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Marialuz

tightrope walker and clown

Marialuz, artistic name of Maria Druck de Aguiar, is a tightrope walker, clown, scenic illuminator, art educator and circus arts teacher. She is also a mother, a player in capoeira and other traditional Brazilian arts, a lover of photography, video art, music, philosophy. His circus training
started in São Paulo in 1996 when he started to attend Circo Escola Picadeiro and specialized in Equilibrismo in Arame Tenso with Mestra Alicinha Medeiros between 96 and 2000. from Rio de Janeiro that brought together students and teachers of circus projects from all over the country

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and teachers from the CNAC - circus training center of the French government, the event consisted of a month-long immersion that culminated in the creation of the Circo da Madrugada show directed by the founder of Circo Arcaos, Pierrot Bidon, a unique experience that served as a window to the circus movements in Brazil and in the world, as well as for the Brazilian cultural richness and diversity and influenced the artist to delve deeper into the studies and experiences of traditional cultures as a path to her artistic training. In this period, in parallel with the circus school, he also took classes in Brazilian Dance at Teatro Brincante, Contemporary Dance with the Italian dancer Cristina Salmistraro, Capoeira Angola in the Angoleiro Sim Sinhô group and joined the Cachuera Group! where he researched and practiced the traditional cultures of Southeast Brazil, among other activities.

 

In 2001 she became a mother, an important change in her condition and life that also influenced her decision to take a course
and in 2002 he joined the Faculty of Performing Arts at ECA USP where he expanded his range of studies in Arts, reconciling his previous experience in traditional circus and Brazilian arts with the arts of performance, theater and other languages. In the same year, he resumed his balancing lessons at Oz-Academia, still with Mestra Alicinha, participated in the collective of artists that founded Circo no Beco, an event that continues today and aims to promote street art and the “hat culture”. .

In 2003, he joined the Central do Circo artist collective with the then newly founded Cia Circo Delírio and in 2004 he toured South America with the group with the street show Mafíssimo Pan y Circo, having lived in Chile, Colombia and Vezuela and also operated in Peru and Ecuador.

In 2005, returning to Brazil, he continued his higher education in Performing Arts, where he aroused interest in Stage Lighting in the courses of Director Cibelle Forjaz.

In 2006, she started to work professionally in this area when a serious knee injury took her away from balancing and circus for an extended time.

In 2010, he obtained his higher degree, the same year his second child was born.

In 2014, she decides to have a surgical procedure on her knee to be able to return to balancing and in 2015 she resumes her activities and research with the Circus Arts, becoming a teacher at Galpão do Circo school and Projeto Aprendiz of the same school, pre-training and circus initiation courses. where she was a professor until 2020.

 

As an Aramista, he participated in 2016 in a workshop with the American Natalie Good and in 2017 in the 1st convention of Latin American Aramistas in Cali, Colombia, in that same year he took a semester course with Maíra Campos at the then “Galpão do Zanni” in Cotia -SP and in 2018 of the “wire in focus”  workshop at Tendal da Lapa.

 

In 2019, the Meeting of Equilibristas begins to hold at Tendal da Lapa, a space that aims to promote this circus art so rare and lacking in professionals and training spaces in South America. Since returning to research in circus arts, he has also sought to deepen his studies of clowns and physical comedy, taking courses with Val de Carvalho, Márcio Douglas, Grupo La Mínima, Guga Carvalho, Fernando Vieira and Paola Musatti between 2017 and 2020. .

 

In the second half of 2020, during the period of confinement, he also participated in a video art course with artist Anna Costa e Silva. His last artistic productions were the research processes of the QAZ, Brise and Bigosty and Red Jacket project, having presented a sample of the processes at the Mostra dos Equilibristas do Tendal and at the Astracânico Cabaret at Tendal da Lapa in 2021. from 2021, the Short Film “Crossing Yourself” by Felipe Nicking with the company Catavento de Goiania, premieres in March 2021; Aldir Blanc Law 2020, contemplated with the La Class group for maintenance of video work productions during the period of isolation; the comic wire number “My Red Jacket” that premiered in 2020 at “Praça do Circo” – an event of the Secretary of Culture. Currently, in addition to the QAZ project, still in the process of creation and implementation, he participates in the Mobile project with Cia Circo Delírio, contemplated by the PROAC LAB 2021 public notice and several occasional works with scenic lighting.

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