Arts Factory Proposals at Grec Festival 2018
Barcelona’s Arts Factories feature in the schedules of some of the Grec performances.
Once again the Grec Festival kicks off strongly with proposals from all disciplines and something for all tastes. For their part, Barcelona’s Arts Factories will also be making a strong contribution.
La Central del Circ is curating Circ d'excepció, a collection of short contemporary circus pieces in the process of completion that will be performed in the atrium of the Institut del Teatre on 6 July at 7 pm. Taking part will be the companies La Belle Journée and Dulce Duca, the duo Las Sistars and Aurora Caja. After the show there will be a space for engagement with the public.
From 6-29 July, Teatre Tantarantana is co-presenting, alongside the Grec, Shenzhen significa infern (Shenzhen means Hell). This work, written by the Italian playwright Stefano Massini and directed by Roberto Romei, concerns the defencelessness of workers in a globalised world. The project benefited from a rehearsal residency grant at the Nau Ivanow.
On 19 & 20 July, La Caldera plays host to Os Serrenhos do Caldeirão, exercises in fictive anthropology by the Portuguese dancer and choreographer Vera Mantero. This is a hybrid creative performance which deals with forms of knowledge being lost, the connection between body and mind and the relationship between art and daily life. The work champions the recovery of this knowledge. La Caldera has organised a laboratory for professionals prior to the work’s performance, from 16-18 July, with Vera Mantero herself.
The Sala Beckett is staging Una gossa en un descampat (A Bitch on Waste Ground), a work written by Clàudia Cedó, resident author at the Poblenou arts factory this season, and directed by Sergi Belbel. The play centres around the survival story of a couple that must face up to the loss of their unborn son and overcome their fears in order to go forward. From 25-29 June at the Sala Beckett.
Finally, La Seca Espai Brossa, with the support of La Central del Circ, is presenting Flou Papagayo by Mumusic Circus. From 5-15 July, you can witness this metaphor on the capacity of humans to imagine absurd scenarios and contradictory discourses which demonstrates that, sometimes, art is hidden in the most everyday moments of our life.
