Ballad

In a street, square or park, something is being prepared for a waiting audience. A wall, an impenetrable barrier, forms an integral part of the stage backdrop, and plays a much more important role than it first appears.

Like a kind of modern-day cowboy, armed only with cables and a microphone, a man scrutinizes the abyss of addressing a crowd: an individual facing a multitude, a person among a mass and a wall, an artist caught between a rock and a hard place.

An innocent-looking character with dubious intentions will gradually capture our attention, shattering the conventions of the show we thought we were watching as mere passive spectators. A collective adventure in which the audience is led to question the show itself and its own position as spectator.

José Triguero

Jose Triguero graduated with honors from the National Centre for Circus Arts (NCCA) in 2010 and received the Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award for Circus at his graduation. Since then, he has worked as a juggler for various companies, including the New London Consort, ENO and English National Ballet. He regularly teaches at circus schools, including NCCA and CREAT in Valence.

At the same time, he took part in intensive creation and movement workshops with companies such as Peeping Tom, Les Slovaks, Spymonkey, and LISPA…

He currently works with the award-winning company Gandini Juggling (winner of the Olivier Award, the Herald Archangel and the Herald), and tours internationally with productions including “Smashed”, “LIFE” (selected as one of the best dance pieces of the year by The Guardian) and “Heka”.

In 2017, he created the circus-theater show “Cul de Sac” with support from Arts Council England, and in 2019, the duet “Gibbon”, co-produced by Gandini Juggling and nominated for the Total Theatre Awards.

As a choreographer, Triguero conceived the project “Millions of Years”, a collaboration between English National Opera and Gandini Juggling, premiered at the British Museum in 2016. Triguero has also worked as a choreographer for companies such as Nueveuno Circo, TwoMuch Circus, and Nushka. He is currently collaborating on productions for the DelsAltres company and the Institut Valencien de Culture.