VIVIAN FRIEDRICH / NAU CHURUDUU

This circus movement composition features four performers surrounded by a landscape of glass objects. Sklenka Melta centres around the practices of movement and glass-blowing, playing with balance and exploring the contrasts between the rigid and the fluid, control and letting go, perfectionism and error. In the words of its creator, “I think contrasts need to be allowed to coexist in order to create diversity in that which is human, that which is collective and our surrounding environment.”   

As well as a creative artist, Vivian Friedrich is also a researcher and performative circus artist. In 2022, she premièred Kristall Bohème at the Mercat, a piece dedicated to her family heritage of glass-blowing. Trained in circus arts and movement languages in a number of European countries, as well as creating her own projects she is also a circus theorist, playwright and artistic facilitator. The Nau Churuduu, a space devoted to promoting circus as a movement language, is currently focused on specific investigations using glass.

Concept, stage composition, direction Vivian Friedrich / Creation, performance Clara Cortés, Sonia Prado, Agus Margarit Solé, Jorge Castro / Creation of glass objects Ula Goldasz, Ferran Collado, Vivian Friedrich / Sound space, musical composition Maider Lasa Santamaría, Carlos Parra / External eye and dramaturgical reflections Elena Zanzu / External eye and artistic complicity Sara Serrano / Lights design Conchita Pons / Research collaborations L.E.C. La Central del Circ: Aitzol Iraola, Candela Casas, Elisa Strabioli, Esteban Trindade, Gabriela Olivera, Ludmila Ayelen Gutiérrez, Luis Valle, Maragda Induráin Solé / Space creation Nau Churuduu / Executive production Mara Maso
Co-production Mercat de les Flors / With the support Wroclawski Instytut Kultury – Mobility Fund, Becas BCN Crea, Becas Recerca OSIC, Cirqueon, Convent de les Arts, Roca Umbert Fàbrica de les Arts