Trànsits

CAí és el nom de la companyia de circ contemporani creada per Sabrina Catalán i Elia Pérez. Utilitzen els aeris com a llenguatge d’expressió amb el qual portar a escena materials personals, reals, vius i espontanis. La companyia crea el 2014 el seu primer espectacle; ‘No es la boca la que va a la cuchara sinó la cuchara que va a la boca’, peça de 60 minuts que es construeix a través de la recopilació d’històries reals. S’estrena el 2015 al Teatro Circo Price de Madrid i es programa en nombrosos festivals i esdeveniments en l’àmbit nacional i internacional. En el seu segon projecte, la companyia s’endinsa en un nou repte en el qual la mirada està focalitzada en el procés creatiu.

‘Masa madre’

‘Masa Madre’ és un procés d’investigació amb l’objectiu de crear un espectacle de sala que combini tècniques aèries, text i moviment d’una forma expressiva, directa i real.

“Masa” fa referència a l’existència mateixa.
“Masa” parla de la caducitat de les coses.
“Masa” dura una cocció.
Ens fa qüestionar el pas del temps.
Sobre com ens afecta la mirada dels altres amb relació a la forma que agafem.
Sobre com ens agrupem o no.

“Madre” fa referència a la maternitat, a com aquesta és viscuda des de dins i observada des de fora.
“Madre” parla d’estats canviants.
“Madre” dura una expulsió.
Ens fa qüestionar una confrontació cap a la persona i/o artista, un regulador de l’ego.
Sobre com ens afecta la vivència.
Sobre una maternitat amarga, dolça, àcida, salada, agria, saborosa…

Firma foto: CdAT

‘Happy’

‘Happy’ is a manifesto. A rupture in the conception of life; the possibility for each person to de-construct his own way of existence. The style, the aesthetic of opposites who meet and converse. It is our naked, rebellious, innocent, spiritual, lucid, and above all human being. A hymn to freedom reconnecting with cruelty. We put our limits, accidents and despair at stake; we claim our dissident, deadly and vulnerable existence as a form of circus.

By accepting who we are in the present moment, the fear of death escapes us. In each situation: new possibilities of changes, reconfiguration and metamorphosis. When all the doors are open, when all the anchors drown and nothing holds us to the ground, we can finally dance without falling.

Picture: Carolina Castro

¡Proyecto SENA!

The creation of a superhero union is the starting point of this piece, which takes place during a union event. With irony and humor, the aim of the characters will be to raise awareness about complex issues in the union sector such as job insecurity, sexism, old age and media power. To this end, theatrical tools will be used on stage as well as a mockumentary with “testimonies” from people involved.

We see heroes bravely perform extraordinary feats; but we also discover  their more human side, moving them to intimate spaces where they show us their personal conflicts, their vulnerabilities and their insecurities. This concept of an antihero serves as a metaphor for talking about aging in the artistic field, and especially in disciplines linked to movement. We will be talking about certain physical limitations, injuries and the resistance to disappearing as a result of them. This is a large-format, multidisciplinary piece that fuses architecture, vertical dance, theater and digital arts.

Picture: Frank Díaz

Twenty years later, still here!

‘Twenty years later, still here!’ is a sample of twenty years of traveling between two female artists that is shown through circus, art and friendship. Lotta Paavilainen and Stina Kopra started working together at Sorin Circus in Finland in 2001. At first they were just girls; now they are women, artists and mothers. The years they’ve spent together have been rich in both good and bad experiences, and now they themselves are the inspiration for this autobiographical piece that combines circus, theater, stand up comedy and music.

The show is aimed at those who had to fight windmills to achieve their dreams; those who have suffered prejudice due to their gender or have been questioned; and finally, also those who are tired of fighting and have given up. Additionally, this piece is dedicated to nostalgic people who lived their childhood in the eighties.

‘Peluda’

On stage, a woman with long hair tries to regain every strand and style she has shed throughout her life. ‘Hairy’ questions the reality of what we see. A story that travels from glamor to decay through hair, via the language of poetry and the absurd.

We are in a time when we are living our lives through a screen. We show only one side of our reality; we try to fit into the patterns of beauty. Always happy and bright, we pretend to have no body hair, no gray hair, no wrinkles. We hide behind our phones, behind our makeup, behind our surgeries and filters. We live in a time when reality seems compromised; when we are often disconnected from ourselves and our truths.

Firma foto: Nora Baylach

Cía Papaya està formada per Lorena Madurga, graduada en Belles Arts per la Universitat de Salamanca. La seva inquietud per a les arts escèniques, la va dur més tard a Barcelona, ciutat on estudia circ a l’escola Rogelio Rivel i dansa contemporània a l’escola ESDM. Actualment viu a Barcelona i es continua formant amb diferents ballarins. Durant els darrers anys també s’ha dedicat al dibuix i a la pintura i ha iniciat el procés de creació de la marca de roba LoreLoraLoro.

‘Manchas’

L’espectacle es divideix en tres parts vinculades a la tradició cristiana: naixement, mort i resurrecció. Aquesta estructura agafa de referència ‘El jardí de les delícies’ d’El Bosco, un quadre que al segle XV funcionava com a enciclopèdia de temors i dimonis. Aquesta obra pictòrica també és una referència per al desenvolupament del bestiari d’animals estranys que s’inclouen en la peça.

La creació de ‘Manchas’ neix del desig d’unir les arts escèniques amb les arts plàstiques. Es tracta d’un espectacle de roda cyr que conviu amb materials com el carbó i els vegetals. És una peça que s’assembla a una macedònia de fruita. De manera literal i figurada, aquesta macedònia es converteix en un suc que es prendran totes les persones que assisteixin a la mostra.

Fitxa artística

Idea original i intèrpret: Lorena Madurga
Direcció: Rafa Jagat i Lorena Madurga

‘Masha’

‘Masha’ represents a space to observe, reflect, interpret and live with the unexpected and the alien. It proposes a creative laboratory made of the human; a place to question the corporeal, social, and performative. To position oneself in sincerity. To create a parallel world with one’s own language, with intertwined actions that relate to each other in an irrational way. 

In our posthuman era, this show focuses on the evolutionary nature of humanity, its denaturalisation and dehumanization. The present trend toward the unification of thoughts, images and discourses is not sensitive to the multiplicity of individual realities. In this context, existence itself leads us to cease to exist, and this contradiction puts us in a framework of constant absurdity and failure. Reflect on the idea of existence through the lens of programmed obsolescence, and how accepting our self-destruction leads us to a state of mental stress and paranoia.

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…

Mer de plastic

This multi-disciplinary show uses comedy and drama to comment on human stupidity. From an ironic perspective, it deals with the irremediable absurdity of the human being as constructor and destroyer. We talk about our reality from fantasy through the language of circus, an aquatic dimension, three creatures and a predominant material: plastic.

Homenaje

HOMENAJE is that moment when something stopped and there is no going back.

HOMENAJE is a tragicomedy that travels from death to love.

HOMENAJE is a sweet wound that questions the audience and places it as a possible victim.

HOMENAJE is a time to celebrate, share and live.

HOMENAJE is a challenge to the solitude of the scene.

HOMENAJE is a rebellion against the established.

Signos

Two characters and a whole lot of flour investigate their relationship possibilities, creating images and balance using the body in motion, leaving traces of flour in differing amounts and a subtle humour open to interpretation.

We are two bodies which entwine and separate to end up where they began. Two stains which mix until they are indistinguishable. Leaving the same footprints (and handprints) and following the same path until we become one piece of dough.

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.

Proyecto PAPY

A contemporary fool, circus show, which mixes slack rope, juggling, fakir and so very many other fantasies. It’s about human confirmation, in the skin of a woman who wants, wants to be good, to be beautiful, to save whales, rebuild Paris’ Notre Dame, vote for the best candidate, eat organic, be trendy, recycle, visit the Philippines, be a mother, dance well, be intelligent. Be simple, be trendy again, help an old man, adopt a man, feminist, ecologist, with a social and philosophical conscience in which the artist deploys all of her circus talent and fierce sensuality. Strong but fragile, beautiful but a beast, clumsy but wise, Pisces, but with Virgo ascending.

Project Papy invites the audience to live an atrocious moment of love and laughter and love and power and laughter and sadness. A moment of contemporary life.

The truth of these concepts can be questioned, but don’t worry, Presidents lie more, write worse and take drugs (until they become evangelical).

Oveja negra

The Story of a young woman in times when it was normal to marry, have several children, do housework and give up your professional career. A problem which still remains for many women.

Located in a historical context where it was difficult for a woman to occupy a powerful position, this woman decides to build her own artistic company by pretending to be a man. So, she creates a duo show with a partner who doesn’t know her status as a woman. This is the starting point in this story which combines comedy, duo acrobatics, dance and physical theatre as a means of communication.

Mentir lo mínimo

Divest.

Let the reality out.

Minimum play. The sum connection of two fragments.

The audience that invades the stage. The stage that breaks into the building.

The spectator becomes an actor rewriting reality. The present becomes a back and forth game.

No stage, no stands.

No actors, no audiences.

There’s no acting anymore, there’s only truth.

A collective experience in an unusual place.

We maintain a dialogue with the audience through movement, weight, directions. The questions will always stay, but the answers will never be the same.

Nus

Nus (trad.lit. Knot) is a contemporary circus piece starring Cèlia Marcé Oller, accompanied by a trapeze, ropes and pulleys. It is an open door to the inner struggle to find answers to undo and move forward. Nus tells us about the constant contradiction between the insistence of self-improvement and the withdrawal in defeat; a walk through the limits of emotions. Shrunken heart and open arms.

Proyecto RUIDO

Scenic research project, whose object of study is the concept of noise and its different possible interpretations, with the aim of generate an interdisciplinary artistic language readable in the scene.