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After studying at the FLIC circus school in Turin, Italy, Andrea Speranza continued his juggling studies at the circus school in Lyon. After, he became interested in studying magic in all its forms and developed his potential as an illusionist.

He takes part, as an artist, in creations like Censura, directed by J.M. Guy, Roberto Magro and Johnny Torres in 2019, or Impromptu, from the Catalan company Circ Teatre Modern, in 2014.

Worked as creative support and illusion effects adviser with La Frontera company and for Alice Rende’s Passages performance. He also works for various businesses as a special effects consultant. In 2021 and 2022 he was part of the Support Group for the Horizons de Cirque cross-border project, and also participated in the third module of the European project Digital Lead held in Terrassa, Catalonia, and in the Antípodes cross-border project, a La Grainerie de Toulouse (France) and Pistacatro (Spain) joint venture.

Currently, he’s attending the Project Training courses at ÉSACTO Lido, in Toulouse.

Cose a caso – trucos asì o cosas detràs

‘Cose a caso’ is a creation project of physical experiments and close-up magic for intimate spaces.
‘Cose a caso’ is a solo who doesn’t pretend to talk about solitude, but who on the contrary tries to weave relationships with the audience and between the audience itself.

Experiments and illusions presented here are only a means to create relationships and connections.
It is a solo who does not want to be such and who tries to establish an active conviviality of other times between the illusionist and the audience.

Starting in a joyful and conversational way, the atmosphere transforms to veer towards different aesthetics. Manipulation of ephemeral materials, such as ashes, shadows, mirrors and light.
The magician plays with images to perform illusions: reality or realities? Magic comes out from the ensemble, it’s not the power of the magician.

Asking over the frontiers of not knowing when and how a trick starts or ends, if there’s a mistake or if magic was made from an actual and volunteering decision. Is this an illusion?

Firma foto: Thomas M.B.

Elena Zanzu is a performer, an investigator, a playwright. Her theoretical and practical interests gravitate around gender, disability, ethics, cures and artistic research methodologies.

Licensed in pedagogy at the National School of Circus in Montreal, with a Philosophy Master from the University of Bologna, she studied circus drama at the CNAC National Center for Circus Arts in France.

Between 2020 and 2022, she was part of The Circus Dialogues (continued), a project investigating circus practice and theory, at the KASK University, in Ghent. She teaches circus and gender at UAB. She’s a member of the CCCirque investigators collective, and curates events about research, artistic practices, drama and gender.

Her solo act “EZ”, which premiered at Mercat de les Flors in May 2022, and was awarded by the European platform Circusnext, addresses power dynamics and consent negotiation.

(HYP)NO Research (títol provisional)

Elena Zanzu begins a new research process, around trance induction techniques, hypnosis, magic, illusionism, fakirism and other extreme practices. Putting care, relationships, roles and power exchanges at the center.

Picture: Mila Ercoli

Grandchild of a grandmother who was going to become an actress when the Civil war started, son of a father who was going to become a clown until he discovered journalism, Manel Rosés Moretó, comes from a family of “semi-artists”.

Restless by nature, he finds in circus the means to be in motion forever. This takes him on the acrobatic path of training at the Rogelio Rivel circus school and at the DOCH Circus and Dance University, in Stockholm. During the first part of his professional career, he works with the Korean plank quartet -Balagans- at different circuses and cabarets, like Cirque du Soleil or Circus Roncalli. A severe injury forces him to switch to office work and during his recovery, he decides to train in other fields of stage arts. He takes a drama course at Beckett and once fully recovered, he continues training in movement, theater and drama. In the second stage of his career, he takes part in performances and acts like inTarsi, from the EIA company, or Desdèmona by Alba Sarraute. In 2016, together with Nilas Kronlid, he develops his first performance –Gregaris.

Current project: ‘Alias Mariano’

‘Alias Mariano’ talks about the fact of staying, about other possible lives and about past lives. About desires, infinities, and about our limited existence.

In the middle of the hall, a ladder that goes nowhere represents the constant temptation to escape, for the man who resides. Underneath the ladder, the objects that root him to this space and that he has to detach from in order to leave. How to leave this cul-de-sac? How to inhabit a place you already know?

While trying to answer these questions, he’ll have to learn how to move with agility and precision in this space, each time more diminished, under the ladder. He’ll have to extend the twenty-two-step climb to exhaustion. And he’ll have to repeat, in a loop, the movements, each time more complex. Challenges of a man who’s seeking to redefine himself, questioning that which his life has sculpted thus far; his office. An office of which he talks about through a mix of irony, melancholy, disappointments and tenderness.

Picture: Marta Garcia Cardellach