1 presentation of firatàrrega 2013
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1 presentation of firatàrrega 2013
FIRATÀRREGA 2013 5 to 8 September PRESS PACK SUMMARY 1 Presentation of FiraTàrrega 2013 .......................................................... 4 1.1 A Fira tied in with the present day ......................................................................... 4 1.2 A new website and greater presence in social networks ....................................... 4 1.3 Focus on Mexico: a vital theatrical journey ............................................................ 4 1.4 Links to universities: keeping an eye open for the creators and managers of the future ..................................................................................................................... 4 1.5 FiraTàrrega: epicentre of professional activity ....................................................... 5 1.6 FiraTàrrega’s audiences: a qualitative analysis ..................................................... 5 2 Programming.......................................................................................... 6 2.1 FiraTàrrega’s 2013 programming in figures........................................................... 6 2.2 Opening show: arts of movement and commitment .............................................. 6 2.3 Street arts: a panorama of infinite artistic possibilities ........................................... 7 2.4 Site-specific theatre: a commitment to other stages and to creation in unconventional spaces .......................................................................................... 7 2.5 Indoor theatre: international vocation .................................................................... 7 2.6 The FiraTàrrega Workshops: a gateway to future creators ................................... 8 2.7 Company spaces: involving the sector in the FiraTàrrega project ......................... 8 3 Detailed programme .............................................................................. 9 3.1 The opening show ................................................................................................. 9 3.2 Official section ..................................................................................................... 10 The Mexican showcase .......................................................................................... 10 Other shows within the official programme ............................................................. 12 3.3 Plataforma FiraTàrrega ....................................................................................... 23 3.4 FiraTàrrega Workshops ....................................................................................... 26 3.5 Business Programme .......................................................................................... 28 3.6 Bonus Tracks ...................................................................................................... 30 2 4 Professional activities ......................................................................... 31 4.1 Digital training...................................................................................................... 31 4.2 Focus on Mexico ................................................................................................. 31 4.3 The Department of Culture’s Lunchtime Meeting ................................................ 32 4.4 Other professional activities ................................................................................ 32 4.5 Professional spaces ............................................................................................ 32 5 Budget ......................................................... ¡Error! Marcador no definido. 6 Appendix .............................................................................................. 35 3 1 PRESENTATION OF FIRATÀRREGA 2013 With this year’s programme, FiraTàrrega confirms the excellent state of street arts, a series of creative forms which see the space in which they perform as a key part of their message. Revealing to the public all the artistic potential of our public spaces and making the city of Tàrrega into a driving force of artistic activity — not only for the duration of the Fira but throughout the year — are two of FiraTàrrega’s main objectives. But the basic aims of the Fira also include bringing itself closer to everybody — ordinary people, professionals, and arts companies — in every way. For that reason, certain strategic themes have been laid down, which define the essence of this edition of the Fira. 1.1 A Fira tied in with the present day This edition is characterised, among other things, by its link to the present day — not only in artistic terms but also more generally — with the aim of establishing the strongest relationship with ordinary people and guaranteeing the right to culture for all of us. This year, more than ever, prices have been set bearing in mind the current situation, offering everyone the opportunity to see theatre and ensuring that no one is left out of the Fira. The different shows at FiraTàrrega 2013 (those that aren’t free, that is) will cost 5, 12 or 15 euros. 1.2 A new website and greater presence in social networks Establishing direct and rapid communication with its different audiences is essential for an event whose raison d’être is ordinary people and street performance. For that reason, the Fira is strengthening its communication channels with the public, through a new website and profiles on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. We are already working in this direction and, in fact, over the days of the Fira we will have official guests on the different social networks, who will report in real time on what’s happening in Tàrrega: the shows, the atmosphere, professional activities… In addition, we will set up competitions on the social networks to stimulate and strengthen the Fira’s digital presence and thus make it more accessible to everyone. 1.3 Focus on Mexico: a vital theatrical journey Each year, FiraTàrrega pays special attention to the theatrical production of one region, nation, country or continent, in line with the Fira’s desire to make international connections and link up with professionals from other countries. This year it’s the turn of Mexico. This country will have a transversal presence, made up of three great blocks: six exceptional Mexican productions have been included in the programme; a number of Mexican professionals associated with cultural events will come to Tàrrega; and there will be a one day event for professionals (Thursday 5 September) with several roundtable discussions focused around the state of theatre in this Latin American country. 1.4 Links to universities: keeping an eye open for the creators and managers of the future FiraTàrrega focuses on the vital examples of the street arts today, but also helps to promote the training of professionals for tomorrow. In this regard, we should mention the Master’s Degree in Street Arts Creation, which the Fira and the University of Lleida have inaugurated over this last 4 academic year. The theoretical phase for the first edition of this Master’s degree was carried out during winter and spring, and the practical phase will be carried out during August and September. Also in the field of education, FiraTàrrega collaborates with the University of Barcelona, the Open University of Catalonia, the International University of Catalonia, the Pompeu Fabra University, the University of Lleida, the Carlos III University of Madrid and the Complutense University of Madrid. These collaborations take three different forms: work experience for a number of students of cultural management or show production, either during the summer or over the days of the Fira; on-site visits; and finally presentation sessions at different institutions over the course of the academic year to explain FiraTàrrega’s organisational and management model. Meanwhile, students of the Bachelor’s Degree in Street Arts from the University of Winchester (UK) and of advanced studies in cultural management from the Inholland University (Netherlands) will experience FiraTàrrega at first hand. This will also apply to those young people who are participating in the International Festivals & Events Association (IFEA) summer school, in relation to the management of cultural events. 1.5 FiraTàrrega: epicentre of professional activity Once again, FiraTàrrega has scheduled a series of workshops, seminars and meetings, specially designed to encourage interchange and mutual comprehension between professionals from around the world. These activities include roundtable discussions focused on Mexican theatrical production; a Ministry of Culture Lunchtime Meeting, which will be held for the seventh year running; and a training session in digital media (digital positioning and promotion), among others. In addition, professionals will have at their disposal La Llotja, an exhibition hall with stands, conference rooms and meeting spaces. FiraTàrrega will thus become, yet again, a hive of professional activity for the performing arts sector. 1.6 FiraTàrrega’s audiences: a qualitative analysis FiraTàrrega works year on year to improve in quality and in the number of visitors, as well as in its impact and projection at an international level. Therefore, it has taken serious note of the study which CERES (Sociological and Market Research) carried out into last year’s Fira. In general terms, and with regard to the economic and social impact of the Fira, we should highlight that the 2012 edition received a total of 147,000 attendees. The majority of visitors were between 20 and 40 years of age, with an average age of 33. Most of the participants had been to previous editions of the Fira and one third had done so on more than 10 occasions. In general, last year’s public was satisfied with the Fira, giving it a valuation of 7.29 on average, and most said that they were very likely to return and to recommend the Fira. 5 2 PROGRAMMING FiraTàrrega’s programme is synonymous with street arts. The listings include a set of companies which, in general, understand the spaces in which they perform as an essential element of their message: they occupy squares, streets or parks… as well as unexpected, surprising or little known corners of our shared urban environment. Public space, with all its dramatic possibilities, and the city as a driving force for artistic activity and a magnet for theatrical creation; these are the central elements of FiraTàrrega. The main pillars of FiraTàrrega’s programming for 2013 are novelty; richness of content and writing; as well as the international orientation of most of the pieces presented. A collection of unique works, most of which are closely connected, thematically and formally, to the times we are living through: due to their critical and committed attitude; because they are innovative or technological; as a result of their willingness to connect up with global audiences at the same time as being very personal… The Fira’s artistic project has a clear democratic orientation, based on connecting up with ordinary people and a commitment to everybody’s right to have access to culture. 2.1 FiraTàrrega’s 2013 programming in figures A total of 77 companies will present 78 shows at FiraTàrrega 2013. Of these companies, 57% are Catalan, 22% come from the rest of the Spanish State (17) and 21% are international (16), coming from seven different countries: Mexico, Colombia, Chile, United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Italy. Of all the shows in the official programme, more than half (52%) are world premieres. Four of the companies participating in the FiraTàrrega programme, offering a total of five different shows, are from Lleida. Regarding genre, 74% of this year’s offer in the FiraTàrrega programme (37) come within the category of street arts (including performances in non-conventional spaces) and 26% (13) are shows for traditional theatre stages (including outdoor spaces). Overall, the programme includes an offer of theatre, circus, dance, new drama, multidisciplinary shows, performances, street installations and music. Concerning the public, 44% of the performances are directed at adults (22) and the rest are shows for all ages (56%, that is, 28 events). If we look at the prices, 48% of the shows have free entry, while 26% are indoor performances with a paid ticket, and another 26% are street performances with a limited capacity. You will find more detailed information and graphics for this data in the Appendix to this press pack (p.35) 2.2 Opening show: arts of movement and commitment The company Nats Nus, under the guidance of choreographer and director Toni Mira, will be responsible for the opening show. Inspired by the social and political context in which we are currently living, this performance has change as its central theme. Dance, acrobatics and video will be the protagonists of Transforma-T — the title is a play on words, which can be read in Catalan 6 and Spanish as “transform yourself” — a large format event which FiraTàrrega is co-producing with Zaragoza City Council for the ‘Fiestas del Pilar’ celebrations. 2.3 Street arts: a panorama of infinite artistic possibilities The fact that street arts offer endless artistic possibilities is demonstrated by the work of companies that have gone through the Creative Support Programme. The productions which are premiering in 2013 share the common goal of breathing fresh life into the current panorama, whether through experimental work or with something more popular and accessible. The most daring space features the companies that have participated in our Creative Labs: Insectotròpics, Joan Català and Macarena Recuerda Shepherd. On the other hand, the words of Catalonia’s currently most translated playwright Esteve Soler, will resound throughout Tàrrega in Contra la ciutat (Against the city) an experience that is halfway between visual arts and performing arts, and very critical of the dehumanised city that we live in today. Ârtica will be another of the important events of this year’s Fira. It is the latest production of Ponten Pie, a small scale experience of great poetic weight. The most playful part of this section comes thanks to the Italian Ondadurto Theatre, with their festive and ironic approach to folk tales. Other key novelties to be taken into account on the official street arts programme are Street M[u]F, from the musician David Brown; Entre tu i jo (Between you and me), from the choreographer Mar Gómez; Abcisse, by the creator Jordi Gali; or Carnaval, from the Basques of Cielo Raso, which will include the participation of the dancers Igor Calonge, Daniel Abreu and Dácil Gonzalez. Pere Faura, Company Chameleon, the Fundación Collado-Van Hoestenberghe and Ertza are just some of the names that complete the street programme in this 2013 edition. 2.4 Site-specific theatre: a commitment to other stages and to creation in unconventional spaces The site specific programme will feature some well known names and others which are yet to be discovered. The Chilean group Teatro del Niño Proletario returns to Tàrrega with El otro (The other), a show in which they tell a story of great emotional impact; Res de Res, from the Balearic Islands, will bring (remor), a movement piece inspired by the experience of life in a prison cell; the Andalusians of Trasto Teatro will share the experience of a wake in the biting work, Los satisfechos; and the Catalan Txell Roda will offer us an experience-journey through the work of Manuel Vazquez Montalbán, through his detective character, Pepe Carvalho, in Carvalho contra Vázquez Montalbán. 2.5 Indoor theatre: international vocation Good examples of the best dance and circus that are produced in Catalonia will run through the indoor programming, leaving some space for hybrid drama. Among other offers, we will have names such as the choreographer and dancer Sol Picó, with the sincere, convulsive and hopeful Memòries d’una puça (Memoirs of a flea); the clown Leandre, who will open to the public the doors of his home with Rien à dire; the Valencians of PanicMap and their technological adventure Harket [Protocolo]; Psirc with the indoor version of Acrometria; or the always surprising Zirkus Frak/Jorge Albuerne with the striking Nomarramón. 7 2.6 The FiraTàrrega Workshops: a gateway to future creators The FiraTàrrega 2013 programme will include the participation of students who take part in our different Street Arts study programmes, in a total of four workshops. Two of these are a result of work by students on the Master’s Degree in Street Arts coordinated by FiraTàrrega and the University of Lleida, in collaboration with the directors Paul Long (Metro-Boulot-Dodo) and Ignacio Achurra (La Patriotico Interesante), respectively. The third workshop emerges from the participation of the Catalan artist Ernesto Collado in the training programme for actors of the CUT (UNAM) in Mexico. Finally, the group Grupo Carro FC, will premiere In Forma Pauperis, a workshop for which they count on the collaboration of students from the Theatre Institute. 2.7 Company spaces: involving the sector in the FiraTàrrega project The FiraTàrrega 2013 programme will be rounded off with the presence of other companies, as well as with the participation of the following company spaces: 23Arts, specialising in street arts; La maleta dels espectacles, who specialise in performances for family audiences and circus lovers; or the ADGAE space, where the principal management and distribution agencies in the Spanish State will present a selection of their best pieces. 8 3 DETAILED PROGRAMME 3.1 The opening show Transforma-T NATS NUS PREMIERE Catalonia Dance (street) A large-format dance show, created for the inauguration of FiraTàrrega 2013, that explores and uses various stage languages: acrobatics, handling objects, percussion, shadows and audiovisuals. Inspired by our current situation, Toni Mira presents a reflection about transformation and struggle in today’s world, about the need to redirect and reinvent our society. A staging and visual game with situations of change and mutability thanks to the movement, image and versatility of a large cubic structure. A co-production with Zaragoza City Council – Fiestas del Pilar and with the collaboration of El Graner Centre de Creació. After working with different theatre and dance companies, in 1987 Toni Mira founded the theatre dance company, Nats Nus, with which he has had a long career with many large-format and video-dance shows. He later diversified his work, not only as a dancer and choreographer but also collaborating in important theatrical, musical and television productions. In 2010, he received the National Dance Award from the Generalitat de Catalunya. Show with 360º visibility. 9 3.2 Official section The Mexican showcase The guest country at FiraTàrrega 2013 is Mexico. A selection of six exceptional productions will come to Tàrrega, with a combination of street performances, indoor theatre and site-specific pieces. We will have the European premieres of the latest productions from the great flagship companies of contemporary Mexican theatre, such as Teatro Línea de Sombra or Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes. Also appearing for the first time will be the latest production of the Centro Nacional de Teatro, under the direction of the controversial Richard Viqueira. Carnada COMPAÑÍA NACIONAL DE TEATRO PREMIERE Theater (room) The company that is the flagship of Mexican theatre arrives in Tàrrega with a show directed by Richard Viqueira, one of the most daring creative figures in Mexico today, whose always controversial pieces try to force the audience to take sides. A very interesting combination of an iconoclastic and transgressive reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s King Lear. A tragic story about the desire of durability, about adulation and trickery and, in short, the weaknesses of the human condition before the inevitability of extinction and death. La máquina de Esquilo LA MÁQUINA DE ESQUILO PREMIERE Theater (room) Aeschylus, who fought against the Persian invasion of Greece in the 5th century BC, dramatised his experiences in the war, which has led him traditionally to be considered the creator of Greek tragedy. This entertaining show, by young Mexican actors, takes us back to the Aeschylus’ epoch with a comedy that takes a journey through the history of dramatic art, from its earliest beginnings to its consolidation. A streettheatre comedy with live music that is just right for young audiences and which evokes divinities and nymphs and updates a series of classic characters, from Prometheus to the Oceanides. 10 PREMIERE Todavía… siempre TEATRO DE CIERTOS HABITANTES Theater (room) A leading company in the Latin-American creative vanguard who have travelled around festivals on the five continents. The show, that always takes into account the complicity of the audience, explains the story of two lovers who split up in their youth and who meet again in old age. With the staging by Claudio Valdés Kuri and a magnificent performance by Tara Parra – a genuine living legend of Mexican acting – the story focuses on issues such as wisdom, patience, pain, death and, especially, the enjoyment and meaning of life. A story of moving experiences in which fragility becomes a reflexive pretext of extreme intensity. PREMIERE Baños Roma TEATRO LÍNEA DE SOMBRA Theater (room) This Mexican company with a high international profile, created in 1993, is dedicated to contemporary creation through the convergence of visual languages, physical theatre objects and a strong commitment to the reality of their surroundings. From the random and transversal story of the life of the ex-world boxing champion José Ángel “Mantequilla”, Nápoles constructs a show that speaks about the violence suffered by Ciudad Juárez and that, by extension, runs throughout Mexican society. A metaphor built on the basis of an accumulation of objects, newspaper headlines, anecdotes and images caught in the memory, and that outline the shadow of a man, a place and a moment in history. Subtitled in English. Humour. Lo único que necesita una gran actriz es una gran obra y las ganas de triunfar VACA 35 PREMIERE New dramaturgy Free and updated adaptation of The Maids by Jean Genet, articulated around two central themes: life as a mechanical experience and the theatre as a place of authenticity in a world that has transformed art into a commodity. Two actresses, two women who play two servants, bring to life one of 20th-century drama’s key texts, with a structure that reveals the real and fictional limits of the actors, of the character, of the audience, of the space and of the play itself. A unique opportunity for the audience to live close up an complete stage experience. 11 Other shows within the official programme Always Drinking Marching Band ALWAYS DRINKING MARCHING BAND Catalonia Musical (street) Since they started touring back in around 2000, Always have performed over 400 times around Europe and Asia with a total of 9 different shows. You may recall Bullangas or Flirt, among others. With a very personal style, a mixture of music and clowning, this band, dressed in their characteristic yellow and black, present a lively show with music, surrealist gags and interaction with the audience. Winners of the best band at the Spring Carnival Festival in Beijing 2013. PREMIERE Catalonia Circus (street) Indomador ANIMAL RELIGION An empty space; natural, clean, without hiding places. A man tries to control his animal instincts so as to discover who he is through the different stages of his life. A story about fear and accepting oneself. A show that reveals the uncontrollable force we all carry within. Circus, music and movement. Verticals, acrobatics on high heels, a spoon up the nose, cock crows, animal sex, ritual dances, physical and mental metamorphoses... An ambiguous and wild universe that is, at the same time, intimate and real. A piece that connects us to our deepest animal nature. Te odiero CANDELARIA ANTELO&ARTHUR BERNARD BAZIN Madrid Dance (street) An award-winning choreographic piece envisaged as the search for its own language based on physical expression. A work that questions our limits as humans and with elementary communication through movement. Imagination, humour and emotion are the ingredients for a communicative space that aims to build links with the audience. Dance conceived as a balance between identities, bodies and actions, as a force that transforms and regenerates through confrontation on stage. 12 Externet CIA FADUNITO I EL BURRO DELS JOCS Catalonia Installations (street) An installation conceived for public spaces and for all ages which aims to awaken interest in communication, literature and poetry, in an enjoyable and participative way. Through a circular structure and a system of tubes, the audience can recite and listen to poetic messages and experience the possibilities this literary genre offers beyond the typical media and usual formats. Ceci 3.0 CIA FADUNITO Catalonia Theater (street) Through playing and interacting with the audience, we discover the soul and humanity of a very special wheelchair. A show that aims to debunk the fear and the excessive precautions that disability often provokes. Surprise appearances in the performance area. The incredible Box CIA. LA TAL PREMIERE Catalonia Theater (street) They have travelled widely around the world with street shows like Les fotogrâfiers or Démodés and present a new piece directed by Leandre Ribera. Characters taken to the limits, who present a theatricality that borders on the most grotesque clowning. A story that explains how the greatest show of all time can become the quirkiest, most absurd, ridiculous and extravagant. A humorous reflection about the durability of art. Each of the performances stars different characters, up to a total of four: magic, Shakespeare, opera and circus. 13 Carnaval CIA. CIELO RASO PREMIERE Euskadi Dance (street) Two men and a woman are absorbed by the frenetic rhythm of carnival. Magnetism, music, dance. The body becomes a unique tool for expression, pleasure, beauty and the grotesque. A binge of fantasy that ends up with a hangover of reality. This experienced dance company, directed by Ígor Calonge, takes Brazil’s most popular festival as a pretext to reflect on the human being and the extreme situations in which good and evil take on a new dimension. Entre tu i jo CIA. MAR GÓMEZ PREMIERE Catalonia Dance (street) This dance company makes a new choreographic incursion into public spaces. A piece that delves into a private world full of contradictions, where a couple’s life together is presented as a voluntary kidnapping, where it is never clear who is kidnapping whom. An intimate story, about an intimate relationship… shamelessly exposed in the street and for everyone to see. A work conceived as a complementary mirror for For ever and a day, its twin show indoor show, with which it shares characters and core theme: the less romantic aspects of couples’ relationships. Push COMPANY CHAMELEON United Kingdom Dance (street) British dancing duo, strongly focussed on public spaces, who we could first see at FiraTàrrega 2011 with their “Search & Find”, within the production Gravity at Sant Eloi Park. Push is a choreographic piece that explores interpersonal contact and its physical and emotional resonance. A sensitive, physical work, a vision of our relations with others and the structures of dominance and control that we establish with our peers. Coproduced by Without Walls and Dance Initiative Greater Manchester. 14 Street M[u]f DAVID MORENO&CIA PREMIERE Catalonia Musical (street) After the international success of his first solo show, Floten tecles, first performed at FiraTàrrega 2008, David Moreno has surrounded himself with deluxe collaborators (directed by Toni Mira, with the external vision of Leandre Ribera) and presents us with a choreography for 3 performers and 33 instruments. An innovative proposal, with music and movement as the protagonists, in which theatre, circus and dance merge together. A journey through play and emotions, with large helpings of humour and poetry, which will lift the audience to a new dimension. 4x4 ERTZA Euskadi Dance (street) The aim of this young company is to create a new space where contemporary dance embraces many other disciplines and whose premise is emotion without artifice. In this case, they offer an urban dance show that mixes the virtuosity of the performers with a demand: the right to be different. Formulated as a cockfight, the piece features two couples who show their rivalry and take part in an out and out dance battle, an energetic crescendo of rhythms and styles. Cru FET A MÀ PREMIERE France Circus (room) A company based in France created in 2008 by the Catalans Pau Portabella and Marta Torrents after training at the Lido Circus Arts Center in Toulouse. Their work is based on the fusion of theatre, dance and acrobatics. In Cru, they present a circus without artifice, based on the body and the expression of feelings, so as to speak, through everyday images, about the harshness of the situations that overwhelm us, of social taboos and strong emotions. A show where the impossible becomes possible. 15 De miracles i meravelles. Conferència optimista FUNDACIÓN COLLADO-VAN HOESTENBERGHE Catalonia Performance An atypical talk, with live music, on the street. The speaker contradicts himself a lot. He interprets the theory of relativity, shows how John Wayne would buy the newspaper and he dances... to end up showing that all three things are really the same. With a single flick of his fingers, he makes things appear and disappear, like a magician. And, like a magician, he also has an assistant. It is she who makes the music, supplies vitamins and moves the story on when the speaker gets lost. To finish, time for questions, which the audience takes home, together with an optimism that lasts at least until the next morning’s coffee. Yo estuve allí y… no lo contaron como yo lo ví HORTZMUGA TEATROA Euskadi Theater (street) A show about the relation between power, politics and the media. How the media construct the big official truths, how they manipulate the facts, how they make biased interpretations, how they create smokescreens to protect the interests of the powerful. A theatrical work that uncovers the workings of the most powerful media to make us see that we are immersed in disinformation. The news is the star of this piece that Hortzmuga take to the street, to the centre of the Agora, to compare their ideas with the most authentic public opinion. A piece included in the Creation Support Program at FiraTàrrega 2012. Glof JAM PREMIERE Catalonia Theater (street) With Humortal, this company of street clowns did a long international tour. In this new offer, with the participation of Àlex Navarro as director, they present a golfer who, accompanied by his two caddies, aims to conquer the World Cup of Golf. Three characters, aware of the destruction of the landscape that their sport so often implies, decide to use the streets, squares and balconies as their course. 16 Trash! JASHGAWRONSKY BROTHERS Italy Musical (room) Precisely what the Jashgawronskys do is to apply all their creative energy to transforming rubbish and unlikely elements into an inexhaustible resource for making music: brooms, buckets, waste-paper baskets, graters, toilet paper... A hilarious concert for all ages where the greatest hits of pop are performed with instruments made of recycled material and rubbish. Abscisse JORDI GALÍ PREMIERE France New dramaturgy The dancer Jordi Galí is fascinated by the gestures and movements of manual work and which make up the raw material of the creative process. He showed this at FiraTàrrega 2011 with his previous work Ciel. Now he presents a new architectural fiction for public spaces based around three performers, ladders, ropes and several pieces of wood. An exercise of great visual magnetism that explores the tension between contradictory forces (verticality, horizontality, elevation, inversion) and whose final result is the construction of a complex structure. Rien à dire LEANDRE Catalonia Circus (room) A silent show for all ages, where this international clown observes humankind and, in recreating it, produces a very personal mixture of humour and poetry. On the stage, four pieces of furniture and a door. Without walls. A house full of empty spaces, openings to the absurd, visited by imagined spectators. A single character surrounded by presences and imbalances. A time which has stopped at a frenetic rhythm, with ghosts in the cupboards, flying socks, raining umbrellas, playful mirrors, elusive lamps, surprise packets, telepathic pianos, silent music. A house of dreams to share solitude and emotions. Leandre’s house 17 Manipulat Catalonia Intallations (street) DIVERSES COMPANYIES Seven playful artistic pieces in a venue dedicated to creative entertainment for all the family. A good time for playing, laughing and sharing that will stimulate your brain. Cia. Itinerània An interactive installation of artefacts that challenge the skills of the members of the audience who want to put themselves in the place of a puppet. This requires coordination, precision, balance... and a puppet’s soul. Tombs Creatius Ten robotic play structures built from with recycled wood, a fair of curiosities from Mr. Tonet’s travels. Each game hides a singular creature. Circ Delícia A tricycle that turns into a stage where two musicians loaded down with strange instruments do juggling, choreographies, humour and circus to the rhythm of the music. Els Mabsutins Troupe of clowns ready to explain the secrets of the Yes Effect. Jokes, circus tricks, tumbles, slaps and kicks to fight against all possible obstacles. 18 Cia. Katakrak An installation of gadgets that poses challenges and offers a creative look at the objects lying around us. Art, play and recycling are combined with the principles of electricity and renewable energy. Cia. Ymedioteatro A mini-theatre on wheels that has room for the biggest dreams. Surprising comic sketches based on handling everyday objects that come to life and tell us their stories. Ronan Tully Mr Punch is always involved in outlandish situations that go beyond the limits of common sense. Traditional Irish glove puppets and original live music. Por casualidad MARCO VARGAS&CHLOÉ BRÛLÉ Andalusia Dance (street) Since 2005, the duo of Vargas and Brûlé have been in permanent creative harmony with their own language defined by flamenco and contemporary dance. This new show for two bailaores, conceived for a public place and singular venues, is inspired in all those people we secretly fall in love with for an instant. Those persons we meet by chance, who pass through our lives fleetingly, with whom we share melancholies and happiness with only a glance, without exchanging a single word. Anywhere, by chance. 19 Typical NACHO VILAR PRODUCCIONES i PRODUCCIONES GAUPASA Múrcia Theater (street) Itinerant show with music, choreographies and pyrotechnics, that brings back the seventies, a time in our recent history when tourism was all the rage in a country just awakening from the lethargic slumber of the dictatorship. Memories, moments, soundtracks, smells, symbols… A grey epoch marked by the television, in singular, that had become the only escape valve. A walking tour through our collective memory. Harket [Protocolo] PANICMAP PROYECTOS ESCÉNICOS València Theater (room) An interdisciplinary project that combines dance, theatre, humour, music, design, video-mapping and technology. A science-fiction story directed by Juan Pablo Mendiola and performed by the actress and choreographer, Cristina Fernàndez, about the experiences of a young volunteer who takes part in an experiment into the possibility of surviving in a bunker with only the help of an artificial intelligence system. A story that interweaves themes like trust, betrayal and our need as humans to establish links. A trans-media project that spills over into the social networks, where the spectators can expand their experience (see www.panicmap.com). Selected at the Xarxa Alcover 2012. Subtitled in English. Todos al patio PERE FAURA Catalonia Performance A choreographer and dancer, Pere Faura has shown great talent as a performer and creator for the stage. He came to FiraTàrrega 2012 with Ràdio Patio and Dansa Real ja!, and now, accompanied by two performers, he presents a show of multidisciplinary improvisation where the audience propose the different ingredients that appear on stage: from the general subject, specific actions or dances, to the music or the contents of the videos. The audience becomes the author, director and playwright of a show that combines text, dance, music and video in a stage event that is as unpredictable as it is unrepeatable. Presented together with Antic Teatre. 20 Acrometria PSIRC Catalonia Circus (room) A young circus company that won the Zirkolika Award 2012 as the revelation of the season. After various short pieces, they have moved on to a long show, with the external advice of Alba Sarraute. Three people find themselves trapped in a timeless reality from which they are not sure they will ever be able to escape. Meanwhile, they create human geometries and a new language to survive and understand what lies around them, accepting the existence of infinite realities. A piece with its own interdisciplinary stage vocabulary, that ranges from acrobatics and dance, to the Chinese pole or object handling. A show created with the support of Process()s, a project from the Pyrenees-Mediterranean Euro-region. (remor) RES DE RES Catalonia/Balearics New dramaturgy One of the Balearic companies with most international prestige, they have visited the Fira several times. They now present their latest production, a movement piece where two characters meet again through their remembrances. A brief but intense experience that the audience live through inside a 35 cubic-metre structure that evokes a prison cell. A story of freedom featuring two people who recreate a relationship of mutual dependence lived intimately beyond any limit. Memòries d’una puça SOL PÌCÓ CIA. DE DANSA Catalonia Dance (room) “We see loss as an opportunity”. This is the idea at the heart of the new creation by Sol Picó, a particular vision of decadence and desolation. A reflection about the present, seen as a devastating hurricane that stops us from moving forward, and about the need to change this world, to escape from this suffocating situation. Three nomads plan a journey that ends with them adrift, like a message in a bottle, a desire, a desperate plea for help… Fantasy and the absurd are the axes of this choreographic piece. An exercise in sincerity, convulsion and optimism. 21 El Otro TEATRO NIÑO PROLETARIO PREMIERE Xile New dramaturgy The latest work by this Chilean company that turns its gaze towards the most marginal places and most anonymous beings and who offered us their site-specific El olivo at FiraTàrrega 2011. In this new show, they present a story with a great emotional impact, in which the characters are the patients in a psychiatric hospital, through whom they construct an allegory of love-passion as a veritable stupidity and where life shows its most radical and authentic colours. A story inspired by Paz Errázuriz and Diamela Eltit’s book El infarto del alma, constructed as a series of everyday scenes that attempt to deal with the subject of affective survival in our times. Los Satisfechos TRASTO TEATRO Andalusia New dramaturgy A company created in 2002 and which, with a dozen shows, has earned it a great international reputation — to the point that the works of its director, Raúl Cortés, have been the subject of a thesis at the University of Pisa. This show, set in a wake, is a portrait of hunger through sharp and witty humour. Three characters wander among the ruins of daily life and face up to their existence calmly and courageously, aware that this is the most precious element of their rebellion. A mirror that reflects back the image of those who have lost everything except their sense of humour. Carvalho contra Vázquez Montalbán MVM, 10 ANYS D’ABSÈNCIA Catalonia New dramaturgy Surrounded by books and immersed and in a great metaphor, Carvalho cooks a leg of lamb in beer. This famous character, created by the writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, is the star of a monologue adapted as a post-modern and conceptual installation by Txell Roda. A peculiar function that has the feel of a 1970s happening and situates the audience among the shelves of a library. A theatrical artefact that offers a clear and diaphanous view of an epoch and a country through the writer’s characters and clairvoyance. This show enjoys the participation of the town’s artistic assets and forms part of the project, MVM 10 Years of Absence in commemoration of Vázquez Montalbán. 22 Nomarramón ZIRKUS FRAK / JORGE ALBUERNE Catalonia Circus (room) The latest work by this creator who moves between the worlds of the circus and of movement. A solo that presents a close and intimate relationship with various ingredients. The figure of the grandfather, death, chance, the meaning of life and what we leave behind us. A stage exercise where the plastic and text, action and content, rhythm and silence come together. An exercise in reflection in which the circus appears, with its philosophy, forms, physical effort and emotions. The vision of the two worlds connected by genetics that opens windows on history, aesthetics and human relations. A show presented jointly with Antic Teatre. Premi Zirkolika Award 2012 for the Best Show in Indoor Venue. 3.3 Plataforma FiraTàrrega For the third year running, FiraTàrrega has committed itself to the Creation Support Programme, which aims to promote the creation of street art shows through different creative laboratories, artistic residencies — with their corresponding open rehearsals — internationally produced performances, courses and workshops. The work of the companies involved shows that street arts offer endless artistic possibilities. The productions which are premiering in 2013 share the common goal of breathing fresh life into the current panorama, whether through experimental work or with something more popular and accessible. The most daring space of the Plataforma FiraTàrrega — made up of the eight most promising shows of those which are included in the Creation Support Programme — highlight companies that have participated in the Creative Labs: Insectotròpics, Joan Català and Macarena Recuerda Shepherd. On the other hand, the words of Catalonia’s currently most translated playwright, Esteve Soler, will resound throughout Tàrrega in Contra la ciutat (Against the city), an experience that is midway between visual arts and performing arts, and very critical of the dehumanised city that we live in today. Ârtica will be another of the important events of this year’s Fira. It is the latest production of Ponten Pie, a small scale experience of great poetic weight. The most playful part of this section comes thanks to the Italians of Ondadurto Theatre, with their festive and ironic approach to folk tales, entitled C’era una volta. The performances that form part of the Creation Support Programme are Otradnoie.1, of the Cia. Proyecto Otradnoie and El lloc, by Íntims Produccions. These projects make up a fifth of the FiraTàrrega programme for 2013 and reveal the work carried out by the Fira in stimulating street arts throughout the year. An effort which has the explicit aim of having an impact on the processes of creative renewal. Among the specific objectives of this programme are the promotion of creation by emerging artists, promoting education focused on artistic creation and the creation of strategic alliances to develop street arts circuits and productions both at a national and a transnational level. 23 Otradnoie.1 CIA. PROYECTO OTRADNOIE PREMIERE Support Creation Programming 2013 Catalonia Circus (street) Otradnoie (the name of a Russian village which means “the place where consolation can be found”) is the name of this circus company formed in 2009 between Barcelona and Toulouse. Its work is based on the search for a language where circus, movement, objects and devices come together to produce and control sound. Otradnoie 1 refers to a world dominated by oblivion, full of objects that have lost their purpose. Human stupidity has spread everywhere and the avalanche of information, consumerism, waste and insatisfaction are the basis of the dominant lifestyle. Otradnoie is the refuge of memory where a man and a woman dance surrounded by an atmosphere of sound that suggests hope, possibility, life. This show also includes the participation of the Fira del Circ Trapezi de Reus and Nau Ivanow. Whose are those eyes? MACARENA RECUERDA SHEPERD PREMIERE Support Creation Programming 2013 Catalonia New dramaturgy An artist with a long career and broad creative range, founder of the new creators’ platform, Colectivo Estraperlo, who has been producing her own shows since 2008. This project arose from her passion for detective stories, film noir and the comics of the 1930s. It is a roleplay in which the audience has to take on a role and became an active player in this plot of intrigue. A guided tour round the town that turns the street into a stage where the limits between fiction and real life become blurred. A detective puzzle in which the audience changes sides and helps to construct the show. This work is a coproduction of FiraTàrrega, Escena Poblenou, BAD de Bilbao and Antic Teatre. Ârtica PONTEN PIE PREMIERE Support Creation Programming 2013 Catalonia New dramaturgy The third show by this company who became known in 2009 after a Creation Laboratory at FiraTàrrega with their Copacabana, in which they smashed all theatrical conventions to offer a unique, culinary experience and which they have performed over 180 times around the world. In Ârtica, they continue this line of investigating new theatrical languages and audience involvement to offer a multidisciplinary, sensorial and not at all conventional piece. In small groups, the audience enter an old wooden house where they are met by silent characters who offer them warmth and where they can hear a series of surprising stories. An open window into an intimate world of nostalgia and poetry. 24 El lloc ÍNTIMS PRODUCCIONS PREMIERE Support Creating Programming 2013 Catalonia New dramaturgy A young company from the Municipal Theatre Class in Lleida who present a first show with the writing and expert direction of JorgeYamam Serrano, director of TeatrodeCerca (Moritz Award at FiraTàrrega 2012). With the pretext of a historical event (the massacre of Jews in Tàrrega in 1348), a tale is woven where the past and the present come together. Starting with a game, four friends who have met up in their usual place bring out the truths that they normally keep hidden between themselves. A sitespecific work that looks into the historical charge of particular places and the connection between our lives and the oft-forgotten lives of our ancestors. The show forms part of the Escorxadebats programme of the Teatre Municipal de l’Escorxador, Lleida. Bouazizi INSECTOTRÒPICS PREMIERE Support Creation Programming 2013 Catalonia Multidisciplinary After La Caputxeta galàctica, which we saw at FiraTàrrega in 2012, this multidisciplinary company, made up of two painters, a musician and three video-experimenters, presents a second show that goes more deeply into plastic and expressive research and the mixing of means and languages. A montage that makes us reflect about current themes, like human perversion, the meanness hidden behind state machinery, the manipulation of citizens’ opinions or the generation and spread of myths. Coproduced with the CAET / TNT. Contra la ciutat ESTEVE SOLER i JORDI QUERALT PREMIERE Support Creation Programming 2013 Catalonia Multidisciplinary A project based on the literary universe of the playwright Esteve Soler, whose trilogy Contra el progrés, Contra la democràcia and Contra l’amor has had a great impact thanks to its critical tone and sense of humour. Contra la ciutat permits a “morally altered” discovery of the city. It is a physical itinerary that reflects the monsters and contradictions of everyday life, and ponders on the dehumanisation of society, while making the audience take an active part and become propagators of messages. Starting from a map*, an interactive presentation and numerous actions, the audience has the chance to travel round the town and switch 25 between an questionable reality and a surprising fiction. *The route map can be acquired at the information point in Plaça del Carme, for €3. Pelat JOAN CATALÀ PREMIERE Support Creation Programming 2013 Catalonia Circ (street) The first solo show by this young multidisciplinary creator trained in the plastic arts, theatre, circus and dance, with an extensive international curriculum. A piece that arises from the observation of handcraft and from introspection into the artist’s own geographical and family origins, to experiment with space and movement and create a dialogue between nature and the individual that seeks to connect with the audience. A work designed for a public space, where four unknown people join the performer to work towards the same target, in a ritual about the ephemeral. A reflection about our phenomenal and disturbing journey through life. A coproduction by FiraTàrrega and El Graner, with the support of the Festival Sismògraf (Olot), Teatre Municipal de l’Escorxador (Lleida), Trayectos (Zaragoza) and the Festival TNT (Terrassa). C’era una volta ONDADURTO TEATRO PREMIERE Support Creation Programming 2013 Italy Theter (street) An Italian company that works through gesture, acrobatics and theatre-dance combined with stage machines, video and music. Taking the imaginative world of traditional tales as its source of inspiration, the show recreates a magic world that blurs the frontiers between good and evil, light and darkness, love and death. The audience is led behind the mirror to rediscover the most hidden facets of the characters that have accompanied us since our infancy: Little Red Riding-Hood, Snow White, witches and evil stepmothers. A multimedia allegory about our contemporary lifestyle, of great visual impact, dynamic, ironic and with touches of musical review. Coproduced between the Italian festival, Mirabilia, and FiraTàrrega. 3.4 FiraTàrrega Workshops One of the important elements of the FiraTàrrega programme for 2013 is developed with the involvement of students who participate in the different Street Arts educational programmes. In fact, here we can see the role played by FiraTàrrega as a gateway for future creators. We will present four workshops. Two of them are a product of work by the students from the first promotion of the 26 Master’s Degree in Street Arts coordinated by FiraTàrrega and the University of Lleida, in collaboration with the directors Paul Long (Metro-Boulot-Dodo) and Ignacio Achurra (La Patriotico Interesante) , respectively. A third one is a result of the participation of the Catalan artist Ernesto Collado in the training programme for actors of the CUT (UNAM) in Mexico. Finally, the group Grupo Carro FC, will premiere In Forma Pauperis, a workshop in which they count on the collaboration of students from the Theatre Institute. This workshop is presented in conjunction with the commemoration events for the centenary of this body. Report Distort Workshop PAUL LONG PREMIERE Workshop New Dramaturgy (Master of Creation in Street Arts FiraTàrrega + UdL) Multidisciplinary Paul Long (Metro-Boulot-Dodo) and students from FiraTàrrega’s Master's Degree in Street Arts Creation invite us to share an experiment in sound. Report distort explores the possibilities of a collective experience that can be enjoyed through a radio broadcast. Is it a serious report or is the reporter pulling our legs? To help us find out, we have the exciting, absurd, disturbing, fantastic, beautiful, profound and ridiculous possibilities of our imagination. Participate and find out with your own ears. You only need a radio and earphones. Tune in to Ràdio Tàrrega (92.3 FM; in English on 106.3 FM) and join the fun. Fantasía de obreros Workshop IGNACIO ACHURRA PREMIERE Workshop Street Theater (Master of Creation in Street Arts FiraTàrrega + UdL) Theater (street) Ignacio Achurra (La Patriótico Interesante) and students from the FiraTàrrega’s Master's Degree in Street Arts Creation present a show with street essence. A piece with a social content that will not leave you unmoved. A group of workers carry an anonymous statue. We see military parades, kings hanging by the neck, unemployed people warming themselves around a brazier, minstrels and singers, we hear the cries of imaginary merchants, football drums echo in the distance... A reflection about the iconography and the perverse effects of power, about the class stratification of society, about people’s capacity to organise themselves, about the possibility of recovering the agora, the ideal collective space for social demands and for theatre. 27 In Forma Pauperis GRUPO CARRO F. C. PREMIERE Theater (street) After being thrown out of their own home, the characters confront the forces of public order. A collective creation that arose from a workshop in the Theatre Institute, benefiting from the advice of the prestigious Chilean director, Ignacio Achurra. This group of young performers regard public spaces as the ideal scenario for their visual dramas. A critical proposal that connects us with the leading themes of contemporary society: housing, protests against the established order, virtual reality and the social networks, the cult of the image, the media’s power to subvert reality… A creation that appeals to the audience in the collective space and that reclaims the human race’s most precious possessions: the creative spirit, freedom to think and freedom to act. Coproduced by FiraTàrrega and the Theatre Institute. Verdades como puños CUT (UNAM), INBA, FiraTàrrega PREMIERE Theater (street) A production that owes its existence to collaboration between FiraTàrrega and the Centre University School of Theatre at the Autonomous University of Mexico with the support of the Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts. With Ernesto Collado’s experience in the dramatic narration of realities inspired by social movements like 15-M, this show aims to touch on the most sensitive nerve in today’s Mexican society. Based on urban legends and personal experiences of a group of young drama students, it tells us about their view of a country that is unreachable. With humour as an essential element, they invent truths that help them to move forward through the mediocrity and adulteration of a government that no longer represents them. They take over language to write their own history and convert their lives into a novel. Fresh, intense, unashamed. VITRINA MEXICANA 2013 3.5 Business Programme The FiraTàrrega programme is completed by the participation of the following companies involved in the distribution of shows: 23Arts, specialising in street arts; La maleta d’espectacles, dedicated to family audiences and circus lovers, and the ADGAE space, where the principal management and distribution agencies in the Spanish State will present a selection of their best pieces. With this sort of collaboration, FiraTàrrega has been establishing an increasingly fluid dialogue which this 28 year takes the form of 28 shows which can be classified into: pieces for children; late-night sessions; and more traditional street performances. BUSINESS PROGRAMME PARTICIPANTS LA MALETA DELS ESPECTACLES Els peus de porc Dudu i Cia. Chez la Poupée + Cafè Urania Cia. Xicana 23 ARTS Chiminiguaga (Colombia) Zinc Co (Catalonia) El Gran Dimitri (Catalonia) Cia. Passabarret (Catalonia) Teatro Percutor (Madrid) Dulce Duca (Catalonia) Lorrojo (Belgium) Cia. Sifó (Catalonia) Atempo Circ (Catalonia) Théâtre de la Toupine (France) Nando e Maila (Italy) ASOCIACIÓN DE EMPRESAS DE ARTES ESCÉNICAS (ADGAE) Los Menos (Murcia) Fes-t’ho com vulguis (Catalonia) Isabela Labella (Murcia) Brincadeira (Catalonia) Teatrapo (Extremadura) Pardo el Pshicomago (Catalonia) Mimaia (Catalonia) Ipso Facto (Euskadi) Fil d’arena (València) Factoria Norte (Asturias) Katrasca Cia. (Catalonia) Ametzu Produkziozk / Imaginaciones Nai (Spanish State, Basque country) 29 3.6 Bonus Tracks The two following shows, presented by the professional company Guixot 8 and the amateur group Filagarsa, complete the FiraTàrrega programme for 2013: Guixot de 8 COMPANYIA GUIXOT DE 8 Catalonia Installations (street) For over 20 years, Guixot de 8 have been building games with recycled materials. They have given new life to some 10 tonnes of scrap metal. Now they present two sets of surprising, imaginative games. 'Gargot de jocs' is a challenge of virtuosity, wit and skill for all ages. 'Gargot d'escultura' is a singular homage to the 20th-century “kinetic” sculptors. A playful piece that aims to take works of art out of the stuffy confines of the museums into the rhythm and movement of the street. This entertainment for the whole family will ensure a good time for all. Nadal a Halloween GRUP DE TEATRE FILAGARSA Catalonia Theater (room) With a 25-year career in amateur theatre, Filagarsa have specialised since 2000 in the production of musicals. Winners of the 2011 City of Tàrrega Amateur Theatre Award with Kiss me Kate, they repeat their success in 2013. The story they have produced is about Halloween Town, the place where monsters, murderers, vampires, witches and ghosts all live side by side and where their leader, Jack, the King of the Dead, tired of frightening people, dreams about conquering Christmas Town, where everything is peace and happiness. WINNER OF THE CITY OF TÀRREGA AMATEUR THEATRE AWARD 2013. 30 4 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES True to its philosophy of being a highly transversal event where the concerns of citizens and those of the companies and professionals within the sector come together, FiraTàrrega has prepared, once again, activities specifically aimed at the latter. Thus, the Fira consolidates its role as a centre for conferences, presentations and meetings of associations, with these being understood as spaces for exchange and reflection among practitioners from the entire universe of the performing arts in general and from that of street arts in particular. 4.1 Digital training On the morning of Thursday, 5 September there will be a training session on advanced digital communications especially designed for companies and for professionals in general. This session, run by Playbrand, a strategic consultancy firm specialising in digital marketing and media, will focus on social networks and digital media and, in particular, on positioning and promotion through the network. 4.2 Focus on Mexico Mexico is the guest country at FiraTàrrega 2013. In this regard, the Fira will not only showcase the most outstanding offers of current Mexican artistic creation (see Mexican Showcase, p.10), but also a delegation of professionals from this country will arrive in the city. Thus, on the afternoon of Thursday, 5 September Tàrrega will be host to a conference focused on the performing arts in this Central American country, including the following panels: Performing arts as a tool for social cohesion Mexican theatre today often acts as a critical mirror of great educational value, focusing on the violence which occupies such a prominent place in this country’s complex and contradictory social situation. Many cultural projects are emerging as a responsible and committed response to problems or key social issues such as violence in the family, at school or at work; violence against women, or other gender related or homophobic violence; and above all the violence produced by the illegal drugs trade. Three experts will share with participants success stories and examples of best practices. Playwriting for young people One of the most successful programs being carried out by the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes of the Mexican government is that related to dramatic writing for young people. The Programa Nacional de Teatro Escolar (National Programme of Theatre for Schools) is a very important nursery for talented new creators. This example of good practice, a fully exportable case study, will be explained by its initiators. A snapshot of new Mexican direction A talk with some of the key names in the generation of Mexican artists that is currently becoming a regular part of international programming. This is an unusual way of understanding and presenting Mexico’s theatre of today. Some of them are conventional examples, others less so, but all are of undoubted quality. 31 4.3 The Department of Culture’s Lunchtime Meeting For the seventh year running, the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya will host within the Fira a Lunchtime Meeting, an essential informal gathering for networking and sales between Catalan companies, international professionals and associations, with the active participation of FiraTàrrega. Thanks to this initiative, Catalan artists and companies obtain valuable contracts and international exposure. This year’s meeting will take place on Friday 6 September. 4.4 Other professional activities Meeting in Tàrrega of members of Circostrada, the European platform for the street arts and circus, dedicated to information, observation and professional exchanges in these fields. Representing more than 50 members from 17 countries, Circostrada works to develop the structuring and recognition of these sectors in Europe. Meeting at FiraTàrrega of members of Circus Info Finland, a Finnish circus association which works on the artistic development of circus in Finland and on promoting its cultural and social status. Its key activities are services, advisory work and disseminating information about circus productions. Presentation of student projects from the first promotion of the Master’s Degree in Street Arts Creation, sponsored by the University of Lleida and FiraTàrrega. On the morning of Sunday 8 September, students will present their projects to different programmers registered at the Fira. Thus FiraTàrrega acts as a bridge between these students and professionals in street arts. 4.5 Professional spaces The organisation of FiraTàrrega makes available to professionals from around the world two specific spaces: 1. La Llotja: An exhibition hall of 1,100 m2 where the professional meetings will be held. With stands, conference rooms, meeting places and all the services needed by professionals and the press, this will be the epicentre for professional relations, as it hosts presentations and lectures during the day. 2. The Professionals Club: A comfortable meeting space, fun and informal, ideal for having meals and relaxing from an intense day of viewing shows and taking part in meetings. 32 5. APPENDIX FIRATÀRREGA 2013 BUDGET INCOME OWN FUNDS EXPENSES 164,8 ORGANISATION Shows Staff Llotja Technical infrastructure for shows Programmes Accommodation Other Llotja GRANTS Generalitat de Catalunya 912,8 GROUPS 485 *1 Tàrrega Council 211,3 *2 COMMUNICATION INAEM - Culture Ministry 75 *3 Road signs/advertisements Lleida provincial government 141,5 *4 Graphic materials 563,691 401,609 175,3 Advertising and public information Partnerships and advertising TOTAL INCOME *1 63 1,140,600 TOTAL EXPENSES Generalitat Catalunya Generalitat Catalunya/ ICIC/ agreements Generalitat Catalunya/ Institut Ramon Llull 480 5 485 CULTURE PROGRAMME TransAC / Meridians European Union Transfer *2 1,140,600 Direct contribution Municipal services 56,485 166,3 45 211,3 33 *3 INAEM 75 75 *4 Lleida provincial government 120 Lleida provincial government/ Economic Development Board 21,5 141,5 34 6. APPENDIX 2013 FIRATÀRREGA PROGRAMMING IN FIGURES 0. Summary TOTAL: 77 companies (49 FiraTàrrega programme + 28 company programme) 78 shows (50 on the FiraTàrrega programme and 28 on the company programme) Origin: 44 Catalan companies – 57% 17 companies from the rest of the Spanish State – 22% 9 autonomous regions (Andalusia, Madrid, Aragon, Basque Country, Murcia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, Extremadura, Asturias) 16 international companies – 21% 7 countries (Mexico, Colombia, Chile, UK, France, Belgium, Italy) I. General Information a. Opening show – one company 1 Nats Nus (CAT) b. Official Section – 34 companies 1 Always Drinking Marching Band (CAT) 2 Animal Religion (CAT) 3 Candelaria Antelo & Arthur Berbard (ESP / MAD) 4 Cia Fadunito i el Burro dels Jocs (CAT / LLEI) 5 Cia La Tal (CAT) 6 Cía. Cielo Raso (ESP / EUSK) 7 Cia. Mar Gómez (CAT) 8 Company Chameleon (UK) 9 Compañía Nacional de Teatro (MEX) 35 10 David Moreno & Cia (CAT) 11 Ertza (ESP / EUSK) 12 Fet a mà (FRA) 13 Fundación Collado – Van Hoestenberghe (CAT) 14 Horztmuga Teatroa (ESP / EUSK) 15 JAM (CAT / LLEI) 16 Jashgawronsky Brothers (ITA) 17 Jordi Galí (FRA) 18 La máquina de esuilo (MEX) 19 Leandre (CAT) 20 Manipulat (CAT) 21 Marco Vargas & Chloé Brûlé (ESP / AND) 22 Nacho Vilar Producciones (ESP / MUR) 23 PanicMap Proyectos Escénicos (ESP/VAL) 24 Pere Faura (CAT) 25 Psirc (CAT) 26 Res de Res (ESP/BAL) 27 Sol Picó dance company (CAT) 28 Teatro Ciertos Habitantes (MEX) 29 Teatro Línea de sombra (MEX) 30 Teatro Niño Proletario (CHI) 31 Trasto Teatro (ESP/AND) 32 Txell Roda (CAT) 33 VACA 35 (MEX) 34 ZirKus FraK / Jorge Albuerne (CAT) c. FIRATÀRREGA Platform – 8 companies 1 Cía. Proyecto Otradnoie (CAT) 2 Macarena Recuerda Sheperd (CAT) 3 Ponten Pie (CAT) 4 Íntims Produccions (CAT / LLEI) 36 5 Insectotròpics (CAT) 6 Esteve Soler + Jordi Queralt (CAT) 7 Joan Català (CAT) 8 Ondadurto Teatro (ITA) d. FiraTàrrega Workshops – 4 companies 1 Grupo Carro FC (CAT) 2 Paul Long Workshop 3 Ignacio Workshop 4 CUT + INAM e. Company programme – 28 companies La Maleta dels Espectacles – 5 companies 1 Els Peus del Porc CAT) 2 Dudu i cia. (CAT) 3 Chez la Poupée + Cafè Urania (CAT) 4 Cia. Xicana (CAT) 23 Arts – 11 companies 1 Chiminiguaga (COL) 2 Zinc Co (CAT) 3 El Gran Dimitri (CAT) 4 Cia. Passabarret (CAT) 5 Teatro Percutor (ESP / MAD) 6 Dulce Duca (CAT) 7 Lorrojo (BEL) 8 Cia. Sifó (CAT) 9 Atempo Circ (CAT) 10 Théâtre de la Toupine (FRA) 11 Nando e Maila (ITA) 37 ADGAE – 12 companies 1 Los Menos (ESP / MUR) 2 Fes-t’ho com vulguis (CAT) 3 Isabel Labella (ESP / MUR) 4 Brincadeira (CAT) 5 Teatrapo ESP / EXTR) 6 Pardo el Pshicomago (CAT) 7 Mimaia (CAT) 8 Ipso Facto (ESP / EUSK 9 Fil D’arena (ESP / VAL) 10 Factoria Norte (ESP / AST) 11 Katrasca cia (CAT) 12 Ametzu Produkziozk / Imaginaciones Nai (ESP / ESUK) f. Bonus Tracks – 2 companies 1 Grup de teatre Filagarsa (CAT) 2 Guixot de 8 (CAT) II. FiraTàrrega PROGRAMME (49 companies – 50 shows) Premieres – 26 shows (52%) 1. Indomador – Animal Religion 2. Entre tu i jo – Cia Mar Gómez 3. Carnaval – Cía. Cielo Raso 4. The incredible Box – Cia. La Tal 5. Otradnoie.1 – Cía. Proyecto Otradnoie 6. Carnada – Compañía Nacional de Teatro 7. Verdades como puños – CUT INBA FiraTàrrega 8. Street M[u]f – David Moreno & Cia. 9. Contra la ciutat – Esteve Soler + Jordi Queralt 10. Cru – Fet a mà 11. In forma pauperis – Grupo Carro F.C. 38 12. Bouazizi – Insectotròpics 13. El lloc – Intims Produccions 14. Glof – JAM 15. Pelat – Joan Català 16. Abscisse – Jordi Galí 17. La máquina de Esquilo – La maquina de Esquilo 18. Whose are those eyes? – Macarena Recuerda Shepherd 19. C’era una volta – Ondadurto Teatro 20. Ârtica – Ponten Pie 21. Fantasía de Obreros – Ignacio Achurra workshop 22. Report distort – Paul Long workshop 23. Todavía…siempre – Teatro de Ciertos habitantes 24. Baños Roma – Teatro Línea de Sombra 25. El Otro – Teatro Niño Proletario 26. Transforma-T – Nats Nus PREMIERES Non premiere shows 48% Premiere shows 52% Free shows / Shows with limited capacity / Paying shows Free Street Art Shows – 24 shows / 48% 1. Transforma-T – Nats Nus 2. Always drinking Marching Band – Always drinking Marching Band 3. Te odiero – Candelaria Antelo & Arthur Bernard Bazin 4. Push – Company Chameleon 5. Carnaval – Cia. Cielo Raso 39 6. Street M[u]ff – David Moreno & cia 7. 4 x 4 – Ertza 8. Externet – Cia Fadunito i El Burro dels jocs 9. Ceci 3. – Cia Fadunito 10. Conferència Optimista – Fundación Collado-Van Hoestenberghe 11. Yo estuve allí y no lo contaron como yo lo ví – Horztumga Teatroa 12. Glof! – JAM 13. Abscisse - Jordi Galí 14. La máquina de Esquilo - La máquina de Esquilo 15. The Box – Cia La Tal 16. Entre tu i jo – Cia Mar Gómez 17. Por casualidad - Marco Vargas & Chloé Brûlé 18. Typical – Nacho Vilar Producciones 19. Pelat – Joan Català 20. C’era una volta - Ondadurto Teatro 21. In forma pauperis - Grupo Carro F.C. 22. Report distort - Paul Long workshop 23. Fantasía de Obreros - Ignacio Achurra workshop 24. Guixot de 8 – Companyia Guixot de 8 Street Art performances with limited capacity – 13 shows / 26% 1. Manipulat – Manipulat 2. Remor – Res de res 3. El Otro – Teatro Niño Proletario 4. Los Satisfechos - Trasto Teatro 5. Carvalho contra Vázquez Montalbán - MVM, 10 anys d’absència 6. Lo único que necesita una gran actriz, es una gran obra y las ganas de triunfar – VACA 35 7. Otradnoie.1 – Proyecto Otradnoie 8. Whose are those eyes? - Macarena Recuerda Shepherd 9. Ârtica - Ponten Pie 10. El lloc - Intims Produccions 11. Bouazizi – Insectotròpics 12. Contra la ciutat - Esteve Soler + Jordi Queralt 13.Verdades como puños - CUT INBA FT 40 Indoor shows with entry fee – 13 shows / 26% 1. Indomador - Animal Religion 2. Carnada - Compañía Nacional de Teatro 3. Cru – Fet a mà 4. Trash – Jashgawronsky Brothers 5. Rien a dire – Leandre 6. Harket – PANICMAP Proyectos Escénicos 7. Todos al patio – Pere Faura 8. Acrometria – Psirc 9. Memòries d’una puça – Sol Picó dance company 10. Todavía…siempre - Teatro de Ciertos habitantes 11. Baños Roma - Teatro Línea de Sombra 12. Nomarramón - Zirkus Frak / Jorge Albuerne 13. Nadal a Halloween – Grup de teatre Filagarsa PAYING AND FREE SHOWS Indoor shows with entry fee 26% Free Street Art Shows 48% Street Art shows with limited capacity 26% Genres Street theatre – 10 shows 1. Yo estuve allí y no lo contaron como yo lo ví – Horztumga Teatroa 2. Glof! – JAM 3. Typical – Nacho Vilar Producciones 4. Ceci 3. – Cia Fadunito 5. C’era una volta - Ondadurto Teatro 6. In forma pauperis - Grupo Carro F.C. 7. Fantasía de Obreros - Ignacio Achurra workshop 8. Verdades como puños - CUT INBA FT 9. La máquina de Esquilo - La máquina de Esquilo 41 10. The Box – Cia La Tal Indoor, stage theatre - 5 shows 1. Carnada – Compañía Nacional de Teatro 2. Harket – PANICMAP Proyectos Escénicos 3. Todavía…siempre – Teatro de Ciertos habitantes 4. Baños Roma – Teatro Línea de Sombra 5. Nadal a Halloween – Grup de teatre Filagarsa Street circus – 2 shows 1. Otradnoie.1 – Proyecto Otradnoie 2. Pelat - Joan Català Indoor circus – 5 shows 1. Indomador - Animal Religion 2. Cru – Fet a mà 3. Rien a dire – Leandre 4. Acrometria – Psirc 5. Nomarramón – Zirkus Frak / Jorge Albuerne Street dance – 7 shows 1. Transforma-T – Nats Nus 2. Te odiero - Candelaria Antelo & Arthur Bernard Bazin 3. Push – Company Chameleon 4. Carnaval – Cia. Cielo Raso 5. 4 x 4 – Ertza 6. Entre tu i jo - Cia Mar Gómez 7. Por casualidad - Marco Vargas & Chloé Brûlé Indoor dance – 1 show 1. Memòries d’una puça – Sol Picó dance company 42 New drama - 9 shows 1. Abscisse - Jordi Galí 2. Remor – Res de res 3. El Otro – Teatro Niño Proletario 4. Los Satisfechos - Trasto Teatro 5. Carvalho contra Vázquez Montalbán - MVM, 10 anys d’absència 6. Lo único que necesita una gran actriz, es una gran obra y las ganas de triunfar – VACA 35 7. Whose are those eyes? - Macarena Recuerda Shepherd 8. Ârtica - Ponten Pie 9. El lloc - Intims Produccions Multidisciplinary – 3 shows 1. Bouazizi – Insectotròpics 2. Contra la ciutat - Esteve Soler + Jordi Queralt 3. Report distort - Paul Long workshop Performance – 2 shows 1. Conferència Optimista – Fundación Collado – Van Hoestenberghe 2. Todos al patio – Pere Faura Street installations – 3 shows 1. Externet – Cia Fadunito i El Burro dels jocs 2. Manipulat – Manipulat 3. Guixot de 8 – Companyia Guixot de 8 Street music – 2 shows 1. Always drinking Marching Band - Always drinking Marching Band 2. Street M[u]ff – David Moreno & cia 43 Indoor music – 1 show 1. Trash – Jashgawronsky Brothers GENRES Street dance: 7 Multidisciplinary: 3 Indoor dance: 1 Street installations: 3 Street circus: 2 Performance: 2 Indoor circus: 5 New drama: 9 Street music: 2 Indoor, stage theatre: 5 Indoor music: 1 Street theatre: 10 Audience For adult audiences – 22 shows / 44% 1. Indomador - Animal Religion 2. Carnada - Compañía Nacional de Teatro 3. Cru – Fet a mà 4. Conferència Optimista – Fundación Collado – Van Hoestenberghe 5. Yo estuve allí y no lo contaron como yo lo ví – Horztuma Teatroa 6. Harket – PANICMAP Proyectos Escénicos 7. Todos al patio – Pere Faura 8. Acrometria – Psirc 9. Remor – Res de res 10. Memòries d’una puça – Sol Picó dance company 11. Todavía… siempre - Teatro de Ciertos habitantes 12. Baños Roma - Teatro Línea de Sombra 13. Los Satisfechos - Trasto Teatro 14. Carvalho contra Vázquez Montalbán - MVM, 10 anys d’absència 15. Lo único que necesita una gran actriz, es una gran obra y las ganas de triunfar – VACA 35 16. Nomarramón - Zirkus Frak / Jorge Albuerne 17. Whose are those eyes? - Macarena Recuerda Shepherd 18. Bouazizi – Insectotròpics 19. Contra la ciutat - Esteve Soler + Jordi Queralt 44 20. Report distort - Paul Long workshop 21. Verdades como puños - CUT INBA FT 22. El Otro – Teatro Niño Proletario For all audiences - 28 companies / 56% 1. Transforma-T – Nats Nus 2. Always drinking Marching Band - Always drinking Marching Band 3. Te odiero - Candelaria Antelo & Arthur Bernard Bazin 4. Push – Company Chameleon 5. Carnaval – Cia. Cielo Raso 6. Street M[u]ff – David Moreno & cia 7. 4 x 4 – Ertza 8. Externet – Cia Fadunito i El Burro dels jocs 9. Ceci 3. – Cia Fadunito 10. Glof! – JAM 11. Trash – Jashgawronsky Brothers 12. Abscisse - Jordi Galí 13. La máquina de Esquilo - La máquina de Esquilo 14. The Box – Cia La Tal 15. Rien a dire – Leandre 16. Manipulat – Manipulat 17. Entre tu i jo - Cia Mar Gómez 18. Por casualidad - Marco Vargas & Chloé Brûlé 19. Typical – Nacho Vilar Producciones 20. Otradnoie.1 – Proyecto Otradnoie 21. Ârtica - Ponten Pie 22. El lloc - Intims Produccions 23. Pelat - Joan Català 24. C’era una volta - Ondadurto Teatro 25. In forma pauperis - Grupo Carro F.C. 26. Fantasía de Obreros - Ignacio Achurra workshop 27. Nadal a Halloween – Grup de teatre Filagarsa 28. Guixot de 8 – Companyia Guixot de 8 Audiences Shows for adult audiences 44% Shows for all audiences 56% 45 7. PRACTICAL INFORMATION FIRATÀRREGA 2013 From 5 to 8 September 2013 FiraTàrrega has several means of ensuring that the public can consult all the information about the programme and the main novelties of this year’s Fira: Official FiraTàrrega website (www.firatarrega.com) Public information phone line: 973 500 039 Information booth, installed in the Plaça del Carme, Tàrrega, as of a few days before the Fira. The Fira is also present on the social networks: firatarrega FIRATÀRREGA PRESS SERVICE Marc Gall / Maria Muñiz +34 933106044 +34 616265626 premsa@firatarrega.com www.firatarrega.com 46