Moving the festival, Encounters with the new dance, back for another year to Cartagena, and you are eight, to settle the city as one of the main focuses of contemporary dance in the country.
From 14 to 28 March, the port city will host a large sample of modern dance, with companies like Toula Limnaios, Wanted Posse, Mar Gómez, Senza Tempo, Mudances, Erre que erre, Another Dance, Deambulants ...
poster that will be part of this festival, organized by the Culture Department of the City of Cartagena.
Moving remains committed to the combination of events and street room, said during the presentation the Councillor for Culture, Rosario Montero, and training with a number of workshops and creators Mu Zone Murcia, the region in Dance The traditional gala is for the benefit of Anti-AIDS Committee.
Festival director, Paco Martin has indicated that this year will continue to pursue the creation of new audiences, with shows aimed at children, and the novelty of bringing dance to the institutes, through hip hop shows urban culture, with the help of the Catalan company Brodas.
Will, in total, 16 companies, seven-room entertainment (Nuevo Teatro Circo) and nine in the street in various places as the Sea Wall, the street Cuesta de Carmen or Baroness, said the artistic director, Margarita lover.
DANCE FOR EVERYONE
The festival begins on Saturday March 14 with the spectacular Deambulants, specializing in aerial dance company that will play on the walls Alt de la Muralla del Mar. Deambulants (Gerona) will build this monument to vindicate the use of outer space, aiming for a street dance-theater quality.
The wall will make the floor of a fantastic world air will integrate circus techniques, visual creation, contemporary dance, clown and performance.
Later, it will turn the company of Mar Gómez (Barcelona) present in the Nuevo Teatro Circo dawns here at night.
The company, true to his style, dance to tell the story of five characters that match in a roadside motel, using resources that already are their own and as part of its hallmark: gesture, movement, descriptive treatment of the music, and above all, his characteristic sense of humor.
The company Murcia Así Somos (Murcia), vocational contemporary dance company formed by people with Down syndrome ASSIDO, and specialists in the field of performing arts and art therapy.
In Alter Ego, its new production, body art work, attitude, gesture, stage movement and acting.
They talk about the daily lives of others and themselves.
The show can be seen free in the Nuevo Teatro Circo, on Monday 16 March.
Another room shows will be Earth, the new building project Another Dance Company (Valencia).
In this new proposal, the director Asun Noales, introduced to the public in an elegant language and physical movement and an original staging, which carries a variety of Mediterranean atmosphere.
Ten dancers will stage the first major solo project of NAM.
Earth may be in the Nuevo Teatro Circo, on Wednesday 18 March.
The French Wanted Posse come to Cartagena in two sessions, on Thursday, March 19 by a sample of urban art Performance, and a day later, Trance, and in the Nuevo Teatro Circo.
As the hip-hop, his style is complex and varied, a mixture of some motions arising.
Another day dedicated to the urban dance will be Saturday March 21 with the companies Scraps, Marco & Chloé and Au Ments with Almastrings.
Scraps (Murcia) make a dance journey through the historic center of Cartagena by the statues of Carmen Conde, seated soldier, sailor and backpack.
The Seville Marco & Chloe return to the festival to show their contemporary flamenco, this time accompanied by the singing Juan José Amador.
The day will conclude with the intervention of the company Au Ments & Almastrings (Baleares / Chile) with a piece of dance and live music that revolves around Humita Uriz Xavier text, with the fusion of artistic elements proposed by musicians , dance and literature.
The music of the cello, voice-overs and dance, along with the excitement of the interpretation proposed a different way to enjoy this text.
Dance in the street is the main driver of moving, and Sunday 22 will be the turn of Erre que erre (Barcelona / Murcia) interpret not only the brain neurons in love lives in Cavite Heroes (center of Cartagena).
Erre que erre is a collective of artists and performers to develop their work from the creation of and experimentation with new forms and concepts of dance and movement and return to the festival to stage an analysis of love.
The dancer and choreographer Angels Margarit will on Monday 23 and Tuesday 24 March at Nuevo Teatro Circo Flexelf, an interdisciplinary show from the idea of flexibility and elasticity to start acquainting children mainly with the mechanisms of body language .
Angels Margarit a pioneer of contemporary dance in Spain comes to Cartagena with the company he founded in 1985, Mudances (Barcelona).
Like every year, there is also a major set by the creators of the Region of Murcia, on a specific day for them in Zone Mu, the region in Dance.
This year will Kike Guerrero (Another Dance), Dori Sanchez (Mudances), Isabel Lopez (Mudances), Virginia Murcia (soloist with the National Ballet of Spain, Ballet-Theatre Co. Rafael Aguilar), Tania Smith (Cia Shadow) and Magda Jiménez (Lavella Dance Co.) who are part of the day's program.
The money raised that day, as each year goes to the benefit of associations fighting against AIDS in the Region of Murcia (CASMU and support assets).
Street performances continue on Friday March 27 with the prestigious Catalan Senza Tempo.
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Senza Tempo uses the contemporary language of dance and drama combines elements of circus and video art to talk about urban nomadism century.
The piece revolves around a caravan as a symbol of those who leave, as a symbol of utopia, freedom and traffic.
The festival ends on 28 March with the Valencian Titoyaya Gustavo Ramirez, Baking, a show based on the principle of action-reaction, the presence of Brodas in the center of the city and the New Circus Theatre will be the turn German company that Toula Limnaios close the eighth edition of the Reading festival with Tosca.
Toula Limnaios company moves between two worlds, transporting the viewer into a magical space between imagination and reality, lived and imagined.
Dance music, video and light as the same stylistic devices, developed in parallel, a kaleidoscope open air leaving each room for their own associations.
Come to Cartagena to show a vision of the opera Tosca by Puccini.
WORKSHOPS
The festival is complete with a section devoted to training for children, professionals and lovers of dance in various workshops such as dance in urban, hip hop, contemporary dance for children and contact improvisation.
Places are limited, free workshops.
Entries are made through the website www.festivalmudanzas.com in the festival office Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center, or 968128813.
Ticket sales begin on Friday, Feb. 6 at the New Theatre Box Office or through the Circus www.festivalmudanzas.com or www.ticktackticket.com web.
Tickets for each show of the new Teatro Circo cost 6 euros, except Zone Mu, 12 euros.
The festival has made a subscription, which includes all 4 shows, except Zone Mu, to 18 euros.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena