This weekend, the Espacio La Granja also welcomes the companies Poliana Lima and Reinaldo Ribeiro.

 

The 14th edition of the Arts and Movement Festival FAM begins this Saturday (day 1) with Go Figure, a show by Sharon Fridman, candidate for two Max Awards for the Performing Arts (Best male dance performer and Best choreography). The performance takes place at 8:00 p.m. at Espacio La Granja, the theatre that welcomes the first proposals of the festival. Tickets for the indoor shows, which will take place from 1 to 9 June, have a single price of 8 euros, and several discounts are available.

The show Go Figure stars Shmuel Dvir Cohen and Tomer Navot, a duo competing for the national award ex aequo. This show is a landscape of inequity in which Shmuel can observe the functioning of his body, acknowledge it, take into account what conditions exist, and define its movement, transforming it into a bridge that reaches out towards connection with others. Tomer responds to this call, accepting the invitation to engage in dialogue, and crosses the bridge. While searching for a point of balance that arises from the limits that impose or reveal both capacities, a beautiful woman emerges who only wishes to be herself. This lovely woman is the result of the will to seek support without losing her identity.

The performance of The Common Ground can be enjoyed on Sunday (2nd) at 7:30 p.m. at Espacio La Granja. This dance sextet explores the relationship between the diverse (diversity) and the standard (community). It takes a fictional choreographic approach that evokes fantastic dimensions with incursions into the monstrous or the mythical. The cast of this play by the company Poliana Lima is made up of six performers. Four of them migrated to Spain and have different profiles; the other two are Spanish. Three of the members are racialised. Each has a specific cultural heritage and a multicultural artistic career, with incarnate vital experience in their identities and bodies, the result of the crossing of cultural lineages.

On Monday (3rd) at 8:00 p.m., the Espacio La Granja programmes NO/MAS/SACRE, a duet directed by Reinaldo Ribeiro in collaboration with the dancer Aymará Parola and the pianist Lea Petra, who are the protagonists of the proposal. The performance runs contrary to a trivial dialogue with Stravinsky, completely immersing itself in its underlying complexity. It claims the right to ire, virtuosity and excellence. The piece unfolds in the seemingly classic triangle of piano, pianist and ballerina only to subvert expectations through a dizzying ritual of the pleasurable, the grotesque and the transgressive.  NO/MAS/SACRE explores the limits of the human body, in which movement and sound redefine the rules and laws that govern their encounter.

The festival offers 15 shows by 13 Spanish dance companies. It will continue on Wednesday (4th) at Espacio La Granja at 8:00 p.m., presenting the first large-format performance of Mucha Muchacha, interpreted by the eponymous company and which is inspired by the female artists of the generation of 1927.

Wednesday, 5 June, the solo artist Marcia Vázquez will offer the first outdoor performance, Onde pousa a humidade, at 5:30 p.m. in Plaza del Príncipe and 7:30 p.m. outside Espacio La Granja. Also scheduled for that day is This is Alfred, interpreted by Elías Aguirre with double bassist Jorge da Rocha at 6:00 p.m. at the Museo de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts). At Espacio La Granja at 8:00 p.m., Oro negro will be performed by the Poliana Lima Company. On Thursday, 6 June, Luz Arcas and her company La Phármaco will offer the public the live-music show Mariana at the Teatro Guimerá at 8:00 p.m.

FAM continues outdoors on Friday, 7 June, with the duet performance La medida que nos ha de dividir interpreted by the Qabalum Company at 6:00 p.m. in Plaza del Príncipe and 8:30 p.m. outside the Teatro Guimerá. For a different experience, Vacío espiritual will be performed by Richard Mascherin in Plaza del Chicharro at 7:00 p.m., and an hour later, the duet performance of Otempodiz will be offered by the Ertza Company outside the Teatro Guimerá. The show is nominated for the Best Street Show at the next Max Awards. The only indoor performance scheduled for Friday will be In-Side, an interpretation by Lucía Montes and Mado Dallery at 6:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. at the Museo de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts).

Two performances have been scheduled for Saturday, 8 June. The first is He aquí un acto romántico, by the Richard Mascherin Company (nominated for the Max Award for Best Male Dance Performer) at 6:00 p.m. at Espacio La Granja, and the second is Sonoma, at 8:00 p.m. at Teatro Guimerá, by the company La Veronal, led by Marcos Morau, winner of the National Dance Award.

The Symphony Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife hosts the festival's grand finale, the large-format show Mont Ventoux, interpreted by the Spanish company Kor'sia, which takes place on Sunday, 9 June at 7:30 p.m. The show has three nominations for the Max Awards 2024, to be presented on 1 July at the Auditorio de Tenerife: Best Dance Performance, Best Choreography and Best Musical Composition.

The programme is a showcase of the talent in Spain. It will delight audiences with the power of live dance in the capital with large-scale theatrical performances, outdoor solo performances, award-winning duets, interdisciplinary pieces and many more acts in different formats and offering different concepts that go from reflections on the passing of time to representations of the gravitational effect on bodies, all interpreted through the lens of contemporary dance.

The FAM festival is an initiative promoted by the Auditorio de Tenerife with the collaboration of the Canary Islands Government, through the Regional Institute of Cultural Development, the Autonomous Department of Cultural Affairs of the City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the programme "Danza a Escena", which is part of the Spanish Network of Theatres of the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM) of Spain's Ministry of Culture. All information and ticket sales are available on www.famtenerife.com and at each venue's point of ticket sales.