Translator: Georgia Freitas Reviewer: Claudia Sander
My first contact with the circus might not have been so magical
as it was for you and for most people.
For me it was kind of traumatic.
I remember, I think I was 5 or 6 years
and I was in a children’s party,
was sitting
and nothing I turned around and had a clown behind me and gave me a fright
so great that traumatized me.
Since then I did not care clown,
not hear of circus, anything like that.
Until it was passing the time, some of my aunts showed me
it was just a made-up person and etc.
But I think that kind of resonated in my life.
I was leaving the circus for later,
in all other art activities I did.
Since I can remember, I got involved with art, always made art.
I started with theater, graduated actor, worked, drove spectacle, I worked.
But it seemed that did not complete me. It seemed like I needed more.
There was not enough for me.
And then went to dance, worked with contemporary dance, I made popular dance.
Traveled dancing, had a dance company,
choreographed spectacle, a lot of things.
But did not complete me.
It seemed that something was missing.
In the meantime, I had contact with the aerial silk,
which is an embodiment of the circus, the part of the air.
That cloth that people winding down.
I had the opportunity to take a course with a group of Bahia.
A magical way.
They set up in the old circus of the city,
and we might experience the whole circus of the universe,
from air to ground acrobatics, contortion, unicycle, everything.
And at that moment, the fabric caught me.
And from there to here is 13 years as a circus teacher,
living circus, working with the circus.
And at that moment, I had a great opportunity.
I did the workshop and soon was able to take a course instructor training.
From there, that workshop, I started to become instructor
and live circus as alive today.
It gave me a very large crack.
I realized that everything in my life had been opportunities.
My technical background in theater was a scholarship,
My graduation was also bag.
My graduate was also bag.
My technical background in Cultural Production now with opportunity,
and I said, “No, you can not as well.?
A person have so much opportunity and do nothing about it? “
At that moment, I realized: we need to do something to give back.
I need to give back every opportunity I had.
That’s when I hooked up with some friends,
we worked together in the same school at the time,
and set up what was the embryo of what is now “The Circus Tá na Rua”.
Was the Artistic Training Center.
We open selection for 20 young people,
and these young people receive acting classes, dance and circus for free.
It went very well. We can do other auditions, enter others.
We started working in the city, part of the cultural calendar of the city,
participating with theater with dance and circus.
But the circus began to be very strong.
We were the circus representation of the city.
Until we were invited to an event, one badaladíssimo event.
The BR-135 festival, and we got:
“Wow! We were invited to greet the BR-135.
No, for all that we are on the tape. We are doing it right. “
There was very funny,
because we all prepare to make a beautiful reception
and: “Come on, let’s show what we can do.”
And he could not approve.
People have left us approve.
People wanted to learn circus.
People wanted to do.
They took the juggling of our hands and they wanted us to teach them.
Until a person who was there at that event,
which is the Fernandinha Marques, who is now with me in the project
and it is one of the people I most trust in the work,
He came and asked me how it was to learn,
she wanted to be with us, she wanted to be part of it.
And abruptly, in a snap, I said:
“Tomorrow will be a circus training, open and free, there in Nauru Machado Square.”
The reception was Sunday night, and I said, “Tomorrow Monday will have will have..
You can go to six o’clock we’ll be there. “
And had.
And she was.
And from there to here, it is nearly four years of occupation and resistance that space.
This showed me that a contact so minimal,
a question of an unknown,
that joined two wills: mine, hers,
and more wills of other people who wanted to learn,
managed, this little contact,
do such a great story happen.
The circus has become something so big, so much bigger than me,
as most people who belong to it,
we have no idea of what we achieved
with The Circus Tá na Rua.
Because it is a collective force.
It is a force that does not depend on me, not just part of me.
It is for all people who believe
which together can do something.
And it became so great, that moved so many people.
It moved many, many collectives,
moved many partnerships, many opportunities.
It moved many borders.
That moved me. This move [to me].
The point I received a thank
a person I did not expect.
I had a boy who frequented The Circus Tá na Rua,
every Monday he was there.
He did not train circus. He was just there.
I knew him from view at Revive, as a resident of the historic center,
I had already seen before there.
And he came to me and said, “Donny”
he even knew my name,
“Donny, thank you for what you do here every Monday.”
I thought he was going to ask something, whatever.
And he came and said,
“Thank you for what you do here every Monday.”
And I was unarmed, I said:
“Wow, Mass. But how so? What is that to you?”
And he told me that Monday
It was the only day he did not want to take drugs in Revive,
It was the only day he did not want to drink and sleep drunk in the gutter,
It was the only day he did not want to fight with anyone.
It was the only day that he felt good and felt part of that place.
Even attending it for years and every day.
Monday was the only day he felt part of that space.
For me it was all to hear.
There is greater recognition for us,
who does this, who believes it.
It’s too big. It’s immense.
It’s surreal.
The point, e.g.
of us participate in a workshop with a group of Rio de Janeiro,
and at the end of the workshop a shop stilt,
and the end of the workshop, the teachers come to us and say,
“Here are three stilts for you, brand new.
For I know your work for a long time, I follow on social networks,
I believe in what you do and recognize myself in your work.
So my way to help is this. Here you go. “
And I did not expect. I did not know he even knew us.
The point of the lady who sells there in Revive,
every day she’s there with her isoporzinho, selling water and drink,
not let me pay when I want to buy something.
She does not accept.
Because she told me
that on Monday she did not sell anything.
And now she sells a lot.
And the only way she can repay me is this,
giving me water for free.
It fills me.
It fills me.
And it fills me because
me the circus completed a void.
The circus has filled a void in me.
I have acted, I have worked, as I said initially,
I worked with dance, to theater with circus, introduced myself.
I was the stage, my life was the stage.
I loved being on stage. I loved that feeling here.
This climate, for me, it’s wonderful.
Only I had to leave, because I got hurt,
I had a spinal injury, I herniated disc.
And from there to here, there were six attempts to return to active duty,
to resume training.
But never gives. Never give because the pain is too great,
why stay long standing hurts, it hurts stay long sitting,
and not dwell too much hurt, if you do a lot of exercise hurts.
And I had to leave the place I loved.
And it left a void. An immense empty. Immense.
I just saw him off, I just saw fill,
when I get
what The Circus Yeah In The Street did in my life.
The point I realized that I could leave this place of light, spotlight,
and let other people go and be in that place.
It filled me.
It fills me.
And it makes me
We believe that we are on track.
That The Circus Tá na Rua is this place that you guys can occupy.
From light. The spotlight.
And the palms are not for me.
The palms could never be just for me,
because I am a mere articulation within this whole process.
I think I was just someone who was lucky enough to have the idea.
But I think, in the flow of the universe, would be there.
I was only the lucky to have had the trigger.
But the community
It is the key word is the strong word,
is representing us, we of The Circus Tá na Rua.
And I wanted to present to you this team.
These people are: Igor Gauthier,
Artemis Lisbon, Igor Viegas,
Ana Raquel Farias, Wand Albuquerque,
Nuilane Lake, Priscilla Mayse,
Alicia Moraes, Leticia Sousa, Raulzito,
Necilia Monteiro, Fernanda Marques,
Samuel Chaves, Ana Beatriz Chaves
and Antonio Carlos.
(Applause)
It is to remember … Thanks, guys.
It is to remember that I no longer occupy this place alone.
And it’s great when we do not occupy this place of light alone.
When we give room: you can come,
come, are in the light with me.
Part of it with me.
That’s it, folks. Thank you!
(Applause)
My first contact with the circus might not have been so magical
as it was for you and for most people.
For me it was kind of traumatic.
I remember, I think I was 5 or 6 years
and I was in a children’s party,
was sitting
and nothing I turned around and had a clown behind me and gave me a fright
so great that traumatized me.
Since then I did not care clown,
not hear of circus, anything like that.
Until it was passing the time, some of my aunts showed me
it was just a made-up person and etc.
But I think that kind of resonated in my life.
I was leaving the circus for later,
in all other art activities I did.
Since I can remember, I got involved with art, always made art.
I started with theater, graduated actor, worked, drove spectacle, I worked.
But it seemed that did not complete me. It seemed like I needed more.
There was not enough for me.
And then went to dance, worked with contemporary dance, I made popular dance.
Traveled dancing, had a dance company,
choreographed spectacle, a lot of things.
But did not complete me.
It seemed that something was missing.
In the meantime, I had contact with the aerial silk,
which is an embodiment of the circus, the part of the air.
That cloth that people winding down.
I had the opportunity to take a course with a group of Bahia.
A magical way.
They set up in the old circus of the city,
and we might experience the whole circus of the universe,
from air to ground acrobatics, contortion, unicycle, everything.
And at that moment, the fabric caught me.
And from there to here is 13 years as a circus teacher,
living circus, working with the circus.
And at that moment, I had a great opportunity.
I did the workshop and soon was able to take a course instructor training.
From there, that workshop, I started to become instructor
and live circus as alive today.
It gave me a very large crack.
I realized that everything in my life had been opportunities.
My technical background in theater was a scholarship,
My graduation was also bag.
My graduate was also bag.
My technical background in Cultural Production now with opportunity,
and I said, “No, you can not as well.?
A person have so much opportunity and do nothing about it? “
At that moment, I realized: we need to do something to give back.
I need to give back every opportunity I had.
That’s when I hooked up with some friends,
we worked together in the same school at the time,
and set up what was the embryo of what is now “The Circus Tá na Rua”.
Was the Artistic Training Center.
We open selection for 20 young people,
and these young people receive acting classes, dance and circus for free.
It went very well. We can do other auditions, enter others.
We started working in the city, part of the cultural calendar of the city,
participating with theater with dance and circus.
But the circus began to be very strong.
We were the circus representation of the city.
Until we were invited to an event, one badaladíssimo event.
The BR-135 festival, and we got:
“Wow! We were invited to greet the BR-135.
No, for all that we are on the tape. We are doing it right. “
There was very funny,
because we all prepare to make a beautiful reception
and: “Come on, let’s show what we can do.”
And he could not approve.
People have left us approve.
People wanted to learn circus.
People wanted to do.
They took the juggling of our hands and they wanted us to teach them.
Until a person who was there at that event,
which is the Fernandinha Marques, who is now with me in the project
and it is one of the people I most trust in the work,
He came and asked me how it was to learn,
she wanted to be with us, she wanted to be part of it.
And abruptly, in a snap, I said:
“Tomorrow will be a circus training, open and free, there in Nauru Machado Square.”
The reception was Sunday night, and I said, “Tomorrow Monday will have will have..
You can go to six o’clock we’ll be there. “
And had.
And she was.
And from there to here, it is nearly four years of occupation and resistance that space.
This showed me that a contact so minimal,
a question of an unknown,
that joined two wills: mine, hers,
and more wills of other people who wanted to learn,
managed, this little contact,
do such a great story happen.
The circus has become something so big, so much bigger than me,
as most people who belong to it,
we have no idea of what we achieved
with The Circus Tá na Rua.
Because it is a collective force.
It is a force that does not depend on me, not just part of me.
It is for all people who believe
which together can do something.
And it became so great, that moved so many people.
It moved many, many collectives,
moved many partnerships, many opportunities.
It moved many borders.
That moved me. This move [to me].
The point I received a thank
a person I did not expect.
I had a boy who frequented The Circus Tá na Rua,
every Monday he was there.
He did not train circus. He was just there.
I knew him from view at Revive, as a resident of the historic center,
I had already seen before there.
And he came to me and said, “Donny”
he even knew my name,
“Donny, thank you for what you do here every Monday.”
I thought he was going to ask something, whatever.
And he came and said,
“Thank you for what you do here every Monday.”
And I was unarmed, I said:
“Wow, Mass. But how so? What is that to you?”
And he told me that Monday
It was the only day he did not want to take drugs in Revive,
It was the only day he did not want to drink and sleep drunk in the gutter,
It was the only day he did not want to fight with anyone.
It was the only day that he felt good and felt part of that place.
Even attending it for years and every day.
Monday was the only day he felt part of that space.
For me it was all to hear.
There is greater recognition for us,
who does this, who believes it.
It’s too big. It’s immense.
It’s surreal.
The point, e.g.
of us participate in a workshop with a group of Rio de Janeiro,
and at the end of the workshop a shop stilt,
and the end of the workshop, the teachers come to us and say,
“Here are three stilts for you, brand new.
For I know your work for a long time, I follow on social networks,
I believe in what you do and recognize myself in your work.
So my way to help is this. Here you go. “
And I did not expect. I did not know he even knew us.
The point of the lady who sells there in Revive,
every day she’s there with her isoporzinho, selling water and drink,
not let me pay when I want to buy something.
She does not accept.
Because she told me
that on Monday she did not sell anything.
And now she sells a lot.
And the only way she can repay me is this,
giving me water for free.
It fills me.
It fills me.
And it fills me because
me the circus completed a void.
The circus has filled a void in me.
I have acted, I have worked, as I said initially,
I worked with dance, to theater with circus, introduced myself.
I was the stage, my life was the stage.
I loved being on stage. I loved that feeling here.
This climate, for me, it’s wonderful.
Only I had to leave, because I got hurt,
I had a spinal injury, I herniated disc.
And from there to here, there were six attempts to return to active duty,
to resume training.
But never gives. Never give because the pain is too great,
why stay long standing hurts, it hurts stay long sitting,
and not dwell too much hurt, if you do a lot of exercise hurts.
And I had to leave the place I loved.
And it left a void. An immense empty. Immense.
I just saw him off, I just saw fill,
when I get
what The Circus Yeah In The Street did in my life.
The point I realized that I could leave this place of light, spotlight,
and let other people go and be in that place.
It filled me.
It fills me.
And it makes me
We believe that we are on track.
That The Circus Tá na Rua is this place that you guys can occupy.
From light. The spotlight.
And the palms are not for me.
The palms could never be just for me,
because I am a mere articulation within this whole process.
I think I was just someone who was lucky enough to have the idea.
But I think, in the flow of the universe, would be there.
I was only the lucky to have had the trigger.
But the community
It is the key word is the strong word,
is representing us, we of The Circus Tá na Rua.
And I wanted to present to you this team.
These people are: Igor Gauthier,
Artemis Lisbon, Igor Viegas,
Ana Raquel Farias, Wand Albuquerque,
Nuilane Lake, Priscilla Mayse,
Alicia Moraes, Leticia Sousa, Raulzito,
Necilia Monteiro, Fernanda Marques,
Samuel Chaves, Ana Beatriz Chaves
and Antonio Carlos.
(Applause)
It is to remember … Thanks, guys.
It is to remember that I no longer occupy this place alone.
And it’s great when we do not occupy this place of light alone.
When we give room: you can come,
come, are in the light with me.
Part of it with me.
That’s it, folks. Thank you!
(Applause)
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