THE COMPANY
""El Cruce is encounter, exchange, and diversity; an opportunity to explore new paths and broaden horizons. It is a moment of synchronicity in time and space — that instant of reinvention where the extraordinary happens."
We are a contemporary circus and physical theatre company that, since 2014, has been exploring the intersection of disciplines and performative languages.
Founded by Nicoletta Battaglia and Rubén Río, CÍA EL CRUCE emerged as an artistic project focused on researching and creating through the body, objects, and visual dramaturgy.
Our work is multidisciplinary, poetic, and intimate, developing a unique scenic grammar where the everyday and the extraordinary, the real and the imaginary, the spectacular and the sensitive coexist.
We believe the stage is a space for encounter, play, and transformation. Each creation is an adventure into unknown territories — a chance to discover and share new perspectives.
We explore performative languages where technique, emotion, humour, and imagination intertwine in an organic and narrative way.
We are drawn to what moves, surprises, and connects. We are committed to a living, expressive, and honest art form, where risk, emotion, and thought come together.
We are passionate about moving audiences without words, creating images and imaginaries, discovering surprising actions, and building poetic universes that forge a direct connection with the public.
Since our founding, we have created five shows:
Errantes, Punto y Coma, Albird, Hidrática, and Koosha.
We have presented our work at festivals, theatres, and unconventional spaces in over 15 countries — including Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Turkey, South Korea, and Ecuador — consolidating a solid and versatile artistic path both nationally and internationally.
RUBEN RÌO
Balancer of ideas and juggler of actions, he always has something on his hands. Trained in circus and theater, he develops his stage language from an eclectic experience as a playwright, director and performer. Research, curiosity and the desire to explore new paths of scenic expression are his main artistic motivations.
NICOLETTA BATTAGLIA
With an agile and dynamic energy, Nicoletta is always looking for new projects and challenges to overcome. He began his career studying dance and sees himself traveling around Europe to train professionally in the circus with international references on the contemporary scene. Her motivation and persistence make Nicoletta a multi-skilled person. Turning upside down or dancing with objects, digital design, production and project management... Nicoletta turns challenges into moments of overcoming from which great opportunities arise.