OLGA first started in Toulouse between late 2017 and early 2018, drawn from the material each of us had worked on during our last year at the Lido. Long Play takes two universes which exist one inside of the other; what we are and the community we are part oF
Catalina Aguayo /
Trapeze artist and project manager
She started circus in Montevideo, after having been a gymnast for 10 years. At the age of 19 she started the diploma in circus arts at the University of San Martin, in Buenos Aires, where she graduated in 2011. In 2011-12 she joined the company “La Arena”, with which she performed various shows and a Latin-American tour. She studied Flying Low, Asymmetrical Motion, Contact Improvisation and Butoh technique, with masters such as Lucas Condró and Edward Tamayo, with whom he studies regularly, to this day. From 2013 to 2017 he did professional training at the Superior School of Circus Arts in Toulouse, ESACTO - Lido, specializing in fixed trapeze.
In 2016 she co-created the company “Tanka” in Uruguay, with the support of the National Scenic Arts Institute (INAE), and declared of cultural interest by the Education and Culture Office. In 2017 and 2018, she worked as an interpreter at the french company “l’Éolienne”, in the shows “Tictac” and “Flux Tendu”. She is currently an interpreter of the company "La Grue". She directs the movement research of the show "Athsma Furiosa", by La June Company, and works with “Masa Madre”, from Cia-Caí, as an external eye. Since 2018, she has directed the Annual Laboratory of Aerial Research, of Cooperativa La Bonita, in Barcelona.
It is during her professional insertion year at the Lido that she created the trapeze solo which serves as the basis for OLGA’s show. She finds her inspiration on the trans-feminist movements and on the LGBT community which she considers her family and her ground zero. She then created an androgenic and bearded character, crucified, sensitive and tormented, that comes to propose another definition of human. She is moved by the need to show her most hidden queer part, moving away from the female stereotypes to defend another ideal, and offering reconciliation with the uniqueness of individuals.
Alejandro Dutra /
Juggler, musician and project manager
Musician and composer since the age of 12, Alejandro followed various paths of musical education in Uruguay learning drums, guitar and singing. Since 2015, he has focused his musical research on electronic and experimental music, composing in Ableton Live and mixing vinyls. He studied musical production with Jorge Gamarra, in Barcelona.
He starts juggling at the age of 17, in Montevideo. In 2009 he began a long trip across South America through which he developed his juggling technique and gained stage experience. In 2011 he began formal juggling training in Buenos Aires, with Pablo Perasso. He continued his training at the Lyon circus school between 2014 and 2015, where he trained with Julien Clément and Olivier Burleaud. Between 2015 and 2017, he completed the professional diploma at the Circus Art Center of Toulouse, Le Lido, and in 2018, the professional insertion. He is currently studying Flying Low Technique, in Barcelona, with Edward Tamayo, and deepens his juggling technique with Iris Ziordia.
OLGA is the opportunity for Alejandro to continue blending his two passions: circus and music. Alejandro devoted most of his final year at the Lido to the search of the sound of daily things. His interest is to amplify the details of human life; to produce the sound encounter between the audience and the artist. With microphones in the air or on the ground, cassette players, misshapen microphone stands which he manipulates with his body and his voice; he wants to create live visual and acoustic universes.