Friday, 14 June, 2024
Marzia Zambianchi
Italy
Contemporary circus
Women climb trees when they disobey. And every woman who disobeys is the daughter of the first, the most celebrated and damned of them all: Eve. Eva could only be punk, after all she has been through. Urban transposition of the oldest of stories, told by an old friend who had a lot to forgive: God. An itinerant tale that lives through urban space, but wants to bring us closer to Nature. Follow Eva, from the highest branches you can see a different ending.
Preview performance, work in progress. Outcome of the training IL CIRCO NELLO SPAZIO (Boarding Pass Plus 2023-2024).
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +4. ITINERANT.
Armonicadance
Italy
Armonica blues
Armonicadance's is a show of original music between Blues and 80s sounds. Gianluca Caselli (live electronics) and Andreino Cocco (blues harmonica) experiment with the contamination between the pure and raw sound of Cocco's harmonica with the new sounds offered by samplers and electronics. All the music comes from improvisation and the development of a rhythmic idea; this is what led to the name of the album "Armonicadance - Electroblues," just released by Bloos Records.
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SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: 0 - 99
Duo Baguette
Italy
World music
Imagine Paris in the early 1900s, the soundtrack of a silent film and a picnic in the shade of a cherry tree... A journey between France, Eastern Europe and Italy, enriched by original songs and improvisations with a swing flavor. Duo Baguette are Organetto and Accordion, two traditional instruments that, starting from tradition, come out of the closet to reinvent it and meet new languages and musical forms.
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: 0 - 99
La Fanfarria del Capitán
Argentina
South American, folk, rock music
La Fanfarria del Capitán is an Argentine band born in Buenos Aires in 2004 that travels the world sharing their exciting music: an explosive combination of folk, rock, Latin rhythms, and poetry. Minstrels, travelers and explorers who tell stories and transport melodies from one place to another.
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE.
Catin Nardi
Brasil
Puppet theater
Pocket Show Marionette is the show of Brazilian puppeteer Catin Nardi, where puppets navigate between the universe of choreography and performance of different cultures of the world. This show has already participated in numerous national and international festivals in America and Europe, delighting audiences with the technical quality of the puppets and sophisticated manipulation.
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SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE.
Faela
Argentina, Sweden
Cumbia-jazz-rock music
Faela was born in 2007 in Sweden, from the meeting of six musicians with roots in Argentina, England, Brazil, Spain, and Sweden. From this cultural melting-pot, Faela's sound was born: a blend of Cumbia, Jazz, Rock, and more. In 2023 the fifth studio album Latin Animal Beats was released, where enthralling Latin rhythms, clanging drums, infectious brass, and joyful vocals capture well the atmosphere the band conveys live.
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE.
Headmix
UK
Alternativa-folk, dub music
Headmix, skilfully combining bagpipes, fiddle, accordion, Irish whistles, melodica and heartfelt vocals with a stonking rhythm section, create an irresistibly dancey and unforgettable live experience. Folk meets ska, reggae, drum & bass and disco!
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE.
Teatro La Ribalta - Kunst der Vielfalt
Italy
Theater
The company Teatro La Ribalta - Kunst der Vielfalt consists mostly of actors and actresses in a situation of "mental distress" who have belonged to the theater professionally for 5 years. The protagonist of Otello Circus is Otello himself. In a circus where everything seems to wither away, he is forced to perform his personal tragedy. It is his condemnation, the sentence he must serve for his heinous and murderous act.
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +12.
LIMITED CAPACITY. ON-SITE RESERVATION.
Tony Rooke
Australia
Physical theater, clown, magic
From his comic torn and restored newspaper routine to the famous Houdini Sword Box of Death, Tony Rooke is handcuffed, blindfolded, locked in a tiny box and speared through the body as the audience laugh and gasp. He mixes music, clown, magic, audience involvement and physical comedy to present a world class spectacular.
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: 0 - 99.
Col.lectiu La Diògenes
Spain
Puppetry, physical and visual theater
La Diògenes is a company founded in Barcelona in 2022 by Pau Garcia and Laia Campamá, which was born out of the need to explore and experiment with body mime, object manipulation and puppetry. In Folie à Deux, two characters find themselves trapped in silences and unexpressed feelings. In this world without texts, they try to share their madness again and dance, with those words they have never said, their last dance.
NATIONAL PREMIERE.
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: 0 - 99.
With the support of the Institut Ramon Llull.
KillaBeatMaker
Colombia
Electro-afrobeat music, cumbia, amapiano, rap
KillaBeatMaker is not only an accomplished Dj, he has also established a vibrant Live Band that performs globally to thousands of people all over Europe and The Americas. The show brings a grooving and mystical combination through an energetic performance with unique instruments from the motherland.
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +12.
Balletto Civile
Italy
Dance and physical theater
Balletto Civile is characterized by the search for a "total" scenic language by privileging the interaction between theater, dance and original live singing. Gente invites the audience to follow a path through extraordinary situations and characters, blurring the boundaries between reality and vision. With poetic stations and danced actions among the audience, music guides a journey from the ordinary to the imaginative, involving the audience as the director of the event.
SUITABILE FOR EVERYONE. ITINERANT.
Giulia Cammarota
Italy
Theater, tightrope walking
Giulia Cammarota is an actress and tightrope walker. Rio is the story of a journey meant to shed light on the possibility of looking at vulnerability as a strength, not a weakness. Rio's life is full of facts and thoughts that often bring her to a halt. She manages to regain focus and free herself from immobility when she puts into practice what was suggested to her in a dream.
Preview performance, work in progress. Outcome of the training IL CIRCO NELLO SPAZIO (Boarding Pass Plus 2023-2024)
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE.
Venolta ad Artisti in Piazza
Italy
Music, songs and dances from folk tradition
Venolta is a fall festival born 2 years ago from the collaboration of Ultimo Punto and Chiocciola la Casa del Nomade with the aim of reclaiming the ancient rural dance style. To succeed in our intent, we will integrate into the programming of Artisti in Piazza a small foray of Venolta's content and make it available to the festival audience, with educational workshops and the involvement of local musicians, elderly players, the festival audience, accompanied by "Viva el Ball!".
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE.
Claire Ducreux
France
Dance and physical theater
Claire Ducreux is an artist who mixes dance, physical theater and interactive clowning. For over 20 years she has been performing all over the world, communicating emotions and sharing experiences with the audience. In Fleurir les abîmes, in a world where everything turns to sand, he takes us on an intimate and poetic journey through his dance, where a tree becomes a symbol of resistance and the heart of the universe.
NATIONAL PREMIERE
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE.
Compagnie de L'Echelle
France
Puppet theatre in miniature
Compagnie de l'Echelle presents puppet shows for a wide variety of audiences. The subjects are inspired by matters of life and suggest, with great poetry and love, another view of the world. Le Grand Théâtre Mécanique Denino is a veritable miniaturized Italian-style theater that, thanks to a mechanism, recreates in the narrowness of minimal size the magic of the stage, the audience and the actors.
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +6.
SHOW WITH VERY LIMITED CAPACITY: 10 SEATS (access managed by the Company).
Madame Rebiné
Italy
Contemporary traveling circus
For the Madame Rebiné company, live performance is a means of sublimating insecurities, and rediscovering in laughter and disinhibition empathy for human beings and for life in general. STRIKE! - Clowns on Strike is the new show created in co-production with Ultimo Punto. A traveling performance in which three old clowns take to the streets to go on strike. There will be many reasons for their protest--none will make people laugh, forbidden!
SUITABLE FOR ALL. ITINERANT.
Snazzback
UK
Instrumental dance music
Snazzback bring a renewed, daring energy to UK dance music. The 7-piece embrace their experimental beginnings to create a sound fusing abstract beats with spiralling improvisation. Their music is soaked in influences including interlocking West African rhythms, rootsy Brazilian flavours, sprawling soundscapes, deep dubstep basslines and flickering arpeggiators.
NATIONAL PREMIERE
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE.
Teatro C'art
Italy
Physical and comic theater, clownerie
Teatro C'art is a company focused in the research, production, dissemination and pedagogy of clown, physical theater and nonverbal comedy. In Felici per Sempre (Happy Forever) we see a couple fresh from their wedding ceremony driving a vintage car. They are faced with a breakdown in the middle of the road. A man and a woman, discovering that happiness is not a promise but an achievement.
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: 0 - 99.
Armonicadance
Italy
Armonica blues
Armonicadance's is a show of original music between Blues and 80s sounds. Gianluca Caselli (live electronics) and Andreino Cocco (blues harmonica) experiment with the contamination between the pure and raw sound of Cocco's harmonica with the new sounds offered by samplers and electronics. All the music comes from improvisation and the development of a rhythmic idea; this is what led to the name of the album "Armonicadance - Electroblues," just released by Bloos Records.
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SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: 0 - 99
Brunitus
Argentina
Storyteller with diablo
The diablo is a thousand-year-old invention of Chinese origin. It was used before Christ to drive away evil spirits. Brunitus recovers this mystical origin in his new show Gùshi (storie coi diabli) to generate a journey. A journey through feelings, a poetic and intense proposal. Diablos spin, fly and intertwine like stories.
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: 0 - 99.
Compagnie de L'Echelle
France
Puppet theatre in miniature
Compagnie de l'Echelle presents puppet shows for a wide variety of audiences. The subjects are inspired by matters of life and suggest, with great poetry and love, another view of the world. Le Grand Théâtre Mécanique Denino is a veritable miniaturized Italian-style theater that, thanks to a mechanism, recreates in the narrowness of minimal size the magic of the stage, the audience and the actors.
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +6.
SHOW WITH VERY LIMITED CAPACITY: 10 SEATS (access managed by the Company).
Ete Clown
Argentina
Clown
A mime, a peculiar clown with a weird little voice. It is a totally improvised show, typical of the greatest street performers. He has the extraordinary skill of involving the people he wants to play with. Enjoyment is guaranteed for all of the family. Ete can shift from anger to laughter in a twinkle, leaving a pleasant memory in those who have the chance to watch his show.
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE
Catin Nardi
Brasil
Puppet theater
Pocket Show Marionette is the show of Brazilian puppeteer Catin Nardi, where puppets navigate between the universe of choreography and performance of different cultures of the world. This show has already participated in numerous national and international festivals in America and Europe, delighting audiences with the technical quality of the puppets and sophisticated manipulation.
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SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE.
DuoFlosh
Italy
Chinese pole, acrobatics and juggling
Game and joke lovers Nik and Frank, the DuoFlosh, present Cabaret Zuzzurellone. A show suitable for all ages, this is a seething artistic cauldron, chock-full of acrobatic acts, juggling and borderline coherent comedy gags. Overwhelming involvement, crackling energy and shoehorned rhythm characterize this Variety. Live music, balancing acts and virtuosity at the Chinese pole will leave audiences enraptured.
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SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +3
Compagnie de L'Echelle
France
Puppet theatre in miniature
Compagnie de l'Echelle presents puppet shows for a wide variety of audiences. The subjects are inspired by matters of life and suggest, with great poetry and love, another view of the world. Le Grand Théâtre Mécanique Denino is a veritable miniaturized Italian-style theater that, thanks to a mechanism, recreates in the narrowness of minimal size the magic of the stage, the audience and the actors.
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +6.
SHOW WITH VERY LIMITED CAPACITY: 10 SEATS (access managed by the Company).
Centre de Titelles de Lleida
Spain
Puppetry theater
Centre de Titelles de Lleida, founded in 1986 by Joan-Andreu Vallvé and Julieta Agustí and located in the old Santa Teresa convent in Lleida, promotes the art of puppetry. Kujira is a traveling show where an imposing blue whale makes its way through the city making its song heard. The viewer questions the collective responsibility toward the climate emergency.
NATIONAL PREMIERE
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. ITINERANT.
With the support of the Institut Ramon Llull.
Skizzo e JF
Italy
Comic circus
Skizzo and JF are two "perfectionists" of street art. Their meeting in the performing arts was born in Latin America. The great passion for circus and street theater that they have in common makes the show fun and original, very engaging for children's audiences and captivating for adults. Circus Off is a hilarious parody of the classical circus where the company, left without performers, is in disarray. The last heirs of the family, the brothers "Skizzo and Jf," without a gig, find themselves on the road starting from scratch.
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SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +2.
The Saint Melonians
UK
Comic calypso music
The Saint Melonians are Wales’ number one comedy calypso band. Trapped in the rainy UK their dream is to drink rum in the Bahamas, but until they earn enough money to do that they’re bringing the Bahamas to you! Pairing vibrant 3 part harmonies, frenetic musical accompaniment and sunny comedy the Saint Melonians will have you dancing and laughing in equal measure.
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SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE.
Afuma
Togo
Acrobatic circus on stilts
In Edukikan, the performers are happy to be able to dance and respond to the centuries-old tradition of stilt walkers accompanied by two percussionists. When they realize that this is no longer enough, they begin to create original figures that take them further beyond the traditions.
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +3
La Boca Abierta
France
Musical and acrobatic theater-circus
They are three. Voices and bodies on their journey. With their instruments of music on their backs, on their heads between their legs, they are fervent. They listen, they weave and knit. They are looking for a rhythm, nourishment, the tears that will put out the fire of a burned-out society, They have exhausted the seriousness, the rationality they go through the absurd to find the indispensable.
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +7
My!Laika | SIDE Kunst Cirque
Italy - France
Contemporary circus
The performances of the circus company My!Laika are the result of long chains of distorted associations that avoid a linear narrative and immediate understanding. In Winter we find ourselves in the ruins of an old museum where strange characters traverse the stage and multiple stories. The "magie poubelle" technique brings the drama out of the desperate feeling of being frozen on this planet. Thus, the play questions itself to find a way out of itself and its unusual specters.
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +7.
LIMITED CAPACITY. ON-SITE RESERVATION.
Pedro Tochas
Portugal
Clownerie
Pedro Tochas is The Sculptor Clown, a Portuguese master of crowd interaction who builds silent movies before your eyes, complete with love, heroes, and villains. Witness The Sculptor Clown crafts a complete story from nothing more than his imagination and a touch of help from the audience. A visual treat for all the family that will entertain and amaze.
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: 0 -99
David Celia
canada
Alternative-folk music
David Celia is an innovative singer-songwriter and guitarist extraordinaire, known for his spontaneous live performances. His songs have an alternative-folk style that has also been described as "Beatlesque."
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE.
Senzavolto
Italy
Alternative-rock music
Immersed in the magic of the Enchanted City, Senzavolto come to life from the fusion of different worlds. Their music is a blend of rock and alternative, enriched by electronic, funk, punk and hip hop influences. Their songs deal with deep and intimate themes. A world of dreams and hopes, narrated through references to fantasy and pervaded by a touch of melancholy and deep emotional introspection.
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SUITABLE FOR ALL. RECOMMENDED AGE: +10
Théâtre Jaleo
France
Puppetry theater and dance
Théâtre Jaleo was born from the meeting of Arnaud Vidal, actor and set designer, and Alice Alban-Zapata, dancer and percussionist, who create the company to defend popular theater, mixing their artistic disciplines. Eden is a cabaret of the shadow that explores the human soul, inviting viewers to reflect on themselves: seven deadly sins, seven intertwined stories, each reflecting an aspect of humanity.
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE.
SHOW WITH LIMITED CAPACITY - On-site reservation
Caterina Fort
Italy
Contemporary circus
Caterina Fort is a dancer of earth and air, curious about everything related to ex
SUITABLE FOR ALL. RECOMMENDED AGE: 0 - 99.
ITINERANT.
Sergi Estebanell
Spain
Urban theater, experiential performance
In Love for Free, Sergi Estebanell enacts a sociological exploration in search of authentic relationships in a narcissistic and individualistic society, for a paean to love as a possible solution to heal and transform our fears and seek new ways of relating to ourselves and others.
NATIONAL PREMIERE
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +12.
With the support of the Institut Ramon Llull.
The Gulls
UK
Rock'n'roll music
The Gulls: audacious rock rebels that are taking on the world from the back of their beaten-up, old, motorhome. Their music: an eclectic fusion of rock, blues and folk with flavours of psychedelia. The Gulls possess a great gift for igniting crowds with their undeniable charisma and electrifying presence. Forever championing the spirit of rock & roll.
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SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE.
Ete Clown
Argentina
Clown
A mime, a peculiar clown with a weird little voice. It is a totally improvised show, typical of the greatest street performers. He has the extraordinary skill of involving the people he wants to play with. Enjoyment is guaranteed for all of the family. Ete can shift from anger to laughter in a twinkle, leaving a pleasant memory in those who have the chance to watch his show.
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE