Trànsits

The objective of the Trànsits residency program is to offer support to the companies that are in need of a physical space and support to carry out their artistic projects (research, creation, rehearsals, etc.), encouraging artists to take a more active approach to research and challenge their work.

In order to meet the needs of the stage in which the creative process of an idea or project finds itself, and enable true progression, we’re proposing various residency formats, accessible to artists and companies following a public call held in November.

However, the format and conditions of the residencies evolve each year, in order to maintain their relevance and be up to date with contemporary circus reality.

Here you can read the rules and requirements of the last public call.

Study in Progress / Work in Progress

The “Study in Progress” residency is designed for artists, collectives or circus companies who have just committed to developing a new creation. The idea is to finish the residency with a 20 minutes blueprint.

The “Work in Progress” residency is designed for companies that already have a definite project and are completing the creation of a performance longer than 20 minutes.

T.E.S.T. (Trànsit Escènic de Sensació Tècnica)

This method caters to the selected artistic team, offering the resources found in the Staging Hall, with the purpose of giving the performance its first staging opportunity. It’s required that the creative process is well advanced and the show’s premiere is scheduled for the current year or the beginning of the next year, the latest.

Dramaturgical Accompainement

The objective of this residency is to define a theatric route or approach for performances during their creative process. The proposal requires the interaction of an industry professional, not involved in the project, who can be selected even after the beginning of the residency.

Incubators

Focused on an in-depth view of the work performed by a company that has been identified by the Artistic Direction or the Artistic Council, as an embryo project. It offers the company two weeks to begin and/or grasp the depth of its research, together with La Central’s support for progressing their project.

Artists and companies in residence

Creation

Incubators

2024

Clara Prieto Boix

Creation

Incubators

2024

Marc Bosch

Marc Bosch Mola (Vic, 1992) studies biology and neuroscience, while forming in circus. Later, with the aim of professionalizing as an artist, he studied at the Rogelio Rivel school in Barcelona. He performs in various pieces, such as ‘Gender’, under the direction of Tere Celis, and in the 58th Combinat de Circ of the Ateneu Popular de Nou Barris, under the direction of the Cia. Zero en Conducta. He also participates in various circus galas with his fixed trapezium show at the Mercateatre 2022, at the Cronopis Circ de Nadal 2023 and at the Gala Mara Mara in 2024.

In the attempt to continue expanding, he began to work with Andreas Avgousti (Nicosia, 1992), a gender researcher and queer philosophy. With this cross-contamination, between the physical practice of the circus and the queer philosophical discourse, the project ‘Escorça’ is born.

Escorça

Wrapped in a warrior’s armor, like a hard and heavy shell, I conceal an unknown part of myself.
Can’t you sense it when you embrace me? My hooked fingers tear at the protective remnants of wood, like an hourglass, revealing fragments of what’s beneath.
Slow and steady.
To uncover each piece and see others for who they truly are; will you really see me? Today, I could strip bare like a winter tree.
I wonder, is there more to me beyond this shell, or is bark all I am?
I wonder, do I have anything in common with you, or am I a monstrous creature?
Escorça materializes into a circus piece for two people, an interpreter and a technician; a puppet and a puppeteer. An attempt to (de)construct a circus piece following a learned vital recipe, where the discourse on human essence becomes the guiding thread. A tragicomic experience that speaks through layers, inviting the audience to self-reflection.

“Escorça” is an attempt to (de)construct a circus piece following a learned life recipe, where the discourse on human essence becomes the guiding thread. A tragicomic experience, speaking through our layers, inviting the audience to self-reflection.

Photo: Aina Barril