The 39th edition of the Community of Madrid Autumn Festival will once more fill our city with the best international theatre, dance and performance proposals from 11 to 28 November.
In this latest edition, once the mobility restrictions had been lifted, one of the festival’s hallmarks was highlighted: international shows. The programme will include companies from around a dozen countries and significant Latin American participation.
This year’s theme asks the question of who we are and who we can become by putting some bodies next to others: the body as a central sign of existence. There will be shows like Tríptico by Peeping Tom in collaboration with the Canal Theatres, Highlands by Mal Pelo (Festival co-production), Larsen C. by Christos Papadopoulos, Cuerpo de baile by Pablo Messiez, Piano Works Debussy by Lisbeth Gruwez and Claire Chevallier, After All Springville by Miet Warlop / Irene Wool in collaboration with La Casa Encendida, El hermoso misterio que nos une (Festival co-production) by Jesús Rubio Gamo; Pinocchio by Babilonia Teatri, Criaturas del desorden by Elena Córdoba or Los inescapables Alpes by La Chachi. They are all productions that use physical theatre, dance or performance to explore the body’s poetic, philosophical and aesthetic possibilities.
The festival also highlights the importance of inheritance and ties with works like Transverse Orientation by Dimitris Papaioannou (Festival co-production), Terebrante by Angélica Liddell, Antigone in Molenbeek and Tiresias by Guy Cassiers, Imprenteros by Lorena Vega and her brothers or Fedeli d´amore by Teatro delle Albe.
Shows are typically divided among different collaborating theatres in the community of Madrid, which, in this edition, include Teatros del Canal, Teatro de La Abadía, Cuarta Pared, Teatro Pradillo, Conde Duque, Sala Mirador, Nave 73, La Casa Encendida, Real Coliseo Carlos III de San Lorenzo at El Escorial or the Corral de Comedias Alcalá de Henares.
Each year, the festival has a programme that includes text theatre, contemporary dance, performance, experimental music, object theatre, living arts, immersive theatre, transmedia drama, laboratories, film and poetry. The programme backs Spanish creation with shows by leading artists from the Spanish avant-garde scene, as well as new up-and-coming figures.
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