LAUGHTER IS A SERIOUS MATTER
We are dedicated to exploration, learning and creation
through clowning and its intersection with other artistic disciplines.
We are a clown company with more than 15 years of experience, based in Guadalajara, Mexico. Our work explores the language of clowning in dialogue with other disciplines such as dance, physical theater, circus, and cinema, creating works that range from the intimate to the universal.
From our beginnings in the variety show format to pieces such as “Sonámbulos,” “Llévame,” “El frágil vientre de la bestia,” and our upcoming work “InSólito (2026),”
we have built an art form that reflects, is shared, and is experienced through laughter with the audience.
We have performed at national and international festivals, from the Santa Lucía Festival (Mexico) to stages in Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, and Poland.
Today, we are a benchmark for contemporary clowning with Mexican roots: a space where comedy is thought out, tradition is reinvented, and laughter transforms us.
CLAUNÓDROMO COMPANY
COMPANY DIRECTOR AND CLOWN
Michel Alzaga
Mexican clown and artist, stage director, and videographer. His work has focused on two areas: comedy and dance. His processes are permeated by physical humor and cinema.
A full-time autodidact, he first encountered the circus at the Vancouver Circus School before entering the Jalisco School of Arts, where he focused on the performing arts, and then studying for a diploma in cinema at the University of Guadalajara. He has continued his studies in clowning and physical theater in Brazil, Spain, and Argentina. His artistic references range from performance art, painting, comedy cinema, butoh dance, and contemporary circus.
clown, equilibrist and equestrian
Mireya Guzmán
Artist with a background in circus, management, and equestrian art. Since his early training (2009) in visual arts, dance, and sports, he entered the circus arts where he developed a stage language that integrates contortion, aerial dance, and comic techniques (clowning, buffoonery, and physical theater). With specialized training in tightrope walking, perfected at the Funicular Circus Volcán (Panama), he has collaborated professionally with leading independent companies and promoted self-managed cultural projects. In 2021, she incorporated equestrian art, training in vaulting, free dressage, and horse riding, which gave rise to her debut work Wanderlust (2022). She is currently part of the Vitana Equestrian Ensemble as a stage trainer, performer, and co-director of the show Munay.
producer, dancer and clown
Germán Aguila
Multidisciplinary artist with a degree in Graphic Communication Design who has developed his career in physical theater, clowning, mask theater, performance art, contemporary dance, and dance theater. As an actor, he has worked in both theater and film. He has also served as a stage and audiovisual producer, art director, and production designer. He is currently part of the Phi.Movement company, the representative group Gineceo Danza Contemporánea, and the Claunódromo.
Dancer and clown
Laura Castellanos
Performing artist, teacher, and graduate in performing arts for dance expression from the University of Guadalajara. She has continued her training with national and international professionals from the current scene, such as the modern dance course with the Cuba Danza company in Havana and the contemporary movement program “Revés” in Costa Rica. She has participated in more than 20 professional productions that have developed her skills in mask theater, documentary theater, as well as clowning, mime, puppetry, and recently as a creator, choreographer, and movement director.
CLOWN AND STAGE CREATOR
Manuel Ariga
Clown artist, stage director, and acting coach with a focus on cinema. In recent years, he has worked on developing a methodology for stage creation for comedy through clowning tools such as pantomime, physical comedy, comic dance, and visual poetry. He also seeks to influence and study other disciplines such as music, cinema, performance, and painting to enrich the work that the artist proposes.
Dancer and performer
Ana Alatorre
Bachelor of Performing Arts for Dance Expression
from the University of Guadalajara. She began dancing at the age of 6 and has trained in techniques such as classical dance, jazz, Polynesian dance, hip-hop, contemporary dance, dance theatre, Latin rhythms, Cuban salsa, salsa on2, among others.
Choreographer, dancer, and teacher of the ‘Urbedanza’ workshop methodology of the RedesArte Cultura de Paz Programme. From 2014 to 2017, she was part of Ajna Danza Contemporánea in shows such as ‘Piloteando mi Vida’ and ‘Bla bla bla’. Since 2015, she has been a member of Colectivo Extracto with projects such as ‘Tiempo de latidos,’ ‘A donde fueres, haz lo que vieres’ and ‘Flor de Jericó’ and in the flamenco dance company Canela Fina.
iluminator
Nano Cano
Bachelor of Visual Arts with a focus on Photography from the University of Guadalajara.
He has trained in various areas such as photography, dance, clowning, circus arts, and theater. As a teacher, he has given workshops focused on stage design and lighting, his main artistic activity to date. He has participated in various national and international theater projects and festivals as a theater technician, director, lighting designer, set designer, stage painter, performer, and/or actor.
In 2015 and 2017, he won the award for best lighting at the Jalisco State Theater Festival. In 2021, he founded “EL UMBRAL,” a studio-workshop for training, creation, and management in the development of stage design.
composer
Janine Job
Mexican musician and artist. Violinist, improviser, and composer focused on new and experimental chamber music, music for the stage, performance, and inter/transdisciplinary projects. Liminality, proximity, and gender perspective permeate her processes, both for individual and collaborative projects. She has participated in festivals in Peru, Chile, Ecuador, and Germany. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree focused on performance and contemporary composition in different countries of the European Union.
photographer and videomaker
Daniel Magaña
Multidisciplinary artist, audiovisual director, dancer, photographer, and neurophysiological therapist. In recent years, he has devoted himself to studying the body, movement, and its relationship with the camera. Butoh dance, kung fu, and freediving are some of the disciplines that inspire him. Other fields of study include cinematography, video dance, and performance. He currently provides psychomotor and body awareness therapy for children using the Vardi method at MeM. He is a member of the Camino.cuerpobutoh dance company and the Phi Movement collective in Guadalajara.