Pablo Panailillo, Nicolas Palma, Cristobal Espoz

QUIMERA

Finalist 2024

THE PROJECT / Three circus performers, united by straps, explore the expression of their relationship through this common bond. Acrobats and objects become one. How can intimacy reveal itself in a group? How can an individual be part of a whole? QUIMERA invites the audience on a journey from the individual to the collective.

BIO / The Charge Maximale de Rupture (CMR) company was created as part of the 31st graduating class of the CNAC in 2020. Awarded a prize by the Circus Commission of the Association Beaumarchais-SACD in 2021, the company is based on its plurality, carrying out in parallel different creative projects, each developed by at least one of the founding members of CMR in collaboration with other artists to form creative collectives.

Pablo Penailillo invited Nicolas Palma and Cristobal Espoz to collaborate on the QUIMERA project (creation 2025). The 3 authors, all from Chile, have known each other for a long time. Each of them completed a different training course in Europe, Pablo at CNAC in 2019, Nicolas at ESAC in 2020 and Cristobal at ESACTO-Lido in 2023, and after their studies they met again in France in 2022 to create and share together.