“It’s very difficult for someone to die something so personal.”
- The dancer and trapeze artist Maitane Azpiroz La Trapecionista has been trained in circus and dance (Pamplona, 1982). When he was creating Artxipielago's play by pulling the idea of the burden, he had to get pregnant and pass the witness to another mate. Now it doesn't represent it in the play, but it corrects it. The new work will put him on stage in different localities in Navarre: 23 April in Lodosa, 2 and 4 June in Zizur Mayor and 15 October in Aoiz.
From little dances, but then you immersed yourself in the circus. How do you remember it? When studying philosophy in San Sebastian, I was looking for answers, but since my questions did not end, they did not cover the needs, the second year
of my studies I went to Barcelona to satisfy my curiosity. I was in a dance school, but it was too institutional and too rigid for me, and I saw it wasn't time.
The circus is different. Closer and more supportive. I met a friend and he told me that they had to do a circus workshop at the Miraculous Theatre in Pamplona. After the course I felt a good premonition and since then I make the circus. At that time, I also started dancing contemporary dance.
Why did he choose the trapeze?
I wanted to be a gown on the earth, but I realized that throwing my body was scary to me, and I saw that the trapeze was scary to me. Also, I really liked the height. The two things coincide.
You have the Artxipielago show at hand. How has the creative process been? I started researching Gune in creative space with matter, area and body memory. Sand transport in the form of
a load. In short, within me all of them are unnecessary burdens, impossible projects, impossible loving relationships -- burden of everything that has happened in life. And how we take it from one place to another, but we can't release it. That was the root, but then it's been changing.
When you became pregnant you had to change the project, it is now represented by Teresa Magallón Cortés. How has the work affected? I had to make a
decision. I passed on my role to him, but it is a very difficult issue: the sensitivity to the body and the relationship with every element is a very personal reflection. So I saw that I had to take a different perspective. In addition, for me, physical quality was very important.
What does it mean when it talks about physical quality? The density of the body, how it moves, what the motor
is and how you feel the influence of an external object or element… That is, how the body reacts to that element or to those stimuli.
How was the decision? I think I made a good decision. In the process, I've felt a lot of emotions, at first good, happy, but also afraid, because it's very difficult for someone to show something
so personal. It's been a tough challenge. In addition, the fact that a person with another sensitivity dies offers him something else.
Do you intend to take the witness
again? I don't know. At first it was my intention to do it again, but I think something else. However, we have to be in shape and I am not as yet.
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Both the circus and maternity require dedication. How do you bring conciliation? Since they are both demanding, at first everything was very difficult, because it is very difficult to manage frustration. You want to go train, do the things you like, but you realize you can't be very limited. I think it is important to have a
support network, especially at the beginning. Normally we who are mothers are a reference person for our child, I have felt only in some moments.
Once pregnant, when did you stop training? I danced until the last month
and left them when I was carrying the trapeze, the cloths and the climbing for about five months. I remember climbing and I couldn't walk around the weight of my stomach, so I decided it didn't make sense if I didn't enjoy it.
"There will be mothers who want to be calm, resting and others who want to continue working, that is, to lead a normal life, always knowing what the limitations are.
Have you been tried? During pregnancy, everyone told me to leave the hobby. I find it very bad that people do that. If a
person likes to ride a bicycle, why don't they? Your body is used to it. Abandonment may endanger the identity of the mother. If you leave an important part of your personality you feel sad and it is very dangerous for pregnancy. I know what I can do without endangering my life, you do not have to tell me.
So is there a tendency to disable pregnant people? There will be mothers who want to be calm and others who want to continue with hobbies, that is, to lead a normal life, always knowing what the limitations are. These are options, like motherhood is chosen. The experience can be
very nice, but also very ugly because it is dependent, and we have to speak naturally.
Always looking for
"My strength is the sensitivity I have about humanity, that is, how I feel, what kind of relationships we produce, where we generate, representativeness, emotion -- I'm in a constant search for beauty and movement. Where is beauty? What is it? Or how can it be transmitted? When I talk about beauty, I'm not talking about beauty based on traditional canons, but contrasts of sensibilities."
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