Trànsits

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.

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.

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.