Mucha Muchacha will take place tomorrow at Espacio La Granja, and on Wednesday, Santa Cruz will welcome the first outdoor performances.

 

The Arts and Movement Festival FAM continues with various indoor and street performances this week. Tomorrow (Tuesday 4), Mucha Muchacha brings its show of the same name to Espacio La Granja, while on Wednesday (day 5), outdoor shows predominate, and on Thursday (day 6) the Teatro Guimerá receives Mariana by Luz Arcas' company La Phármaco, which includes dance, music and singing. The tickets are sold at a single price of eight euros and other information about the festival can be consulted at www.famtenerife.com.

Tomorrow, at 8:00 p.m., the Espacio La Granja welcomes the first large-format performance of Mucha Muchacha, interpreted by the eponymous company. It is a declaration of intentions embodying movement, community, femininity, and ritual. In 2016, the company embarked on a journey to document the inspiring stories of the female artists of the generation of 1927, known as Las Sinsombrero (the hatless). These women, such as Maruja Mallo, Marga Gil, María Teresa León, Concha Méndez and Rosa Chacel, played a part in Spain's cultural unrest and societal modernisation in the 1920s and 1930s and were silenced in the wake of the Spanish Civil War. The undertaking, which began as a form of theoretical and practical research and became the starting point of Mucha muchacha, focuses on concepts of empowerment, determination, voice, participation, liberty and cooperation.

The dance performances come to the streets of Santa Cruz on Wednesday (5th) with Onde pousa a humidade, the first solo endeavour of Marcia Vázquez. The show explores the relationship between the human body and waiting and can be enjoyed at 5:30 p.m. in Plaza del Príncipe and 7:30 p.m. outside Espacio La Granja.   Also scheduled for that day is the indoor performance This is Alfred, a story about a fragile being and his new reality, by Elías Aguirre with Jorge da Rocha on double bass. It will be staged at 6:00 ap.m. at the Museo de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts). At Espacio La Granja at 8:00 p.m., Oro negro, a solo performance with two interpreters and live music by the creator Poliana Lima, will be performed.

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. The dancing of Luz Arcas is joined by the voice of Bonela Hijo, as well as the singing, hand-clapping and foot-stomping of Lola Dolores. On the instrumental side, Carlos González will play the percussion and synthesizer, Abraham Romero will play the cornet, and Bonela Chico will play the guitar. Inspired by a female animal of the countryside, Mariana is a dance sculpted in stone and clay, schematic, rough-hewn and precise, a dance that is as abstract and symbolic as it is utilitarian and material. Recreating the beast's strength, Luz Arcas stars in this cuerpo jondo (deep body) dance.  Mariana is a co-production with the Bienal de Flamenco of Seville, Teatros del Canal of Madrid and MA scène nationale - Pays de Montbéliard (France). 

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).

On Saturday, 8 June, two exceptional performances are lined up. 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 FAM festival's grand finale, the large-format show Mont Ventoux, interpreted by the Spanish company Kor'sia. The show takes place on Sunday, 9 June, at 7:30 p.m. It 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.