Amer i Africa Circ cia artistas de circo contemporaneo
Amer and Àfrica are two circus artists specialized in hand to hand. They met in a series of Vertical workshops at Central del Circ in Barcelona in 2011. Since then, they have been attending intensive courses to improve their technic and discover their own language. Throughout the use of objects they find the way of understanding and perform their discipline, what makes them able to explore new possibilities of expressing the fragility of movement and shape.
Àfrica Llorens comes from professional Karate Shotokan competition. Amer Kabbani, comes from the world of education, circus and clown. This creates a fusion between technic and precision and performance and acting, what leads them to come out with two small shows where they please the audience with some minutes of balance, unbalance and rebalance.
In 2013 they win Besmina price which allows them to initiate the creation of a new show, now under construction, with the guidance of Roberto Magro, artistic director at Central del Circ.
Àfrica Llorens comes from the world of Karate competition. She enters the circus after being a member of Acrosport group at INEFC Barcelona, university where she studies for 4 years, taking part in Eropean gimnastrades and local performances. In 2010 she attends an intensive circus stage at school Balthazar in Montpellier. She does verticals courses at La Central del Circ and also trains in acrobatic balancing and hand to hand as flyer under the guidance of different teachers. Her career does not stop and she explores contemporary dance with Aina de Gispert, as well as other circus technics.
Amer Kabbani is hand to hand base since the first moment he discovers the circus. He attends regular courses in Rogelio Rivel Circus School and intensive ones with different teachers of his speciality. He also studies German wheel technic and learns juggling on his own. He is also a member of the circus company Bauala and they have performed in several festivals around Catalonia and Spain. He studied clown for three years at Factoria Di-Mô and created two clown numbers that performed in artistic cabarets. He performs at Entre Sillas, a show that has been on stage at Barcelona´s Cafè Teatre Llantiol for a year.