Cifuentes assumes the challenge of raising the curtain without theater at the Mercat de les Flors
The challenge of María José Cifuentesthe new director of the Flower Marketit is deserving. It accesses the post when the building has a closing date next season. Now, almost only program in the Mac Room. The works must be completed in 2029, coinciding with the centenary of the Montjuïc Universal Exhibition, when the theater will reopen.
María José Cifuentes
Cultural manager with a long history in Chile since 2013, argues that dance will gain more presence in everyday life (“putting the audience at the center” is a motto that defines it). It can be on the street, in the museums or the libraries. It also seeks complicity with other facilities in the city – mainly free and TNC – to host part of its programming. She is enthusiastic. Celebrate the work they have done Cesc Casadesús (2005-2016) and Angels Margarit (2016-2025). About 45 years old, he has seen these two directions have allowed the trajectory of a handful of Catalan artists with international projection. And it celebrates the talent.
Wants to strengthen the production line that Margarit opened with Cell (Until Sunday is represented Fable of Roser López Espinosaprecisely). He has paved the way for collaboration with great cultural facilities in Catalonia, also outside of Barcelona. “I have your yes,” he says. Now you need to orchestrate how to share this project, which will go beyond programming, with the support of the Dance Impulse Plan.
‘Fable’ by Roser López Espinosa
A regular in networking from Latin American projects, he believes that it is time to open to other European teams with more strength. Also being permeable to African dance and Latin American. Isn’t it a double deadly leap to look for international co -productions when you do not have theater to host exchanges? It can be a good option for companies to premiere outside and arrive in Barcelona with internationally endorsed production, responds convinced.
Indeed, the best way to guarantee the continuity of the flower market is to make the activity not stop. It is now waiting for the support of the artists (each piece must be rethought in spaces that may vary), of the theaters (as the main reference of dance in Catalonia, they should meet the demand of other teams in these circumstances) and of the institutions (“ acting without space means renting more material; this is more expensive ”, warns). He believes more about establishing networks with festivals such as those in Valencia and Cádiz than that the ministry is dedicated to subsidizing according to the Spanish DNI of scheduled artists. By the way, it hopes to finish the course, taking into account the press conferences in Catalan; At the moment, answer the questions fluently in this language.
Institutions seek to finance the works to open in 2029. This is the desire of the entire market team: to overcome this desert with the confidence that a valid theater will be built for the next 50 years.
What will the Mac Room look like?
“It will be better,” he says in short. It will simplify the movement of stands and stage. If 2016 Cesc Casadesús He made an intervention to improve the machinery of the MAC room – with an improvement in the assembly of lighting -, the deployment for the audio will now be deployed. Today, the scale to Pina Bausch has disappeared to ensure a comfortable and safe displacement of viewers. This improvement, along with small adaptations to the Pina Bausch, will give more performance to this space.
Cifuentes wants to network with the barnthe creation factory that manages the market, and also with the boiler. She is excited about the new opportunities that museums give her. They plan to disembark in the ceded spaces such as the one who organizes a party, from one house to another. He is tired, but seduces for the fun and the possibility of discovering a new audience.
It is not new to him. One of his last projects has been to direct the Gabriela Mistral Cultural Center22,000 square meters, with a stage of 1,800 locations next to visual arts, dance, circus, classical and popular music, and conference rooms.
The challenge of Cifuentes in Barcelona is deserving. The backpack that brings Chile gives you resources to dare.
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