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

Dramaturgical Accompaniment

2024

La 3 et demie

Creation

Crossover Residencies

Dramaturgical Accompaniment

2023

Alba Ramió

Circus artist (Rogelio Rivel Circus School – 2016) and social teacher (University of Barcelona – 2013) by training, and by untraining, all the rest: investigator of the performative action and movement, driving force behind pedagogic projects with art as a transversal pivot, trainer, creator and highly interested in interdisciplinarity.

She studies with professors like: Mal Pelo, Hamza Benlabied, Andrés Corchero, Alexander Gavrilov and Semolina Tomic, amongst others. In 2016 she cofounds the Cia. Capes (CAT) company, a hand-to-hand duo. In 2018 she becomes a co-founder and artist of the Ino Kollektiv (FR) female hand-to-hand collective, with which she currently works. Together with this collective, she forms part of a new circus, song and psychology project: Ekco (MX-IT-FR-ES) and another spontaneous circus and improv project about acrobalance: Improportes (FR-ES), together with another company: Kolektivo Konika. In 2022 she commences the personal research for the Cavitat f project.

Cavitat f.

Each body is a synthesis of his own history. Memory can be explicit when we can reasonably explain or describe a concrete experience, or implicit when the body reacts to experiences that cannot be processed by the mind. “Cavitat f.” is an artistic project that investigates the materialization of memory in the body, or in other words; embodied memories: everything that is recorded on the body as a movement, gesture, sound or posture in memory (mostly unconscious) of a concrete experience. The idea is to facilitate a work that puts the body in relation to the codification of these memories, to understand the forms and their learning processes, to see which ones and why they have been forgotten and if it is necessary to make them visible and perhaps resignify them. The project wants to observe how the context affects all this and also the relationship between two or more bodies and think how to generate collective body memories.

Picture: Helena Roig Prat