EZ

ELENa ZANZU

EZ explores the power dynamics and pact between artist and audience. EZ is a project around vulnerability, negotiation, consent, pain and care.

What happens when a human body is consensually tied and manipulated on stage? What reactions – physical, emotional and cognitive – occur in a person being manipulated, in a person manipulating and in a person observing the manipulation? Is there space for care? Can we laugh? Is it a ritual?

Questioning binarisms such as activity/passivity, domination/submission, male/female, pain/pleasure, artist/audience, EZ invites to the generation of safe(r) spaces where consent negotiation and care can manifest collectively.

EZ – which means NO in Basque – is an invitation to the YES, which is only possible when NO is also an option.

“Singular and deeply probing.”

— Around and About Circus

“Circusnext Laureate
2020-2021”

Premiere: 2022
Set-up: Indoor
Running time: 50 minutes
Age guidance: 12+
Touring party: 4
Minimum stage dimensions: 12m wide x 10m deep x 7m high
Language: EZ is available in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan
Authorship, Direction, and Performance: Elena Zanzu
Dramaturgical Accompaniment: Carla Rovira Pitarch
Sound Space: Odil Bright, Adele Madau
Light Space: Anna Boix Álvarez
Light technique: Marieta Rojo / Esther Porcel
Rigging and technical coordination: Sarah Jeneway
Apnea Coaching: Juanma Molleja
Photography and Video: Mila Ercoli, Tristán Pérez-Martín, Clara Pedrol
Graphic: La Tecla Studio, Cor Sendra
Production: Elena Zanzu
Coproduction: Circusnext, Mercat de les Flors
Support: De Mar a Mar / Department of Culture of Generalitat de Catalunya / Cie Claudio Stellato
Residencies: La Central del Circ / Espace Périphérique / La Grainerie / La Verrerie / La Caldera / CC Escartín / Cirko / C.I.N.E Sineu / L’Estruchm/ Spazio Flic
Circusnext 2020/2021
Elena Zanzu offers a wide range of wrap-around activities, including: post-show discussions, research laboratories, lecture-performances.

Contact us to find out more.
Elena Zanzu is an author, performer, researcher, dramaturg.
Their practical and theoretical interests revolve around gender, disability, ethics, and methodologies of artistic research. They have a Degree in Circus Arts Pedagogy from the National Circus School of Montreal, a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from the University of Bologna, a Certificate in Circus Dramaturgy from the CNAC National Centre for Circus Arts in France.
They have been a researcher with The Circus Dialogues (continued), a research project between circus practice and theory, at KASK University in Gent (2020-2022). Since 2015, they teach a subject on gender perspective in circus at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). They are a member of the collective of circus researchers CCCirque.
As a dramaturg, external eye and advisor on gender and ethics issues, they accompany different projects and companies. They create and facilitate workshops on consent negotiation, care, and creative processes. In 2019-2022 they were "creator in residence" in the ICUB program of the city of Barcelona. Since 2017, they give talks, lectures, and performance-conferences (Biennale of Thought, Congress of Young Researchers of University of Barcelona, etc.) and curate events on research, artistic practices, dramaturgy, gender. They published in various circus and performing arts research journals. They have directed several artistic research projects, such as A(h)! NO, rmalidades and Manipulaciones.
EZ is their first long show.
www.elenazanzu.com
For more information, check availability, please contact
EN/FR - Axel Satgé: axel@yelloweverything.com
ES/EN: Marina Arranz - marina@yelloweverything.com