Dynamic Residency
Central de Circ
Barcelone
Direction: Sebastian Belmar
Acrobats: Lucas Cantero, Remi Lebocey and Raffaele Riggio, Alice Tibery
Akrob@, which is the title of the project and the collective of acrobats, working on a structural reflection of acrobatics as a fundamental form of expression, providing a specific structure to a scenic language.
This project is developing out of a chapter in my PhD research on Circus Dramaturgy, dedicated to the acrobatics from its origins to its semiotics. At this point for for me it is important to approach dramaturgy as a way to consider a multiplicity of elements and demarcating their common ground rather than look at dramaturgy as a narrative.
This methodological approach was put into a first practical experience when the project was granted a "dynamic residency” at Central de Circ, Barcelona in May 2018. The final presentation of this residency, gave the departing point to articulate an entire show that puts the acrobatic fundamentals at the service of a dramatic writing.
The subject and methodology used for this project were selected in January 2019 to be presented in a laboratory of Circus Dramaturgy, directed by Roberto Magro at Espace Catastrophe, Brussels.
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Architecture of Juggling
Santiago, CL.
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Direction: Sebastian Belmar
Perfomers: Andrea Huerta, Yeimi Nunes, Andrea Zuluoaga
This work is the result of a performativity exercise. In collaboration with three dancers we had a week residency structured in two times. Morning: Movement’s techniques, contact, partnering, floor work.
The evenings a conceptual work about the MODULOR, an investigation and life work achievement of a major influence of modern architecture, Le Corbusier.
The aim is to incorporate the notion of relative measure in space and the tension created between moving bodies. This research encounters the notion of negative space that reveals itself in space by using an external media.
We use juggling bouncing balls and a training based in manipulation, contact and cubic juggling in order to create a dialogue with a jugging object that becomes another body and also gives a notion of rhythm and space trajectories that guides the dancers movements.