Cirque Pardi!
Eva Ordoñez - she/her
Physical theater and circus artist
Country: France
Discipline: Circus – Danse – Music – Theater
Type of public space: All types
PLATFORM 2025 - 2028 Open call #1
Biography
Eva discovers circus in the squats of Buenos Aires. During her time at the Le Lido circus school in Toulouse, she develops the art of trapeze-suspension by exploring her physical limits. Slowness, endurance, strength, and danger are her main areas of focus. In 2012, she co-founds the Oktobre company, and with the shows Oktobre and Midnight Sun, she defends a tragicomic circus-theater style. Eva then joins the Cirque Pardi! collective and discovers a nomadic lifestyle. She participates as an external eye for Rouge Nord and as a circus performer for Low-Cost Paradise. In parallel, she works as a professor of artistic research in several circus schools. She is currently finishing her training at the FAIAR and is launching her new creation in public space, Bleu Électrique.
Artistic project
In Bleu Électrique, a cinematic atmosphere permeates the space. The characters stand at the boundary, between the debris and oblivion. Beneath an apparent ugliness that reflects a raw reality, Bleu Électrique transforms into a dreamlike beauty, light and captivating.
Events do not always follow a predictable path. Sometimes, a strange and unsettling magic arises, disrupting the established order. Here, humanity unfolds in all its splendor, cruelty, and absurdity. Bleu Électrique is an artistic project that brings life to the outdoor space, its characters, and its objects. What, at first glance, seems familiar and ordinary gradually transforms before our eyes into a strange, unknown, almost mysterious place.
In Bleu Électrique, the circus research is based on replacing traditional circus apparatus with everyday objects. By integrating these objects into the landscape, the circus elements blend into the environment, becoming almost invisible. Then, suddenly, the circus gesture emerges unexpectedly, disturbing the audience and erasing the boundary between the everyday and the extraordinary.
Format: walkabout, performance
Size of audience: 400 people maximum
Specific location: outdoor space
Timing / duration: 70 min
