Engeguem una nova edició d’EN RESiDÈNCiA amb Vivian Friedrich a l’Institut Doctor Puigvert

This week marks the launch of the 17th edition of EN RESiDÈNCiA, a project by the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona (ICUB) and the Consorci d’Educació de Barcelona (CEB) that brings contemporary creation closer to public secondary schools through direct and ongoing contact between a creator and the students.

In this edition, La Central del Circ participates with the collaboration of artist Vivian Friedrich, who will lead a creative process throughout the school year with the students of Institut Doctor Puigvert (Sant Andreu, Barcelona).

On this blog, you will be able to follow the key moments of an open-ended process, with an outcome that is still to be discovered.

Vivian Friedrich

Creator, researcher, and author of performative circus, Vivian trained in circus arts and movement languages in Tilburg (ACaPA, NL), Hamburg, and Barcelona. At the same time, she earned a degree in Psychology through distance learning and, in 2018, completed her training with a Certificate in Circus Dramaturgy from CNAC (FR) and ESAC (BE).

As a circus artist, she specializes in the Single Rope, developing her own vocabulary that combines tightrope, smooth rope, and trapeze techniques. Between 2017 and 2021, Vivian facilitated the Dramaturgy Days at La Central del Circ and participated as a thinker in reflection gatherings at the Ateneu Popular de Nou Barris, the Barcelona Independent Theatre Festival, the 4#Encounter of Circus Dialogues, and CircoRed in Madrid.

She is co-creator of LaRed within the collective Fam. Lizajous, author of the project I Love My Car, and dramaturge and artistic facilitator of the creation Breach by the company Som Noise, selected by the circusnext+ program. In 2022, she premiered Kristall Bohème [Excavation of a Memory] at Mercat de les Flors, a project that rediscovers her family’s historical tradition in glass craftsmanship. She is currently presenting her new piece Sklenka Melta, a quintet exploring the relationship between four bodies and a material, premiered at Fira Trapezi in Reus and the Grec Festival in Barcelona.