“ WHAT SEEMED LIKE A NORMAL DAY ”

Contemporary circus, music and mapping.

By CIRCO VIRTUAL

The montage combines elements of contemporary circus with music, illustration and mapping. Through these elements, the performance reflects upon the value we place on our private sphere and on the joy of playing.

SYNOPSIS

Juan and Magdalena live together in an old apartment, surrounded by ever ything they need for their daily activities. Nevertheless these are precisely the objects that distract them, making them transit into oneir ic worlds and dream scenarios. Bottles, pots, spoons and other elements – which at first do not seem to be significant – come alive in the hands of the protagonists .

Suddenly the audience discovers the oddness of the quotidian: behind the objects and situations that seem “normal”, there are a series of hidden possibilities of sounds and materials that will take them into another dimension.

THE PROJECT- COMBINING DISCIPLINES… Circus, music and mapping.

“What seemed like a normal day” is a project of contemporary circus ar t with a multidisciplinar y nature, mixing music (made with everyday objects), illustration and multimedia (mapping). Circus is present through the incorporation of balance exercises and work with bouncing balls which in this context become real percussive instruments: they are thrown, tapped and bounced off different surfaces, generating countless different sounds. The montage raises questions about the value we give to our private space nowadays. In which moments do we allow room for our dreams? How do our

thoughts flow in loneliness? “Through the staging of this intimate and commonplace

sphere, the project rescues the simple things, the details and those utopias that make our creativity flourish, allowing us uncensored dreaming”, says Director Juan Pablo Corvalán.

He adds: “Home is the place where you feel most comfor table, giving free rein to the imagination, where it is possible to create and

ramble. That is why we locate these characters in this place. The play is an invitation to dream

and imagine freely; a utopia of freedom and the absence of boundaries”.

EL CIRCO VIRTUAL - THE THEATER COMPANY

EL Circo Vir tua l was born in 2001 based on the des i re to gener ate a mul t id i sc ip l inar y space of creat ion wi th the explor at ion of contemporar y c i rcus at i t s core .

Juan Pablo Cor va lán and Ale jandro Cast i l lo Muñoz , the d i rector s of the company, wor k together in the research and exper imentat ion of contemporar y c i rcus and i t s l ink wi th other ar t i s t i c d i sc ip l ines such as dance , mus ic , theater and d ig i ta l media .

Th is company has created f ive p lays :

“S in Pa labras” wor k based on “Acto s in Pa labr as” by Samuel Beckett , which premiered in 2001 .

“2 .0 DOSpuntoCERO” , which combined c i rcus , theatre , dance and v ideo premiered in 2006 at Lastar r ia 90 , wi th fund ing f rom Fondar t . Th is second p lay inc luded new languages such as v ideo,

f i lmed by Fr anc i sco Adwanter, and a l so contemporar y

dance . In the beg inn ing they wor ked in th i s

d i sc ip l ine wi th José Lu ís V ida l ; they were inv i ted to Fest iva l Internac iona l Sant iago a Mi l 2007 , and dur ing the same year they toured sever a l reg ions of Chi le . Th is p lay was the object of ana lys i s in the book “Mutac iones Escén icas” wr i t ten by Marco Esp inoza and Raú l Mir anda and ed i ted in 2009 , as an example of Chi lean contemporar y theater.

“Lo Pr i vado” (a c i rcus and dance p iece) premiered in 2009 , funded by Fondar t . I t toured a number of reg ions in Chi le in 2010 , sponsored by Fondar t .

“Remanente” , an autobiogr aph ica l so lo contemporar y dance wor k , premiered in 2014 with a season at Centro Cul tur a l Estac ión Mapocho and Centro Cul tur a l Matucana 100 , Fondar t of dance creat ion .

“Lo que parec ía un d ía normal” , c i rcus , mus ic and mapping , premiered at Centro Cul tur a l Gabr ie la Mis t r a l , GAM, 2014.

Stage Plan (Ground plan)

Sound

Minimum area : 9 x 6,5 mts.

Minimum Height : 4 mts.

9 m

6,5 m

2 Video projectors Viewsonic PJD6383S at 3,8 mts. high

The show is conveniently presented in a typical "black box" room minimum 15m x 15m

- PA system LR Calibrated, 400W per channel + Sub Bass (min. 500 W). Recommended Boxes QSC, EV, JBL.- 2 ground monitors.- 4 ambient microphones.- Mixer 8 channels with AUX out for the monitors.- Double CD player.

Stage installation timing : 8 hours

Truss(3,85m del piso)

Planta de Iluminación obra “Lo Que Parecía un Día Normal”Diseño: Alejandro Castillo Muñoz Sala N1 GAMTel. (+569) 8669 6445 - alecastillom@hotmail.com

= (3) Elipsoidal S4 15/30°

= (3) Elipsoidal S4 25/50°

= (2) Elipsoidal S4 10°

= (3) Elipsoidal S4 19°

= (3) Elipsoidal S4 26°

= (3) Elipsoidal S4 jr 25-50º

= (7) Fresnel 1.000w

= (6) PAR 64 MFL (CP62)

SYMBOLES

106

14 Número de canal

Número de Filtro(Lee, Rosco e-colour)

Nota:

Light Plan (Ground plan)

ARTISTIC TEAM

Juan Pablo Corvalán: Actor / Director

Magdalena Pacheco: Actor / Musician

Alejandro Castillo Muñoz: Stage Designer

Escenotécnica: Stage Technique

Tomas Ives: Illustration & Graphic Design

Cristián Canto: Mapping & Animation

Cristián Bidart: Musical Advisor

Martín Erazo: Direction Consultant

Cristóbal Carvajal: Sound Designer

Juan Francisco González: Audiovisual Production

Francisca Babul: Press

Francesca Ceccotti: Production

Evelyn Ortiz: Production Assistant

All audiences (+8 recomended)Total Time : 50 min. aprox.

Contact:

productora.teatro@gmail.comFrancesca Ceccotti

juanpa.corvalan@gmail.comJuan Pablo Corvalán A.

Phone: +562 7662 9714 - +562 7473 6939

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www.circovirtual.cl

PROYECTO FINANCIADO POR FONDART NACIONALCONVOCATORIA 2014