Trànsits

Timothée Meiffren, a member of Collectif TBTF, is originally from Toulouse, where he developed a deep sensitivity to the visual arts, especially painting and sculpture, as well as an interest in exploring improvised music. Later, he discovered circus arts and trained as an acrobat at Esacto’Lido before entering the Fratellini Academy in Saint-Denis and the Circus School of Lyon. His acrobatic practice led him to explore choreographic language, so he continued his dance training in the Coline program in Istres. Since then, he has worked on merging these disciplines, driven by a passion for risk and a special affinity for falling.

‘La peur des vides’

Currently, Timothée is developing La peur des vides, a solo clown show with a red nose that combines live music, burlesque acrobatics, and puppetry. This 50-minute show is inspired by fantastical worlds and addresses themes such as strangeness and absurdity, welcoming others, our intimate relationship with productivity, and the fear of the voids it can create.

In 2022 Maria Paz brought together four circus artists – Jesu, Africa, Júlia and Maya – from France, Catalonia and Chile to create the company La côte folle. The collective is created, on the one hand, with the desire to create an acrobàtics and dance creation and, on the other hand, by the desire to share collective ethics and the question of how we make circus.

Entre bous i vaques

Five acrobatic bodies that are carried and accompanied, use a structure that is transformed to explain ‘Entre bous i vaques’. The collective La côte folle proposes – through the acrobatics and dance – a scenic narrative about memory, forgetfulness, old age, dementia and the passage of time, inspired by real anecdotes and testimonies.
A street proposal and for everyone. A journey between the memories of a ruined brain, between sensitivity and humour.

Photo: Andreu Casadellà Oller

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.

If Circus focuses on collecting historical memory and using it as a source of inspiration for their creations. Weave is the ancestral art that inspires the company together with the recovery of the knowledge of its grandmothers.

‘Melic’

‘Melic’ is a dialogue between hand-woven strings that are transformed, tensioned and faded, woven and undone. Strings that hold us, that cradle us. In the “Taller Teixint Memòries” weave with our hands the string that appears in the show the next day. A meeting point to share the art of weaving and telling us anecdotes.