Roberto Magro

Roberto Magro is an artist, playwright, pedagogue and circus director. Formed in the Académie Fratellini, his work focuses on research on movement and on the relationship with the circus object. He has been the artistic director of the Scuola de Circ Flic of Torino, of the Creation Center La Central del Circ in Barcelona, and is currently the president of the Circusnext jury. He also has been trainer at the Rogelio Rivel circus school in Barcelona, at the ESAC Brussels circus school, the doch school in Stockholm, the Fontys Academy Tilburg, the Codarts school in Rotterdam and in Rio de Janeiro. He is the instigator of the Brocante Festival, where he brings together for meeting and creation purposes, consecrated artists and young ones who just left the circus school. Among others he has collaborated in playwriting with the companies Eia, Psirc or Los Galindos. He currently is the artistic coordinator of the inter-community projects of Kaunas (Lithuania), European Capital of Culture 2022.