FIBA begins and Buenos Aires becomes a big theater stage

From this Friday to Sunday March 5, the Buenos Aires International Festival (FIBA) presents more than 1,500 artists in more than 300 events, including 17 international projects, 26 transnational projects and 59 national projects, encompassing the most interesting stages of the world and Argentina.

In the words of its artistic director, Federico Irazabal: “It is time for Argentine performing artists to offer their talent to the world that visits us, to see what we know how to do so well in our country and which is a fundamental mark of our culture.”

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This edition will deepen and strengthen different axes that it has developed in recent editions such as federal integration, the gender perspective and LGBTIQ+ diversity and inclusion policies, the search for sustainable communication and the protection of privacy. environment through measures that contribute to the reduction of the CO2 footprint, technology as an ally of culture that strengthens and transforms it, and accessibility as a fundamental element in the construction of a cultural event. According to the city’s Minister of Culture, Enrique Avogadro“FIBA is a festival that invites us to feel the transformative power of culture.”

Another FIBA ​​highlight will be Argentinian productions that arrive in Buenos Aires from other cities. Will be presented, among others: the toadof Ignatius Tamagno (Cordoba), Barriers to Actionof Beatrice Catani (At payment), red phoneCanadian project with texts by Nelson Valente (Banfield), y I sell smokeof John Onofri (Black River).

The opening of the festival will be with By heartof Tiago Rodrigues (director of the Avignon Festival, in France), at the Cultural Center 25 de Mayo. In this play, the director teaches a poem to 10 people, while telling stories about his soon-to-be-blind grandmother and stories of writers and book characters related to both his grandmother and him. -even.

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The international program will include 17 proposals whose creators come from the following countries: Germany, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Korea, Spain, United States, France, Greece, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, United Kingdom, Switzerland and Uruguay. We emphasize Antigone, interruptedof Joan Cleville (Spain), a work in which classical tragedy is reimagined from the contemporary world. In the same line is Hamletof Boris Nikitin (Switzerland), in which punk, queerness and question of identity intersect the Shakespearean text.

The national program will include 59 projects selected by call, co-productions and guests from different provinces. Two of them are fantasy gardenof Agostina Luz Lopezwhere a group of teenagers decide to leave their families aside to find themselves in a house-garden and invent a new way of living together, since the Queens, an almost Elizabethan farce in which two monarchs fight for the crown. In addition, there will be Argentine productions such as Translation, Rota there Early they return for unique functions.

The transnational program will include 26 projects that establish intersections between artists from Argentina, Germany, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Spain, New Zealand, Switzerland and Uruguay. Bombon Gesell Theatercured by Monina Bonelli there salt pans of the sun, brings together 10 theatrical pieces created in residence by Ibero-American playwrights who explore violence and justice in the Ibero-American territory, with a performative device that synthesizes the gesell camera. With the collaboration of the government of New Zealand, (OTHER) Chinese will be presented, the result of the first exploration that the artist Alice Canton conducted with the Chinese community of Buenos Aires.

The closing of the festival will take place on March 5 and will be divided into two. On the one hand, it will present Palmasolaa city-prison, Christopher Frick, which will be presented in the ex-prison of Caseros, which closed its doors in 2001 and which since then represents a space retained in time, full of stories and memory. And, on the other hand, it will be Carbonmade by Italian Lorenzo Pisano Pierat the Colosseum Theatre. The work tells of a hypothetical encounter between humanity and other possible forms of life.

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