Kalabanté Circus, Iron Skulls & Quim Moya, Sxip’s Hour of Charm

In support with Institut Ramon Llull

Iron Skulls

Iron Skulls is a experimental dance company from Barcelona; founded in 2012 with b-boying group called Iron Skulls Crew. Composed by dancers from a few points from Spain, identified their personal style and desire to investigate the boundaries of movement. Hereby, their members focused in disciplines like martial arts, contemporary dance, urban dance, hip-hop, musical production, design, and fashion, giving them tools to develop their own style.

Quim Moya

Quim Moya is a visual and avant-gardist artist who explores lot of possibilities in arts and more specifically painting. He has studied in different Catalan schools of Arts and followed specializations in graphic, design and multimedia communications. In 2006, he was co-founder of Candida Company. It was his first experience to perform in live in speed-painting. The success of his first “Light Painting” pushed him to follow in that direction and he made of it his specialty. Since the last years, he has participated in many Festivals as Tàrrega, Tollwood Festival in München, Terrasse de Paris and he performed for lot of brands as Mercedes, Vodafone, on live TV programs, Marlboro, SAP, Wella, FIFA, MTC, Schwarzkopf, Intel, Puma, Huawei, Maserati, British Telecom, Porsche, etc. Furthermore, he has painted lot of particular faces in weddings, birthdays and private events in Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Morocco, Kuwait, Qatar, Thailand, Turkey, South Africa and India.

Sxip Shirey

Sxip Shirey is a producer/composer based out of New York City. He began his relationship with the circus as the touring band and composer  for the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus in the late 90s. He then became co-composer and music director for Anti-Gravity’s “Crash Test Dummies” at the New Victory Theater on Broadway. He is currently music director  and composer for the international touring circus arts show LIMBO which was developed between Strut N Fret productions in Australia and Underbelly in London with South Bank Center as a co-producer. Sxip has been a feature performer at TED. He wrote the music for the short film “Statuesque” written and directed by Neil Gaiman and starring Bill Nighy and recently performed with Strut N Fret at Madonna’s Birthday Party.