Trànsits

The company was born from the union of four multidisciplinary circus artists based in Euskal Herria (Oihane Larraza, Gaspar Illoro, Zoe Aldekoa, and César López). Their aim is to explore the poetics of the rural world to reach a shared sensitivity through the language of circus. Their main disciplines include aerials, juggling, Chinese pole, Cyr wheel, acrobatics, and dance. They met while attending the technical training program at INAC (National Institute of Circus Arts) in 2018, in Portugal. After separating and continuing their professional training independently, the artists decided to reunite and create the show Herrari. Driven by shared interests in contemporary language, they work by taking artistic risks rooted in emotions and sensations to engage the audience.

‘Herrari’

Herrari is an itinerant contemporary circus show that invites us to reflect on natural and rural spaces, which have changed significantly due to human presence and, paradoxically, its absence. It delves into the nostalgia for rural life, sparked by the longing for calm and a sense of community in today’s world. Life in cities is becoming increasingly unsustainable due to factors like gentrification, which disrupts collectivity, stripping places of their identity and further severing our connection with nature. The show seeks to build a bridge between rural and urban spaces, fostering a symbiosis between the two. It aims to propose alternative ways of living that are sensitive to the environment, encouraging us to be an active part of the world around us.

Elisa Oliva discovered her love for circus arts while attending film school in London (2016-2018). After completing her studies in the seventh art, she decided to pursue a professional course as a circus artist at Flic Contemporary Circus School (2019-2020), specializing in aerial rope. During that year, she began exploring creative possibilities by incorporating a skateboard into aerial rope performances. After working as a teacher and performer for the Circo all’Incirca company (2021), she decided to move to Barcelona in 2022 to continue teaching and developing her project, TreNotturno, in the European capital of skateboarding.

Gabbie is a dance and circus artist who works as a performer, teacher, stage director, and movement director. She specializes in contemporary dance, acrobatics, and Chinese pole, with over 10 years of stage experience. Throughout her career, she has collaborated with several dance, circus, and physical theater companies, covering a wide variety of performance genres. She has toured both nationally and internationally, performing for theater audiences, street theater festivals, and under the circus tent at various festivals.

Her workshops on acrodance and Chinese pole have been sought after by various higher education institutions and professional companies, such as the Institut del Teatre (Barcelona), CREAT (Valencia), Movement Andalusi (Granada), UNSAM (Buenos Aires), Accademia Dimitri (Switzerland), 2Faced Dance, and NoFit State Circus (United Kingdom).

Girl with a Curl

Girl with a Curl is a fantasy about power and liberation. It delivers a public service announcement on how women have historically been taught to ignore and internalize their anger, conveniently sustaining the patriarchy and ensuring that violence remains on the side of the oppressor. This multidisciplinary and immersive solo piece combines Chinese pole, contemporary dance, acrobatics, physical theater, and text/comedy. The work is comedic, absurd, and carries a strong political charge.

Hristina Šormaz began practicing circus and focusing on aerial rope while studying scenography in Belgrade. She trained as an artist through non-formal education, artistic collaborations, and masterclasses in circus and contemporary dance. She is a member of the Cirkusfera association, dedicated to the development of the contemporary circus scene in Serbia and the region.

Discovering different physical practices became for her a way to question human relationships with their environment and society, which led her to engage in artistic, pedagogical, and social work driven by circus. Since 2018, she has been pursuing doctoral studies in scenography, where she investigates the use of space and matter from a circus perspective.

Currently, she is based in France, where she continues to work in the circus field, as well as in Serbia and Croatia.

‘Traces’