Failure serves curiosity and vice versa as the stage becomes a battlefield free of taboos. In this theatrical creation, the misanthropic and buffoonish clown Bila delves into a perfect disorder; broken acrobatics, erratic dances and failed puppets remain attentive and complicit to a dystopian reality.
In sordid humour, gritty questions and a distorted body we find the blurred line between beauty and ugliness, between perfection and imperfection, between the human and the inhuman.
A reverential salute to the most forgotten corners of our own backpack…
Nathan Glaister is a circus artist and dancer originally from Barcelona and currently based in Brussels, Belgium. He began his training at the AFUK circus school in Denmark, before moving on to the ACAPA circus and performing arts college in the Netherlands, where he specialised in acrobatic dance and Chinese pole, while also receiving tuition at Phillip Gaullier’s theatre and clown school in Paris. Since graduating in 2023, he has developed his work as a creator and performer, combining clown work, dance and acrobatics to create a narrative based on physical language, improvisation and mistakes as creative opportunities, developing work that gives imagination a free rein unfettered by taboos. His work Bila, an Ode to the Wretched was nominated for the BNG Bank Circusprijs (2023) and the Jacques de Leeuw Circus ACAPA (2023). He has toured festivals in Belgium and the Netherlands such as CircusBende, CIRCOLO, Latitude 50 and MAD festival. Among other companies and organisations, he has worked and collaborated with Nicanor d’Elia (NDE), RIGOLO Tanz Theater (Switzerland), Lisard Tranis and Akira Yoshida. Now, his first work as a performer and creator, BILA, will premiere this October in Barcelona at the Antic Teatre with the support of KONVENT circ.
