Plausible Festival 2024

Every year the educators and artists of Circo all’inCirca choose a universe of meaning on which to base the end-of-year show. It is not just a pretext to make the proposal of the Festival Plausibile - our event dedicated to circus performers under 18 - homogeneous, it is above all a way to complete the artistic path represented by the circus school. Our association mainly offers a sporting activity, however the artistic component of the circus is crucial in the experience that we want to transmit to the new generations. This is why we avoid calling them wise: a certain way of conceiving sport and cultural activities requires that at the end of the year those who have attended a course demonstrate their progress to someone. The circus inspiration that guides us goes in the opposite direction: the circus is a place for everyone, there is no competition and even less something to prove. This does not mean that commitment is not necessary, on the contrary. The latter, however, is not aimed at achieving a competitive result, but rather transformed into the responsibility of being part of a group: giving the best of yourself because an entire group believes in each individual member; highlighting the transversality of skills and sensitivities; challenging yourself to improve so that the group improves; these are the pedagogical values ​​at the base of the Circo all’inCirca project. We like to think that the end-of-year show is one of the epicenters of our community, an excuse to celebrate and enhance the emotional commitment of those who are taking their first steps on the circus ring and on the stage of life.

Thinking about all this, we arrived at the theme of storytelling, which this year is the basis of all the works of the boys and girls that you will see on stage. Storytelling means gathering around a fire, in a circle, like at the circus, listening to a story and sharing it with the other people sitting next to you. Perhaps storytelling is even something more, it means imagining stories and ideas capable of founding entire communities gathered around that fire. Mythical tales gradually transform into group practices and give life to rituals that mark the rhythm of existence. Perhaps we are a little naive when we think that our circus can tell new stories, imagine new rituals and found mythologies. Perhaps more than naive, megalomaniacs. Surely we want to affirm our alternative to a world that travels at a crazy speed: at least 150 megabytes per second, which is equivalent to about a million words per second! In the age of hyper-communication, communities risk crumbling under the accumulation of useless information: tons of gigabytes flow non-stop in our pockets and slowly the enchanted gaze that was admiring the magic of fire bends on the smartphone that we now hold in our hand. We accumulate so much information that it is almost impossible for us to process it into a meaningful story, that says something to our existences, we wander alone on the net lost inside our own pockets.

“We don’t tell each other any stories! This is why we communicate excessively: we post, we share, we like… the ritual contemplation that gives space to the content of the collective consciousness, gives way to the intoxication of communication and information. The din of communication leads the single, unique song, which tunes the villagers into a single story and therefore unites them firmly to each other, to silence altogether. The community without communication gives way to communication without community.”

He is a philosopher who speaks - in fact he is a bit incomprehensible - but he adds a very understandable consideration regarding the new generations: “today digital children have become profane: the magical experience of the world has evaporated. Children hunt for information, which has become their digital Easter eggs.” That is to say that they are no longer able to listen to stories and imagine alternative spaces of thought: their world has degraded to a set of things unconnected to each other, where all narrative tension is lost. “When the world can be explained, then it can no longer be told.”

Here we are, in the presence of the ritual of a live show, of a tent assembled by hand by the artists who teach at Circo all’inCirca, with effort and - above all - together: we invite you to enter our tent on tiptoe, it is called “Mode”, our home, an enchanted, magical place, where circus artists live and invent universes. Don’t take everything for granted, look with curiosity at what happens, don’t give explanations to everything, let the background music while you enter and find a seat transport you to another planet, it’s not just about turning off your cell phone, it’s about forgetting about it, turning off your brain and making sure that the show in front of you can generate meaning inside you. You will see boys and girls, boys and teenagers, they are beginners with circus techniques... but this is already information: forget about it for long enough to take a break from normality with us and maybe you will be able to tune in to the amazement of our micro circus performers who for the first time see the limelight and an entire audience ready to applaud them.

Don't worry, at the end of the show the world outside the tent will still be there waiting for you and if you want you can get a beer from the Circus kiosk all'inCirca. Oh, thanks for reading this far these zero point a few cents mega bytes.