- NOV 28 + 29 – Teatro Campo Alegre – TMP – Porto | M/16
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Infinito – Cia Juan Fresina Scotto
Infinito is a contemporary circus creation that explores the concept of infinity through aerial ribbons. Three characters inhabit a space where time is distorted, the cosmos expands, and eternal return inspires movement. Combining circus arts and scientific thought, the work creates a visually striking experience. Suspended bodies become metaphors for the human search for meaning, navigating between knowledge and mystery, between the real and the intangible. — Cia Juan Fresina Scotto
Juan Ernesto Fresina, argentinian artist, combines circus, science and dance, exploring the body in invention. Trained in physical education and circus schools in Europe and Latin America, he specialises in aerial ribbons. He has collaborated with PIA, Mente de Cão and Cerca Trova. In 2024, he founded his own company, creating projects that unite art and science. He is the author of Infinito and co-created Ensaio para a Desordem.
Co-creation, direction, production and performance – Juan Ernesto Fresina
Co-creation and performance – José Cereceda, Pablo Armando Melo
DIAPHANA – Jessica Lane
DIAPHANA is an epiphany. Volatile and unstable. Uncertain and fragile. Translucent and honest like an empty glass bottle. According to physics, balance is a state of rest or unchanging movement of a body. The act of balancing is also a circus technique that consists of maintaining a body on a certain apparatus or object in a state of precarious balance. In DIAPHANA, empty glass bottles from the past become material for a relationship of introspection and euphoria. Being alone in DIAPHANA does not mean the absence of other bodies, but the intense presence of oneself under tension and balance. DIAPHANA is a detour to get here. — Jessica Lane
Jessica Lane is an actress and circus artist specialising in tightrope walking. She graduated from INAC in Portugal and is currently researching the technique of tightrope walking, collaborating with the Centre Européen de Funambulisme in Brussels. She has worked as a performer in several companies, such as Teatro Art’Imagem. She has participated in artistic residencies at the Escola de Circo do Brasil in Rio de Janeiro and the Académie Fratellini in Paris. In 2021, she participated in the CRECE project with the Escuela de Circo Carampa in Madrid. Since 2023, she has been performing as a tightrope walker in the show Ponto de Partida, with performances in Italy, Portugal, Belgium, and Brazil.
Creation and interpretation – Jessica Lane
Musical direction – Nathalie de Rancourt
Stage direction – Claudio Stellato
Choreographic support – Alan Sencades
Lutum – Arrel Guevara
Lutum offers a raw, organic and digital scenic experience, which unfolds before the eyes of the audience, through a circus performer who interacts with umbrellas, balloons, cameras and video projections. Starting from the anus — a penetrable territory vulnerable to sexual violence outside the norms —, the work sets out to touch on discrimination, wounds and fears, but also on luck, alliances and beauty. The audience is invited to contemplate the fragility and metamorphosis of the body, revealing how the concept of death, associated with the idea of illness, maintains an analogous — and anal — relationship with sexuality and gender questioning. — Arrel Guevara
Arrel
started in the circus in 2016 while studying anthropology in Barcelona. After finishing university and the Social Circus Course at Ateneu9Barris, she decided to specialise at the Circus and Theatre School in Granada. She began working in circus training with people of all ages. For years, she has been creating and participating in various shows and performances, and is part of Cata Aguayo’s aerial research laboratory.
Written, directed and performed – Arrel Guevara
External view- Sophie Núñez, Chiara Marquese
Lighting, set design and projections – Sergi Ruiz
Lutum was programmed with the support of Latitud(e)s Catalunya – Portugal 2025, a programme of activities aimed at bringing together artists, festivals, and venues from the circus sector in both territories. It takes as part of Circ Catalan Circus International Rings, the internationalisation initiative coordinated by APCC as part of the Circus Promotion Plan 2023–2026.