Juan Carlos Panduro

- Spain -

Multidisciplinary artist born in Badajoz, Extremadura (1998).
Graduated from L'École Superiéure des Arts du Cirque (ESAC) in Brussels.


In February 2024 he publishes Romero recién cortao' (Letraversal) his first book. Months
later, his work appears in the Antología de poesía cursi ‘Estrellas vivas’ (Letraversal) by
Berta García Faet and Juanpe Sánchez López. He has also participated in events such as
the Poético Festival of 2023 and will do so in the upcoming edition of Festival de Poesía
Irreconcilables.


Very interested in the search for his own language and the limits of the body, he has takn
part in several contemporary circus projects, such as ‘Au bout de doigts’, by Piergiorgio
Milano, ‘REAL///UGLY//SPARKLING’ by Gaël Santiesteva or ‘GLATIR (28th Circ d'hivern del
Ateneu Popular Nou Barris) and has received a Zirkólika Award for Best Circus Act of
2023. He is currently in the cast of ‘THAUMA’ by Cia La Mula and is in the process of
creating his first stage solo ‘el patio’.


REVIEW OF JUAN CARLOS PANDURO FIRST BOOK

“Romero recién cortao” is the first book by the Extremaduran writer Juan Carlos Panduro (Badajoz, 1998), published by the Letraversal publishing label. Through the description of a very specific physical and emotional space, through the construction of a powerful Extremaduran psychogeography, Panduro manages to make language vibrate through the earth and be embodied, here and there, in expressions of strangeness capable of relating apparently dissociated worlds, apparently distant times.

 

In the prologue, Violeta Gil points out: "Juan Carlos has the name of a virgin and has written Romero recién cortao, a passage towards the fragility and strength of a being and beings that inhabit Extremaduran lands, where the violent and the dirty are lost between sweat and love, where the vision of evil does not prevent that of everything that is beautiful. The language becomes its own throughout the centuries, entirely new and old at the same time. […] It makes me really happy to think that these words are made public, that they can be read almost in the dark, wrapped in the sheets, or out loud while walking through a field. Words for lovers, for friends, for grandmother, for love. I hope you enter as I did and as I do again now, a year later, admired by Juan Carlos's handling of language and the body, by this book head, tongue, heart."