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Lumen explores grief as a collective process of healing and resilience, focusing on how acceptance, with all its complexities, can mobilise action and community. Through a combination of Chinese pole, interactive projections, and real-time body-tracking technology, the work brings often invisible emotions to life, showing how loss can be transformed into action.
Inspired by my experience in Palestine and Adrien M & Claire B’s Hakanai performance, Lumen fuses movement, abstraction, and technology to create dreamlike scenes where light interacts with me, reflecting the grief, hope, and strength that comes from healing together. This piece seeks to raise awareness about grief and resistance from an intersectional perspective, connecting feminist and political struggles and affirming that issues of social justice, including Palestine, are also a feminist issue.

Lumen is an interdisciplinary circus piece that uses the Chinese pole as a physical, emotional and symbolic axis. Through a real-time projection system with video mapping and body tracking, developed in collaboration with technician Joel Beleña, the performer’s body and the stage space become living surfaces of light and image.

Leire graduated with a master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering and worked designing satellites, but dance and pole dancing led her to discover her true passion.

He trained at the SALTO Circus School (Portugal) and graduated from the Circus degree
Contemporary and Performance Art from Fontys Circus and Performance Art (ACAPA) in the Netherlands, specializing in pole, as well as training in aerial rope, straps, pole dance and flying pole.

He is working on his own project, Lumen, which he directs and stars in. In this proposal, he combines his passion for social and political circus with his passion for technology. Together with Joel Beleña, also a computer scientist from Madrid, they are developing all the technology necessary for this ambitious project.