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MARIA DE BUENOS AIRES
by Circa
Under the direction of Yaron Lifschitz and in collaboration with Opéra de Lyon, 11 Circa acrobats, two dancers, two soloists, tango musicians and a string orchestra reimagine the opera Maria de Buenos Aires in a fiery ode to the fatal beauty of tango and its hometown.
Created in 1968 by the undisputed master of tango and bandoneon, Astor Piazzolla, Maria de Buenos Aires is a unique opera-tango that follows the story of Maria, a singer who, after a tragic end in a brothel, becomes a shadow condemned to drift in the lowlands of Buenos Aires. It is a story of curse and redemption, wandering and liberation, brave defiance to death and a hymn to love.
Circa’s adaptation explores the friction between the harshness of the world and the human soul’s thirst for the absolute in this “dream of tango and the tango of a dream.”
PERFORMED AT
15 - 23 January 2022
Lyon
Lyon Opera
Performances 6
Audience 6,397
HUMANS 2.0
A symphony of acrobatics, sound and light, this is next level circus by Circa.
Ten bodies appear in a flash of light. They move in harmony for a fleeting moment and then descend into a sinuous trance. Towers grow and decay, bodies leap and are caught, as physical limits are pushed to their extreme. Can we ever find a perfect balance or is adapting to constant change the only way forward?
This next chapter of Circa’s internationally acclaimed Humans is a tightly woven choreography of bodies, pulsing with music by composer Ori Lichtik and revealed in Paul Jackson’s dramatic lighting. Created by circus visionary Yaron Lifschitz, Humans 2.0 is intimate, primal and deeply engaged with the challenge of being human.
Commissioned by The Mondavi Center, UC Davis.
PERFORMED AT
28 January 2022
Davis, USA
Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts
17 February 2022
Fairfield, USA
Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield University
11 - 12 March 2022
Philadelphia, USA
Annenberg Center, Penn Live Arts
22 - 23 April 2022
Gothenburg, Sweden
Stora Teatern
17 May 2022
Villejuif, France
Théâtre Romain Rolland
5 - 27 August 2022
Edinburgh, Scotland
Underbelly’s Circus Hub, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Performances 28
Audience 15,210
