“We have left behind the most difficult to date and want to tell stories, create poetic spectacles with the circus technique”. With these words, the artistic programmer of the Mercat de les Flors, Marc Olivé, presented the current biennial cycle, which will be held in the Montjuïc grounds from April 27 to May 11.
“What we do at the Mercat is accompany artists with a very specific personality,” continues the cycle programmer. We are lucky that the circus changes and evolves, with an open and transversal view.” In this edition, the organization highlights the fact that the inaugural piece will be held outside, in Margarida Xirgu Square, open to the public.
On the same Saturday, the company Les Filles du Renard Pale will present the work “for tightrope, visceral music, committed technician and nervous tightrope walker” entitled Résiste. The Doisacordes company also performs with the show Cá entre nós, which in Portuguese means ‘Here among us’, “a unitematic show, which uses the smooth rope, trying to find new images in this discipline,” explain Roberto Willcock and Thiago Souza. “We saw that it used to be done vertically and very high, and that is why we lowered the rope to one meter looking for horizontality.”
This first weekend there is also a double program with Fragmentos, from La Víspera, puppets and pole, and Instante and Lontano, from Ce 7Bis, who work with the Cyr wheel, inspired by Sufi dance, and who in Sunday’s show feature with Marica Marinoni.
On Tuesday the 30th, the acrobatics, humor and risk of Wilbur, that gymnast who has discovered the acrobat clown, arrive. And on May 3 and 4, Not Standing / Alexander Vantournhout will perform, which with the show Foreshadow shows “the body as an object that generates landscapes, in a relationship between circus and dance,” says Olivé.
Expressly for the cycle, Mercat de les Flors asked the company Movedbymatter
Polystyrene is the material with which the Roman artist Andrea Salustri works in Materia, where he mixes magical elements with a work on the object (8/ V). Andrea Rodríguez from Liébana and Sergi González, from Palimsesta, work with oil in Masha, on May 10 and 11. On those same days, Los Putos Makinas, a mix of Spanish and French jugglers, present Petróleo, with humor and ecological criticism. “There is not only an exaltation of technique,” ??says Olivé.
The current Circus cycle is completed with the performances that, during all these days, are offered by the emerging artists of the Rogelio Rivel Circus Arts Center.
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