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Vic Heredero

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Queer folklore risk

Country: Spain

Discipline: Circus – Theater – Performance

Type of public space: Urban – All types

PLATFORM 2025 - 2028 2027 creations

Biography

I am a circus artist and creator working at the intersection of contemporary circus, urban culture, and performative experimentation. With a background in audiovisual systems engineering, my practice bridges physical performance and technological thinking, exploring how bodies, sound, space, and digital tools can coexist on stage.

My work is rooted in circus as a living, evolving language. I am interested in expanding its codes beyond tradition, bringing it closer to urban sensibilities, nightlife aesthetics, and hybrid dramaturgies. I develop projects that question representation, vulnerability, and spectacle, often working from personal and political perspectives. The body is central in my creations: as territory, as resistance, and as a poetic device.

I create stage pieces, cabarets, and site-specific performances, collaborating with musicians, drag performers, and multidisciplinary artists. I am particularly drawn to processes that mix humour, risk, and critical reflection, allowing the audience to oscillate between laughter and discomfort.

My artistic practice is process-oriented. Research, improvisation, and collective creation are fundamental to my methodology. I aim to contribute to a contemporary circus scene that is bold, porous, and in constant dialogue with other artistic and social contexts.

Artistic project

"Some of us don't have the option of not putting our bodies on the line" is a research-based public-space performance that explores the

presence, vulnerability and power of a travesti body outside traditional venues. Starting from Marrero’s phrase, “Some of us cannot afford the luxury of not putting our bodies on the line,” the project investigates how dissident identities inhabit shared space, how they are perceived, and how they can

reclaim visibility in environments where they are often marginalised.

The piece combines multiple performative languages—circus, gesture and elements of travesti theatricality—to create an adaptable format that can unfold in urban and outdoor contexts. By situating a dissident body in the middle of public space, the work generates real-time interaction with passersby, challenging assumptions about who belongs, who is looked at, and who sets the rules of public presence.

The project is accompanied by an archival research process on the history of travesti performers in the Spanish performing arts landscape, bringing erased narratives into the present and informing the creation with cultural memory. Ultimately, the work seeks to develop a scenic travesti language that can communicate beyond queer-coded spaces, creating a shared experience. It is conceived as a living performance that transforms according to the physical, social and cultural conditions of each public setting."

Format: still on research

Size of audience: still on research

Specific location: still on research

Timing/duration: still on research