Juan Carlos Panduro
Salar la pena
THE PROJECT / Salar la pena is a project that seeks to hybridise poetry and circus, with the body in crisis as its central axis. Using movement, circus technique and the voice as its vocabulary, and exploring failure, loss, desire and everything that connects the sacred and the monstrous, a body on stage —the lyrical self— attempts to construct a liturgy of cleansing, emptying and calling for (     ).
porque la pena
como la carne
primero se sala luego se limpia luego se guarda
la pena no se va
la pena se guarda
the sorrow
as the flesh
gets salted then washed then saved
the sorrow doesn’t go
it gets saved
BIO / Born in Badajoz, Extremadura, Juan Carlos 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), and 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.