Thursday, July 5. 10:00 p.m. Plaza de Santa Ana
Spain (Castellón)
Street Theater. 55 minutes. Free Admission.
Xarxa Teatre comes back to the Festival, after having already performed their shows Les Rates Mortes, in 2007, and Papers!, in 2014, with a play that explores the pacifist message. The title refers to the ancient temples Romans built after horrible wars so the goddess didn’t abandon them and could enjoy long periods of wealth in peace.
Thursday and Friday, July 5 and 6. 08:30 p.m. Plaza del Pilar Nuevo
Spain (Barcelona)
Street Family Theater. 50 minutes. Free Admission.
When The Incredible Box premiered over 150 years ago, it was a success. But, what would happen if the same show was repeated for decades and decades? The Incredible Box, the greatest show of all time would become… the most bizarre, absurd, ridiculous and extravagant show of all time.
Friday and Saturday, July 6 and 7. 10:00 p.m. Plaza de Santa Ana
Spain (Tenerife/Gran Canaria)
Street Family Theater. 60 minutes. Free Admission.
The show La Maleta [The Bag], co-produced by the companies Teatro Kdo and Fireworks under the direction of José Pedro Hernández, with Yanely Hernández acting as his assistant director, was written by Enrique and Yeray Bazo, while Julio Nieto carried out its stage design. It has as its root Pedro Lezcano’s famous poem, who was one of the 20th century’s most important Canarian intellectuals.
Wednesday, July 11. 10:00 p.m. Plaza de Santa Ana
United Kingdom (London)
Dance. 50 minutes. Free Admission.
Tracing pathways in space, four jugglers and four ballet dancers share a stage for the first time. Both these formalized systems are ephemeral journeys that take the public through time and space, leaving an unseen trace, like an imaginary architecture. 4 x 4 is a celebration of where these paths meet.
Thursday, July 12. 10:00 p.m. Plaza de Santa Ana
Spain (Barcelona)
Dance. 90 minutes. Free Admission.
Metallica, Deep Purple, Leonard Cohen… timeless hits of such great music legends gather in Nacidos para Bailar [Born to Dance], the third show by the awarded group Los Vivancos. A work that celebrates life and diversity. A visual fantasy in which dance, martial arts, musical prowess and humor join together, making a piece that mixes refined virtuosity with exhilarating artistic eclecticism.
Friday, July 13. 10:00 p.m. Plaza de Santa Ana
Spain (Madrid)
Music. Duración: 90 minutes. Free Admission.
Antonio Carmona presents at the Festival his new solo work, Obras son Amores [Works that are Love]. Slowly cooked for the past years, it tastes more of Spain than his two first albums, mainly due to its being conceived between Miami and Madrid. It was nominated to the Latin Grammy Award for Best Album of the Year. It includes memorable songs that maintain Antonio Carmona’s signature.
Saturday, July 14. 10:00 p.m. Terminal de Contenedores Muelle de La Luz – Boluda Grupo Marítimo
Spain (Gran Canaria)
Music. 75 minutes. Ticket: 12 € *(It includes round-trip transportation to the concert by special buses from the Municipal Bus Company)
Karel Mark Chichon, OFGC’s current artistic director and member, comes for the first time to the Festival with an evocative program of landscapes, emotions, colors and rhythms that have waltz as its uniting element.
Thursday and Friday, July 19 and 20. 08:30 p.m. Plaza del Pilar Nuevo
Spain (Granada)
Family Circus-Theater. 60 minutes. Free Admission.
The crowd waits anxiously to see the surprise the mechanical-temporal gadget placed before their eyes will provide them with. A strange crew, newly arrived from a journey through time, lands and gives us the great chance of travelling like them, though, of course, for a small fee. For that purpose, they will show off their best charms and their amazing circus numbers.
Saturday, July 21. 10:00 p.m. Parque Santa Catalina
Germany / Spain (Gran Canaria)
Dance - Hip Hop. 75 minutes. Free Admission.
Power of Diversity – The Crossing Lines Project is a European large-scale cooperation project co-funded by the Creative Culture Programme of the European Union in which 40 young people, selected and trained by the German company Pan.Optikum for three years, take part. The Gran-Canarian capital was the first to initiate the project.
Tuesday, July 24. 10:00 p.m. Plaza de Santa Ana
Spain (Barcelona)
Multimedia. 45 minutes. Free Admission.
The Legend of Burning Man presents the story of a man whom everyone has heard of, but nobody knows his name. A myth for millions of people, capable of igniting the net at fire speed and triggering in his path a wave of revolutions.
Wednesday, July 25. 10:00 p.m. Plaza del Pilar Nuevo
Spain (Tenerife)
Music and Video Mapping. 90 minutes. Free Admission.
KingLMan is the main project of British DJ and producer D.WattsRiot (Dave Watts), settled in Tenerife for over two decades and specially known for his role as a member of the Anglo-Pakistani group Fun-Da-Mental. It is a project open to all sort of influences with a distinct Canarian accent and in which social and political commitment are a key element of his music.
Thursday and Friday, July 26 and 27. 10:00 p.m. Plaza de Santa Ana
Spain (Gran Canaria)
Contemporay Circus. 50 minutes. Free Admission.
Wonderful World, by the company Ashes, is a contemporary circus show that was born from the union of three Canarian artists that studied at renowned schools within the international contemporary circus scene, such as Doch and Esac. Their work as a group proposes comicalness, drama, humor, risks and tenderness, some feelings which will be mixed up without any filter.
Saturday, July 28. 10:00 p.m. Plaza de Santa Ana
Spain (Gran Canaria)
Music. 80 minutes. Free Admission.
The song ¿A Quién le Importa? [Who cares?], by the band Alaska y Dinarama, which was a huge hit when it was released among ‘80s young people because of its rebellious lyrics that opposed social prejudices of the time, gives its name to the LPGC Municipal Symphonic Band’s show.
Wednesday and Thursday, August 1 and 2. 10:00 p.m. Plaza de Santa Ana
Spain (Gran Canaria)
Contemporary Dance. 60 minutes. Free Admission.
Bitópica could invoke the ability to be seen in two places at the same time, to walk two roads at the same time, to make two pieces at the same time. Bitópica is an illusory container. A stage device that opposes both spectators and performers to a mirage. A double reality that multiplies interpretative perspectives.
Friday, August 3. 10:00 p.m. Plaza del Pilar Nuevo
Spain (Gran Canaria)
Music Painting. 80 minutes. Free Admission.
Vibraphonist Aridane Martín presents his first album as leader: Tiébélé. On this occasion he will be joined by one of Spanish jazz scene’s most renowned saxophonists, Basque Jon Robles, who is also a teacher at the Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona. In this breeding ground is where the seven original compositions that give form to the project, the result of four years of work, were gestated.
Saturday, August 4. 10:00 p.m. Plaza de Santa Ana
France (Eurre)
Street Theater. 50 minutes. Free Admission.
In the heart of the city, emerging from a faint glow, one guesses a silhouette perched on two containers. The crowd who gathers around will suddenly discover a tiny gardener on the hook of the crane. A winged woman equipped with a watering can will water here and there the flowers on balconies, the trees and everything she finds in her wake: the city is her giant garden...