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Trànsits

The objective of the Transits 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.

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Research Transits

The research transitions are aimed at projects in the research phase and seek to highlight the importance of this stage in discovering the essence of creation.

This category provides resources to explore and experiment with circus languages and encourages the exploration of new performance fields. Challenging the logic of productivity, it offers the necessary space for companies and artists to experiment and work without pressure, allowing them to delve deeper into their creative authorship.

Creativity Transits

The creativity transits aim to support projects for the creation of an original contemporary circus piece. Companies and artists in the process of creation—whether in an initial, intermediate, or advanced phase—can apply for this grant. In this regard, proposals for already completed or produced performances will not be accepted.

This category seeks to provide companies and artists with a space for creative freedom to explore new forms and languages within circus. Support will be provided in the various stages of creation, along with resources to deepen artistic research.

T.E.S.T. (Trànsit Escènic de Sensació Tècnica)

This category offers technical residency and a first public performance. It is aimed at companies and artists who are in a very advanced stage of their creation process and who plan to premiere during next year.

The company or artist must have their own technical staff.

Community creation transit

This category is a research residency applied to the field of community creation, in the context of La Central del Circ’s proximity. From this intention and to incorporate networked working methods, active participation with the Joia Foundation will take place.

This modality aims to enhance the creation and consolidation of horizontal, flexible, and lasting relationships based on dialogue with those involved in community creation processes.

Residencies on route

Crossover residencies

La Central del Circ initiated this residency exchange project in 2015 with the goal of offering companies from the Transits program a residency and immersion in a different cultural context, highlighting the specificities of each participating center and their complementarity in terms of support for creation. After several editions primarily focused on our neighboring country, France, through collaborations with La Cascade in Bourg Saint Andéol and La Verrerie in Alès, a Lithuanian entity, the Arts Printing House in Vilnius, was incorporated into this program. You can check the international project here.

Circusnext Platform

The circusnext platform project has been selected by the European Commission as part of the Creative Europe program. Circusnext is the only platform dedicated to circus and recognized by the European Union. You can find more information about the project here.

Iberescena

Thanks to the support of the Iberescena Fund for Ibero-American Arts, every two years we open the ‘Circus Creation with an Ibero-American Perspective’ call, with the aim of strengthening the existing exchanges with Latin America and providing resources and support for unique contemporary circus creation projects.

This call is aimed at professional companies involved in a creative process based on artistic research and original authorship, residing in the member countries of IBERESCENA (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, or Uruguay). You can find more information about the project here.

In collaboration

In collaboration with external entities and festivals, La Central del Circ hosts residencies for projects that are later showcased at other venues, such as Creació i Museus, La Mercè, and La Nuit du Cirque. You can find more information about these residencies at shows in collaboration.

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2021

IAIA Romanini

Animus Anima

Animus Anima talks about being molded and cohabited by a pairing of energies that can take different names: hot/cold, outside/inside, ying/yang, feminine/masculine. It talks about his relationship with society, with preconceptions, with standards of beauty and social pressures. Submissive to an evolution which pushes it to go backwards, this being lives a true freeing in front of the public, making a comeback to the primitive.

An autobiographical research conceived as a cheerful provocation, to build complicity with the audience through humor. Through the pole, a place where everything merges and acquires a sense. And through the Disco Dance, discipline that embodies speed and exhibition in front of a jury, represented here by the audience itself. All this will be in order to show to what extent the judgments and the social pressures lead this being to transform, embellish and camouflage obsessively its body, until falling into a grotesque aesthetic.

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Creation

On the road

Study in Progress / Work in Progress

2019

2021

2022

Gaia Panero

‘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.

Creation

2021

El Circo de las Máquinas