Category: WORK-IN-PROGRESS
Carlos Landaeta Meneses (2026 Finalist) at L’Espace Périphérique, Paris
From 11 to 20 May, circusnext welcomes Carlos Landaeta Meneses at L’Espace Périphérique (Paris) for a 10-day residency. Join us on 18 May at 17:00 to discover Blood Flow Reading Club during a work-in-progress presentation.
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Carlos Landaeta Meneses (Belgium) · Blood Flow Reading Club · Chinese Pole
Books are scattered around a person with numb limbs, all available to be read. Confronted with this injured body, the audience is invited to interact with these committed texts: step onto the stage, pick up a book, read it aloud. A body will be there to hold the microphone — just for you. Blood Flow Reading Club offers this unique experience, letting the voices of those who have written in support of marginalised communities be carried through you. By probing the limits of the body, the performance encourages spectators to confront acts of violence and the voices that have been silenced. Here, it is the subaltern who will be heard.
Based in Brussels, Carlos Landaeta Meneses was born in Caracas, Venezuela — a beautiful, yet violent place that taught him/her many lessons. A place where compassion and empathy are not just daily practices, but vital necessities.
Carlos is always eager to learn new things: dance, languages, clowning, martial arts, and anything else that might prove useful, or useless.
In France, he/she trained at the Centre régional des arts du cirque de Chambéry, before earning a circus degree in Brussels and working with various circus companies. Today, Carlos focuses on circus pedagogy, artistic research laboratories, and leading workshops exploring decoloniality and power dynamics.
Carlos loves colours between burgundy and magenta. And most of the time, he/she is wary of people who claim that “everything is always fine.”
PRATICAL INFORMATION
Work-in-progress presentation – Monday 18 May at 5pm
L’Espace Périphérique – 2 rue de la Clôture, 75019 Paris
Registration : reservation@circusnext.eu
T.O.A (2026 Finalists) at L’Espace Périphérique, Paris
From 13 to 22 April, circusnext welcomes T.O.A at L’Espace Périphérique (Paris) for a 10-day residency. Join us on 20 April at 17:00 to discover Corvus Obscura during a work-in-progress presentation.
T.O.A · Petra Najman, Ivan Svaguša (Croatia) · Corvus Obscura · Static trapeze
Corvus Obscura is a contemporary circus research exploring the space in between, spatial planes and perspective. It weaves together physical movement, trapeze, spatial-sequential live drawing, mat manipulation, Butoh, and experimental music.
The research is rooted in the idea of metaphysical harmony and the path that precedes it. It investigates the relationship between darkness and light, height and ground, disharmony and harmony, the micro and the macro, the visible and the inner world.
The intention is to distil the stage into a minimal and clear performance space, and to bring it to life through the spatial projection of drawings, achromatically rendered in real time onto dark surfaces, offering a new perspective on what is seen, through imagined phantasmagoric scenes.
Temple O.A. is made up of two creators: Petra Najman & Ivan Svaguša. Petra is a performing and trapeze artist trained in France and Italy, working in contemporary circus, physical theatre, and Butoh. She is the author of the play My Death and Me.
Ivan is an interdisciplinary artist and educator, primarily an academic painter, whose practice spans painting, illustration, street art, comics, animation, music, and performance. His work merges visual, sound, and performing arts into a unified whole.
Together, they created the interdisciplinary play Crow Without a Nest, which includes a picture book and exhibition, set to premiere in 2025. From this work, the new project Corvus Obscura has emerged, and is currently in development. They experiment with direction, choreography, dramaturgy, visual design, and sound.
PRATICAL INFORMATION
Work-in-progress presentation – Monday 20 April at 5pm
L’Espace Périphérique – 2 rue de la Clôture, 75019 Paris
Registration : reservation@circusnext.eu
The circus event by L’Espace Périphérique & circusnext
L’Espace Périphérique and circusnext are taking part in the 7th edition of La Nuit du Cirque with an event dedicated to juggling. Between performances and a workshop, step behind the scenes of creation with Idriss Roca from La Mob à Sisyphe and David Martin on 14 and 15 November 2025. .
Friday 14 November
Work-in-progress presentations followed by discussions with the artists
17:00:Rising Ape· La Mob à Sisyphe (Idriss Roca) | Juggling solo · 30–40 minutes · Dance Studio
18:00:Metaphoric Objects · David Martin | Juggling trio · 30–40 minutes · Big Top
And to continue at 20:00: Le Pas du Monde · Collectif XY | La Villette · Espace Chapiteaux
Saturday 15 November
Workshop, work-in-progress showings and discussions with the artists
11:00 – 13:00: Juggling workshop with Idriss Rocca (Handling survival blankets) with Idriss Roca | Adult audience, all levels · Cirque ici Room
15:00: Rising Ape · La Mob à Sisyphe (Idriss Roca) | Juggling solo · 30–40 minutes · Dance Studio
16:00: Metaphoric Objects · David Martin | Juggling trio · 30–40 minutes · Big Top
And to continue at at 18:00: Le Pas du Monde · Collectif XY · La Villette · Espace Chapiteaux
Rising Ape · Cie La Mob à Sisyphe (Idriss Roca)
Juggling solo · From 8 years old
A radio blasts a Sleaford Mods song, a desk smokes, notebooks pile up; he moves so fast he becomes a blur. He just keeps accelerating. Accelerating through life like a rocket through emptiness—finding every engineer’s trick to reduce friction, in a circus of absurd, joyful, and sinister productivity. He is us, and we are him!
Creation and performance: Idriss Roca
Light design and stage management: Charlotte Eugoné
Construction: Léo Rousselet
Partners: Espace Périphérique – Ville de Paris / La Villette, CIRCA – Pôle Cirque Occitanie Auch, ECL – École de Cirque de Lyon, La Maison des Jonglages – Scène Conventionnée Bondy, La Grainerie – Balma, Centre Culturel les Mazades – Toulouse
Metaphoric Objects (working title) · David Martin
Juggling trio · From 8 years old
A sparkling collection of artistic experiments led by a jack-of-all-trades juggler and his companions in search of a poetic language. From one whimsical idea to the next, the three troublemakers manipulate objects to create striking visuals and moments of humour, whisking us away from the traditional paths of circus with disarming inventiveness.
Creation and performance: David Martin
Performance and stage management: Mirco Morreale, Simon Malmsten alternating with Maxime Martin
Outside eye: Benjamin Richter
Coproductions and supports: Subtopia – Nosborg (SE), Cirko – Helsinki (FI), La Brèche – PNC Cherbourg-en-Contentin (FR), Circuscentrum – Gent (BE), circusnext 2025 Laureate – co-funded by the European Union
Practical information
November 14 & 15 2025
L’Espace Périphérique · 2 Rue de la Clôture, 75019 Paris
From 8 years old
Registration for the juggling workshop at s.cadenat@villette.com
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