The new edition of the Grec festival will not only discover interesting shows, but also unique spaces. In some some proposals have been inspired, others have had to adapt to them by contributing new ideas and readings. Many are designed for a small audience, so you better hurry to buy tickets.
Works with music, dance, theatre, performance and art that flee from apocalyptic forecasts or that reflect on a society that sexualizes minors will reach spaces outside of traditional circuits. For example, the old Rey Martí water tank, a 15th-century construction with columns located in Sarrià where Aurora Bauzà and Pere Jou will offer ‘A beginning_expanded version’ (July 8 and 9), a immersive experience that plays with the voice, light and movement in which 11 singers from the Cor Jove Principal de Palma will participate.
Choral music is one of the great commitments of this Grec 2023. “We work with darkness as a staff to create sensations with the voices and movements of lights that the singers themselves manipulate. We look for new ones to illuminate the future and get out of the apocalyptic paradigm” , Jou has pointed out. All music is original. “We only deconstruct or destroy an Allegri ‘Miserere’.”
the acclaimed Orfeo Catala, a formation as solid as launched when it comes to experimenting, It will also offer an immersive but different proposal. They will perform a well-known work, the Faure’s ‘Requiem’ but they will transform it into something else thanks to the space where they will sing, an old room not yet remodeled from the old Hospital de Sant Pau (from July 14 to 16), and the involvement of the singers who will surround the public and mingle with it during the performance. ‘El Requiem de la llum’ will have musical direction by simon halsey and staging by the choreographer Marina Mascarell.
The show of the dancer and choreographer Sun Pike, ‘Titans’ also uses choral music. In this case, it will be performed by 12 female voices from the Cor de la Unió de Granollers with a techno base created by Judit Farrés. On July 6 and 7 at the Born Center Cultural will host this review of Greek mythology. “We will dance under the memory of the stones”, emphasizes Picó, who has created the piece with other consolidated dancers: natsuki and Charlotta Ofverholm. The latter will not be able to attend the appointment and her place will act encarni sanchez.
Also in the Born Cultural Center will host ‘The day the last panda will die’ from July 12 to 14a dystopian artwork by Projecte Ingenu that takes the viewer to the year 3000 and offers them the chance to visit a museum on human evolution. Stage installation and theater merge in a curious journey through civilization.
Trans claim in the Model
The former Modelo prison from July 17 to 19 will host a powerful show of denunciation and vindication: ‘Ho, transvestite’. A creation with youExto of the award-winning Josep Maria Miró interpreted by the Cia. Roberto G.Alonso.
“The text takes on a special significance when it is done in the same place where people like Carmen de Mairena and Ocaña went to prison for making art from another identity, the one they felt,” Alonso highlighted. “Transvestite is also culture, although the transvestite and scoundrel world has been on the margins”, Miró added that he considers it an act of poetic justice to exhibit the work in the same place where so many trans or ‘inverted’ as they were called in another era suffered State repression and abuse by other prisoners. The theater version of the show will premiere at the Tàrrega Festival.
Two proposals will connect the viewer with nature very close to the city. The first is ‘A house in the mountains’, d’Albert Boronatin the gardens of the Julio Muñoz Ramonet Foundation where everything takes place around a table where three actors interact, eat and drink with the audience. “We do theater without paraphernalia through a story with elements of science fiction, poetry, drama and a lot of humor,” says Boronat, author of the text. Only 15 people can participate in the experience that will take place over four days from July 22.
The second outdoor proposal is ‘The value of beef’, that Cia. Pagans, a show multidisciplinary and immersive where the book is valued, it talks about the need to share knowledge and plant intelligence but also about witches. It will be done behind Vil la Joana, where Jacint Verdaguer died. You will have to go to Vallvidrera to taste this delicatessen of the July 13 to 15 Designed for 30 people maximum.
the muriela dynamic creative incubator from Gràcia, will premiere the latest project of sixto peace, ‘Bèsties’ an amazing monologue about child sexualization the award-winning actress Monica Dolan who defends Martha Marco of the July 3 to 13. She carries the full weight of this dark tale through a therapist treating a woman who has given her 8-year-old daughter permission to enlarge her breasts. “To those who have explained the project, the first thing they have asked me is, is it based on a real case? But how can it be, in what society do we live?” Marcos wonders.
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