During the hardest months of the pandemic, many stage proposals moved to digital format without any adaptation. Watching shows in streaming became normalized, recorded with a fixed camera and without changing anything from the original stage setup.
For us, this makes no sense. Live is live. A show designed for the stage is meant to happen with a present audience, in shared time. If you take it out of that context, the format needs to be rethought.
Based on this premise, and faced with the impossibility of doing an open presentation in Balaguer (the planned residency coincided with the theatre closures due to Covid), we decided to create an adapted audiovisual version of Dame du Cirque. We didn’t want to just record the show. We wanted to translate it into a new format, embracing the language of the camera and editing as part of the piece.
We worked with Octavi Espuga on the direction. The piece was conceived from the start as a visual construction with its own logic. Decisions around camera, space, and rhythm were made thinking about what video can do and the stage cannot.
The result is not a live recording. It’s a standalone piece, made from the stage material but with a specific perspective. And to us, that makes sense.
The digital version of Dame du Cirque is now available, created specifically for video format.
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