Carlos Landaeta Meneses (2026 Finalist) at L’Espace Périphérique, Paris
From 11 to 20 May, circusnext welcomes Carlos Landaeta Meneses at L’Espace Périphérique (Paris) for a 10-day residency. Join us on 18 May at 17:00 to discover Blood Flow Reading Club during a work-in-progress presentation.
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Carlos Landaeta Meneses (Belgium) · Blood Flow Reading Club · Chinese Pole
Books are scattered around a person with numb limbs, all available to be read. Confronted with this injured body, the audience is invited to interact with these committed texts: step onto the stage, pick up a book, read it aloud. A body will be there to hold the microphone — just for you. Blood Flow Reading Club offers this unique experience, letting the voices of those who have written in support of marginalised communities be carried through you. By probing the limits of the body, the performance encourages spectators to confront acts of violence and the voices that have been silenced. Here, it is the subaltern who will be heard.
Based in Brussels, Carlos Landaeta Meneses was born in Caracas, Venezuela — a beautiful, yet violent place that taught him/her many lessons. A place where compassion and empathy are not just daily practices, but vital necessities.
Carlos is always eager to learn new things: dance, languages, clowning, martial arts, and anything else that might prove useful, or useless.
In France, he/she trained at the Centre régional des arts du cirque de Chambéry, before earning a circus degree in Brussels and working with various circus companies. Today, Carlos focuses on circus pedagogy, artistic research laboratories, and leading workshops exploring decoloniality and power dynamics.
Carlos loves colours between burgundy and magenta. And most of the time, he/she is wary of people who claim that “everything is always fine.”
PRATICAL INFORMATION
Work-in-progress presentation – Monday 18 May at 5pm
L’Espace Périphérique – 2 rue de la Clôture, 75019 Paris
Registration : reservation@circusnext.eu
