The programme returns to the streets tomorrow, and Espacio La Granja and Teatro Guimerá host shows on Saturday.

 

This Sunday (9th), the Arts and Movement Festival FAM culminates at 7:30 p.m. in the Symphony Hall of Auditorio de Tenerife with the large-format performance Mont Ventoux, by the Spanish company Kor'sia. The show has three nominations for the  Max Awards for the Performing Arts. In addition, the programme continues tomorrow with several proposals to be enjoyed at the Museo de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts) and in the streets of Santa Cruz. On Saturday (8th), the Espacio La Granja welcomes He aquí un acto romántico by Richard Mascherin, and the Teatro Guimerá hosts Sonoma, by La Veronal. You can find the tickets for the indoor shows, at a single price of €8, and all the updated information on the festival on the website www.famtenerife.com.

FAM returns tomorrow to the outdoor performances with the duet La medida que ha de nos dividir, a show on borders and the future by the company Qabalum, formed by Lucía Burguete and Diego Pazó. There are two performances, the first at 6:00 p.m. in the surroundings of the Plaza del Príncipe and the second at 8:30 p.m. outside the Teatro Guimerá.

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). The reflection on the state of the human body and its awareness has free entry until total capacity is reached. However, you shall collect the invitation one hour before the event starts.

The solo show Vacío espiritual by Richard Mascherin focuses on contemporary performing and audiovisual arts. It will take place in the Plaza del Chicharro at 7:00 p.m. The piece by the Canarian creator is a performative accident that falls within the contemporary dance category in which the body, sound and techno music are interrelated. In addition, there will be live music by Alejandro da Rocha.

At 8:00 p.m., the exterior of the Teatro Guimerá welcomes the duet Otempodiz by the company Ertza. The show is nominated for the Best Street Show at the next Max Awards. The show with the slogan Vosotros tenéis el reloj, nosotros tenemos el tiempo (You have the clock; we have the time), referring to the differences in perception of time between the West and Africa. The director of the company is Basque Asier Zabaleta, while this piece stars Mozambican Fenias Nhumaio and Deissane Machava.

Two indoor performances have been scheduled for Saturday, 8 June. Espacio La Granja features at 6:00 p.m. the trio He aquí un acto romántico, by the Richard Mascherin Company, nominated for the Max Award for Best Male Dance Performer. In addition to Mascherin, this piece is performed by Lucía Montes and Javier Mario Salcedo. This stage proposal uses physical and emotional falling to create a map of human bodies thrown into the air. The piece starts with tense corporeality and an atmosphere of cinematographic inspirations. It is about three victims who ceremoniously assume a spiral of violent situations, making accidents, provocations, attachment and non-attachment a rite of passage towards transcendence.

At 8:00 p.m., the Teatro Guimerá welcomes Sonoma by the company La Veronal, led by Marcos Morau, winner of the National Dance Award. Sonoma is a word that you will not find in a Spanish dictionary. It is, however, built with morphemes from Greek (soma, meaning body) and Latin (sonum, meaning sound) to signify the body of sound and sound of the body. Sonoma is the certainty that the virtual and digital worlds can be surpassed only by a return to the origin. Marcos Morau has further developed the essential ideas of the piece he created in 2016 for Ballet de Lorraine: Le Surréalisme au service de la Révolution. Based on the film director, Luis Buñuel, it is set in his hometown of Calanda in the Middle Ages and cosmopolitan Paris, and the plot deals with Jesuit discipline and surrealist liberty. The piece is performed by Lorena Nogal, Marina Rodríguez, Sau-Ching Wong, Ariadna Montfort, Núria Navarra, Àngela Boix, Laia Duran, Anna Hierro and Alba Barral.

The Symphony Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife hosts the FAM festival's grand finale on Sunday, June 9, at 7:30 p.m. by climbing Kor'sia's Mont Ventoux.  The show has three nominations for the Max Awards 2024, to be presented on July 1 at the Auditorio de Tenerife: Best Dance Performance, Best Choreography (the company's directors Antonio de Rosa and Mattia Russo) and Best Musical Composition for a Stage Space (Alejandro da Rocha, composer).

The company was inspired by the philosopher Francesco Petrarch's (1336-1374) Ascent of Mont Ventoux (1336). Cunningly describing an ascent of a mountain as the simplest of accounts, Petrarch offers an alternative to the faith of the world, an ascending journey for humanity to elude and leave behind the dark years of the Middle Ages, bringing about a paradigm shift for the world to come: humanism. The Kor'sia Collective seeks answers from the humanist past to the conflicts proposed by a 21st-century paradigm shift: the construction of an individual capable of rebuilding themselves and the planet. Everything is overcome by obstinate work.

The FAM festival, which started on June 1, 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.