (Austria), Vivacité (Belgium), and Chalon dans la Rue (France), among others. Their work is characterized by the integration of live music, visual poetry, and a humanistic approach to the body and risk.

Currently, they are in the process of creating L’Ombra de la Libèl·lula, a contemporary circus and visual poetry piece that explores fragility, memory, and the transformation of the body. After an injury forced a redefinition of stage presence, the company builds an intimate universe where light, sound, and movement interact to reveal the beauty of change—a symbolic journey toward the light that emerges from the shadow.