Trànsits

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.

‘Corcs’

THE INSECT

“nyii…nyiu!…nyiuuu…prufm… cris…nyuuuu!nyic…fius…tururitururitururi!!!”

That’s how this insect sounds. That’s how it thinks. That’s how it is. That’s how it moves. It faces something unknown, which at the same time is extremely familiar.

THE HUMAN

He watches it. The insect moves slowly towards him. He may feel as if he is trying to ignore it; or he may feel an uncontrollable rage.

THE INVISIBLE

No one sees him, but he is there. What role does he play? Maybe he gives rhythm to the world … Maybe he is the one who moves the threads …

CORCS is an encounter between worlds that coexist in parallel.

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.