International Circus Festival En la Cuerda Floja

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International Circus Festival En la Cuerda Floja is held in Spain and typically runs across several weeks in November, featuring companies in programming that offer a range of performances, some of them charitable. Programming includes a school campaign, round tables, working groups, companies in residence performing previews, training workshops, and a programme of decentralisation to rural areas. Each edition threads its activities, programming, workshops, talks, school campaign and residencies around a central concept exploring the circus body: the circus needs creative, expressive bodies that can transmit their visions of the world, bodies that explore the limits of their own possibilities and that are themselves bearers of ideas, stories and astonishment. The festival reflects on what articulates circus practices and the transgression of national, physical, disciplinary, conceptual and bodily frontiers that circus represents.