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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.

Photo: Sara Díaz

He was born in Friuli, studied graphic design, came to Turin as a juggler but ended up hand in hand. After three years of training at the Flic circus school, he moved to Barcelona, where he improved the hand-to-hand technique and cultivated his artistic side. He has worked on several projects and companies, such as “Viso&Rachel” “Cieocifa” and with the “Fabbrica C” collective.

He currently lives in the fruline mountains where, in Circo all’Incirca, he regularly teaches hand-to-hand classes. He also collaborates as an artist and set designer with the Brocante association and with Roberto Magro. He is also in the process of creating the piece ‘Fragile’.

Fragile

Balance is alive.
A controlled precariousness, where risk suspends us.
And if it falls? doesn’t always matter.

Arrel Guevara studies the degree of Social and Cultural Anthropology in Barcelona while starting to train as a circus artist in different spaces such as Atlantis and Gente Colgada. Later, in 2020, he decided to become an artist at the CAU Circus and Theatre School in Granada, where he specialized in trapezium, and also took a social circus course at the Ateneu Popular 9Barris. Currently, he works as a circus trainer at the Circo Aire and La Volta schools, and continues to train in dance, acrodance, theatre and trapezium. He is in the process of researching and creating his first solo, ‘Lutum’.

‘Lutum’

‘Lutum’ comes out of my ass, but not just from mine; it comes out of the anus as a hole susceptible to violence. ‘Lutum’ is the encircled framework within the body that only needs to be alive to die. It’s the mud entering the veins without asking for permission and taking you to paralysis. It is to tray the bones and organs deposited in a body that is transformable and deciduous. That it is penetrable and impenetrable. Organic and grotesque. Fixed and stroboscopic. Hysteria and white space.

From the most private to the public emergency: sexuality, gender, violence and disease are the elements of the human being that converge in that scenic experience, represented through the body, trapezium, drag and words.

He has had circus, dance, currently two theatre companies; bands, orchestras, dúos and solos. He has been a musician since he has memory, accompanying the creation processes of Losin’Form’Alls, Circ Vermut, Alba Ramió and Ildor Llach, and a string of French companies such as INO Kollektiv. He has worked as a sound technician, light technician, distributed magazines and stacked powdered detergent packages on a pallet in a warehouse. He has also worked as a music teacher.

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Ideally it would be a lot of things, objects and techniques and records and shadows; but since it’s a simple inquiry now, I’ll stick to music and circus, mechanics and trajectory.

Cata Aguayo is a multidisciplinary stage artist, researcher and teacher, born in Uruguay. Diploma in circus arts at the University of San Martín, Buenos Aires, and at the higher school of circus arts in Toulouse, ESACTO – Lido. She studies various techniques of contemporary dance and improvisation, specializing in Asymmetrical
Motion, with Lucas Condró. He also studied vocal technique and singing.

In 2018, she created with Alejandro Dutra, the company Olga – Cirqanalogique, finalist at Circusnext 2020-21, winner of the Cross-border Cooperation Fund Travessia Pyrénnés de Cirque and awarded by the Toulouse City Council and the Department of Haute-Garonne. Currently, they are creating their second show. She has been an interpreter for the French companies L’Éolienne and La Grue, choreographer of La June Compagnie and external gaze of several emerging companies. Since 2018 he has been directing the Annual Air Research Laboratory, of La Bonita cooperative.

Pandora

Pandora investigates the gap that exists between the place we are socially attributed to and what we choose to occupy. This margin between what is inherited and what is built. It is born of a desire for reconciliation with one’s own uniqueness, where the personal rebel to thunder universal and political.

Foto: Sofia Chopitea

Julia Behar Bonnet is a circus artist, musician, singer and dancer. He trained in staging at the University of Poitiers (France), and in circus at the Rogelio Rivel school in Barcelona, where he specialized in the art of balance on a cable. In 2019 she embarked on several tours with Gommette and Gabatcho Circus (Switzerland) and collaborated with circus artists as a performer, director, external gaze and/or musician. She currently lives in Toulouse and collaborates with different companies (Sweet Xili Circus Company, Nostraxladamus, etc.). In autumn 2023 begins the creation of ‘Tendre’, a solo that mixes circus, music, dance.

‘Tendre’

Everything begins or ends with a tender and violent desire. Deep and visceral. An emergency. To do in common and call this urgent need for tenderness…

Photo: Milki Lee

Cia. Guillem B is formed by Marta Punsola, La Tona, (Cia Zero, Spazio Bizzarro, Cronopis Espai de Circ), and Jordi Puigoriol, el Putxi, (Cie Cirquons Flex, Cie Les Pieds Sur Terre, Cie XY). After their respective training and some professional experiences, in 2023 they exchange artistic ideas and embark together in the creation of a piece that is currently provisionally called ‘Guillem’.

‘Guillem’

Contemporary circus piece narrated in first person. It combines acrobatic balances, movement, text and audiovisuals.

All wounds leave a mark. Sometimes this mark is perceptible and trauma can be recognized as a scar. However, there are experiences that, despite not leaving a physical mark, are housed in the deepest of the soul, hidden in some corner.

The tingling, diplopia and loss of sensitivity corresponds to each of the phases of Guillain-Barré syndrome, which attacks the nervous system. This loss of sensitivity is reflected in parallel with the loss of social sensitivity in all areas.

Even so, light always sneaks through some crack, and therefore, awareness of the wound leads to acceptance and the will to rebuild.

Foto: Oriol Segon