Semillero de circo contemporáneo un mágico camino hacia Vitorino Figari o el vuelo de la Jirafa

Abstract

This research presents the work carried out by the Contemporary Circus Seedbed of the Faculty of Arts - ASAB in artistic and pedagogical processes that involved circus artists from the city of Bogotá with students from the Francisco José de Caldas District University in training, conversations, and creative processes around the New Circus from 2014 to 2022. Some of these processes were supported by institutions such as SDRD, the ASAB Faculty of Arts, and the Performing Arts Curricular Project, giving significant importance to circus practices. Finally, I will highlight a project within our trajectory as an Investigative Seedbed in which we collaborated with the company La Ventana Producciones Artísticas. Together, we developed an exciting creative process of Contemporary Circus titled "Vitorino Figari or the Flight of the Giraffe." In this play, we had the participation of professional artists in dramaturgy, dance, theater, and circus, which allowed us to put into practice our extensive acting and circus experience. In this writing, I bring together my training in acting techniques acquired as a student of the Faculty of Arts - ASAB, and my circus knowledge in techniques such as Hand Balancing, Cyr Wheel, Acrobatic Dance, and Acrobatic Duo, practiced at the Gymnastics League of Bogotá and at the Adrenalina School of LaGataCirko. This project synthesizes the path we have taken within the Seedbed, making evident the importance of circus art in Colombia. An art that exports Colombian artists of the highest acrobatic quality abroad every year, changing lives and drawing dreams.