This show will take place in the interior of the island. You will not be able to access the space once there is
Spectacle-installation, which revolves around ingenuity from an artistic and artisanal point of view. On stage, a gigantic arch of very heavy boxes is built using the economy of effort and movement as a premise, and uses an ancestral technology, but full of validity: the lever, the treadmill, the wheel...
_Maña _is the transmission of knowledge from a grandfather to a clean one that promotes a mutation from artisan to artist, through the gaze of Manolo Alcántara, a circus artist who likes to choreograph any everyday action with a circus look, determined to enlarge the borders of contemporary circus.
The setting of a scenography becomes the same show in Maña, a choreographed montage where craftsmanship, a mixture of knowledge and intuition, plays an essential role and becomes the main protagonist, while fleeing from materials and intelligent tools.
Artistic sheet
_ _**Idea and direction: ** Manolo Alcántara
**Performers: ** Manolo Alcántara, Joan Trilla/Adriano Carvalho
**Costume: ** Rosa Solé
**Management and production: ** Clàudia Saez
**Production: ** Cia. Manolo Alcantara
**Distribution: ** AlaList
**Supported by: ** ICEC
_ _The career of the Spaniard Manolo Alcántara is full of collaborations in shows such as Arran, by Circ Cric (1998); Utopista, by Monti & Cia. (1999); A Banda, Winter Circus of the Ateneu Popular 9 Barris (2000); Tranuites (TNC, 2007) and Wasteland (Mercat de les Flors, Festival Grec, 2013), both created and directed by Lluís Dánes; The landscape collector (CaixaForum, 2008, directed by Xavier Erra), or La luz d'un país (Gran Teatre del Liceu, 2024, directed by Sergi Corbera), among others.
From its first stage, the shows Genuinos Imperfectos, Locomotivo and Plecs stand out, where the mutation from a demonstrative and graphic circus to a more conceptual and suggestive circus is evident.
In 2014 he created the Manolo Alcántara Company which, until now, has seen the birth of Rudo (2014), Déjà vu (2019) and Aragonesa (2022).
All the creations of the CIA. Manolo Alcántara starts from an inner search of the artist: fears, successes, anxieties and delusions. In the three shows mentioned, Alcántara mimics herself with her loved ones, and creates an emotional trilogy about her father, mother and son. Maña deals with the transmission of knowledge from a grandfather to a clean one that promotes a mutation from artisan to artist, through the gaze of Manolo Alcántara.