Compagnie MPTA

Trained at France’s top circus schools, Juan Ignacio Tula and Stefan Kinsman are two brilliant Cyr wheel artists, who make thrilling theatre performing in slender steel hoops, arms and legs stretched taut, spinning like a gyroscope. Santa Madera was created under the guidance of acrobat/trampoline genius Mathurin Bolze whose company has produced some of the Mime Festival’s most breath-taking shows.

Inspired by indigenous South American rituals, the choreography seems to hurl the artists through time and space, evoking the violence of combatants in a pagan power game. Whirling at the limits of control, they tell their story through amazing strength and agility, bravery and grace.