Artistic Platform

Cia Umpor1 identifies itself as an artistic platform of INAC - National Institute of Circus Arts. The Platform has its work foundations in contemporary circus and the intersection with other forms of art. Within these axes, it is constantly searching for different approaches to techniques, the intersection with other artistic languages, physical and authorial dexterity. In 2015, his first creation “Pontos de Açúcar” debuted and in 2016 he debuted “Resiliência - Parts 3 and 4 go well together”, both in Co-Production with the Vaudeville Rendez-Vous Festival, in 2017 he debuted Balanceiro. “Plaina” 2018 both in Co-production with... 2020-2021 Memória with support from... and Co-production and "Variations"  Co-production: Imaginaríus – International Street Theater Festival Support: Portuguese Republic – Culture / General Directorate of Arts

SHOWS 

MEMORIA 

Here is the promotional video for the latest creation from INAC Instituto Nacional de Artes do Circo. Memória 2021 is a contemporary circus project, which aims to study what makes us human: the ability to imagine and create realities that transform and shape each person's experiences. It's a brief exploration of the strange nature of our consciousness. The aim is to expose the complexity of the brain and its "disorders" to the "naked eye" in a natural way, to demystify them, approaching them through contemporary circus. Learning to control impulses, emotions and everything that comes from the imaginary world of each human being is not an easy task, but it is a struggle that is fought daily. Is it possible to learn to take advantage of human "disorders"? Who knows, maybe each person's "little" inconvenience could be a superpower? Ficha artística e técnica Cocriação e interpretação: Mau Jara e Bruno Carvalho Machado.



VARIAÇÕES
DO ESPECTÁCULO VARIAÇÕES FOI DIRIGIDO POR Bruno Machado e Juliana Moura



In 2023, INAC wins Sustained Support - Disciplinary Crossing, Circus and Street Arts where, among other projects, it launches two creations “Livre” with its debut at Casa das Artes in Vila Nova de Famalicão and “Ponto de Partida” with its debut at the Imaginarius Festival in Santa Maria da Feira.

Livre
FREE Satisfaction like an exotic species on the verge of extinction. In a constant search as a way to eliminate any void that may remain. A contemporary circus creation that refers to the ambiguous nature of human choices. A state that starts from the experience of an acrobat among the things that could have been, but were not. A portrait of contemporary technology that increasingly invades us, side by side with the distancing of the most essential issues. An escape from the mass production of reasonable explanations. The Chinese pole, acrobatics and direct manipulation of the scenery are the predominant techniques in this solo proposal.

​​​​​​​O INAC é uma estrutura financiada pela Direção das Artes FICHA ARTÍSTICA / TÉCNICA Género CIRCO CONTEMPORÂNEO, Classificação etária PUBLICO GERAL M3 Direção artística JORGE LIX, Intérprete CALLUM DONALD. Direção técnica ANDRE FREITAS, Designer de luz LUIS CARVALHO, Cenografia e adereços ANDRÉ SANTOS, Musica original ANDRÉ BORGES, JORGE LIX Uma estrutura financiada pela REPÚBLICA PORTUGUESA / DGARTES CO-PRODUÇÃO CASA DAS ARTES DE VILA NOVA DE FAMALICÃO COMPANHIA ERVA DANINHA A CONTRA-REGRA ASSOCIAÇÃO CULTURAL / TEATRO DO MAR PWO PORTUGAL WOLF ORIGINAL LDA



Ponto de Partida
SYNOPSIS - Look Mom! Heaven is Kandinsky! (exclaims the girl while walking in the park with her parents) To what extent does contemplating art affect us? Ponto de Partida - Travessia is a contemporary circus artistic research project on the theme and technique of funambulism that has as its primary source of inspiration the work and life of the artist Wassily Kandinsky and an artistic provocation that is provided by contemplation . The wire tears the sky and delimits two parallel “worlds”. It is inevitable not to notice, almost impossible not to look at the sky and contemplate the creative writing developed by the funambulist on the wire. A walk in the form of meditation in search of meanings, colors and shapes for this new parallel reality that has formed. Through bold and multidisciplinary research, the aim is to compose a walking plastic work on the wire during the funambulist's journey. Kandinsky's quest to relate art to spirituality will also be present in this research. Concepts developed and worked on by Kandinsky such as dot, dash and line will be the basis for research and composition of movement and interpretation.

FICHA TÉCNICA Direção artística: Juliana Moura e Bruno Machado Intérprete Criadora: Jessica Lane Sonoplastia: André Borges Luz: Luís Filipe Machado Produção: Fernanda Moura Apoio Técnico de Funambulismo: Vincent Wauters, Centre Européen de Funambulisme Técnicos de Rigging: André Freitas e Hugo Zanardi Master Rigging: Bruno Frenette Coprodução: Festival Imaginarius, CUPULA Circus Village Festival, Dinamico Festival, Festival Sul Filo del Circo, Festival Eutópia Óbidos

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