MURO DE ESPUMA
Circus, theater, and puppet company rooted in Usaquen.
Muro de Espuma is one of the pioneering performing arts companies in the district. Its trajectory has woven together circus, theater, puppetry, and arts education into a body of work that has left a lasting mark on Usaquen’s performing arts scene and on the development of contemporary circus in Colombia.
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Muro de Espuma is an artistic company founded in 1983 by Felipe Garcia Silva and currently directed by Andrea Ruiz. Over the years, it has developed an interdisciplinary practice that brings together circus, theater, puppetry, dramaturgy, pedagogy, and stage creation, shaping a distinctive language within the live arts. Its work has given form to performative worlds that are joyful, grotesque, festive, and carnivalesque, where play, risk, imagination, and the poetics of the body hold a central place.
More than a company with a long trajectory, Muro de Espuma has been an active force in the consolidation of circus arts in Colombia. Its creative, production, and educational processes have contributed to the strengthening of dramaturgy, staging, and research around clowning, physical theater, and animal-free circus practices. In Usaquen, its presence has been constant and defining: it has built community, fostered cultural processes across the district, and turned its work into a vital reference point within the performing arts memory that Memoria Viva seeks to preserve.
About Muro de espuma
Artist Profile
Discipline
Circus, theater, puppetry, and interdisciplinary stage creation
Trajectory
Artistic company founded in 1983, with a long-standing and foundational presence in Colombian performing arts
Connection to Usaquen
Artistic and cultural practice connected to the district since 2000, with sustained work in Barrancas, Verbenal, Servita, and other community and cultural spaces in Usaquen
Milestones
Twenty-one editions of the International Circus Festival, with a founding base in Servita; recognition in 2023 for the 40-year trajectory of Asociacion Cultural Muro de Espuma; Cultural Embassy of Colombia in Mexico in 2023 with the OEI and the SCRD; development of pedagogical processes, festivals, diploma programs, and projects in collaboration with cultural and city institutions; Iberescena Award in 2020 and creation awards for large-format works in 2021 and 2025
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