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Marina Cherry, based in Stockholm, is a contortionist-acro-dancer, educated at ESAC (Brussels 2016-2019) and ENC (Montreal 2014-2016) she is now working on her solo show ‘Only Bones v.1.6’ as well as collaborative projects around Europe, including companies Les Argonauts and Petri Dish and Cirkus Cirkör. Her research-based approach to creation and performing puts her somewhere between dance, contemporary circus and physical theatre; with her body as the tool of manipulation and method for redefining traditional constructs and deconstructing techniques to find her own language.

‘AVoid’ is an anonymous space. An unusual body. A desultory corruption seeking reprieve. A pursuit of one’s fantasies, fears, and neuroses. Without a need for resolution or justification, AVoid is the astringent potentiality of the “in-between”: neither here nor there. The project is an attempt to touch on realities that belong to the indiscernible, the ineffable, those that are a reminder of the dissipation of certainties.

This project is born from Marina’s fascination with solitude, contradictions, alienation and the impact of rapidly developing—devolving—society in the face of digitalization. The common point being the concept hikikomori—the withdrawal into seclusion, a particular condition in Japanese society where people avoid social contact to an extreme level. Shutting oneself in.

If Circus focuses on collecting historical memory and using it as a source of inspiration for their creations. Weave is the ancestral art that inspires the company together with the recovery of the knowledge of its grandmothers.

‘Melic’

‘Melic’ is a dialogue between hand-woven strings that are transformed, tensioned and faded, woven and undone. Strings that hold us, that cradle us. In the “Taller Teixint Memòries” weave with our hands the string that appears in the show the next day. A meeting point to share the art of weaving and telling us anecdotes.

The company was created in 2019, when Jean and Paula finished the professional training of the circus school in Grenoble (France). They create their first show ‘Etrangers Etrangers‘ that deals with the fear of the unknown, the intolerance and the prejudices that each one has. With this show they have done more than 100 performances and, currently, continues to tour French and European festivals. At the moment they are in the process of creating a new piece ‘En Panne‘ (provisional title), in which the duo is accompanied by a musician.

‘En panne’

From a distant planet, a spacecraft has been sent to analyze other forms of life. During their journey, crew members have a problem and must land as soon as possible. Faced with a handful of curious looks, travelers find it difficult to establish communication with the local population, which is not familiar with their language. With so much incomprehension, they rush to repair the ship, but the sound that comes out from their machine begins to create an unforeseen link with the natives.

The contemporary circus collective “Būda” (Vílnius, Lituania) was created on the initiative of the juggler Kasparas Bujanauskas. The collective examines the similarities and differences between different art disciplines and tries to erase the boundaries between them. “Būda” team is not afraid to play, improvise and look for something that has not yet been discovered. The most important thing is being together and feeling each other on and off the stage.

Formada el 2014 a Montevideo (Uruguai), la companyia Plataforma CLO promou la creació, recerca i circulació del circ expandit. El projecte és una creació de Noel Rosas (Uruguai) amb la col·laboració de Maria Carolina Oliveira (Brasil).

La seva proposta artística combina circ, performance i dansa. Fomenta la producció i distribució d’arts vives, teixint xarxes de col·laboració entre diverses artistes, col·lectius, organitzacions i institucions en l’àmbit nacional i internacional. Actualment, organitza la residència Poéticas en Encuentro, a Canelones, i el Ciclo Interseccional Circense. Les creacions i coproduccions han circulat i participat en diverses sales, programes de residència i festivals a Uruguai, Mèxic, Brasil, Perú, Argentina i Tenerife.

En l’actualitat treballa en el projecte “De la memoria a la fuerza centrífuga, rutas obsesionadas con la telepatía”, que vol aprofundir en la investigació del circ expandit, a través de pràctiques de circ i de performance. Una exploració en codi de conferència circense – performativa, influenciada per pensadors/es de ciència-ficció, poètiques interseccionals i humorístiques. Reflexiona sobre les narratives antropocèntriques, especialment en el circ. Practiquen i reflexionen amb/des de/ al sud global.

Foto: Proyecto Mestizar (2021) Plataforma Clo, Uruguai / Autor: Reinaldo Altamirano

Fisicoquímico Circo és la companyia d’Ailén Leiva Reyes (Argentina).

L’artista entrena i investiga la disciplina de trapezi des de l’any 2008. Es forma a la Escuela de Teatro Callejero i a la Escuela Integral de Circo de la EMAU (Escuela Municipal de Artes Urbanas) y Dirección de actores en la Escuela Provincial de Teatro y Títeres (Rosario). Des del 2015 treballa en espectacles de carrer fent solos i amb diferents companyies, i participa en diverses peces de trapezi, humor i com a presentadorx, recorrent i coneixent espais de circ d’Argentina i els seus països limítrofs.

Està en procés de creació de la peça “Febril”. Una persona humana en recerca creativa. Un laberint de preguntes, intents, ensomnis, records, salts, vols i caigudes.

El raciocini esclatat: seny i demència, il·lusió i realitat, difuminen la seva línia fronterera.

Mentrestant soroll, aquella cerca d’inspiració es converteix en el camí cap a retrobar-se amb la seva essència: serà llavors quan aconsegueixi trobar l’autèntica obra mestra.

After 12 years of circus in Finland where she was burned, Viivi came to France in 2009 to go to Centro Nacional de los Artes de Circo in Chalon en Champagne. From there, Viivi were involved in a lot of project with her circus agres : the rope. She co-created two shows Metsa – the forest project with Sade Kamppila and the duo Dans ton cirque with Fragan Gehlker and Ana Tauber. She’s now creating her first solo with a mini rope called « V ».

Delving into Viivi’s innerself, V is a performance in which the artist reveals her personal mythology. Her relationship with the rope is the subject matter of the show. In V, Viivi has chosen to shorten it thereby opening a new range of possibilities by instilling a greater void and a different apprehension of the ground. Infused with the pleasure of her first solo performance, she embarks the audience on a journey to her inner depths reminding us of our multiple selves.

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

Vermut a Venus

Vermut a Venus’ is about the physical and intellectual need to socially connect and to network. It is an ode to this spirit, which inhabits both the body and the mind. It is a union, when everything seems to lead us to separation.

‘Vermut a Venus’ is the answer to the rules that have been imposed on us. It is the rewriting of the roles we have been assigned as people, women and workers. It is our most absurdly common and current reality; the ritual of the everyday that becomes sacred. “I meditate in the morning, I dance at night.”

‘Vermut a Venus’ is the discomfort of not knowing what is true and what is fictitious. Feeling confused, lost – reaching other realities that we had not imagined.

‘Trying to say what’

Specializing in rope and aerial silks, Gaia Panero is currently in the process of creating the piece ‘Trying to Say What’. The research she seeks to develop has started as a physical and technical research around the discipline of rope, transforming it into an investigation into the possible relationships between the rope, the artist’s body and the space that hosts them.

From this first research, the need has arisen to create a structure that is at the same time performance space and art installation, where circus art interacts with architecture. It will be a tensegrity structure, a name derived from the words “tension” and “integrity” and will be sustained by opposing forces.

LP (Long Play)

A visual and acoustical underworld hidden behind the mask of everyday life; an escape gate through which our dreams and fears pass. A millennial temple in which we can celebrate the error; open a gap of human fragility. Wires, software, high-heeled shoes and a beard. The bodies strain under tricks of light and sound, political speeches, cellphones and pop icons. On the eve of the apocalypse, Long Play is a cry of resistance that pays tribute to the generation of the new millennium.

Catalina Aguayo and Alejandro DutraWe create an authentic discourse, highlighting the fragility of bodies, driven by essential states. They nurture themselves from the circus but also from many other things: electronic music, Xavier Dolan’s movies, Vivienne Westwood’s costumes…

‘La punta del meu nas’

This collective was born from the need to come together as a community to create, develop as artists and be able to investigate the discipline of hand-to-hand. With this new work, they return to their origins to reconstruct a common memory.

Six bodies in play, six worlds. Drifting towards a joint and shared reality. We take care of each other, we behave, we slip, we push each other. Hand-to-hand and singing as an opportunity to change everything and invite you to discover our peculiarities at close quarters.

Picture: Clara Pedrol

 ‘Picaderø’

Haa Collective is a group of artists and creators who share a desire to explore transdisciplinary paths that detach them from established patterns. ‘Picaderø’ combines different ambits that are essential for each other and have been interacting since the beginning of the work’s creation: visual arts, circus, movement, sound, multimedia and artificial intelligence.

The piece features a moving stage inspired by the shape and movement of a spinning top that will become a musical instrument as the sound artist and performers interact. Its rotary and circular motion suggests the passage of time. ‘Picaderø’ is an image of the constant defiance of the wild essence of the domesticated animal, the search for balance in instability. It is the acceptance of limits in order to find freedom.

Breach

[Breach (n): violation or infraction of a rule or law; rupture in a relationship; gap, rift, fissure. (Vt) Act of emerging to the surface.]

She’s humble and submissive. She’s strong and sometimes likes to be dominated in sex. She’s not been able to say no.

She didn’t say anything because she felt very embarrassed, she felt guilty; she isn’t even sure if she’s been really raped or abused.

A cry in silence and a memory in stand-by.

And who are they?

Let’s begin to talk.

Through a physical and musical language, Som Noise invites the spectator to a space of ambiguity between pleasure and pain, eroticism and violence and submission and empowerment, to reach a dialogue about cases of abuse and gender violence.

Fil

Fil is a creation which explores human relationships through a universal language: the physicality. Two characters embark on a set of tensions between reality and fiction, reason and emotion, to project an imaginary with which they capture the audience’s complicity.

A poetic, reflective and near spectacle, where balance are always present.

Fil is the first show of the company; a contemporary circus creation that also combines elements of dance and theater.