MEETING THE PUBLIC
The Festival is promoting a more direct encounter with some of the artists and performers who are taking part in this year's festival. These meetings will take place after the event in which the particular artist or company is performing. There will be translation into Spanish where appropriate. Entry is free on a first come, first served basis.
ALAIN PLATEL
NAVES DEL ESPAÑOL / MATADERO MADRID. Thursday, October 16
SPIRO SCIMONE - FRANCESCO SFRAMELI
SALA CUARTA PARED. Friday, October 24
COMPAÑÍA tgSTAN
SALA CUARTA PARED. Wednesday, October 29
TEATRO DEL ALMA
TEATRO FERNÁN GÓMEZ - CENTRO DE ARTE. Friday, October 31
OLGA MESA
LA CASA ENCENDIDA. Friday, November 7
SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI, SZYMON BRZÓSKA AND THE SHAOLIN TEMPLE MONKS
NAVES DEL ESPAÑOL / MATADERO MADRID. Friday, November 7
EXHIBITION
EL TIEMPO DETENIDO, IMÁGENES DE LA DANZA(TIME STOOD STILL, IMAGES OF DANCE)
GOETHE INSTITUT MADRID. C/ Zurbarán, 21. Metro Alonso Martínez
October 4 to November 17 (Monday to Friday 9am to 9pm, Saturday 9am to 2pm). Free entry.
The exhibition is made up of more than 50 photographs, taken in colour and black and white by specialist dance photographers, of internationally-known companies such as those of William Forsythe and Sasha Waltz.
With the collaboration of the Goethe Institut.
LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTECARLO
Photographs by Soledad Sánchez Merlo
TEATRO ALBÉNIZ. C/ Paz, 11. Metro Sol
October 21 to 25. Free entry with ticket for the production (from 8pm until the end of the performance).
Exhibition of photos of the company taken during their latest tour in Spain and Portugal which captures the many different aspects of dancers whose performances are consistently extravagant, ironic, affectionate and refined.
MASTER CLASSES DEL ODIN TEATRET
TEATRO DE LA ABADÍA. October 23 and 24. 11am to 12.30pm
While the Odin Teatret are performing in the Teatro de La Abadía, the company will give two talks in which the actors will explain their working methods. These will take the form of a presentation, open to the public, which will give details of both new and established working practices.
The classes will be conducted in Spanish. Entry to the events is free on a first come, first served basis.
LOS VIENTOS QUE SUSURRAN EN EL TEATRO Y EN LA DANZA (WINDS WHISPERING THROUGH THEATRE AND DANCE). Thursday, October 23. 11am to 12.30pm.
Director: Eugenio Barba.
Europe's stage community suffers because of the division between theatre and dance, making it seem as if they were almost two completely different universes. On the contrary, they form a single entity which expresses itself through different genres but which come together through the fact that the mind and body of the actor/dancer is present on the stage.
Instead of "theatre" and "dance" one can, in fact, talk of "profound dance" and "self-evident dance". "Profound dance" consists typically of dance or stage styles which do not appear to be dance; "self-evident" dance often sets itself apart from all types of imitative or narrative technique by presenting itself as complete physical dynamism.
However, all performance has its mental and physical roots in dance, in the dance of energy and thought.
TEXTO. ACCIÓN. RELACIONES (TEXT. ACTION. RELATIONS). Friday, October 24. 11am to 12.30pm.
Presentation by Tage Larsen and Julia Varley.
Using extracts from Shakespeare's Othello, Tage Larsen and Julia Varley present a dialogue between Othello and Iago, employing a technique based on the creation and development of physical and vocal actions.
The text is recited in English and the explanations are given in Spanish.
The spark for the project came from Tage's enthusiasm for the words of Shakespeare and the need to find ways to connect the range of physical techniques used by Odin Teatret with a written text.
The two actors, through a process of improvisation and composition, create a dynamic physical score which forms the base on which the text is incorporated and on which the encounter between the two actors is developed.