Juan Carlos Panduro

Salar la pena

Handstand, poetry, contortion

A hybrid project between circus and poetry, Salar la pena brings a body in crisis to the stage. Through handstand, contortion, and voice, it explores failure, loss, desire, and everything that connects the sacred to the monstrous. A liturgy of cleansing and emptying, a call to the beyond.

Biography

Born in Badajoz, Extremadura, Juan Carlos Panduro graduated in 2022 from L’École Supérieure des Arts du Cirque (ESAC) in Brussels and completed the Master’s course in Poetic Writing “La inspiración y la palabra” at the Escuela de Escritores in Madrid.

Obsessed with form shaped by technique and poetic composition, and drawn to exploring physical limits, he is eagerly searching for a circus language he can call his own. In February 2024, he published his first book Romero recién cortao (Letraversal). Salar la pena is his first scenic creation.

As a child, he was asked to write a poem to the Virgin. He is still trying.