¡TO THE SCENE!
The clown plays at mocking everything, starting with himself.
He questions, provokes, plays. With truth on the inside and lies on the outside.
There are many different ways to be a clown, and each person must find their own way. In many mythologies, there is the character of the trickster. They are humans or gods who deceive people and lie to reveal the truth or their wisdom.
Clowns served to fill in the gaps in the show and keep the audience engaged.
We are clowns because what else can someone be in such a stupid world? Because inside each of us there is a lawless clown trying to escape. Because nothing dismantles authority as much as ridiculing it.
Because since the dawn of time, tricksters have embraced life’s contradictions, creating coherence through confusion.
Because fools are at once fearsome and innocent, wise and stupid, entertaining and dissident, healers and sources of laughter, scapegoats and subversives. Because jesters always manage to fail, always say yes, always have hope, and always feel deeply.
Because a clown can survive anything.
SONÁMBULOS
Sleepwalkers (2013)
They are neither asleep nor awake, their eyes are open but they seem absent. Two clowns with insomnia play with the irresistible and juicy pleasure of the present, they are sick with dreams, with dreaming together. A fun play of clowning and silence.
Creation and Direction
Manuel Ariga y Michel Alzaga
Clowns
Manuel Ariga y Michel Alzaga
TRAYECTORY
- Marist University Festival, Guadalajara (2013).
- Risaterapia México Anniversary (Dec 2013)
- Jalisco State Theatre Exhibition (2015)
- Presentation of ‘Circo hecho a mano’ (Handmade Circus), Querétaro (2015)
- Presentation at Teatro de Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Mar 2016)
- 1st ‘Sou Riso’ Clown Festival, International Clown Meeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil (2016)
- 1st food cycle at Foro Periplo, Guadalajara (May 2016)
- Latin American Street Theatre Festival, Zipaquirá, Colombia (2017)
NEÓFITOS
Newcomers (2015)
Neófitos unfolds a sequence of seemingly trivial moments, which together reveal a present marked by frustration, constant failure, and emptiness. Through pale and pained characters, the work delves into irony, exploring states of abandonment and raw simplicity.
Neófitos, in essence, is a look at the inexperience and vulnerability of the novice when faced with a world that overwhelms them.
Creation and Direction
Michel Alzaga
Clowns
Manuel Arias, Mireya Guzmán, Michel Alzaga y Germán Águila.
Photography
Julio Lopez e ignacio Petersen
Production
Co. Claunódromo
Lighting
Fernando Cano
TRAYECTORY
- Presentation at the Periplo International Festival (2016)
- Presentation at the Jalisco State Theater Exhibition (2015)
- Season at the Vivian Blumenthal Theater (2016)
- Autumn Festival in Hermosillo, Sonora (2015)
- Season at the Jaime Torres Bodet Theater, Guadalajara (2017)
- Street Theater Festival in Zipaquirá, Colombia (2017)
LLÉVAME
Take me (2017)
A lonely scrap dealer and inventor sets off on a journey in his wagon and devotes his time to bringing to life the memory of a love that could never be. To do so, he decides to build various inventions and machines that create a dreamlike world, thereby constructing the memory of that lost love.
Idea Original y clown en escena
Manuel Arias
Dirección
Michel Alzaga
Vestuario
Alondra García
Diseño y construcción de escenografía
Francisco Durán
Producción
Cía Cláunodromo
Iluminación
Mónica Camacho
Música original
Emmanuel Campos
Coproducción
Maldita comedia
Fotografía
Halejandro Cortes
TRAYECTORY
- Periplo Forum Anniversary, Guadalajara (Jan 2017)
- Presentation of the comedy series “Tiempos absurdos” (Mar 2017)
- “Cultura itinerante” program, Guadalajara (Aug-Sep 2017)
- Caravanas Culturales, in Guanajuato (Sep-Nov 2017)
- Cultural Centers, Guadalajara (Oct. 2017)
- Zacatecas Street Theater Festival (Oct. 2017)
- Guadalajara Cultural Festival “SUCEDE 2017” (Oct.-Nov. 2017)
- Festival of Light in Chihuahua (Mar. 2018)
- Merequetengue Festival in Chihuahua (Mar 2018)
May Cultural - Festival, Guadalajara (May 2018)
- Wednesday theater clown cycle, Alarife Theater, Gdl. (May 2018)
- San Luis Potosí Desert Festival (June 2018)
- Nuevo León Theater Festival (Aug 2018)
- Arteaga Coahuila Book Fair (Sep 2018)
COLOMBIA TOUR - Opening of the 4th Circus Festival “El Globo,” Manizales (June 2017)
- 3rd Latin American Theater Festival in Zipaquirá (July 2017)
- La Aldea Cultural Center in Bogotá (July 2017)
IN POLAND - OFCA Olesnica Arts and Circus Festival (Aug 2018)
LA VACA
The cow (2018)
La Vaca is a place of passage that serves as a refuge for those who have strayed from their path. Four beings, situated between animal and human, between the ridiculous and the absurd, come together in this space, determined to abandon themselves. Here, they will encounter each other’s gaze and their own emptiness, dancing with their toes, and must undergo three transformations in order to free themselves and continue their journey.
Direction
Michel Alzaga
Clowns
Rubén Pérez, Ana Alatorre, Laura Castellanos y Germán Águila
Masks and scenography
Utopia
Costume
Alondra García
Original music
Erick Vélez
Lighting design
Mónica Camacho
Production
Cía. Claunódromo
Executive production
Germán Águila y Laura Castellanos
Photography
Halejandro Cortes y Leo Cortés
Graphic design
Germán Águila y Michel Alzaga
Original idea
Laura Castellanos
TRAYECTORY
- Premiere in the clown cycle at the Alarife Martín Casillas Theater (2018)
- Opening of the Autumn Cultural Festival in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco (2018)
- 2nd Jalisco Circus Exhibition (2018)
Dance cycle at Larva in Guadalajara (2019) - Fridays at the circus at Larva in Guadalajara (2019)
- Jalisco State Theater Exhibition (2018)
- Chapala Lakeshore Arts Center (2019)
- Rulfiano Arts Festival (2025)
- Performance at the Atkinson Cultural Center CUCS (2025)
EL FRÁGIL VIENTRE DE LA BESTIA
The fragile womb of the beast (2020)
Birth, encountering the world, the fears and joys that this provokes. A newborn clown shares his first moments, empathy, and hunger in a dance of balance. Suddenly, the sun goes down and everything changes. It is here that this character will try to achieve an identity through masks, power, and extravagance.
Creation, Direction and Clown
Michel Alzaga
Technical production
Sara Don y Germán Águila
Costume
Alondra García
Music
Midi Pipe
Scenography
Iván López
Photography
Alonzo Bojorquez
Production
Cía. Claunódromo
Lighting
Fernando Cano
TRAYECTORY
- Creative residency “La mecedora” at the Jalisco Dance Festival 2019
- Creative residency “Lume teatro” Campinas, Brazil 2020
- Premiere at Foro Periplo as part of the 2020 Circus Cycle
- 2nd Circus Cycle at Larva Guadalajara in 2021
- 4th Theater Marathon at the Teatro Polivalente in San Luis Potosí in 2022
- Autumn Cultural Festival in Lagos de Moreno 2021
- Periplo International Festival 2022
PARTNERSHIPS
Over the years, collaborations have been established with other companies and production companies.
*Collaboration with the company “Bravisimo” Dir. Juan Mendez
*Participation in the play “Lo que aquí se sueña” (What is dreamed here). Opening of the Sucede Festival and Papirolas Festival. Dir. Cesar Omar Barrios. (2020)
*Collaborations with the company “Los banyasos”
*Collaboration with the company Impulsus comediantes
*Collaboration in the show “Wanderlust” by Mireya Guzmán
*Participation in the show “Munay: un corazón que cabalga” by the equestrian ensemble Vitana