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Compañia De Paso:
Un horizonte cuadrado
Compañia de Paso is the result of an encounter between the famous swiss circus director Ueli Hirzel (artistic director of Château de Monthelon) and a group of chilean performers in 2005 in Santiago del Chile.
Un horizonte cuadrado is a play in permanent progress, between contemporary aerial dance and trapeze techniques. It's also the original idea of a fine structure made of 4 mats raising up to the sky. In this "square horizon", 6 characters suspended on 6 trapezes, 8 meters above the ground. Three men and three women going through all the different cycles of life, meetings, struggles, loves and entanglement, accompanied by haunting music played live by three musicians.
It's a research on aerial space, a refined work on movement and humanity above emptiness.
PRESS REVIEWS
Their elegant bodies are light and incredibly agile. Through their choreography, they tell about life, the difficulty to live together, the daily lightness and gravity, hope and despair. They will amaze you with their physical boldness and the joy they show when flying in the air. Without any doubt, Compañia De Paso is one of the highlights of this festival. Märkische AllgemeineThey are six hanging from the same trapeze. But soon each one is alone again, like lonely bats. The group moves in perfect harmony, all together, and yet each one keeps his/her singularity. But individual desires comes after collective action, and the urge for freedom leads to more and more daring acrobatics... Compañia De Paso is brilliantly renewing themes as old as the world, until it disappears in the dark of the ceiling. Tages Anzeiger
The show is like a dream. Beauty of movements and lights, virtuose bodies that never touch the ground. Let yourself go with the flow, it's worth it. An ideal start or end for an evening out. Le Journal de Saône-et-Loire
TECHNICAL INFORMATIONS
- Duration: 70 mn without interval.
- Seat capacity: up to 2000 spectators.
- Suitable for all audiences.
- Can be performed indoors or outdoors.
- Minimum space required: 15 m x 15 m x 10 m height indoors / 25 m x 25 m x 10 m height outdoors.
- Set-up: 2 days.
- Touring team: 11 persons.
With: Hector Calderon, Paz Mena, Javier Varela, Sullyn Gonzalez, Ilan Oxman Kucky, Paula Riquelme
Musicians: Christian Perez, Emmanuel Perez, Juan Pablo Vargas
Composer: Christian Perez
Author and director: Ueli Hirzel
Costumes: Beatriz Zamora
Lighting design: Luis Reinoso
Structure design: Daniel Ott
Chilean production: Macarena Simonetti
International production: Aladin Produktion GmbH
Coproduction: KIT Copenhagen
