Curioso! Capuchini Circo [ES/AR]
Circus / Clown
3+ | 30′
May 22nd | 06:15 PM | 09:45 PM
May 23rd | 11:45 PM
Praça Dr. Gaspar Moreira
May 23rd | 04:45 PM
Rossio
May 23rd | 08:15
Rua dos Descobrimentos
Portuguese premiere
MAIS IMAGINARIUS
Curioso! is born from a question that never quite resolves itself, what does it take for a clown to exist. The answer always remains suspended. He is a juggler and he is not, a musician and he is not, an actor and he is not. Each gesture moves closer to a definition only to undo it again, in a continuous game of attempt, failure and reinvention, fully exposed to the public gaze.
Between technique and improvisation, irony and tenderness, the performance unfolds as a sequence of detours and insistences. Nothing is resolved, everything remains open. Laughter emerges from instability, from assumed risk and from the direct relationship with those who watch. Curiosity is not a light attribute, it is a force that drives the game forward, even when balance seems about to break.
Curioso! turns public space into a territory of shared exposure. The performer searches, persists and draws the audience into this process, dissolving boundaries and creating a collective, unrepeatable moment. Within a festival where common space is a site of tension and encounter, curiosity asserts itself here as a gesture of resistance, continuing to search when everything demands definition.
Creation and performance
Mauricio Neira

