It will be a debut in the Algarve, with two shows that defy gravity. The spectacular nature of the new circus will leave Portimão in suspense, on the 20th and 21st of September, with the help of the Rhizome company.
This is another initiative that forms part of the artistic programme celebrating the centenary of Portimão, prepared by Lavrar o Mar, organised by Portimão Council.
In statements to the Sul Informação, Giacomo Scalisi, one of the programmers, explained how this will be «the first time» that the French company has come to the Algarve, after having already been «to Serralves [Porto] in the past».
“These are two different shows, but they have the same theme: suspension and gravity,” he added.
Thus, on both days, the late afternoon in the riverside area of Portimão (19:00 pm) will be marked by the solo show “Horizon”, during which Chloé suspends herself and everything around her to provoke a new perspective, leaving only her body, a metal structure, the air and gravity.
In “La Spire”, some women will inhabit an immense spiral, forming three successive loops with a diameter of seven meters and a length of 18 meters, where they invent games and connections.
To be presented on the evenings of 20th and 21st September, from 21:30 pm, this show was imagined as a drawing drawn in space and will fill with amazement and admiration those who go to Praça 1º de Maio, in front of the Portimão Town Hall building.
“La Spire” was born from Chloé’s desire to implement suspension in the setting of a sky shared by everyone and imagined by the circus artist as a sculptural structure, at once light and monumental, in which the trapeze artists Mathilde Van Volsem, Fanny Austry, Mélusine Lavinet-Drouet, Anna Le Bozec, Océane Pelpel, Noëmie Bouissou and Hanna de Vletter will evolve.
These shows also mark the beginning of the most intense period of cultural programming for Portimão's centenary. Until December, according to Giacomo Scalisi, there will be "shows practically every other week".
Among the planned shows are the revival, with a new look, of the show “Presente de César”, which was already at Lavrar o Mar, and which talks about cod fishing, or a creation by Madalena Victorino, called “Rumor” which will take place between the countryside and the city.
Added to this is the dance show “Miquelina and Miguel”, by choreographer Miguel Pereira, in October.
And the truth is that, so far, all the shows are “going very well”.
“We have managed to expand our audience even further: the people who already attended our Lavrar o Mar initiatives continue to come to us now in Portimão and we have new ones. So, we can only say that it is going very well”, concluded Giacomo Scalisi.
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