It is the 60th anniversary of the first modern music matinees of the old Price circus, events that forever marked the pop and rock scene in our country. Groups such as Los Relámpagos, Los Pekenikes, the Diamond Boys with Albert Hammond, or the debut of Miguel "Mike" Ríos participated there.
These concerts, held on Sunday mornings, were received as a breath of fresh air by hundreds of young people. The Teatro Circo Price remembers them with a very special production, a meeting of creators from different disciplines, from circus to rock, from musical theater to visual arts, led by stage director Marta Pazos.
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.
