The mythology, traditions and rituals of America are brought to physical theatre and contemporary circus in this Chilean-Catalan co-production.
A funeral is transformed into a pagan festival, a coffin becomes a portal through which the voices of Atahualpa and Jemanya blow, the rites of yawar and animitas are drawn in a rustic opera that is presented as a mirage to the audience. Physical theatre and contemporary circus come together to bring to life a series of dreamlike passages using object manipulation, the creation of poetic images and live music as fundamental elements of the theatrical language.
A Latin America under construction is presented in Fuego Rojo, a street circus-theatre production created jointly by the Chilean company La Patogallina and the Catalan company Cíclicus. This work, which premiered at Santiago a Mil 2021, is based on the trilogy Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire) by Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano, which creates tension between memory and the present. It is a work that raises questions such as: How much of our past have we lost? How much of it lives with us today? Is it possible to reconnect with that memory?
