When Girona exports cosmopolitanism – Revista Teatre Barcelona
In the years following the great crisis of 2008, international theater programming was practically banned from Barcelona theaters, with the only constant exception of the Greek Festival. Meanwhile, in Girona, Temporada Alta opened windows to consolidate an audience loyal to the international vanguards ofAngelica Liddell, Romeo Castellucci i Christiane Jatahyamong many others. Fortunately, things have changed: Lliure and TNC have aired their programs with proposals from outside and, for a few years now, Temporada Alta has been shyly poking its head around the county town.
Now, however, under the new direction of Narcís Puigthe Girona show firmly sets foot on the Barcelona billboard with Flaix de tardor – BCN, an international program made up of seven shows spread over six venues. All to add to the scenic map of the city a stable line of live arts from around the world beyond the summer period occupied by the Grec. As we said, it is not the first time that the Girona festival has partnered with Barcelona venues, but now it does so with an articulated structure, with its own brand and with the ambition to enrich the local ecosystem – not to compete with it. Agendas prepared for October 21 and November 15.
Dream Team
Those of us who have internalized the custom of frequenting the theaters of Girona and Salt during the autumn can praise the virtues of some of the proposals that are now moving a little further south. The indispensable Belgian choreographer Alain Platel opens the cycle with Fatal Coupan exuberant and heterodox musical reinterpretation of baroque repertoires and sounds from the Congo, a set that arrives at the Free in a renewed version. The same equipment will host All the timeof Romina Paulaa generational dissection fromThe glass zoo of Tennessee Williamsa piece that is already a classic of Argentine theater and Temporada Alta.
The selection also includes The voice of Dante, where Tony Servillo — perhaps the most popular name on the poster — unfolds an intimate and vibrant reading of the Divine Comedy at the Goya Theatre. You can see it at the Mercat de les Flors Double Billa four-hand program signed by William Forsythe i Thomas Hauertwith the endorsement of the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Companya show that promises a choreographic dialogue between two ways of understanding movement based on precision and contrast.
They complete the program Phedre! (Library of Catalonia), from the Swiss Francois Gremaudmonologue that dismantles and resignifies the classic of Jean Racine with wit and irony; To Move in Time (Fundación Joan Brossa), from the British Tim Etchells with the company Forced Entertainmenta proposal that is articulated as a scenic reflection on time and the desire to travel through it, and, finally, a comical and provocative reading of Measure by measurein the hands of the master clown Gabriel Chaméin La Villarroel.
All in all, a program that wants to avoid the “festival” label and take root in the fabric of a city that claims – as it has always done – new airs to ward off any hint of provincialism.
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