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Víctor Pablo Pérez will conduct the Symphony Orchestra, four soloists and the choirs of the Comunidad de Madrid and the Opera de Tenerife

The Island Council celebrates the 20^th anniversary of the Auditorio de Tenerife on Saturday, 30 September, with a great concert that evokes the inaugural one in 2003. Victor Pablo Pérez is the musical director of this performance featuring the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra), the Choirs of the Comunidad de Madrid and Ópera de Tenerife and the soloists Krassimira Stoyanova (Bulgarian soprano), Airam Hernández (tenor from Tenerife), Oleysa Petrova (Russian mezzo-soprano) and Alessio Cacciamani (Italian bass).

This concert, which will take place in the Symphony Hall at 7:30 p.m., takes up some of the key points of the first concert that took place in the Auditorio de Tenerife. Víctor Pablo Pérez, the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Fanfare (2003) will play the work commissioned for the inauguration from the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, who died in 2020. The centrepiece of the programme is the Requiem Mass by Giuseppe Verdi (1874).

The tickets can be purchased at a single price of €10 on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Check the special discounts for the audience under 30 years of age, students, unemployed, and large families.

The Auditorio de Tenerife is a public company managed by the Island Council that was founded to cope with the activity of the building. It is currently the main production centre for shows in the Canary Islands. This stage space – opened in September 2003 –, with avant-garde architecture and located in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, hosts the seasons of the Sinfónica de Tenerife (Tenerife Symphony Orchestra), as well as first-rate music and dance programme. Likewise, it implements its own educational and social department.

The main value of the Auditorio de Tenerife resides in the excellence of its programming and proceedings, innovation on an artistic and technological level, the desire to serve a diverse range of audiences, the creation of new audiences, and a pedagogical and critical vocation. Moreover, it commits to local companies and to the training of performing arts professionals.

The building was opened in 2003. Since then, it has hosted thousands of artistic shows at the highest national and international level. Notable figures have also passed through the facilities of this cultural venue such as several heads of state, politicians, scientists, and winners of the Prince of Asturias awards. It is also the setting for film and advertising shoots, events, and conferences.

This avant-garde work by the Valencian architect Santiago Calatrava covers 23,000 square metres. It combines the spectacular nature of a unique building enveloped in shiny white. It was created using the trencadís technique (uneven pieces of tile arranged as a mosaic) with a large square and the immense Atlantic Ocean behind it.

Its main auditoriums are the Symphony and Chamber halls, each one with a maximum capacity of 1,616 and 422 seats. Additionally, it offers multipurpose space such as the Castillo, Puerto, and Alisios halls, and communal space such as the square and foyer.

The matinee programme ˋBetween Germany and France, Toccata and Dance!ˊ will cover works by Bach, Schumann, Vierne, Duruflé and Litaize.

Auditorio de Tenerife opens this Sunday (10th) its organ season with the concert Between Germany and France, Toccata and Dance!, performed by the Catalan organist Mar Vaqué. The matinee will begin at 12:00 noon in the Symphonic Hall, whose walls house this unusual instrument, unique in the world in its layout and timbre. These concerts are offered in collaboration with the San Miguel Arcángel Royal Canarian Academy of Fine Arts (RACBA).

The programme is made up of works by the German and French composers Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Schumann, Louis Vierne, Maurice Duruflé, and Gaston Litaize. The combination of the motoric and virtuoso toccatas with the dance-like character of the programme is expected to captivate the listener in a back-and-forth of melodies and energetic sounds.

From the outset, the canons and concert sections of the toccata in F major by Bach immerse us in lively polyphonic dialogues, with rhythmic tensions maintained from start to finish. Schumann, a great admirer of the organ, originally composed these drafts for the pedal piano. The adaptation of these works for the organ enables a richness of sounds and nuances that a piano performance could not offer.

The Clair de Lune by Vierne, the turning point in the programme, is a little nocturnal oasis in which the poetry of the moon overcomes us like sleep and holds us for a few moments away from the vitalist impetus of the other works. Duruflé, dedicating this work to his composition teacher Paul Dukas, brings out in the intimate Sicilienne the delicate nuances of the organ, caressing the listener with its melancholic melodies.

This nostalgic dance gives way to the percussion work by Litaize, the direct heir of Dupré and Vierne. The dancing fugue, a cascade of energy that leads to a tutti on the organ, with its almost jazz-like character manages to achieve great freshness on the organ. The final toccata by Duruflé represents the peak of the virtuosity of this composer, where we appreciate the characteristic freedom to improvise of the French organ school.

At the age of seven, Mar Vaqué (Tarragona, 1994) began studying piano, and in 2011 she delved into the world of organ thanks to the teacher Jordi Vergés and Jonatan Carbó. In 2013 she began her higher organ studies at the Higher School of Music of Catalonia. In 2015, she entered the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart (Germany), where she completed her studies with a Master's in organ and the Kirchenmusik (church music) degree. Vaqué has performed several concerts as a soloist nationally and internationally around Spain, Andorra, France, Germany, Colombia, Italy, and Lithuania. Her 2018 performance at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris stands out. Some of her concerts have been recorded by Spanish National Radio (RNE) and the German Radio SWR Deutschland.

In August 2015 she obtained first place in the IV International Organ Competition to commemorate Joseph Gabler in Ochsenhausen (Germany). In November 2016, she obtained second place ex aequo in the Call for Organ Entries for the 86th Young Musicians of Spain Competition. She is currently an organist, choir director, and teacher of organ, improvisation, and choir conducting in the St. Johann Baptist parish in Munich, activities that she combines with her concert career.

Built in the 20^th century by the prestigious organ builder Albert Blancafort and his team, the Auditorium's organ is considered a unique instrument for its design, sound, and musical ranges. The sounds are produced by 3,835 pipes that are housed in the walls of the emblematic Symphony Hall, which are controlled by the organist from on-stage through the console and the four keyboards that he can play.

Tickets can be purchased at a single price of €15 on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Check the special discounts for the audience under 30 years of age, students, unemployed, and large families.

The regional dancers, one of which won the Spanish National Dance Prize, star in the work with the singer Aurora Arteaga

On Friday (8 Sept) at 7:30 p.m., and to open the FAM 23 (Moving Arts Festival) programme, the Auditorio de Tenerife offers the dance piece Mutable in the Multipurpose Hall. Dácil González (Spanish National Dance Prize) and Carmen Fumero, two regional dancers and creators who live in Madrid, star in the piece with Aurora Arteaga, singer and composer.

The work is based on appearance and reality. It reflects on how points of view connect with reality, provide a perspective and influence our perception. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. A slit gives way to a hole through which to look and be observed, a crack in the skin or in a surface. Change is the only thing that remains stable around us and in ourselves.

Both dancers are also in charge of the direction and choreography of Mutable. They have extensive and solid careers, and their paths have crossed on several occasions alongside choreographers such as Daniel Abreu and Iker Arrue. The Dance Company Daniel Doña, residence company of the Eduardo Úrculo Cultural Centre that also directs the company Carmen Fumero Cia, collaborates with Mutable. The global première took place on 4 March in the Sala de las Musas, Museo del Prado, Madrid.

The tickets (€8) are available on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. To check the remaining programme of this FAM edition, visit www.famtenerife.com.

On Friday it features the Concerto for violin and orchestra by Elgar and the Symphony No. 5 by Beethoven.

This Friday (8), at 7:30 p.m., the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra is beginning a new season at the Auditorio de Tenerife. The programme includes the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra by Edward Elgar -with the German violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann as soloist- and Symphony No. 5 by Beethoven. The American conductor Joseph Swensen will take charge of conducting the orchestra as the first subscription holder of the 2023-2024 series.

José Carlos Acha, minister of Culture of the Island Council of Tenerife, is excited about the new season of the Symphony Orchestra. “I believe that we have created an opening programme that will be well received by the audience and I am confident that this is the trend we will see throughout the performances we have this year.” Acha, who is also vice-president of the Island Council, recalled that it is still possible to obtain season subscriptions at affordable prices.

The orchestra is adding the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in B minor, Op. 61 by Edward Elgar to its repertoire. Premiered in 1910, the piece is a summation of the work of the British composer and his influences, which also presents the usual patina of melancholic romanticism that is so characteristic in his creations. With demanding sheet music for the soloist, as it is one of the longest and most difficult works from the violin repertoire, offering a score with the classic sonata form that depicts a series of intimate emotions.

This work will excel Frank Peter Zimmermann, who is now established as one of the world’s best violinists and who returns to the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra after 14 years. He began playing the violin at the age of just 5, studying with Valery Gradov, Saschko Gawriloff and Herman Krebbers. In 2010 he formed Trio Zimmermann, together with Antoine Tamestit at the viola and the cellist Christian Poltéra. With this group, he performs at the main music centres and festivals in Europe.

In the second part of the concert that opens the season, it will be possible to hear the most popular and widely-performed piece of classical music: Symphony No. 5 by Beethoven, a work that premiered in 1808 and dedicated to Prince Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz.  Despite being written at an advanced stage of his deafness, it conveys a high dose of energy from its opening bars. During the Second World War, it had a great political weight and was championed by the Allies as a flagship of their values.

After his debut with the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra last March, Joseph Swensen returns to once again lead the orchestra. He arrives shortly after being appointed musical director of the Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine for the 2024-25 season. He is also the chief guest conductor of the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra of Wrocław and the City of Granada Orchestra. Likewise, he is a conductor emeritus of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

Swensen began his musical career as a solo violinist, playing with the world's main orchestras and conductors.  In terms of conducting work, he has served as the chief guest conductor and artistic advisor of the Orchestre Chambre Paris (2009-2012) and chief guest conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales (2000-2003). Within the field of opera, he has also served as the musical director of the Opera of Malmö (2005-2011).

This season, Joseph Swensen will undertake different professional commitments, notably including the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra of Australia, the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestre National du Capitole of Toulouse.

The tickets for this first season concert can be purchased until the day of the concert on the website www.sinfonicadetenerife.es, at the auditorium's box office and by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The schools on the island can submit their requests to host these proposals in their classrooms until 29 September

The Educational and Social Area of the Auditorio de Tenerife presents the catalogue of the eighth edition of Teatro en la Escuela (Theatre at School) programme which brings performing arts to classrooms on the island. There are eleven proposals including theatre, oral narration, music and dance on offer for schools in Tenerife during the 2023-2024 academic year between October and June. The deadline for schools to submit applications is 30 September.

The proposals, ranging from shows to creative processes, have been selected by a committee of experts through a public call for entries. The performances are divided according to educational levels: Pre-School, Primary and Secondary Education, Baccalaureate and training cycles. The Auditorio de Tenerife will provide teachers with a teaching guide so they can do work beforehand in class and optimise the educational possibilities of the programme. The catalogue and the application form are available on the Theatre at School section of the Educational and Social area on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com/en.

For preschool, there is La más bonita (The most beautiful) by the puppet company Bolina Títeres. As for primary, the following pieces have been selected: The Pestoff, by Clownbaret, A Ciencia cierta (For Sure), by El Wije Producciones, and Háblame de ti (Tell me about yourself), by the company I+D Danza. The shows chosen for Secondary are Noa, by the company of Paula Quintana, uNpACKAGING, by ziREjA; La montaña, el agujero, los Escombros (The Mountain, the Hole, the Rubble), by Javier Cuevas and Checho Tamayo, and En el escenario de ‘Crimen’: una experiencia surrealista, (On the 'Crime' stage: a surreal experience) by the company Hojarasca. Lastly, Entre burlas y veras (Half joking, half serious), by Teatro Tamaska, Lastly, El Lugar en el que vivo (The place where I live), by Mon Peraza, and ¡Valientes! (Brave) the proposals for the Baccalaureate and training cycles are by Burka Teatro.

The program 'Theatre at School' aims to promote stage and musical languages to students within their own educational context and link academic aspects to the professional context of performing arts in the Canaries, laying the foundations to encourage the socialisation of students within the school space, through cultural activities, and in turn promote the all-round development of pupils, as the companies stage works adapted to curricular needs.

Other objectives involve integrating other artistic languages associated with literature, using gestures and the voice through the use of poetic and narrative texts as dramatic expressions. Lastly, the aim is for pupils to discover authors and their texts while analysing their structure. All of this is aligned with the guidelines of the Department of Education of the Canary Islands Government for the different levels.

These lyrical performances, which complement the season, take place in October in El Sauzal, Arona, and will conclude at the Auditorio de Tenerife

The Ópera de Tenerife is complementing its season with several lyrical performances. The first three will take place at Teatro El Sauzal, the Infanta Leonor Auditorium in Arona, and the Auditorio de Tenerife in October. They are being presented under the title Noches de Zarzuela (Zarzuela Evenings) and will star the Catalan tenor José Bros, who will be accompanied on the piano by Marco Evangelisti. Arias such as Bella enamorada from El último romántico will be heard, along with other melodies from well-known zarzuelas such as Luisa Fernanda, La dolorosa and Doña Francisquita.

The first of the events with the Spanish genre takes place on 12 October at the Teatro El Sauzal. The next day, the performance will be at the Infanta Leonor Auditorium in Arona. Lastly, on 14 October, the Chamber Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife will host the last chance to listen to these Zarzuela Evenings. The three shows begin at 7:30 p.m. and tickets can be purchased through the usual channels of these spaces.

José Bros, a tenor who is much loved by the Tenerife public and a regular of the Opera of Tenerife seasons, is considered one of the leading exponents of the Romantic bel canto repertoire of recent years. He has premiered over 60 titles in this style and has also achieved important successes with works from the French repertoire. His last performance at the Auditorio de Tenerife was in November last year when he played the role of Riccardo, as part of the production Un Ballo in Maschera.

Marco Evangelisti, born in Lucca, has taught courses in the lyrical repertoire, and he performs as an accompanying pianist in opera and chamber music performances at the main theatres and festivals in Spain, Europe, and the United States, alongside performers such as Ainhoa Arteta, Montserrat Caballé, Mariola Cantarero, Fiorenza Cedolins, and María Gallego.

The tickets for the performance on 14 October at the Auditorio de Tenerife can be purchased at www.auditoriodetenerife.com, where the complete programme can also be consulted. Tickets can also be purchased at the box office from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and by telephone on 902 317 327 during the same hours, except during the month of August. Check the special discounts for the audience under 30 years of age, students, unemployed and large families. The tickets for the performances in El Sauzal and Arona will be on sale soon.

The amateur performing arts programme of the Auditorio de Tenerife is offering this work tomorrow with free entry until capacity is full

The Amateur Theatre programme of the Auditorio de Tenerife is releasing the work Cuando Alicia llegue (When Alicia Arrives), by the theatre association Puro Teatro, directed by Goyo Bonilla. The first show takes place tomorrow [Friday 28] at 8:00 p.m. at the Tamaragua Cultural Centre, located in the area of El Tablero, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Recommended for an adult audience, entry to the work is free until full capacity is reached.

The story focuses on Ninoska, the owner of a cabaret acquired in circumstances that, for international security reasons, must not be revealed. She allows strange and extravagant characters into her show who recount their experiences inside and outside the cabaret. Although the Russian lady, as her employees call her, complains about the lack of professionalism of her artists, in reality, she is delighted because they fill her venue for a meagre salary. Cuando Alicia llegue (When Alicia arrives) is what can be read on the entrance sign, although nobody knows the origin of this name.

The cast that brings this comedy in the form of a cabaret to life is formed by members of the association: Lidia Dorta, Salomé Torres, María de Viana, Estrella Carmenati, Begoña Pagarza, Jesús Patrón, Glenda Suárez, Julio Sigut, Nuria Neida, Lucas Hehe, José Luis Alayón and Piluca Prada.

The programme Teatro Aficionado (Amateur Theatre) is part of the Educational and Social Area of the Auditorio de Tenerife. Teatro Aficionado encourages interest in theatre as a hobby and the production of theatrical plays by the local associations of Tenerife. It aims to stimulate matters such as communication, the exchange of ideas, and creativity amongst members who, in turn, belong to youth collectives, cultural collectives, women's collectives, and neighbourhood groups, among others.

Its main objectives are to promote a liking for theatre among different social and cultural groups, to promote the general public's attendance to, and love of theatrical plays; likewise, to contribute to enriching the technical/artistic quality of amateur theatre groups and to create different work groups (directors, actors, costume designers, seamstresses, playwrights, scriptwriters, etc.).

The orchestra has visited Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, La Laguna, El Rosario, Güímar, Icod, Los Silos, La Orotava and Adeje

The Sinfónica de Tenerife (Tenerife Symphony Orchestra) ended the 2022-2023 season with sixty-six performances, bringing together 51,547 spectators. This period began in September with the concert included in the festival of Holy Christ of La Laguna and ended in July with the two programmes of a new edition of the Tenerife International Film Music Festival (Fimucité). In addition to its events at the Auditorio de Tenerife, the orchestra performed its repertoire in the islands Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria and the municipalities of La Laguna, El Rosario, Güímar, Icod, Los Silos, La Orotava and Adeje.

The eighteen subscription programmes had 10,481 spectators, the largest audience was for Tchaikovsky and the piano, which took place on 2 June and was conducted by Felix Mildenberger and the pianist Sandro Gegechkori. The second concert of the season in terms of most followers recorded at the Auditorio was Classical romanticism, held on 28 October, which involved the participation of the Honorary Conductor of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Víctor Pablo, and the violinist Alexandra Conunova. This event was attended by 794 spectators, one more than the third best ranking proposal in terms of public response, which was on 2 December with the presence of the conductor Catherine Larsen-Maguire and the cellist Edgar Moreau.

The proposal of the Sinfónica de Tenerife for educational centres and families during last season reached 8,115 spectators in the fourteen concerts offered at the Auditorio de Tenerife. The Firebird was the most sought-after show with 3,517 spectators, followed by Pictures at an Exhibition (3,073) and Al son de Cervantes, with 1,525 people.

This season, the orchestra continued with its visits to different social-health centres, in collaboration with the Institute of Social and Social-Health Care (IASS) of the Island Council of Tenerife, and it visited the municipalities of La Laguna, Güímar and Icod de los Vinos to offer its Open Music programme, in addition to visiting the Penitentiary Centre Tenerife II in El Rosario.

In addition to this initiative, the presence of the Sinfónica de Tenerife outside the Auditorio de Tenerife began in September to mark the festival of the Holy Christ of La Laguna, it continued at the Christmas concert organised by the Port Authority, and in 2023, the orchestra visited Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria, as part of a new edition of the Canaries International Music Festival.

Other performances by the Sinfónica de Tenerife outside the municipality of Santa Cruz took place with three extraordinary concerts, held at the Cathedral of La Laguna, at the church San Agustín of La Orotava - as part of the Chamber Music Festival -, and the Auditorio de Adeje, where it performed for the first time at the newly opened cultural venue in the southern municipality.

The Sinfónica de Tenerife participated in a new season of the Opera of Tenerife, where it provided the music for 15 shows: three in Fuenteovejuna, three in Un Ballo in Maschera, three in Der Zwerg, three in The little sweep, two in Tannhauser and the lyric gala Nancy Fabiola and her guests. A total of 12,708 spectators listened to the orchestra in these lyrical proposals.

The Tenerife International Film Music Festival (Fimucité) had two editions during the season. The first of them took place in September, with the programme Cyberpunk Remastered I, while the second was in July with two concerts: Excelsior and Dioses y Detectives.

The Sinfónica de Tenerife participated in another show, called Love, love, love, which brought together 1,413 spectators at the Auditorio de Tenerife. The proposal, which involved Ramón Gener and José Corbacho, consisted of a journey through the most renowned works of classical music and the most important hits of modern music with pieces by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, but also by Elvis Presley, Amy Winehouse, Bruce Springsteen, The Beatles, Madonna and Elton John.

The 2023-2024 season of the Sinfónica de Tenerife is getting underway in September and subscriptions and tickets to attend the nineteen concerts at the Auditorio de Tenerife are now on sale. The general public can purchase different types -complete season or autumn-winter subscription for the first ten programmes- and single tickets are also available for each concert.

For more information relating to the purchase of subscriptions or tickets, it is possible to visit the websites www.sinfonicadetenerife.es o www.auditoriodetenerife.com, and also contact the telephone number 902 317 327 or the box office of Auditorio de Tenerife, from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., except holidays. The ticket office will not be open during the month of August.

The participants, from professionals to school pupils and users of centres and associations, ranged from 7 to 70 years old

Danza en Comunidad (Dance in the Community), a programme of the Educational and Social Area of the Auditorio de Tenerife, benefitted 300 people in its programmes held between April and July this year. Professionals from different fields, educational and penitentiary centres, non-profit organisations and social associations formed the groups that work was carried out under the slogan Sensación sentida (A felt sense).

Danza en Comunidad implemented three programmes: Formación de formadores (Training of trainers), Residencias de investigación (Research residencies) and Relatoría transversal (Transversal rapporteur). The first involved 22 people who were interested in delving deeper into and learning techniques and dynamics from dance to take into their professional fields, notably including psychology, pedagogy, social work, social and health care and social education. These sessions took place at different venues: the Municipal Dance School in Tacoronte, the Cultural Centre in El Portezuelo (Tegueste) and the Civic Centre Francisco González Hernández in Tejina (La Laguna).

The research residences took place from May to July in the classrooms of the centres and in the spaces of collectives. Seven different groups took part from the secondary schools IES Punta Larga, IES Las Galletas, the Higher Conservatoire of Music, Doctors of the World (a group of educators and another on empowerment), the Orobal Parents' Association and the Penitentiary Facility of Tenerife), which involved 279 participants and 21 educators.

The season ended with a cross-cutting rapporteur consisting of a development process establishing the baselines of the different narratives. Observation served as an inspiration to build through dialogue, a discourse of the body, movement, and sensitivity. This process began during the sessions and is ending now; all the rapporteur pieces fit together so that there can be an ongoing conversation that continues to open up the observation and inspiration of the felt sense Sensación sentida.

The slogan this year refers to a bodily sensation that comes through introspective work and manifests itself as an image, texture, landscape, form, as a "whole" which can gradually crumble. This perspective was the starting point for the movement and relations displayed during the session, where body language was essential. The facilitators Laura Marrero, Carmen Macías, Tania Pérez, Judith García and Dácil Baute led these programmes.

The show, which is based on the phenomenon of supernovae, will have two performances starring the director and three other performers.

This Friday [21st] and Saturday [22nd], the Auditorio de Tenerife is staging the performance PROTO (SN1806), by the Galician creator Janet Novás, at 7.30 p.m. in Castillo Hall. The tickets for this latest show by the dancer and choreographer, a performance based on the phenomenon of supernovas, cost eight euros and discounts are available.

Novás takes the following approach for her piece: “What if we joined together and let ourselves die and explode and then see what other imagery emerges? We are interested and challenged by these experiences of heat, explosion, and visibility of the different layers that comprise us: brightness, death, enrichment of space, and the formation of new systems”. To this end, the creator explores new ways of being in community after "exploding" and thus creating new scenarios that are more collective, brighter, and less catastrophic. Novás explains this "journey from down on earth right up to the stars" that "every end has a beginning."

Janet Novás presents this performance in a coproduction with Xunta de Galicia through the Centro Coreográfico Gallego, Festival TNT (Terrassa) and Auditorio de Tenerife, and with the support of Graner, Centre De Creació De Dansa I Arts Vives (associated artist 22/23) and Centro de Danza Canal.

PROTO (SN1806) is directed by Janet Novás, who stars alongside performers Yuantao Gorriz, Julia Kayser, and Danielle Mesquita. The dramaturgy is in charge of Ricardo Santana, and the artistic accompaniment is by Pablo Lilienfeld. The sound space design is by L'Voix and the lighting is by Cristina Bolívar. Emma Megias and Clea Ventura are the creators of the costumes, whose image has been worked on by Virginia Rota in this production by Adriana Reyes.

The dancer, performer, choreographer, and teacher, Janet Novás, trained in contemporary dance in Madrid, Brussels, and Berlin. In 2007, she began creating and developing her own solo projects. Her work is built through observation, experience, and dialogue with her body as the main tool, committing to a language of her own, shaping the emotional content and aesthetic simplicity that characterise her projects.

She has received several prizes, notably including the 2021 Ojo Crítico Award from RNE, the 2021 Premi de la Crítica Catalana for the best dancer, and the 2011 Injuve Award. Her creations have been presented at different national and international festivals such as Rencontres Chorégraphiques, Festival de Marseille, Festival Nouvelles-Pole Sud, Cement Festival, Dance in Transit, Madrid's Autumn Festival and the Festival Bad, among others. Novás alternates her work as a dancer and a creator with that as a teacher, giving classes and workshops in different centres in Spain, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

The tickets are available on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 05:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 02:00 p.m. Check the special discounts for the audience under 30 years of age, students, unemployed, and large families.

The shared exchange by the performer from Granada will take place in the Castillo Hall of the Auditorio, with free entry until the full capacity is reached.

This Sunday [16th], the Auditorio de Tenerife is staging the final show of the residency of Amalia Fernández, a member of the Performing Arts and Citizenship Laboratory, with sponsorship from the Regional Institute of Cultural Development (ICDC). Solala will take place at 7.30 p.m in the Castillo Hallo. The entry is free until the full capacity is reached.

The performer from Granada has been in residence at the Auditorio de Tenerife since 3 July with the collaboration of members of the Coro del Ateneo choir of La Laguna. Solala is the title of this project, which will result in a series of short pieces, made to be watched one after another, created and performed by Amalia Fernández. Although the direction, concept, and performance are by the artist in residence, the piece has live illustrations by Andrés Martínez.

The creative process is based on a wish list: Who has never made a wish list? An inventory of resolutions for the new year, a letter to the Three Kings, a promise to the Virgin of the Holy Cave... The wish is the driving force of the action, it is the present that starts venturing into the future.

This project is about the passing of time in different ways: the necessary time it takes to complete something; the time in life that each human possesses; the time on the clock as opposed to time as a subjective perception of the senses; historic and cyclical time, and the time that is shared with others. However, Solala is also about crocheting, creating stories from family photos, reflecting on Cuba and singing all together.

Amala Fernández trained in classical dance at the Royal Conservatoire of Seville and in contemporary dance with different choreographers such as Ana Buitrago, Francesc Bravo, Olga Mesa, Mónica Valenciano and others.

Her professional career has moved from performance (as a member of the company El Bailadero-Mónica Valenciano for 10 years) to independent creation from 2005 on. She is the author, director and performer of the pieces Matrioshka, Kratimosha, En construcción, El resistente y delicado hilo musical, Expografía, Monstruos Musicales and Neti Neti, among others. She has also created other pieces in collaboration with the artists Juan Domínguez, Nilo Gallego, Sonia Gómez and Cuqui Jerez.

As a teacher she has collaborated, among others, with the master’s degree in Stage Practice and Visual Culture at the University of Castile-La Mancha, with the Theatre Institute of Barcelona, with the LOVA Project and with the Reina Sofia museum.

This amateur theatre proposal puts us in the dilemma of the main character who finds a briefcase with 10 million Euros

The Amateur Theatre programme is releasing the work Dinero negro (Dirty Money), by the theatre association Tatrum. The first performance takes place on Friday [7th] at 8:00 p.m. at the Teatro Unión Tejina. The tickets, at a single price of €6, can be ordered through the usual channels of the cultural space in La Laguna.

The story begins when Carlos García finds 10 million Euros in a briefcase. When he gets home, his wife, Ana, has prepared a birthday dinner for him, but he only wants to escape as soon as possible. The doorbell rings and the detective Morales appears, who has followed Carlos due to his strange behaviour. Then, the sister of Ana and her son arrive to join the birthday party, but the taxi that Carlos has ordered to escape also parks up. Confusion increases and things get complicated because deputy inspector Gutiérrez turns up at the house.

The cast that is bringing this comedy to life is formed by the members of the association Tatrum, which staged the work Bar Manolo this season: José Manuel Sosa, Yésica Rodríguez, José Luis Rubio, Pepe Damas, Olga Covadonga González, Olga Vanesa Curotto and Hugo Rodríguez.

The programme Teatro Aficionado (Amateur Theatre) is part of the Educational and Social Area of the Auditorio de Tenerife. This programme encourages interest in the hobby of theatre and the production of theatrical plays by the existing associations in Tenerife. It aims to stimulate matters such as communication, the exchange of ideas, and creativity amongst members who, in turn, belong to youth collectives, cultural collectives, women's collectives, and neighbourhood groups, among others.

Its main objectives are to promote a liking for theatre among different social and cultural groups, to promote the general public's attendance to, and love of, theatrical plays, and to contribute to enriching the technical/artistic quality of amateur theatre groups and to create different work groups.