A duo of acrobats rests six meters high, fed by the most suffering tension, ready to break anything that may seem to be standing still. The manoAmano Company exhibits how acrobatics takes a new shape when it is transferred from the floor that everybody steps on, to the air that everybody dreams of. From the southernmost South, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, the manoAmano Company tours around the world with its master piece of precision and vertigo. A blackboard, an old trunk and a Chinese pole that leads onto the sky, are the few objects that decorate the scenario as if they were the sole destiny of these two characters. Action starts with a strange man that, deeply bored by monotony, sitting on his old trunk, contemplates the appearance of a tiny and eccentric lady that will teach him the secret of the naughty and acrobatic contact, thus developing between them a game above his trunk-armchair, handling it, changing its meaning till reaching nothingness itself, to the verge of uncertainty, to the match-mismatch where nothing exists without the aforementioned contact. An orange ball slides down the surface of our hero, giving a new meaning to juggling towards the modern, as a clear explanation of how ephemeral and powerful a contact may be. The artists challenge the audience, showing that years of practice have tamed movement to the utmost subtlety. Two individuals chosen from the audience, take a funny turn in the scene in a risky sketch, in which the main characters become key players of group acrobatics. This game allows them to continue with the flight of their acrobatic duo, creating their own world of illogical logic of gravity. Around Tango and dancing turns, finally the manoAmano Company performs its most acclaimed sketch, the one in which the artists truly risk their life. Through precision –only equalled by that of watchmakers- the acrobats perform different figures in the air, at a height of six meters, without any safety device apart from their own bodies, making fun of the force of gravity as if they were naughty children, showing the audience that while there is contact, nothing can be broken. The manoAmano Circus Company does not fly, they know they never will, but they keep trying anyhow.
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