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The international creations will be on show at both venues in the capital. This Sunday [24th] from 7:30 p.m. onwards.

The Auditorio de Tenerife, a cultural space linked to the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island Council, is managed by its island's Minister of Culture, Enrique Arriaga. Together with the theatre Victoria, this Sunday (24th) from 7:30 p.m. onwards both venues host the geographic scope of the 26th edition of Masdanza Festival. The tickets are available on the web sites of both venues.

The programme starts in the Teatro Victoria with a selection of solos. The first performance is Comme un symbole, by Alexanndre Fandard, a French visual artist and choreographer whose creations never adopt a single shape, but put on stage all these specific archetypes. The show continues with 'Mientras el félido duerme', by the Mexican Danya Guadalupe González Cristerna. This is a body narrative about a body experiencing a situation that causes it to express unknown states that take it out of control.

The theatre-dance and multimedia performance Legaxy xx arrives from Germany. It unravels the implications of gender inheritance, offers alternative realities of parenthood; shows the torment of seeing oneself reflected in one's children, and the horror of burying a child. Last but not least, Niosbel Osmar González Rubio comes from Cuba to present Continuum, a show that uses death in order to talk about how important life is.

At 9:00 p.m. starts the duets programme in the Chamber Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife. Delicious Overdose (Italy) opens the show with a dream, a visionary metaphor, an oneiric and inner journey where sweetness seems to be too sweet. So sweet that it oversteps the limit, it becomes toxic, it overwhelms the dancer and drains her of her vital energy.  Cuando somos arrives from Barcelona, Spain. It questions the idea of "we are" from an inhabited space, the land, the skin and the water, the essence of the present.

Concerto for mandolin and String in C major by Vivaldi is an Israelian creation that merges dance for adult, young and children's audience: music, dance as a celebration, as a space of freedom, simplicity, virtuosity, intimacy and friendship. Finally, Talk about death (South Korea) will be performed. This work is based on the Korean tradition of funeral ceremonies. It aims to comfort those who live as best they can while embracing the depths between life and death.

The sessions in Teatro Victoria take place again on Monday at 9:00 pm. The tickets can be purchased on the website www.elteatrovictoria.com. The tickets to see the shows in the Auditorio de Tenerife can be purchased until one hour before the show on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com and 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. During the purchase process, the user will have to choose between one or two pre-set seats distributed throughout the hall. The audience is requested to arrive at the venue well in advance to enter the Auditorium in staggered "waves".

By purchasing tickets, you accept the measures implemented by the cultural centre to combat COVID-19, such as the correct use of masks and attendance to the event only with people you are living with. All of the measures, as well as the contingency plan certified by AENOR, can be consulted on our website.

Ya pueden inscribirse para participar en las clases que ofrezca su municipio

Las Escuelas de Teatro reabren su actividad dividiendo el curso en dos cuatrimestres, que comienzan el próximo mes de enero. Una decena de municipios se ha inscrito en este proyecto del Área Educativa y Social de Auditorio de Tenerife para albergar las sesiones que impartirán, hasta junio en alguno de los casos, el profesorado de este programa, que cuentan con la licenciatura de Arte Dramático en la Escuela de Actores de Canarias. Divididas por edades, las clases dispondrán de protocolos para la prevención de contagios contra la COVID-19.

Toda la información sobre la matriculación puedes consultar ya AQUÍ. 

Auditorio de Tenerife recibe del 11 al 24 de octubre de 2021 la residencia artística Mónicas, un proyecto de investigación de Federico Vladimir Strate Pezdirc y Pablo Lilienfeld.

Se trata de un trabajo inspirado en las pinturas de Mónica Lilienfeld y en las fotografías de Federico Strate y Mónica Pezdirc.

Los creadores explican: "Las Mónicas son nuestras madres. Mónica es también el nombre de nuestra futura hija. En esta primera residencia de investigación trabajaremos durante dos semanas reimaginando nuestra genealogía como una genealogía tentacular y no vertical.

Una ecología genealógica en la que no sólo convivan la épica de las guerras, migraciones y demás relatos patriarcales sino que también incluya las que se han quedado fuera: intimidades, fantasmas y amantes.

Los hechos no son un fin; son el principio."

Mónica Lilienfeld (Buenos Aires 1950- Madrid 1986). Hija de judíos alemanes que emigran a Argentina escapando del nazismo. En 1971 emigra a Madrid, donde acabará siendo secretaria del Director del Banco de España. Madre de dos hijos. Su verdadera vocación es la pintura. Muere de cáncer con 36 años.

Mónica Pezdirc (Buenos Aires 1957). Hija de Domobranci -colaboracionistas nazis eslovenos- que emigran a Argentina huyendo de la Yugoslavia comunista. Odontóloga y madre. En 1990 emigra a Coruña con su marido y sus tres hijos. Nudista y amante del mar, durante toda su vida posa como modelo en las fotografías eróticas de su marido. 

Federico Vladimir Strate Pezdirc (1981) y Pablo Lilienfeld (1983) se formaron como colectivo en 2014. Trabajan y viven en Bruselas desde 2017, donde Pablo completó Research Studios en la escuela P.A.R.T.S. y Federico a.pass Artistic Research.

Su trabajo utiliza la ficción especulativa dentro de la danza/performance, el documental, la fotografía y la instalación para interrumpir las narrativas normativas que han sido naturalizadas por los discursos históricos. Ambos se graduaron en Comunicación Audiovisual en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, aunque el trabajo personal de Federico se muestra en contextos de artes visuales mientras que el de Pablo está más vinculado a la coreografía y la creación musical. Colaboran con otros artistas como Lina Lapelyte, Janet Novás, Manuel Rodríguez, Marco D’Agostin o Alessandro Sciarroni.

Sus trabajos han sido mostrados en contextos como Kasseler Dokfest (Kassel); TanzHaus (Zurich); NAVE (Santiago de Chile); FIDCU (Montevideo); TEFAF (Maastricht); Sant Andreu Contemporani, Loop, El Grec, MACBA y Salmon Festival (Barcelona); Azkuna Zentroa (Bilbao); Cinéma du Réel, (Paris); Queer Lisboa (Lisboa); Santarcangelo Festival y B-Motion (Italia); Madrid en Danza, Veranos de la Villa, MNCARS, La Casa Encendida, y CA2M (Madrid); TenerifeLAV o Escenas do Cambio (Santiago de Compostela).

Sus últimos trabajos, las Piezas Dragón, han sido desarrolladas entre España y Bélgica con el apoyo de BUDA Kortrijk, workspaceBrussels, WP Zimmer, el Ayuntamiento de Madrid y la Comunidad de Madrid.

The opera composer, Miquel Ortega, conducts the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife and Silvia Paoli, the stage director, proposes a rocky dessert as a scenario

The Auditorio de Tenerife is a cultural space linked to the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island Council that is managed by the island's Minister of Culture Enrique Arriaga. Tenerife opera's season 21-22 kicks off next week with 'La casa de Bernarda Alba'. Next 19, 21 and 23 October at 7:30 p.m., the stage director Silvia Paoli will turn the Symphony Hall into a rocky dessert to receive this opera. It is inspired by Lorca’s drama and composed by Miquel Ortega, who will also conduct the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife. The presentation of this new production took place on the 13^th of October 2021 with the attendance of Alejandro Krawietz, the island's Director of Culture; Miquel Ortega, the composer and musical director; Silvia Paoli, the stage director, and the nine cast members.

Krawietz declared that "it is a pleasure to open the season with this own production that represents our opening to the contemporary operatic field. In this case, we have worked in the tradition of verism and opened new doors to unusual lyric languages". "Last year it was difficult to get opera shows back on track. Although the situation is more relaxed now, we still have many measures to fulfil. I am grateful to the team for the effort and involvement in facing these new challenges," declared the island's Director of Culture. 

On his side, the composer Ortega stated "what a pleasure it is to work with this extraordinary Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife (Tenerife Symphony Orchestra). I am very grateful to my musical team for the effort they are making." The composer also acknowledged that "this opera was not a commission. I composed it because I wanted to. I have been fascinated by Lorca since I was young, so I knew it would take me years to finish it". As for Paoli's proposal, he praised its "plastic beauty, Lorca's symbolism and its resemblance to the great Greek tragedies".

According to Silvia Paoli, "I didn't design this staging because I wanted to do something different, but because it is how I feel about this opera. It is the way I understand the work of Master Ortega and of García Lorca." She also stressed that "it is the first time that I work with a 100% female team, and I think this is what Lorca would have loved to have: to represent women through women." Regarding her proposal, the stage director underpinned that "we are in the 21^stcentury, in the year 2021. We were not just going to build a house, as I consider it rather interesting to represent the feelings inside that house. Those are the most important fact of the historical moment we represent."

Nancy Fabiola Herrera spoke on behalf of the singers and recommended all people “to come and enjoy opera to experience again a show that can only be understood live." "This cast is working in total connection. I believe this is how it should be because if you want to represent on stage a dysfunctional family like Bernarda Alba's, you have to work rather connected like a functional family behind the scenes. And that has been achieved in this production." The mezzo-soprano will play the role of Bernarda. She forwarded that "this production will keep you in tension from the first to the last minute".

Apart from Herrera, this show will feature soprano Carmen Acosta as Adela, Beatriz Lanza as Martirio, mezzo-soprano Marina Rodríguez-Cusí as Amelia, mezzo-soprano Belén Elvira as Magdalena (also reprising her role) and soprano Melody Louledjian as Angustias. The baritone Luis Cansino plays once more the role of Poncia, the housekeeper. The soprano Carmen Mateo will be one of the servants, and the actress Marga Arnau will be María Josefa.

After many years of work, the first Spanish operatic version of this piece was completed in 2006. Premièred on 13 December 2007 in its symphonic version at the Brasov Theatre in Romania, it was performed for the first time in Spain in 2009 at the Santander and Perelada festivals. The debut at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in 2018 has meant a relaunch for this contemporary opera, which has already been performed in July 2021 at the Teatro Cervantes in Málaga as a closing show of its 32^nd season. Likewise, it was staged at the Teatro Villamarta, Jerez de la Frontera, a theatre that opens its operatic season 2021-2022 during this month (October) as Opera de Tenerife also does.

The poet and playwright Federico García Lorca could not see ‘La casa de Bernarda Alba’ on stage. He finished his last drama in June 1936, two months before being killed. Everything, life and performance, was interrupted by the Spanish Civil War and his death. The play had to wait until 1945 to be premiered at the Teatro Avenida, in Buenos Aires. Lorca described his work as "a women's drama."

This is the story of several women who are practically imprisoned by an authoritarian and harsh mother. After the death of her second husband, she forces her daughters - in their youth - to follow rigorous mourning during eight years. The writer used this argument to criticise double standards, stifling religiosity, hypocrisy, violence, repressed desire, the control of female sexuality and the relegation of women to secondary and insignificant status.

Opera de Tenerife offers a double opera package with a 20% discount. Choose one show of "La casa de Bernarda Alba" (Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday) and one of "Attila" (23, 25 and 27 November) with the possibility of sitting in the same seat.

Tickets can be purchased until one hour before the show on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com and 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. During the purchase process, the user will have to choose between one or two pre-set seats distributed throughout the hall. The audience is requested use of at the venue well in advance to enter the Auditorium in staggered "waves".

By purchasing tickets, you accept the measures implemented by the cultural centre to combat Coronavirus, such as the correct use of masks and the attendance at the event only with people you live with. All of the measures, as well as the contingency plan certified by AENOR, can be consulted on the Auditorium’s website.

On Thursday, the 14^th of October at 7:30 p.m., the Russian violinist and the Scottish pianist will play in the Auditorium's Chamber Hall

The Auditorio de Tenerife, a cultural space linked to the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island’s Council, is managed by its Minister of Culture, Enrique Arriaga. On Thursday this week at 7:30 p.m., the Russian violinist Viktoria Mullova and the Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson offer a concert in the Auditorium's Chamber Hall. The duo will perform a programme with pieces by Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) and Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). This chamber music concert with both international musicians will start with the Grand Duo and the Rondo brilliant by Schubert to continue playing the sonatas 5 and 7 by Beethoven.

Viktoria Mullova's talent caught international attention when she won the First Prize of the Helsinki International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in 1980 and the Gold Medal in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1982. This was followed by her dramatic and highly publicised desertion to the West in 1983. Ever since, she has played with most of the greatest orchestras and conductors of the world, as well as during the main international festivals. Today she is known as a violinist of exceptional versatility and musical integrity. Her curiosity spans the breadth of musical development from baroque and classical to the more contemporary influences of the world of fusion and experimental music.

The Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson is a prolific musician who works as a soloist and chamber musician. He covers an extensive repertoire and shows a particular interest in Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Schubert and Schumann; in soloist and chamber music, he also shows interest in music by Gabriel Fauré, Bartók and Janáçek; in the concert music by Bach, Bartók, Britten, Fauré, Hindemith, Messiaen and Mozart; in contemporary pieces such as Thomas Adès' Piano Quintet; Shadowlines by George Benjamin or Harrison’s Clocks by Harrison Birtwistle. His future plans include the premiere of a new piano concerto, written for him by Helena Winkelman.

The tickets can be purchased until one hour before each show on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com  and 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. During the purchase process, the user will have to choose between one or two pre-set seats distributed throughout the hall. The audience is requested to arrive at the venue well in advance to enter the Auditorium in staggered "waves".

By purchasing tickets, you accept the measures implemented by the cultural centre to combat Coronavirus, such as the correct use of masks and attendance to the event only with people you live with. All of the measures, as well as the contingency plan certified by AENOR, can be consulted on the Auditorium’s website.

The tickets for the family concerts are already on sale

Sinfónica de Tenerife (Tenerife Symphony Orchestra) is a project of the Island Council’s Department of Culture that is managed by Enrique Arriaga. The orchestra launches its educational programme 'Memory' in November during a week with a series of concerts for schoolchildren that take place until 20 November. This family-friendly event offers a double performance. The 11:00 a.m. performance is for children under 3 years of age, and the one at 12:30 a.m. is for those over three years. 

Memory offers fragments of suites 1 and 2 of 'The Wand of Youth', by Edward Elgar, played by the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra’s string quartet, the narrator Ana Hernández Sanchiz and the juggler El Gran Rufus. It tells the story of Edward, a mature circus performer who has the worries and weariness of an adult, but who revives childhood moments through the games and treasures he finds among old belongings. Those memories, dreams and emotions will bring back the sparkle and shine of that time with a real magic wand: the music.

When Edward Elgar (1857-1934) was twelve years old, he wrote some songs to accompany a play he was going to perform with the rest of the children in his family. He wrote down those songs in a sketchbook and recovered those sketches forty years later to create his two orchestral suites. That's why he numbered them as opus 1 a/b, a memory of those first songs that outlived time.

The 11:00 a.m. performance is for children under three years of age. The tickets for this session can be purchased at the Auditorium’s box office by dialling 902 317 327 (Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.). They can also be reserved by email (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). The ticket price shall be paid in person or by telephone within the communicated term. Each child may be accompanied by two adults and the entrance price is five euros per adult. Accreditation of the child's age will be requested at access to the hall by presenting the ID card or family book.

The 12:30 a.m. performance is for families with children over three years. The tickets can be purchased in the usual way. During the purchase process, the users will have to choose between pre-set seats previously distributed throughout the hall. If you want to buy a single ticket and the pre-set seats are sold out, please contact the box office. If you have any questions while purchasing your tickets, you can write to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 922 568 625 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 14:00, except for public holidays.

Martín Leiton Trío plays this Friday, while a big band plays this Saturday under the direction of Jesse Passenier

The Auditorio de Tenerife, a cultural space linked to the Department of Culture of Tenerife Island Council, is managed by the island Minister of Culture, Enrique Arriaga. This weekend it offers two concerts programmed for the ‘XIII Festival Canarias Jazz Showroom’. Martín Leiton Trío plays on Friday, the 8^th of October, and the Big Band from the Canary Islands plays on Saturday, the 9^th of October under the direction of the Dutch composer Jesse Passenier. Both concerts take place at the Chamber Hall at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are already on sale.

Martín Leiton is a musician from the Canary Islands who works as a teacher of the music workshop ‘Taller de Músics de la Escola Superior d’Estudis Musicals’ in Barcelona. He has developed his music with jazz, flamenco, pop and Afro-American inspirations. He mainly plays the double bass, but also electric bass, and guitar. He sings with clear influences from Latin-American folk music. As a result of his compositions and interpretations, he has already released four albums as a bandleader: Medium (quartet), Poetry of Sound (trio), Inevitable (big band) and the last one, Desde a bajo (from the bass). He presents this last album during the ‘XIII Festival Canarias Jazz Showroom’ with Kike Perdomo playing the saxophone and Ramón Prats playing the drums.

Jesse Passenier is a Dutch composer who unifies jazz principles and classical music. In doing so, he explores the peripheries of genres and the depth and possibilities of harmony. In 2017 he won the Dutch prize ‘Rogier van Otterloo’ that recognises his success in bridging those musical genres, his leading role as the baton of his own orchestra, and his skills in orchestral composition. 

Passenier will conduct the Canary Islands’ Big Band during a self-created programme. This music ensemble was founded in 2008 with a clear unifying, work and research vocation to learn, create and offer shows. Under the direction of the musician, composer, teacher and producer Kike Perdomo, the Canary Islands’ Big Band has already released five albums.

Tickets can be purchased until one hour before the show on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com and 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. During the purchase process, the user will have to choose between one or two pre-set seats distributed throughout the hall. The audience is requested to use of the venue well in advance to enter the auditorium in staggered "waves". By purchasing tickets, you accept of the measures implemented by the cultural centre to combat COVID-19, such as the correct use of face masks and attendance to the event only with people you are living with. All of the measures, as well as the contingency plan certified by AENOR, can be consulted on our website.

The successful text by Gabriel Calderón, the Uruguayan playwright, closes the MEI programme. So far, the festival has hosted 2,200 spectators during 37 shows

The third edition of the Ibero-American theatre festival Muestra Escénica Iberoamericana (MEI) closes with three performances of ‘Ana contra la muerte’ (Ana against death) offered in the municipalities of El Sauzal and Candelaria. The festival started with the Uruguayan theatre, a country that also closes the programme. This initiative by the Department of Culture of the Island Council is managed by the island Minister of Culture, Enrique Arriaga, and is organised through the Auditorio de Tenerife. Tickets are available at www.meitenerife.com.

Arriaga is pleased that "more than 2,200 spectators have attended the 37 performances held so far in twelve municipalities of Tenerife". He added that "the MEI festival is a clear example of our commitment to a local culture based on municipalism."

This weekend at 8:00 p.m. in the Teatro El Sauzal, the première in Spain of ‘Ana contra la muerte ’(Ana against death) continues to be staged during two performances that will be held on Saturday, the 2^nd of October and on Sunday,  the 3^rd of October. The last chance to see this acclaimed piece that has been translated into Italian is on Wednesday, the 6^th of October at 8:00 p.m. in the Cine Viejo, Candelaria.

‘Ana contra la muerte’ was written and directed by Gabriel Calderón, the renowned Uruguayan playwright. The play proposes that the chances of death are extremely high, but those of never having been born are by far higher. Every person who is born and lives are not only a miracle of nature through its complex biological mechanisms. He/she is also a statistical miracle since the odds of not being born or of dying quickly have always been our cons.

According to Calderón, we reject death not out of fear, not out of grief, not because it is unnatural. We reject it because we are the unnatural ones; because death is a rule to correct the marvellous exception we are." Thus, the author considers that death returns us to the statistics, like the minerals and stardust that inhabit worlds where nothing is counted because there is nothing."

‘Ana contra la muerte’ was premièred in Tenerife on Wednesday, the 29^th of September in the Auditorium Infanta Leonor, Arona. The play arrived in Spain after offering eight performances in the Teatro El Galpón, Uruguay. It is the story of a woman who understood that she had to resist death as long as she could, and even longer. The play begins with a mother and all the things she has to go through to try to save her son's life.

It's about telling the most complex things in the simplest way. It is about projecting from a stage the essence and power of the experiences we sometimes go through, allowing us to perceive and reflect on that which is unbearable if we look at it directly. This sad story told with love encourages the audience to watch on stage the difficulties of the story and its edges through the power of three great actresses of the Uruguayan theatre: Gabriela Iribarren, Marisa Bentancur and María Mendive.

This third edition of the MEI festival has taken place between 2 September and 6 October. The programme was staged in 12 municipalities and offered 14 shows from Latin America, Spain and Portugal. This year, the venues were the Paraninfo de la Universidad de La Laguna and those of the municipalities of Adeje, Arona, Candelaria, El Rosario, Guía de Isora, Los Realejos, Puerto de la Cruz, Tacoronte, Tegueste, Vilaflor and El Sauzal.

Of the twelve companies that have participated during this edition, three were from Chile (Niño Proletario, Silencio Blanco and Colectivo Cuerpo Sur), two from Uruguay (El Galpón and Marea Productora) and one each from Colombia (11 Paredes), Argentina (Diego Casado), Nicaragua (Teatro Justo Rufino Garay), and Portugal (Hotel Europa Teatro); three from the Canary Islands (Delirium, Ángulo Producciones and Unahoramenos).

Stefan Dohr plays as a soloist during the ‘Concerto for French Horn and Orchestra No 1’ by Richard Strauss offered on 1 October 2021

Sinfónica de Tenerife (Tenerife Symphony Orchestra) is a project of the Island Council’s Department of Culture which is directed by Enrique Arriaga. During the concert offered on Friday, the 1^st of October 2021 at 7:30 p.m., the Orchestra will play during the second part of the programme the ‘Symphony No 10’ by Shostakovitch under the direction of Catherine Larsen-Maguire. The ‘Oberon’ Overture by Carl Maria von Weber and the ‘Concerto for French Horn and Orchestra No 1’ by Richard Strauss will be played with Stefan Dohr as an invited soloist during the first half of the concert.

The third season's concert starts with the ‘Oberon’ Overture by Carl Maria von Weber (1786 -1826). The piece reflects the most inspired moment of the German composer, which was premièred in London in the year he passed away. This romantic German opera has a strange libretto by Planché that mixes several characters such as Oberon, the king of the elves, mermaids, pirates, fairies, Charlemagne and Almanzor. 

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) composed for his father the ‘Concerto for French Horn and Orchestra’ when he was just 19 years old. During this period, the composer not only displayed a strong personality but a great deal of romanticism and the influence of Mendelssohn. After 12 years without being back on the island, the soloist Stefan Dohr plays again during this concert with the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra. The French horn soloist of the Berliner Philharmoniker has collaborated with renowned conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Bernard Haitink, Christian Thielemann, Daniel Harding, Neeme and Paavo Járvi.

After the break, the Orchestra will play the ‘Symphony No 10’ by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-Moscow, 1975). Premièred in 1953, this is the first of the symphonies he composed feeling free from Stalin's yoke after the Soviet leader passed away. The fact that the work was branded as "unnatural to Soviet citizens" for embracing Western formalism, made the composer live much of his life tormented by the threat of the Gulag. Once the "iron man" died, the most accepted theory is that the musician dedicated the second movement to Stalin: a frenetic and violent scherzo with military reminiscences, during which Stalin "speaks roughly", rude, provocative and subtly ridiculous.

Catherine Larsen-Maguire (Manchester 1971) made her début in Tenerife during the last season. Now she comes back to Tenerife to tackle this programme. After playing for 10 years as the main bassoonist at the Komische Oper Berlin, in 2012 she decided to work exclusively as a conductor. Thanks to her orchestral experience, she acquired broad knowledge about the repertoire, the psychology of the orchestra, and an exceptional musical ear. Since then, she has worked as a conductor achieving a great reputation both in Europe and South America.

During this season, she will play for the first time in the UK with the London Philarmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, in Switzerland with the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève and the Orchestre de Chambre Fribourgeois, and in Germany with the Göttinger Symphonieorchester. Apart from the standard orchestral genre, Larsen-Maguire has also shown a great interest in contemporary music. Her collaborations include projects with Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Resonanz, Ensemble Ascolta and Ensemble United Berlin. During 2021-22 she will make her debut with Ensemble Modern. 

Tickets can be purchased until two hours before the concert on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com and by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturdays 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., except on holidays. The audience is requested to arrive at the venue well in advance to enter the auditorium in staggered "waves". By purchasing tickets, you accept the measures implemented by the cultural centre to combat COVID-19. All of the measures, as well as the contingency plan certified by AENOR, can be consulted on our website.

Estas propuestas de Uruguay y Chile se completan con ‘Moria’, que llega desde Gran Canaria

La Muestra Escénica Iberoamericana (MEI) ofrece esta semana tres espectáculos en tres municipios de la isla. Dos de ellos se podrán ver por primera vez en España: Ana contra la muerte, que llega desde Uruguay, y Mutilados en democracia, procedente de Chile. Las últimas funciones de la producción canaria Moria completan las propuestas de esta iniciativa del área de Cultura del Cabildo, dirigida por el consejero Enrique Arriaga, organizada a través de Auditorio de Tenerife. Las entradas están disponibles a la venta en www.meitenerife.com.

La programación de esta semana comienza mañana [martes 28] en la plaza de San Roque de Vilaflor, donde se desplegará la propuesta de teatro inmersivo Moria, de la compañía canaria Unahoramenos, cuyas entradas están agotadas para las dos funciones, a partir de las 20:30 y las 22:30 horas.

El miércoles [día 29] a las 20:30 horas tendrá lugar en el Auditorio Infanta Leonor de Arona la primera función en España de Ana contra la muerte, un texto del reconocido dramaturgo uruguayo Gabriel Calderón. El Teatro El Sauzal recibe otras dos funciones de esta obra el sábado 2 y el domingo 3, ambas a partir de las 20:00 horas.

Tras agotar ocho funciones en Uruguay, esta obra, que también ha sido traducida al italiano, llega por primera vez a España con las actrices Gabriela Iribarren, Marisa Bentancur y María Mendive. La pieza, en la que una madre trata de salvar la vida de su hijo, entiende la muerte como una regla que viene a corregir la excepción en la que nos hemos convertido al estar vivos, todo un milagro estadístico.

El jueves [día 30] se estrena en España el trabajo de los chilenos Colectivo Cuerpo Sur con Mutilados en democracia. El Teatro El Sauzal ofrece dos funciones, a las 18:00 y a las 20:00 horas. Se trata de una propuesta de teatro documental que se hace eco de la revuelta que tuvo lugar en Chile en 2019 a raíz de que el Gobierno anunciase una subida de la tarifa del metro. La situación alimentó la ira de la población, marcada por la desigualdad que convierte en privilegio a algunos servicios sociales básicos como la sanidad o la educación, y provocó una serie de disturbios. Esta obra da voz a alguna de las víctimas de la represión policial.

Auditorio de Tenerife recibe del 27 de septiembre al 9 de octubre de 2021 la residencia artística Fiestas invisibles, de la creadora Paloma Calle. Se trata de un proyecto de Massimiliano Casu y Paloma Calle con la colaboración de Max Bultó.

Una fiesta invisible es un fragmento del suelo de la ciudad que se eleva convirtiéndose en un espacio escénico para algunas de las innumerables encarnaciones de las luchas por construir un espacio público más abierto e igualitario.

Es un proyecto performativo de naturaleza lúdico-festiva, que propone un ejercicio directo del derecho a aparecer a través de la música y el baile, por parte de algunas de las subjetividades e identidades habitualmente más invisibilizadas y excluidas del respecto al uso del espacio público.

Se basa en un dispositivo escénico inspirado en el famoso Speakers’ Corner de la capital británica, pero también en las discotecas móviles que atraviesan las fiestas de barrios y pueblos del estado español en el verano, que acoge un programa de dj-set y actuaciones ofrecidas por personas que no ejercen habitualmente como pinchadiscos, cuyas vivencias personales serán visibilizadas (y exorcizadas) en forma de eventos de baile en un diálogo performativo entre los protagonistas de cada sesión y Max Bultó, performer recién llegado a la ciudad con un misterioso pasado.

Confiamos en el poder territorializador del disfrute musical compartido y de la alegría de los cuerpos, en esa capacidad intrínseca de la emisión sonora para producir espacios sociales, redes de afectos y oportunidades de encuentro.

Fiestas Invisibles propone una reflexión bailona, encarnada y agitada, en torno a cuánto podemos considerar público un espacio urbano donde, a día de hoy, se siguen reproduciendo inaceptables ejes de exclusión, violencia y desigualdad.

Lanza estas preguntas abriendo un espacio donde personas afectadas por tales reflexiones y vivencias puedan tomar un espacio de visibilidad que no se limite a la denuncia, sino que se centre en la prueba encarnada, sudada y celebrante de qué es lo que la sociedad pierde cuando excluye lo no normativo de la arena pública.

Concretamente, el proyecto propone una serie de performances en forma de fiestas callejeras cuyos dj-set serán llevados a cabo por familias (desde una idea expandida y no biologicista de familia) que, en sus vivencias diarias, desafían los dogmas de lo normativo en sus múltiples vertientes (patriarcales, heteronormativas, binarias, racistas, edadistas y/o capacitistas), y cuya voz y vivencia serán amplificadas por un soundsystem-púlpito desde el que lanzar, desde el roce lúdico de los cuerpos, un mensaje de lucha para la igualdad y celebración de la no-normatividad.

Lo que tendrán en común las familias invitadas a participar es su pasión por la música y su deseo de hacer bailar a la gente reivindicando ese lugar aficionado, puesto que ninguna persona participante será DJ profesional.

Paloma Calle. Madrid 1975.

"Mi trabajo se desarrolla en un territorio híbrido y móvil entre la investigación y creación en artes vivas y al educación no formal

Desde la práctica artística escénica o performativa, propongo un pensar desde el hacer, desde el cuerpo, no tanto desde la palabra y lo discursivo. Busco legitimar saberes o aprendizajes alejados de la investigación entendida de la manera más tradicional o académica. Utilizo el extrañamiento y el humor, así como la autobiografía y las preguntas, como herramientas de trabajo.

Cada vez estoy más lejos de las paredes que construyen el dispositivo escénico llamado “teatro” pero tampoco ese hilo se ha cortado, sólo se ha vuelto más fino y largo.

Mi enfoque se sitúa desde una perspectiva interseccional feminista disidente de la norma  heterosexual.

He trabajado con diferentes instituciones de Europa, Asia y Latinoamérica como: Matadero, Intermediae, La Casa Encendida, CA2M, Facultad de Bellas Artes de Madrid y de Cuenca, MUSAC, Programa Aprendanza, Rimbun Dahan (Malasia), Festival Panorama (Brasil), Espacio NAVE (Chile) entre otras."

The performances take place in El Sauzal, Los Realejos, Arona, El Rosario and Vilaflor

The theatre festival MEI (Muestra Escénica Iberoamericana) offers this week nine performances in five municipalities. The programme includes 'Moria' and 'Clara y el abismo' (Clara and the abyss), both by Unahoramenos, a company from the Canary Islands. The Chilean company Teatro Niño Proletario, stages 'Nadie lee fuego mientras todo se está quemando (Nobody reads fire while everything is burning), while the last performance is titled 'Carta de una desconocida' (Letter from an Unknown Woman) by the Colombian company Señor M. The MEI festival is an initiative organized by the Tenerife Island Council through the Auditorio de Tenerife, a cultural space linked to the Department of Culture that is managed by the island Minister of Culture, Enrique Arriaga. It finishes on 6 October. Tickets for this third edition are on sale at www.meitenerife.com.

Enrique Arriaga, the Island Council’s first vice-president and island’s Minister of Culture, stressed that "the festival MEI is a clear example of our vocation to bring culture to all the people of Tenerife without them having to travel to Santa Cruz to enjoy top-quality shows". 

This week's programme starts on Tuesday, the 21^st of September at 8:30 p.m. at the venue Casa de la Cultura de Los Realejos with 'Carta de una desconocida' (Letter from an Unknown Woman). This adaptation of the novel by Stefan Zweig is programmed during the MEI festival to be staged in El Rosario and Adeje. It is based on an unrequited love story. A man receives a letter from a woman. She tells him how she has loved him since she was a child. She used to watch him through her window and continued to love him throughout her life. It is a story of loneliness, pain, and hope with small happy moments. The play talks about women's privacy, time, hope, and love. It deals with how we construct and idealize ‘the other’ and relationships; it talks about those deep and silent loves that become idyllic and perfect. They live only in the lover's mind.

‘Moria’ is the first proposal offered by the company Unahoramenos during this week. They will perform it first in El Sauzal, with two shows on Wednesday, the 22^nd of September. On Sunday, the 26^th of September, they perform it in Auditorio Infanta Leonor, in Arona. Both municipalities have programmed the shows at 6:00 p.m. and at 8:00 p.m. 

This immersive theatre proposal tells the story of two refugee women and their families, who have no choice but to flee their respective countries. The dramaturgy is based on real testimonies filmed in the Moria camp under the supervision of Nicolás Castellano, a reporter who has specialized during the last 20 years in forced migration movements and human rights. 

Zohra Amiryar survived four bombings and attacks in Afghanistan, her home country. She lost her brother during one of them. In addition, she saw her four children wounded during the last attack. Thus she decided to make the exodus in search of a refuge for her family. Douaa Alhavatem is a 30-year-old Iraqi woman who had to leave her native Baghdad after her husband's disappearance. She feared that she and her three children might suffer the same fate. In Moria, both women experience a new stage of suffering that they would have never ever imagined when they set foot in Europe, the place where they thought they would finally feel safe.

The other proposal by Unahoramenos will only be staged at the Teatro El Sauzal on Friday, the 24^th of September at 8:00 p.m. Friday's performance 'Clara y el abismo' (Clara and the abyss) is an initiative of Laboratorio Galdós Internacional. It is inspired by a text written for the occasion by the Uruguayan Gabriel Calderón. It deals with the last moments of a woman who suffers from cancer and reviews her life. It also talks about her relationship with her loved ones. It is an inspiring reflection on life and its inevitable end. 

Teatro Niño Proletario makes its debut in MEI with 'Nadie lee fuego mientras todo se está quemando' (Nobody reads fire while everything is burning). A mother and her son are homeless and live on the streets of a society they do not wish to belong to. They decide to confront the situation by performing a poetic act as the last gesture to shed light on a country that lives in darkness. This play revisits the 2005 production 'Hambre' (Hunger), the company's first creation. It is also inspired by the novel 'Los vigilantes', by Diamela Eltit, a winner of the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 2018. Likewise, it is inspired by the poetry book 'Bonzo', by Maximiliano Andrade, a young Chilean poet and outstanding illustrator who also illustrated his book.

'Nadie lee fuego mientras todo se está quemando' (Nobody reads fire while everything is burning) makes its European début with the three shows offered during the MEI festival. The first performance takes place on Thursday, the 23^rd of September at the 'Centro Cultural 25 de abril', in Vilaflor, to continue with a second performance at Casa de la Juventud in El Chorrillo (El Rosario). The last performance takes place on Saturday, the 25^th of September at the Theatre El Sauzal. The three shows start at 8:00 p.m.

The programme of this MEI's edition includes 40 performances of 17 shows from Chile, Uruguay, Colombia, Argentina, Nicaragua, Portugal and the Canary Islands. This third edition is the most ambitious considering the number of performances and distribution throughout 12 municipalities of the island.