Guadual

Pals, a production in which the director, artist and builder Leandro Mendoza used all kinds of natural elements to create a circus show inviting us to connect to the earth, was a great hit at Grec 2015. Now, Mendoza returns with Guadual, a show about a circus company who are tricked and end up beside a river. There, they meet three Montubio farmers from the region, who take them in to the guadual in which they live and, in exchange, begin to learn the circus arts from their guests. The farmers teach the artistes to use guadua to build a thousand and one objects, including lots of equipment that they will then use to create and rehearse new circus numbers. In this way, then, the Montubios and the performers learn from each other, becoming transformed in the most harmonious and sustainable way and, in the process, building – before the spectators’ very eyes – a circus show that speaks, not only of skill and technique, but also of the natural world, exchanges of knowledge and dialogue. Come and see how circus artistes learn to move around the forest as if they had been born there, creating a charming, utopian show: the Guadual Circus.

Production: Teatro Sánchez Aguilar (Equator).

Coproduction: Grec 2016 Festival de Barcelona.

Direcció i dramatúrgia: Leandro Mendoza; Interpretació: Priscila Aguilera, Jordy Burgos, Luis Miguel Cajiao, José Cuenca, Marcel Ferrer, Alexander Gómez, Jorge Luis Hidalgo, Byron Antonio Malquin, Margarita Mawyin, Mario Sánchez Araya i Christian Sarue Padilla; Composició musical: Chía Patiño, Marcel Ferrer i Jordy Burgos; Interpretació musical: Marcel Ferrer (cordes) i Jordy Burgos (vents i percussió); Escenografia: Ulrich Wiegel; Entrenadora de bambú: Poema Mühlenberg; Vestuari: lex Fonseca; Disseny d'il·luminació: Javier Aguirre i Ulrich Wiegel; Disseny de so: Alejandro Gallegos; Ajudant de direcció: David Saavedra; Direcció de producció: Teatro Sánchez Aguilar; Producció executiva: Denisse Melgarejo; Ajudant de producció: Maru Sáenz i Carlos Núñez;