Performance: You have to listen to Juanita’s Talk – because it’s time we cleaned up our act!
Juanita’s Talk is an interactive environmental show for the whole family by Ireland’s leading female clown Angelica Santander.
Juanita wants to lift the lid on your recycling bin. What should we do with all this plastic? Where does all that plastic we recycle actually go? What can we do to stop it? Juanita can’t answer these questions on her own – she needs you tohelp her. So she invites the audience to assist in fulfilling her quest for a plastic-free world. Using projections, music, dance and clowning, plastic pollution is tackled in an provocative, entertaining and ridiculous way. An important, urgent and utterly hilarious show full of hope for our future.
Juanita’s Talk is followed by a led discussion on positive solutions to plastic pollution.
Biography
Angelica is Ireland’s leading female clown. She was the first artistic director of the Dublin Circus Project. She is originally from Chile but has been based in Dublin since 2002. She graduated from the FETAC Technical Theatre course, Inchicore College, 2005 and completed a master’s programme in Theatre Studies, St Patrick’s college Dublin, 2009. She started clowning in 2009 and since then she has participated in the courses Clown Through Mask, and Joey and Auguste, with the renowned teacher Sue Morrison.
Her artistic work combines theatrical, circus, and clowning elements; she strives to create original work that exposes and questions the essence of our humanity in a genuine and compassionate way. Her work explores themes that are relevant to our times, using these to create challenging and inspiring performances.She believes in the transformative power of a performance, where we can see and be seen, be acknowledged, and value our humanity with all its beauty and ridiculousness.