The Tangent festival celebrates a decade of shared culture in the Eixample

the festival tangent reaches its tenth edition, turning, once again, the spaces of the Eixample district into live arts venues. From June 30 to July 23squares, streets and inner courtyards host a program built by six civic centers of the territory, which consolidates the festival as a cultural proposition linked to civic centers and the territory.

In this edition, the festival focuses on proposals that establish a dialogue between cultural roots and current languages. The inauguration with finfrom Marc Fernández’s company, takes as its starting point the imaginary of the castellar world to construct a dance piece that combines movement, rhythm and collective work, situating the body as a space of memory and transmission. This line also crosses other proposals of the program, such as PACKINGby Chicharrón Circo Flamenco, or Couple coffeeby Pol Jiménez, which revisit traditional materials from contemporary scenic formats. The festival will close with the concert of Renaldo & Clarawhich present the charm in Plaça de la Sagrada Família, in a live show that combines pop sensibility and sound exploration, and which places the band as one of the most unique voices on the current Catalan scene.

The program covers different disciplines and forms of expression, combining music, dance, circus and hybrid creations in which the body, gesture, sound and space are brought into relation. In the musical field, proposals such as those of Guillem Rome, Black Lime, Laaza, Lorena Alvarezor STRANGE WEYS ORCHESTRA they explore from pop and electronica to roots music and contemporary fusion. Dance appears both from a physical and collective register, as in finas from a more introspective look in pieces like FRAGILE or NO (Short piece)while circus and physical theater find their place in proposals such as Triplett, Wow!!! or Free fall for people with vertigowhich combine risk, humor and poetics of the body. The program also incorporates scenic devices that overflow conventional formats, such as Moving Doors or I trust youin which work with objects, materials and processes becomes a central part of the proposal.

True to its model, the Tangent is deployed in a distributed manner in different parts of the district, without concentrating in a single space, and generates a network of scenarios that connect equipment and the urban environment. Plaça del Fort Pienc, the Mercat de Sant Antoni, the green streets and axes, as well as the inner courtyards of the civic centers, are transformed during the days of the festival and welcome proposals that adapt to the characteristics of each place, modifying the way in which the shows are seen and experienced.

The festival is part of the ongoing work of the district’s civic centers -Ateneu Fort Pienc, Urgell, Casa Golferichs, Sagrada Família, Cotxeres Borrell and La Casa Elizalde-, which define the programming in a coordinated manner and based on shared criteria. The Tangent makes it possible to expand this task and open it to other formats, especially linked to the public space and the dynamics of summer, while maintaining a free and accessible offer.

With ten editions of the route, the festival is consolidated as a collective project that articulates contemporary creation, territory and public, and that transforms everyday spaces into meeting places around culture.

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Practical information:
⚫ All the proposals of the festival are offered from free of charge.
⚫ No prior reservation requiredwith the exception of shows Moving Doors (July 2, Casa Golferichs Civic Centre) i Copla coffee (July 17, Cotxeres Borrell Civic Center).
⚫ Consult the locations exact details of each show (inner courtyards of civic centers and nearby squares and streets).

Organizing civic centers:
Ateneo Fort Pienc Civic Centre
Civic Center Urgell
Civic Center Casa Golferichs
Sagrada Familia Civic Center
Cotxeres Borrell Civic Centre
La Casa Elizalde Cultural Center