– KNITTED ROPES THAT BREATH –
If Circus presents Melic
The company is inspired by the ancient art of knitting and the reclaiming of their ancestors’ knowledge.
A dialogue between hand-knitted ropes that transform, tighten and loosen , knit and unknit.
Ropes that support them and rock them.
Knitting Memories, the workshop.
WHAT IS IT?
The Knitting Memories workshops takes place the day before the performance, is for women of minimum age 60+. We knit with them the rope that we use on the stage and we interview them as well!
WHAT DO WE DO?
Is a workshop of 2h (15min welcome and hands articulation warmup, 1h45min knitting the rope all together while the interviews happen in a quiet nearby room)
WHAT DO WE KNIT?
Link to the knitting instructions so you can imagine better what will happen in the workshop.(English version: pages 11 to 15 of the link’s document) We are knitting the rope Melic, the rope of the show!
FOR WHO IS IT?
Participants invited: Women+60 from the neightbourhood/village (no needed to know how to knit.) Maximum 12 participants, previous inscription. For free.
Teaser of Melic
BASIC INFOS
COMPANY: If circus
TITLE OF THE SHOW: Melic
SPACE: Indoor and outdoor with darkness possibility and silence space/inside a textile museum
DURATION: 50 minuts show+ 2h workshop Knitting Memories the day before the performance
AUDIENCE: All audience
ARTISTIC DOSIER
ARTISTS & CREATORS: Mar Olivé & Shalom Gramiccioli
ORIGINAL MUSIC: Rogier Hornman
EXTERNAL EYES: Júlia Clarà, Ganna Poppea Veenhuyseen, Margot Jansens.
LIGHT DESIGN : Gabriella Bianchi
COSTUME DESIGN: Levi Almendras and Paquita Garcia