JEAN PHILIPPE KIKOLAS presents CALOR

CALOR is inspired by the situation faced by many homeless people. Involuntary travellers who were forced to leave their houses, compelled to depart from their homes in haste. Nomads of our time who traverse the world seeking a place, blindly feeling their way through foreign societies and cultures, cities and towns. It’s a show about human relationships and the search for home, combining clowning with circus arts. It presents a dreamlike and poetic universe where the audience is invited to feel, to imagine and laugh, to think and play…

MALETA COMPANY & CIE. BALANCETOI presents CLAUDETTE

CLAUDETTE is a tribute to old age, to our grandmothers, to those wrinkles full of wisdom and experience. A tribute to an entire generation of women who, after having given everything for others, find themselves alone. CLAUDETTE also speaks of intergenerationality: of grumpy grandparents and grandchildren full of vitality, a source of energy in the lives of the elderly. CLAUDETTE tells us, comically and poetically, about those moments of play and complicity shared by grandparents and grandchildren. It’s a puppet and juggling show, inspired by Sara, the performer’s grandmother, who had dreamt of being an artist but, like many women her age, had to abandon her dreams to serve others.

CIA. PAU PALAUS presents EMBOLIC

Honest, genuine, sincere, and mischievous; a tangle of threads that comes from far away. A tangle of thoughts and emotions that lead to laughter and play, the most useful and pure tools for untangling knots. A show, but above all, a clown who avoids words and relies on a gesture and a look that transmit a liberating peace and desire to play. Pau Palaus creates an emotional bond, from the fragility and honesty of the clown, that engages even the most sceptical spectators.

CIRCUSPUNTO TEATRO presents SOMOS

SOMOS is a contemporary theatre-circus show where the performers, through their bodies, reveal something seemingly simple: what they are, what we are… But is it easy to show what we are? All that we are? It’s a simple staging, but with a carefully crafted and symbol-laden aesthetic. The work itself is a search for the image within the word, where movement, risk, and beauty hold a primordial place. We’ll see a high level of acrobatics and images that will make us reflect on human darkness, while also allowing us to enjoy our light, the music, and the humour.

BAMBALINA TEATRE PRACTICABLE presents EDIPO REY

Sophocles was a restless, committed playwright with a profound sense of the social and humanistic meaning of theatre. Establishing a contemporary connection with an author, so far removed by time yet so close in his poetic sensibility, also presents a truly stimulating artistic challenge. OEDIPUS REX is one of the great creations of the Greek tragedians that endures in the imagination of modern human beings in the clearest and most evocative way. This is a unique production in which the beauty of the puppets, the lyricism of the chorus, and live music combine, creating a ritual atmosphere that elevates each and every one of its characters – a poetic space ambiguous between the sacred and the irremediably human.

MANUEL LIÑÁN Y COMPAÑÍA presents MUERTA DE AMOR

In this show, twelve artists on stage – dancers and musicians – will guide us in a tribute to love, in the broadest sense of the word, and its consequences. The starting point will be the copla, but a copla updated with new sounds and structures. It will be a musical encounter between the past and present, where the choreography will transport us to different atmospheres: desire, fantasy, the carnal, embraces, religion… and they will reflect on the importance of human relationships.

IVC-DELS ALTRES presents VERDE CASI NEGRO

Dels Altres is a Valencian company led by Eleonora Gronchi and Pablo Meneu. Both artists have spent a significant part of their professional careers abroad. They also share a passion for creating multidisciplinary shows, combining contemporary circus with physical theatre, movement, set design, and so on. Their work often experiments with format and audience interaction, developing innovative stage proposals with a very strong visual component.

COPENHAGEN COLLECTIVE presents THE GENESIS

We live in an era seemingly full of struggles, conflicts, and divisions. Us versus them, people against people, nations against nations, cultures against cultures. Human life as a game where one person’s gain can only be achieved through another’s loss. We believe there’s another way. A path where our capacity for love and care is stronger than our animosity; our capacity for understanding and compassion more resilient than our divisions, and our differences are celebrated and become our strength.

OTRADANZA presents PROMETEO

PROMETEO is a piece for seven very diverse dancers that takes us on a journey through mythology, from the world of the gods to creation and human evolution. Emotions such as devotion, power struggles, weakness, manipulation and forgiveness all have a place in this physical, vibrant, poetic and political work. It’s a complex story, full of layers, narrated with gesture and intention. Created by Asun Noales, it allows us to go back two and a half thousand years to understand ourselves anew. A journey through the history of art.

FRESCA! AL CARRER: JAM presents L’ACTITUD

Difficulties are always there. And if they’re not, they appear out of nowhere. The attitude with which one confronts them is key. And who better than a clown to demonstrate it?

Opening the shutters every day isn’t easy. Setbacks come one after another. With humour, laughter and a great deal of wit, JAM will explain a wonderful story of overcoming adversity where nothing is quite what it seems.