The Franco-Catalan contemporary circus company Daraomaï was founded in 2007 by Agnès Fustagueras I Puig and Martí Soler Gimbernat. With one foot in France, in Carcassonne—where the company is based—and the other in Catalonia, the founders' native region, Daraomaï offers a hybrid form of circus that embraces other disciplines. The founders met at the renowned Fratellini Academy of Circus Arts in Paris, and after completing their training, they embarked on their creative adventure with the piece 1,2,3 Pomme, which has been performed over 120 times.
Through acrobatics, Chinese pole, and dance, Daraomaï develops a unique language that serves contemporary circus writing, driven by the desire to use acrobatics as a narrative expression without losing its spectacularity. In 2012, with L’Instant K, the company changes its morphology but not its poetic essence: Agnès remains at the helm, but David Soubies, an acrobat and musical composer, joins her, while Martí moves to Catalonia to found Daraomaï-Zuid. Agnès and David then become the protagonists of subsequent performances: Cirque portatif and TiraVol, the latter created in two versions, for theaters and open-air spaces.
Expected in Rovereto at Piazza Malfatti and Piazzale Caduti sul Lavoro, TiraVol presents itself as a culmination of the group’s specificity: the blending of virtuosic Chinese pole techniques and danced acrobatics. Thanks to a structure of tubes that define a large triangular prism, TiraVol transports audiences into a suspended universe enveloped by a musical score for percussion and tuba composed by David Soubies. Suspended in a maze of iron, the two acrobats soar, twist, remain suspended, and turn upside down. Their journey is one of initiation toward relationship, understanding differences, and finding similarities. TiraVol is, therefore, the story of a meeting, of a journey undertaken together.
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