Max Calaf Seve / Stage Utopia

Trampoline as a stage for risk, poetry and play

Cie. Max Calaf Sevé is a contemporary circus company founded in 2009 in London. Its roots lie in Catalonia, developed further in the UK, and the company is now exploring new territory from France.

Bringing together artists from diverse disciplines, the company creates work for theatres, outdoor spaces, and non-traditional venues. Their pieces explore movement, acrobatics, object manipulation, poetic language, and spatial transformation.

At the heart of the company’s creations is the trampoline — a vibrant emotional canvas. It offers a unique physical vocabulary to dive into the intimate, echo the fragile, drift along the edge, and propel the audience into unknown and imaginative landscapes.

Blending absurdity, humour, and physical risk, the work reveals a fascination with instability — the joy of never landing on solid ground. It is a space where the ordinary is made strange, the useless becomes vital, and every fall is a moment of beauty.

With creations spanning France, the UK, Spain, and beyond, the company reflects a rich, cross-cultural practice at the intersection of circus, physical theatre, sound, and media.

Our company places its creations at the heart of communities, engaging directly with them and raising questions that matter.
We work at the edges, where circus meets other artistic voices, exploring shared spaces with musicians, visual artists, and local participants.
Our practice celebrates diversity, dialogue, and the possibility of transformation through performance.

“There’s an explosion upwards, a moment of weightless suspension — ecstatic, free. But the higher the jump, the harder the fall. The trampoline can be a monster. It makes me blush.”
— Max Calaf Sevé