Trànsits

TENSA company is formed by the circus artists Joan Sala and Anna Montaner. They are currently in the process of creating ‘Butza’.

‘Butza’

Cia. Bragacadavra is composed of Lola Carandell and Amalia Hidalgo. The two artists meet in 2020 while attending higher training at Escola de Circ Rogelio Rivel. After a few months of testing the waters, they realize they are part of a similar creative universe and so, they decide to start working together and stage the result. Thus, in January 2021, they set up their first act -on which they continue working- where they combine acrodance, the absurd and physical theater into a stage code.

Mid 2022 they decide to embark on a journey to create a 45 minutes performance, “Caída libre para personas con vertigo”.

‘Caída libre para personas con vértigo’

– I was leaving.
Each step I take is closer to the inevitable fall. Are you falling? I see you a bit unbalanced.

I fall, weight, I precipitate towards reaching an objective that keeps moving away with each step I take. Infinite precipitation.
But if I fall and you support me, I’m stable. I’m balanced. Paused fall, weight break. Shared weight helps stopping. Counterweight. The counterweight are two falls interrupting each other. Or an infinite fall.
How many ways to fall are there? How many ways to arrive are there? How many different roads can I walk to arrive at the same spot?
I put myself at the journey’s obstacles’ disposal. The beginning of the end.
With this process we analyze the subject of falling. Physically, as well as psychologically. Through a game of clown characters, we’re transiting different stages which, together with the main premise of falling, take us through daily and absurd conflicts. Conflicts where contradiction is the constant. We’re contradicting the body and the word. We play with extremes, opposites, repetitions, loops.
– I was leaving, right?

Of Chilean and Croatian nationality artist. Born in 1996 in Chile. Begins her professional training at the Circus of Arts circus and dance school, in Argentina. After, she trains at the FLIC Scuola di Circ circus school in Italy (2015-2017) and at the ACAPA, Academy of Circus and Performance Arts from Netherlands. Currently, she resides in Barcelona and attends the experimental theater training courses at the Laboratori Escola.

She works as a performer at the Theater Tol company’s Jardin de los ángeles show, at the Santiago a Mil Festival and at the Leyendas, a Circ Patagònia company’s show, in Chile. She also takes part as a performer at the Mirabilia and La isola che non che en un Festivals, a collective directed by Francesco Sgro in Italy.

Creator and performer of the Esvair act, at Nunart Guinardó, Amalgama Festival, Utopia Festival and Escena Circ Festival. She’s an aerial rope and fabric teacher at the Trackdance Dance School, Piccolo Circus, Casa Buf Cultural Center, La Figuera Cultural Center and Espai 7siete in Chile and Spain.

‘Flores a un pedazo roto’

‘Flores a pedazo roto’ is a solo act that involves circus, voice and body to talk to us about frailty and solitude. Everything takes place in a bedroom full of clothes and objects that take us to an infantile universe. Throughout the act, the room gradually deforms in order to make us feel places where the mind can take an intimate trip: memories, desires, nightmares.

It invites us to value and appease vulnerability, to embrace it, remembering childhood, defending that which is corny, frailty and sensitivity from a very feminine point of view.

“Quede tan sola, al fin, tan sola,
que pude llorar por toda la casa,
mi mundo era solo deshacerse,
deshacerme con suavidad,
como una caricia,
por fin me quede sola,
no tuve que explicarle a nadie.

La niña que sigue viva me toca la puerta,
no me molestes ahora que soy otra,
que tu ya te has ido.
hoy nadie me va preguntar,
hoy no voy a abrir la puerta,
quizás este día me siento menos sola que nunca.”

Alexandre Duran Davins (1997, Mataró). Trained in theater, physical theater, Stanislavski and dance theater. Trained at the Rogelio Rivel, Ecole du Cirque de Lyon and ESAC circus schools. And integral part of The Chosen Haram performance, winner of various awards at the FRINGE Festival in Edinburgh.

Pep Duran (1942, Agentona). Gestalt therapist, trained in psychomagic (Alejandro Jodorowsky). Specialized educator, member of amateur theater groups. Honorary member of AEDA (Association of Oral Narrative Professionals in Spain).

Professor at the Ateneu Barcelonès writing school. Honorary member of the Consell Català del llibre infantil i juvenil (CCLIJ).

Oral narrator since 1976. As a bookseller, he’s a member of the Chamber of Books, Booksellers’ Guild and CEGAL.
Part of TVE’s PLANETA IMAGINARI (1984-1988) children’s TV show.

‘Com matar el pare’

Two lives, two eras, two beings.

A son and a father, a circus artist and a storyteller, one young and one old.

They dive into stories with which they grew up, memories of what they lived, losses they’ve suffered.

Using the word and movement, father and son explore their relationship, their fears and illusions, life and death.
Killing the father is an expression from the Freudian field, which refers to, leaving aside the sexual allusions, the need felt by sons to assert themselves in their convictions. They’re aiming at an autonomous life, faced with the unavoidable fact that an important part of their life will unfold without the protection and guidance once given by the fatherly figure.

Stemming from this human necessity, we’re exploring the individual’s dependency and independency, empathy and rejection.

The shadow of senile dementia and death are present in this creation as a piercing and inevitable reality.

Kolektivo Konika was born out of the necessity to gather into a community to create, evolve as artists and examine the discipline of acrobatic balance between women. Its members are Candela, Elisa, Greta, Hannah, Michela and Shakti. In March 2021 they premiered the La punta del meu nas performance. While touring with this performance, they realize they have so many ideas that only one production doesn’t suffice and the only thing left is to dive head-first into a new creation. That’s when they think about collaborating with Ino Kollectiv.

Ino Kollektiv
A collective created by Alba, Chloe, Eva Luna, Lav, Noémie, Raphaëlle and Rebecca, six nationalities, five different languages and each of the members with a personal universe boasting a strong identity. All this diversity presents to them a world of beautiful complexity, which makes them want to share. In 2021 the collective opens up to new collabs, like a collective creation about improv and circus, together with Kolectivo Konika.

IMPROPORTES

There will be circus and improv, sixteen women on stage in a mix of hand to hand, music and song, in a Varieté Cabaret setting.

Everything is created on the spot: each performance is unique, different and magic. A show which the audience can repeat without repeating.
We feel for playing. A meeting point will be the hand to hand, a discipline that compels us to gather and secretly recreate ourselves into a pattern that, in each interaction, singularizes our particularities into a fleeting encounter, again.

Thirteen artists, one presenter and two musicians. A unique and unrepeatable circus experience: nothing can go wrong because it never happened.

Picture: Clara Pedrol