Wires Crossed
- Cineál Tionscadail
- Circus and Street Arts, Performing Arts
- Teideal
- Wires Crossed
- Irish Partner
- Galway Community Circus
- Co-Partners
- Ecole de Cirque de Bruxelles (Belgium)
- The Serious Road Trip Romania
- Universite Libre De Bruxelles, Belgium.
- Ecole de Cirque de Bruxelles (Belgium)
- Funding Strand
- Cooperation Projects
- Year Funded
- 2019
- Funding Amount
- €200,000
Wires Crossed: Head, Heart, Balance, is a Creative Europe small scale cooperation project, running from Oct 2019 – Sept 2022. The programme will focus on the creation of a new professional Funambulism Ensemble 'Bassalto', the creation of a new funambulism performance and scientific research into the neurological effects of funambulism on the brain.
Led by Director Sergi Ots, Choreographer Mariona Moya Monsuner and Technical Manager Bruno Frenette, Bassalto will complete residencies in Galway, Brussels and Timisoara over the course of the project, performing a show in each place with a group of 10 amateurs from each location.
Bassalto is an all female ensemble. The name 'Bassalto' is a fusion of 'basalt'-taken from the basalt columns of the Giant's Causeway, Ireland, and 'basso'/'alto'- 'low' and 'high' from Italian, referencing the wires at different heights that will be used for their performance. Their debut performance, also called BassAlto, will premiere in Galway on 15th July 2022 and will also be performed during the LifeLine Spectacle on 16 July, 2022.
BassAlto residencies in 2022
- 11-15 April Brussels, Belgium
- 12-18 June Timisoara, Romania
- 6-17 July in Galway, Ireland, with the premiere of BassAlto on 15th July.
Wires Crossed also received Erasmus+ funding.
'Creative Europe funding is providing Galway Community Circus the opportunity to co-create one of our most ambitious projects to date, through vital support from our partners and the Creative Europe team. This is providing us the confidence to push the boundaries of our work through an innovative, cross-sectoral project, building relationships with partners in new countries, increasing the scale of our work, and exploring links with sectors that we have not engaged with before, therefore supporting longer-term development of both our organisation and the European Youth and Social Circus sector.'Across Borders Across the Board Vol 3 2017–2019
Achieving the Impossible: LifeLine Highwire Spectacle Mini Documentary
A mini documentary about the LifeLine highwire spectacle produced and presented by Galway Community Circus that took place in Galway, Ireland on 16th July, 2022 as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.
- Produced and presented by Galway Community Circus
- Artistic Director Ulla Hokkanen
- Producer Becca Clayton
- BassAlto Artistic Team: Ponten Pie / Sergi Ots (Creation/Director), Cia La Corcoles (Creation/Choreography), Gil Mortio (Musical Director), Vincent Wauters (Artistic Director), Bruno Frenette (Technical Designer), Margaux Fabre (Production Coordinator)
- BassAlto artists: Grace Neville-Evans, Suzon Gheur, Louise Mercadier, Carlotta Risitano, and Klara Sköldulf Philipp.
Wires Crossed Conference 2021
Head, Heart, Balance: The Art of Funambulism Conference took place on Friday 10th and Saturday 11th of July, 2021. The conference was free and part of the Creative Europe funded co-operation project between Ecole de Cirque de Bruxelles, Galway Community Circus, The Serious Road Trip Romania, Université libre de Bruxelles and the European Funambulism Network that supports artistic and participatory excellence in funambulism.