Circus Arts | Installation | object theatre | physical theatre | spectacle
Cía. Manolo Alcántara
- Tour dates:
27.4. Peralta ES 12.5. Benicarló ES 18. + 19.05. Detmold DE festival BILDSTÖRUNG 25.5. Leeuwarden NL Fries Straattheaterfestival 31.5. Binefar ES Festival Imaginaria 1.6. Montgat ES Festival Curtcirkit 24.6. Sant Joan Despí ES 7.7. Ourém PT 10.-13.7. Chalon-sur-Saône FR Chalon dans la Rue 20.+21.7. Kaiserslautern DE Alles muss raus 23.7. Dülmen DE Dülmener Sommer - Genre:
Circus Arts | Installation | object theatre | physical theatre | spectacle - Web: https://www.ciamanoloalcantara.com/espectaculos/mana/
ES
MAÑA
where Craftsmanship becomes Art
Awards 2022:
TAC Valladolid: Most innovative performance
ARCA Festival Aguilar de Campoo Susanna Herreras Award: Best Performance
MAÑA is artisan circus, between knowledge and intuition and shows how two craftsmen create a huge arch from a large number of heavy crates - using only their hands and a few tools such as levers, pulleys and wheels. The methods have been handed down for centuries - and the craftsmen - or are they artists? - want to bring this valuable knowledge to life, which in a few centuries has changed from craft to artisanry and now to art. As if a grandfather is passing on his traditions to his grandchildren. Skill, ingenuity and the use of ancient technology are the keys!
The transformation from craft to art preserves the knowledge handed down from our grandparents' generations, as if the artist had learnt this knowledge from his grandfather and was now passing it on to his grandson.
Manolo Alcántara is a self-taught circus artist, collaborating many years with several artists, companies and productions. With his company Cia Manolo Alcántara (founded in 2014), he has created three performances to date: Rudo (2014), Déjà vu (2019) and Maña (2022). The three pieces can also be summarised as a trilogy, as the artist himself says: "All creations are based on an inner search, about my fears, successes and visions. The content of Rudo, Déjà Vu and Maña also always has to do with my parents, my family and my son. It is a choice that expresses the past and the present and hopefully points to the future."
Manolo Alcantara was awarded the Premio Nacional by the Spanish Ministry of Culture in 2021.
Author, creation + direction
Manolo Alcántara
Performers
Manolo Alcántara
Joan Trilla
Stage design
Manolo Alcántara
Set construction
Joan Trilla
Manolo Alcántara
Costume design + creation
Rosa Solé
Musical arrengements
Joan Trilla
Sound design
Oriol Planas
Management + production
Clàudia Saez
Distribution
Portal71
AlaPista
Venue
outside
unconventional spaces (industrial halls, foyers etc)
seatings for audience (banks, tribune, chairsetc )
frontal, semicirkular
Playground
14 m x 10 m, minimum height : 7 mFlat, smooth and solid stage surface. A solped surface of up to 3% is
acceptable.
Set up + break down
each ca 3 - 4 hours
Duration
ca 1 hour
Audience
> 9 years on
ca 400 (depending on seating + space)
Production
Cia. Manolo Alcántara
Production support
La Destil·leria
With the support of
ICEC-Generalitat de Catalunya
IRL
INAEM
With the collaboration of
Kaldearte
La Colònia Vidal
Can Bach.