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“Gay” circus premiers in Barcelona
By Tony Grew (pinknews.co.uk, 20/6/2008)
Circus performance is the latest art form to be given a gay treatment with the creation of a "new notion of circus based on male and female acrobatics and oriented to a gay and lesbian friendly audience."
Promoters describe the event, which has taken two years to prepare, as "a show for people without prejudices."
The Gay Circus will premiere in Barcelona on July 25th, during the EuroGames.
"For the first time in the world, a circus created for lovers of high-quality shows and of a culture for the emotional and sexual diversity, a contribution to the normalisation of homosexuality," said promoter Irene Peralta.
"Currently, we can find references to Gay Games, ballet performances, theatre, literature and cinema with a homosexual oriented thematic.
"However, there’s no previous circus conceived from a gay angle and which aims at a wider audience in favour of a greater visibility of homosexuality.
"Gay Circus will transform the traditional understanding of the circus."
The circus will perform nine two-hour shows in a big top that can hold 1,300 spectators.
The promoters claimed that "expressiveness, sensuality and poetry will fuse … achieving an up-to-date, modern and attractive aesthetic.
"Gay Circus flows like a dialogue between angels and devils, the eternal dispute between good and evil set now on a ring, with numerous references to literature, painting, dance, sculpture, photography, and cinema."
“Gay” circus premiers in Barcelona
By Tony Grew (pinknews.co.uk, 20/6/2008)
Circus performance is the latest art form to be given a gay treatment with the creation of a "new notion of circus based on male and female acrobatics and oriented to a gay and lesbian friendly audience."
Promoters describe the event, which has taken two years to prepare, as "a show for people without prejudices."
The Gay Circus will premiere in Barcelona on July 25th, during the EuroGames.
"For the first time in the world, a circus created for lovers of high-quality shows and of a culture for the emotional and sexual diversity, a contribution to the normalisation of homosexuality," said promoter Irene Peralta.
"Currently, we can find references to Gay Games, ballet performances, theatre, literature and cinema with a homosexual oriented thematic.
"However, there’s no previous circus conceived from a gay angle and which aims at a wider audience in favour of a greater visibility of homosexuality.
"Gay Circus will transform the traditional understanding of the circus."
The circus will perform nine two-hour shows in a big top that can hold 1,300 spectators.
The promoters claimed that "expressiveness, sensuality and poetry will fuse … achieving an up-to-date, modern and attractive aesthetic.
"Gay Circus flows like a dialogue between angels and devils, the eternal dispute between good and evil set now on a ring, with numerous references to literature, painting, dance, sculpture, photography, and cinema."
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agmagazine, 16/7/2008
En Barcelona, del 25 al 28 de julio levanta su carpa "Gay Circus", el primer circo gay del que se tenga registro • Se trata de un espectáculo multicultural de acrobacias dedicado a mil espectadores por función.
Por vez primera en el mundo se presenta un circo creado para los amantes de los espectáculos de calidad y la cultura de la diversidad afectiva y sexual, una aportación a la normalización del hecho homosexual. Actualmente hay referentes de Juegos Olímpicos gays u obras de ballet, teatro, literatura o cine de temática gay, lesbiana, bisexual y transexual, pero aún no existía un espectáculo circense que, concebido desde un prisma gay, se dirigiera a todo tipo de público en pro de una mayor visibilidad del sentimiento homosexual, durante tantos siglos perseguido.
El espectáculo Gay Circus discurre como un diálogo entre ángeles y diablos, el eterno conflicto entre el Bien y el Mal ubicado esta vez sobre una pista, con numerosas referencias a la literatura, la pintura, la danza, la escultura, la fotografía y el cine.
Instalada en el céntrico Moll de la Barceloneta, la gran carpa Gay Circus, de concepción innovadora y gran belleza decorativa, ofrece cabida para más de 1.000 espectadores en cada representación.
Gay Circus supone un espectáculo de calidad que se enmarca dentro de la programación de los Euro Games 2008, el mayor evento deportivo homosexual del mundo que se celebrará el próximo verano en Barcelona, ciudad que se ha convertido en uno de los más importantes referentes culturales y lúdicos gay a nivel mundial.
Más info en www.gaycircus.net