ZIP

ATRESBANDES
25 and 26/03 at 8.30 pm
Sala Petita
Running time: 1 h 

Not imagining is impossible

Imagining seems impossible, but not imagining even more so. ATRESBANDES' new show is born out of this contradiction. The piece is not based on a classic text, novel, or predefined theme, but rather arises from uncertainty and the material that emerges in the rehearsal room.

Starting from the emptiness of the stage and the limitations of time and space, the company transforms familiar and well-known stories into a new and ephemeral narrative. Impossible imaginar res explores imagination as a shared act between creators and audience: it doesn't tell a specific story, but rather provides a space for each spectator to construct their own, activating body, voice and thought in an unrepeatable present.
 

A project in chapters by Los Detectives
26/03 at 7 pm: Les Chevaliers. Capítol 1
27/03 at 7 pm: Les Chevaliers. Capítol 2
Sala Tallers
Running time: 1 h

What are we really looking for when we search?

Les Chevaliers. Capítol 1, La pregunta o la roda que gira

Three private detectives search for the Holy Grail from their office, using questions as their primary investigative tool. The investigation develops live, without a fixed script, with the performers searching for clues in the present. The audience is witness to the investigation into the unknown, where the contrast between the detectives − who aren't very bright − and the momentous nature of the case creates irony and humour.

Les Chevaliers. Chapter 2, L’espasa trencada

Ten years have passed since three intrepid detectives embarked on the quest for the Holy Grail. Like Perceval, these lost and disoriented souls try and fail, but don't give up.

In this second chapter, Les Chevaliers draw inspiration from Arthurian legends to question the idea of epic poetry and its legacies. Not out of admiration, but from a place of dissonance: from failure and irony. Our knight-detectives are no longer heroines, but rather figures grappling with the impossibility of triumph in a piece that oscillates between adventure and absurdity, between parody and melancholy.

Aurora Bauzà & Pere Jou
In collaboration with Jou Serra
Storehouses (Meeting point: Sala Gran Hall)
27/03 at 6 pm, 6.30 pm, 8 pm and 8.30 pm 
28/03 at 4 pm, 4.30 pm, 6 pm, 6.30 pm, 8 pm and 8.30 pm
Running time: 40 min

A choreography of light in constant transformation 

La luz del lobo no pesa is a performative installation that reflects on otherness and the mechanisms of constructing identity. Using a sensitive and poetic approach, the piece invites the spectator to go beyond mere contemplation and experience an encounter in which body, light and sound are intimately intertwined.

In this piece, a lighting device is complemented by the presence of two performers and a choir that sing fragments of De lamentatione Ieremiæ Prophetæ, by Alonso Lobo, written in the early 17th century.

Glòria Ribera
Sala Tallers 
28/03 at 8.30 pm 
29/03 at 7.30 pm 
Running time: 1 h

Dark humour and 'cuplé' in times of wars

Glòria Ribera places Fiesta and War at the heart of her third cuplé project in a concert-show with three live musicians. A lyric tragicomedy that analyses wars and inflation with biting humour and humanitarian criticism.

Double entendre was the Kalashnikov of cuplé singers, and Ribera has set about reviving it. They sang in the Roaring Twenties, while the world disguised itself as progress with lead-based makeup. We repeat the pantomime a hundred years later… but via streaming, with algorithms and less glamour. At least they did it with an orchestra… 
And now, what do we do? Do we re-enact the tragedy of the thirties or continue swallowing diazepam until we use up the last drop of oil?

Laila Tafur
Sala Petita
28/03 at 7 pm 
29/03 at 6 pm 
Running time: 1 h 

How much flamenco is in trap, Gregorian chant, or pop?

Maja y Bastarda calls on a memory woven from dances and distant heritages to create a hybrid identity. The ‘mil leches’, a Frankenstein-like folkloric figure who travels from the tablao to the theatre and from the cabaret to the catwalk, enters the stage, forging a dialogue between flamenco and other worlds. What is the nature of flamenco? How do tradition and avant-garde coexist? Does Whitney Houston sing bullerías or Laurie Andersen tientos? With these questions as the prologue to a manual, the show blends sound archives and aesthetics in a hybrid, playful, and untamed space. 
 

Escarlata and Damián Montesdeoca

Gardens of Sala Tallers
March 28 at 10 p.m. 
Free entrance

Forget conventional talks and come to the performative talk by Escarlata and Damán Montesdeoca, in which they will explore humor through stimulating and participatory action.