On stage
young artists
Circo all'inCirca is a center for circus arts that combines pedagogical paths, support for artistic research, development of contemporary circus culture and social circus. Within this ecosystem there is space for young artists who have recently graduated from professional circus schools and who in Friuli Venezia Giulia find a space in which they can train, pass on their knowledge and contribute personally to the cultural activities that the Association plans in the area. This is why Sarah Ferretti (Naples), Christina Lancione (New York) and Simone Di Biagio (Castelli Romani) revolve around Circo all'inCirca and in the Friulian circus training space they have created a performance using part of their research work started during their years of study at the FLIC circus school in Turin.
I understand!
the circus performance
Who knows, maybe it's because of a remote form of inferiority complex that contemporary circus is becoming obscure, full of hidden meanings, intellectual. God forbid that circus also turns into an art form far from the people! Because what primarily brought us to this art form is the sense of belonging to an open community, able to welcome anyone, not an exclusive form of expression. The question that the company asked itself in this regard is "what is missing today in social groups to feel like a community?" In an attempt to answer the question, the artists have landed on the theme of ritual. The ritual as a form of rediscovering the self in relation to the other, this is what they explore on stage through three distinct projects of juggling, verticalism and aerial disciplines. The three individual artistic projects are held together by the common thread of the search for meaning in a world that is progressively abandoning social ritual for a form of virtual ritual, experienced on the phone. The problem with the latter is the inability to connect people, since the primary objective of targeting and algorithms is to define the individual by ensuring that the feedback given to those who observe the world from the screen of a mobile phone is increasingly similar to the eyes of the beholder. Myths collapse and gods die to make room for a new sacredness, which however does not put any god at the center except that character increasingly frighteningly similar to themselves.
The man at the center of the track, at the center of the universe, bombarded by stimuli and information exclaims "I understand!" when in reality he is probably the most lost human being that history has ever known.