UPCOMING DATES
JANUARY - FEBRUARY, 2020: CIRCO LOKOMOTIV, SAN BERNARDO, ARGENTINA
PAST DATES
About
Luisina Rosas (Argentina) and Clara Prezzavento (France) met at the National circus school of Montreal (ENC), where they both specialized in german wheel. While working on their individual skills and projects side by side for a year and a half, they began to inspire one another and a desire to collaborate was born. They started their first explorations together for a school open stage, where they presented a piece based on improvisations combining Cyr wheel and acrodance.
During the following year, they decided to focus their research as a duo using one german wheel. In October 2018, Luisina and Clara had a week-long residency which resulted in the core essence of their first creation as a company, LA MORT D'UN CERF-VOLANT (Death of a kite). After obtaining their diplomas from ENC in June 2019, they dove fully into the creation and development of their show. LA MORT D'UN CERF-VOLANT was premiered the 8th of July 2019 at La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines in the context of L'autre cirque, during the Montréal Complètement Cirque festival.
Luisina and Clara take inspiration from the complexities and paradoxes of what it is to be a human being, as a whole – both at the surface and at the depths of our core; the pretty, the ugly, the raw; the absurd, the awkward, and all layers in between; the funny things that make you cry, the sad things that make you laugh, the things that make no sense at all but you carry on anyways.
They explore the language that their bodies speak after years of circus training, to use it not with the intent of proving their capacities or gain recognition, but to humbly tell their stories: their friendship, their relationships, their memories, their battles, their childhoods, their wounds, their joys, their crises, their questionings, their griefs, their insecurities, their fears, their exhaustion, their strength, their lows, and their highs, their journeys to self-acceptance in a world that sometimes feels overwhelmingly full of pressures and expectations to be a certain way. They seek to create work where people can relate to each other by the simple fact that we are all humans alive in the world of today.
Luisina Rosas is a multi-disciplinary circus artist from Argentina, specializing in German Wheel and Cyr Wheel. She has been exploring her love for physical movement and performing arts for nearly 20 years, starting with gymnastics at age 7 and gradually making her way into theater and circus arts. After two years of training at Espacio Zero Circus School in Buenos Aires, Luisina moved to Chicago to focus on her german wheel training under the coaching of 8-time World Champion Wolfgang Bientzle. After 4 years of this enriching experience, Luisina continued traveling the world with her wheel as a professional circus artist, performing on stages across the United States, as well as Argentina, Abu Dhabi, South Korea, Japan, and China.
At the age of 24, responding to a need for new artistic challenges and internal exploration, Luisina decided to temporarily withdraw her focus from work in order to place it on her training and growth as an artist. In June 2019, Luisina obtained her degree from the National Circus School of Montréal, under the program of
Generalist Artist in German Wheel and Cyr Wheel. While in Montreal, Luisina found herself deeply inspired by its performing arts scene; she is eager to continue creating, collaborating, sharing, and questioning her work as a circus artist in the context of the world we live in today.
Clara was born in the south of France from Belgian-Spanish-Argentinian parents. She practiced gymnastics and dance with the Trampoline 2000 Association since the age of 6. At 14, she left her native region and continued her studies in Châtellerault (France), where she attended the Circus Arts program at the National Circus School of Châtellerault, in collaboration with the Marcelin Berthelot High School. She specialized aerial straps for two years and graduated with a literary bachelor's degree in circus arts. She then continued her studies at the National Circus School of Montreal where she specialized in German wheel. She completed her studies on June 9, 2019.
During her 4 years in Montreal, Clara had the opportunity to perform during Montreal Complètement Cirque festival, as well as with the Longueil Symphony Orchestra, and at TOHU for the graduates’show of the National Circus School. In Montreal, she also discovered performance art and more generally the contemporary North American scene (Emile Pineault, Dana Michel). She saw in these pieces facets of the human being, dissected, raw, in their simplest aspect; in all their beauty, hardness and humility. Paradoxes and evidences that stroke and contaminated her.
Our show
SYNOPSIS
LA MORT D’UN CERF-VOLANT – Death of a kite – is a circus piece that evolves around a German wheel: two women who transit a cyclical experience, both repetitive and erratic at the same time. She goes mad, the other listens. She fights, the other protects. Their bodies speak for what their words lack. They grieve. Someone disappears, childhood is left behind; convictions are questioned, battles are lost. Abandonment.
They live these cycles together, from opposite places so as to share the weight. If she falls, the other takes the load; sometimes a few shakes are enough to recover and stand again. Alternating oppositions, they find themselves in a game. And they play, to forget a little, or rather to keep some sort of sanity; to keep each other awake, wide eyes, even when what is there to see is unbearable. Sometimes the disc gets scratched and so they repeat the game, obstinately.
An experience of humans, simple and complex, full of paradoxes: sad things that make you laugh; funny things that make you cry. In short, a reality that they transit and accept, together.
Note of intention
There are two of them, maybe three; they were more before, that's for sure. There's grief in the air, what for again? It goes in circles, cycles: each similar, each distinct. The same thing, but not exactly. They play obstinately. What do we believe in again? If she gives up, it is my turn. If she falls asleep, it's my turn to wake her up. I'm here for you. "He's dead!!!!!" It's funny... Come on, stop messing around now. Give me a little break. We keep playing. Again, again. The death of the kite. The childhood with it. Well... We'll see about that. Hand in hand. Thank you for being here.
