Artist in Residence
The Artist in Residency program is a new initiative of the Budapest Aerial Meeting, hosted and supported by Inspiral Circus Centre and made possible with the support of Teatroskop.
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Taking place in the days leading up to the annual event, the residency offers selected aerial and contemporary circus artists dedicated time and space for creative research, development, and exchange. The program supports artistic growth and encourages connection with the local scene through a final informal work-in-progress presentation.
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This initiative aims to strengthen international collaboration and contribute to the development of contemporary circus in Hungary and the region.
SOIE EN SILENCE
Silvana Sanchirico & António Arbués
This project invites us to experience our inner emptiness and vertigo, our states of solitude, sadness, euphoria, joy, peace... States that are often born in silence and can overflow our being. Through the experience of silence and connection with our bodies and emotions, we will move through these states, inviting the audience to experience them with us.
We will fill our bodies with this silence, full of memories and stories, worked through by the resilience and discipline of the internal martial arts, which will bring to our bodies the precision, relaxation, justice and harmony that can be found through the mastery of inner silence. Water will also be present, cradling our emotions with its sounds and used for the sound composition that will envelop the show.
We'll be fusing solo and duo acrobatics with the principles of the martial arts, and we'll also be working on aerial acrobatics, using straps and aerial silks. The aerial fabrics will be 2.5m long, suspended at a height of 8m and completely wet with water, making the void and the space between them and the ground exist in a different way.
Re/compose
Marta Matovelle & Milena Marie Hofmann
Re/compose is a contemporary aerial duet by Marta Matovelle and Milena Hofmann that dismantles both the apparatus and the technique to explore the beauty of instability. Through custom-made trapeze they challenge aerial norms and step into a shared journey of physical and emotional transformation, one that embraces failure, rupture, and resilience as creative forces.
Rooted in the philosophy of Kintsugi, Re/compose seeks out what emerges when the trapeze breaks, shifts, or fails. Rather than hiding the cracks, the performers expose them, inviting the audience into a fragile, ever-evolving landscape of movement, material, and meaning.
The project began with an initial residency at Zirkusquartier (Switzerland) in 2024, followed by a creative phase at La Volière (France), and continued dramaturgical research in Zurich in summer 2025. During the Budapest Aerial Meeting, Marta and Milena will deepen their exploration of object manipulation in collaboration with the Hungarian artist Anna Weszelovszky, developing new performative dialogues between body and apparatus.
In early 2026, Re/compose will take part in the Circusnext Seeding Lab at Teatro Didascalia (PT), under the mentorship of Morgan Cosquer, before entering its final phase of creation and touring preparation.
