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Luis Mantilla, originally from Guayaquil and currently living in Mendoza, began his journey in movement through gymnastics and later ventured into circus, specializing in handstands. In 2020, together with Julieta Tissera, he founded Proyecto Recóndito, a duo dedicated to movement research, with which he has participated in international festivals and workshops. In addition to being a teacher and former director of Cos Invertido, he currently teaches virtual classes and develops Vestigios, a project focused on the artistic and emotional exploration of movement.

‘Vestigios’

Vestigios investigates handstands from an artistic perspective, questioning their form, meaning, and purpose. It proposes shifting technique from the standard toward invention, understanding movement as a living relationship between body and action. In this approach, technique loses value for its formal perfection and gains it for its poetic power and its ability to create meaning within the work.

Artist in residence at La Central as part of the Iberescena program.

Croma is a contemporary circus company that fuses circus techniques, dance, and theatre to create innovative stage productions. Their work is characterized by the use of object manipulation and the exploration of materiality, generating a unique artistic language.

Efraín Salazar is a performing artist and creator linked to contemporary circus. His work focuses on the exploration of the body, the object, and memory, investigating the intersection between circus, dance, and theatre. He has developed original works such as Ensayo y error, Solo un marco, Alguna vez fui — the latter delving into the relationship between identity and memory through the manipulation of empty frames without images. He has collaborated on various collective projects related to the performing arts between the Valparaíso and Metropolitan regions, contributing his creative and technical perspective.

“Alguna vez fui”

A contemporary circus piece that explores the fundamental role of memory and recollection in the construction of our identity. Through contemporary circus and its combination with other techniques such as dance and object manipulation, the piece tells an intimate and emotional story, inviting the audience to reflect on how past experiences and memories shape who we are.

Artist in residence at La Central as part of the Iberescena program.

Aïna Duc is a member of the TBTF collective, based in Bourg-Saint-Andéol, a group of 20 artists who seek to build collectivity in a divided society. She graduated from ESACTO-LIDO in 2023 and has since explored public space with the company Sept fois la langue and hospital clowning with Soleil de clown. Les péripéties du dedans is the natural continuation of her love for clowning and aerial fabric.

‘Les péripéties du dedans’

A clown and a fabric. Les péripéties du dedans is a daring and joyful immersion into the paths of everything that submerges us.

In residence at La Central del Circ, as part of the Cross Residencies with La Cascade.

Teatronas is one of the main organisations in Lithuania that strategically develops the field of contemporary circus in Lithuania and the Baltic region. Apart from development projects and the international contemporary circus festival Cirkuliacija that happens each year in various cities in Lithuania, Teatronas has combined their knowledge in theatre and circus and since 2024 started creating circus-theatre shows. These are created by the artistic director Gildas Aleksa and local circus artists as co-authors. It creates a possibility to have more job opportunities for the artists and develop new audiences for circus.

The 2025 production “Šarūnas” is aimed to find the combination of the old drama traditions of Lithuania and the new circus writing of contemporary artists.

In residence at La Central del Circ within the framework of the Crossed Residencies with Arts Printing House.

Juan Fresina Scotto is an Argentinian performing artist specializing in the intersection of contemporary circus and science. His work as a performer and creator explores these connections in pieces such as Qua, Ensayo para a Desorden, and his latest creation, Infinito. This new project, directed and performed by Juan Fresina Scotto alongside Pablo Melo and José Cereceda, specialists in aerial straps, continues his collaborative approach, integrating scientific knowledge and circus techniques to foster an innovative and poetic dialogue between the two disciplines.

In residence at La Central del Circ as part of the cross-residency program with Erva Daninha (Portugal).

HERTZ is the first long-duration creation by Cie Dissociée, following Pacemaker, and explores the themes of fakirism and clowning. Released in February 2024, this piece, suitable for all audiences from the age of 10, integrates theater, performance, and installation. At the center of the stage, a pile of crushed glass measuring 7 meters by 5.5 meters, weighing over 800 kg, interacts with dance movements and acrobatics. The performance questions the limits we impose on ourselves, addressing themes such as pain, resilience, and the boundaries of the impossible. By intertwining fakirism and clowning, HERTZ highlights human contradictions, inviting the audience to embrace their weaknesses and discover a more authentic and resilient humanity.

Marcelo Nunes is an author and performer whose artistic career is based on a constant search for novelty, influenced by his experiences in Brazil and Europe. His practice focuses on three techniques: trapeze, clown, and fakirism, exploring the wild nature of humanity. Since his first work, Pacemaker, Nunes has expressed his worldview through a unique artistic language. On stage, he uses the body as a tool for communication, creating an authentic dialogue with the audience. Through his creations, he seeks to foster a poetic resonance between the artist and the audience.

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 is an intimate and brutal journey into the darkest parts of the body’s memory. A raw and organic stage experience that, through circus, symbolic objects, and video projections, explores a territory where fragility, desire, and illness merge. Where the repulsive can bloom and what is sick becomes a shared strength, revealing the relationship between death, sexuality, and gender questioning.

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?

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.

Maragda Induráin and Maria Estela met and studied at the La Madó Dance School (Vilassar de Mar) from 2015. At the same time, each has been trained in different techniques. Maragda Induráin, contemporary dancer and circus artist, was part of the Cia jove Fre3Bodies 2018, studies at the Rogelio Rivel and dancer at the Cia Roseland Musical. Maria Estela, performer and singer, graduated from the Institut del Teatre, resident at Lo Spazio, research centre and artistic practices, collaborates with national musicians and dancers, and works for the next production of the Teatre Akademia 2024 directed by Moreno Bernardi.

Nowadays they are realizing their first project together, the search of stage poetic between the chinese pole, the voice and the word. We will experiment with possible methodologies based on improvisation and repetition dynamics, in order to enter into what music and movement suggest.