Here Begins the Story
Four people, a room, books all over.
Movement, music and acrobatics become words to share stories.
A pair of acrobats and two musicians, the smell of paper and ink, pages saved from the war that find new life each time someone goes through their lines.
For the audience, images, emotions, acrobatics, music and poetry. For the artists on stage, the will to create a bridge between circus and the life of the spectators through an object which is present in most of the people’s life.
What does a book smell like?
What are you not allowed to do with a book?
During the performance the characters experience the books with all their senses and they make the words come alive.
A trombone, a viola, a loop machine and the books themselves, are the instruments that accompany the movements and the story.
Spectacle accueilli en Résidence à l'Espace Catastrophe - Bruxelles. April 2010
The Company
Celso y Frana is a Circus company with base in Stockholm. Its components, Celso Pereira and Francesca Lissia, met in the Circus School Carampa (Madrid) in 2004.
There they started practicing pair acrobatics, following the desire to deepen the technical and artistic potential of this discipline, they decided to continue studying Contemporary Circus at the University of Dance of Stockholm (Danshögskolan).
The common artistic view that they developed during the lasts three years, finds a concrete form in their performances.
Oslo, Madrid, Copenhagen, Turin, Stockholm are some of the towns were they have already performed.
Next projects will bring them to Namur (Belgium), Sfax (Tunisia), Chalon (France), Helsinki (Finland)...
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Francesca Lissia
Born in Sardinia, one of the most beautiful islands of the Mediterranean Sea, Francesca loves the summer, and climbing threes.
Graduated in Biology and high level pole vault jumper, she turned her live upside-down in 2004 and move to Madrid to start doing circus.
She loves to share, and circus has been the tool that let her share thoughts, enthusiasm, creativity, energy…
Like a tropical frog
Colourful, funny and tireless.
Celso Pereira Arizaga
Celso Pereira is rooted in Galicia, where he was born in 1981.
After graduating in the University of sport and physical activity Sciences he leaves his land to spread his branches in Europe to become a circus artist.
Both in life and in the circus he is base!
Stable, reliable, calm and strong.
As an ancient oak.
Patient, delicate and silent.
As the spring rain.
Calendar
2010
- January: Show "La lucha libre vuelve al Price", Circo Teatro Price, Madrid, Spain.
- February: Residence to create the show CAPAS with the Company EIA at Carampa circus school. Madrid, Spain.
- March 6th: Cabaret in Carampa (circus school in Madrid). First work-in-progress of the project "Capas"
- March 18th-22nd: CARD (Circus research workshop). Danshögskolan (university of dance). Stockholm. Sweden.
- April 3rd-4th: Ieper Festival. Belgium.
- April 5th-11th. Residence in L'Espace Catastrophe in Brussels to refresh the show "Here begins the story" for next tour.
- May 1st: Rotterdam. Holand
- May 6th-7th: Cabaret in Brussels. Belgium
- May 12th-16th: Festival Trapezi. Catalunya. Spain
- May 22nd-24th: Festival in Delmod. Germany
- May 30th: Festival Visuel. Brussels. Belgium
- June 25th-27th: Soteville de la Ruen. France
- July 17th 18th: La Bisbal. Girona. Spain (to confirm)
- August 21st 22nd: Chassepierre. Belgium (to confirm)
- September 3rd-5th: Cognac. France
- September 24th-26th: Genève. Switzerland
Contact us
- Sweden: 0046-(0) 700 538 591
- Spain: 0034-622 401 036
- Italy: 0039-346 867 9150
- Belgium: 0032-488 367 846
Celso y Frana
Storskiftesvägen 151
Norsborg 14560
Sweden
For booking us to Belgium, Holand or France please contact HH Producties
Kromme Leimuidenstraat 2
1059 EM Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Telephone: 020 4082504
Fax: 020 4083650
E-mail:info@hhproducties.nl