Tribute to the Price Matinees, circus vs rock. TWIST by Studio Animal
06/08/2023.
[MAD] Spain
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
TWIST by Studio Animal. Photograph by José Hevia.
TWIST by Studio Animal. Photograph by Marcos G. Punto.
Project description by Studio Animal
Twist is a show that celebrates the meeting of two artistic disciplines: circus and rock. It is a tribute to Price's morning shows, where the first rockers of our country sang and danced on Sunday mornings while the circus performers prepared the afternoon show. This exotic duality is the starting point of the project: two colors, red and blue, linked to both disciplines, which together generate an interesting visual vibration. Just these two colors. No other.
The Circo Price Theater is a circular space with a central ring so that the scenography works in 360º. There is no single frame to look at, and the seats are incorporated into the field of vision as a background at all times. For this reason, we decided to intervene in the entire theater: arena, bleachers, stage, and ceiling. The space is delimited in height with a red velvet chapitô, and all the surfaces of the bleachers, which already have red seats, are covered; walls, but also stairs and floor are carpeted. The actors are also part of the scenographic proposal, and in the same way, it is proposed that they wear and are made up exclusively in red (circus) and blue (rock). They suddenly appear and disappear on the two-color background.
TWIST by Studio Animal. Photograph by Marcos G. Punto.
The show starts in red. A perimeter ambient lighting based on red cyclorama lamps stains everything, spectators included, forming a radical and surreal red atmosphere where the vision is accommodated, and little by little, throughout the show and through various performative tricks, blue appears in the space.