La Corcoles company
La Cia. La Corcoles is Mariona Moya, an artist who has specialised in tight wire walking since 2009, the year the company was founded.
After 12 years of experience as an artist in this discipline, with a very personal signature, La Corcoles now stands out for the way she approaches and understands the body in relation both to the wire and to the discipline of balance itself. Mariona Moya is committed to continuing to research and innovate in this form in order to develop her creative side on stage, with the aim of creating pieces to be shared with audiences. Her constant goal is to search for movement on the wire, approaching the discipline through movement and dance, understanding the wire as yet another space to inhabit and traverse, and opening up new paths along this line.
The company premiered with a solo, Gris, which blends the discipline of tight wire walking with dance-theatre, object manipulation and visual poetry — a piece that took the company on a six-year tour within the programmes of major circus and street arts festivals. La Corcoles continues to embrace a poetic language while still taking risks and evolving in circus figures. The true protagonist is not the feat or the technical execution —although these are present— but the sense of closeness, the poetics and the suggestive power of the images on stage. It is a proposal for all audiences: risky, intimate and delicate. In 2019, Isaac Lucas joined the company as a technician and also contributes to the conception of the staging, both technically and artistically.
The second piece, H, which in 2024 received the Catalan Circus Awards Zirkolika prize for Best Street Circus Show 2023, was created at El Canal during the company’s 2023 residency.
Carena
Residency March 2026
“The emptiness of the abyss is in fact a fullness” – Exploradores del abismo, Enrique Vila-Matas
Running along a torn mountain ridge with the void on either side. The gaze can see no further than an icy, vertiginous cliff; I keep running and my breath is the only thing wrapping around my ears.
This is Carena, a duel between the artist and herself. She dares herself to play, to betray herself, to go mad and even to be defeated by the thrust of the very same spear that has made her dance.
It is a piece in which the sharpness of emotion as performer breaks deeply onto the stage, where the true protagonist embraces the most refined technique of tightrope walking and turns it into a beautiful duel with the core technical element of this discipline: the balancier.
Carena is the Tibetan horns that cast an age-old sound over the valley, howling like a wolf at the moon while at the same time softening the night or making it more ominous. The artist howls, cries out and sings from the ridge so that the echo of the sound returns to her and strikes her again. Carena is the final journey towards the cliff, up where pilgrims leave their crosses forever, where Sherpas hang coloured flags in honour of the gods, where oxygen ceases to exist. And up there, like the sails of a windmill or the beams of a lighthouse, the voice of the protagonist will resound and leave its trace.
Pre-premiered in October 2023 at the Ona Dance Festival, the piece is a co-production by El Canal and Fira Tàrrega Territori Creatiu. The seed of Carena was planted in 2015 with the discovery of tightrope walking as a discipline. The company stands out in its treatment of tightrope walking for a groundbreaking, contemporary approach, especially in this piece, where it seeks to offer the audience a profound and moving artistic experience: a visual, emotional and reflective journey. This classical circus discipline is approached here through movement, searching beyond technique for a vital journey and a strong visual plasticity on stage.
Carena will premiere at the next edition of Fira Trapezi and will go on to be presented at Festival Grec de Barcelona, Festival Dos Canais in Portugal, Escènit in Girona and Festival Esbaiol’at in Esterr d’Àneu, before its appearance at Fira Tàrrega 2024.
In this piece, there is an approach to and connection with the emotional backdrop of the classic by Miguel de Cervantes, not in a literal way but by tracing parallels between the act of tightrope walking and the struggle with the protagonist’s inner challenges. Through choreography and the use of stage space and the elements brought into play, the metaphor of the giants becomes the tightrope-walking “Quixota”’s own fears and abysses.
Events
- Creative process showcase of Carena
