The iconic Av Paral·lel theatre is playing host to offerings from the playwright Alberto Cortés, the dancer Patricia Caballero and the cuplé-composer Glòria Ribera
The iconic El Molino theatre, located in Av Paral·lel (C/ Vilà i Vilà, 99), will be playing host to artistic offerings from the playwright Alberto Cortés, the dancer Patricia Caballero and the cuplé-composer Glòria Ribera this Saturday, 20 May, to liven up the LGBTI Centre’s Party, a celebration of sexual, affective and gender diversity through culture, fun and protest.
El Molino will be opening to the public at 5.30 pm, kicking off at 6 pm with the show “Los montes son tuyos”, by the Malaga-based playwright and performer, Alberto Cortés. Cortés will use his show to invite the public to imagine a night out camping and of stories, conversations and secrets around a fire for “listening to and experiencing the imaginary”.
Based on the book of the same name, “Los montes son tuyos”, the author’s show offers an immersive experience to break from the idea of dramatised reading and successfully “transform the sharing of words in an event packed with danger and hope”.
Cortés advises all those attending the show to come along fully equipped for a camp put up in the middle of a mountain: straw mattress, sleeping bag, small torch… and even food and drink. That will get them all ready to recreate the intimacy of an early morning of secrets uttered loud.
The dancer Patricia Caballero will be taking over from 7 pm on, with her show “Barrunto”, which combines “singing, dancing and other basic needs”. She describes her work as “a quantum and open show, permeable to the things experienced among her active audience, the co-creators of the realities desired by the collective conscience”.
She invites her audience, through this work, to make get her performance developing “from listening, sexuation of events and a powerful and attentive perception that decodes time, space, bodies and roles”.
To round off the Party, the Centre will be presenting the cuplé-composer Glòria Ribera at 8 pm, a self-proclaimed “queen of the 21st-century cuplé”. The Lleida-based singer is reclaiming the legacy of Av Paral·lel’s cuplé-composers with a music repertoire “as varied as it is extravagant”.
She will be offering a re-rendering of the most famous cuplés of all time, presenting new creations inspired from “rabblesome, dissident and politically committed” issues. She seeks to keep alive the scandal typifying cuplé-composers from the last century “and which history-of-art discourses have been unable to convey in full glory”.
Admission to the El Molino shows is exclusively through purchased tickets, which cost five euros and are available from the this link: https://tuit.cat/3cyu1
The El Molino activities are part of the programme for the Barcelona LGBTI Centre’s Party, which is commemorating International Day against LGBTI-phobia this coming Saturday, 20 May.
The Party will kick off with free activities in the morning at the LGBTI Centre and in C/ Comte Borrell, move on to El Molino in the afternoon and finish the day with a series of dance and music performances at the Sala Paral·lel 62.