Different theatres and halls Cologne will host, from this Friday until Saturday 24, the eighth edition of International Festival of Performing Arts (FIDAE)an opportunity to get closer to artistic expressions not only local, but also from Argentina, Germany, Belgium, Brazil, France, Spain and Portugalthis year’s guest country.
The event, which will be staged in Cologne to seven of the 28 at the national level, this year has the particularity that the equation was inverted and Montevideo It will no longer be the central headquarters of the festival, but rather departments within the Uruguay as Cannelloni, Thirty Three, Paysandú and Tacuarembo.
“The history of our country has created a situation where, in general, everything of importance happens in Montevideo. That is not going to be solved overnight, but we in the cultural policies of this government have thought of concrete actions to advance in that direction.” decentralization policy“, said Mariana Wainsteinnational director of Culture, at the launch event of the festival in Cologne, in which she participated Scope.
“The four institutes that are under the orbit of the Directorate of Culture today (music, literature, visual arts and performing arts) have a rule that any project has to be able to be carried out in the interior of the country,” he explained. The coordinator of the National Institute of Performing Arts, Alvaro Ahunchain; the mayor of Colonia, Carlos Moreira; and the local cultural director, Eduardo Baraleamong others.
Thus, for this edition of Fidae, only 39% of the 54 performances will take place in Montevideo and the rest, in the interior of the country. “Montevideo becomes a sub-venue, and the venues are Colonia, San José, Canelones, Treinta y Tres, Paysandú and there is a performance in Tacuarembó as a blessing to the Escayola theater that reopened its doors,” Wainstein explained.
Theatre, music and dance in Cologne
As part of the eighth edition of the International Festival of Performing Arts, there will be 11 performances in Cologne that will take place in the theater Bastion of Carmen and in the AFE Cultural Center.
Colonia’s participation in the Fidae has the particularity that, given its proximity to both Montevideo and the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires (one hour by ferry), hopes to attract not only local but also regional audiences, organizers told Scope.
They also highlighted the cultural synergy with Argentinaas one of the attractions of the festival in Colon territory: the Argentine actresses Laura Azcurra and Valeria Stilman They will mount the play Tita and Rhodesiaand the iconic San Martín Theater in the city of Buenos Aires added a show with its puppets to the schedule.
“In the case of Cologne there will be a world premiere of a play, with the Heritage Theatre group and the Cuban-Spanish director, Abel Gonzalez Melo“Wainstein also explained about the work Abyss (a tightrope)).
The same director will lead Protocola 190-minute work with the particularity that it includes two versions, which the viewer can watch continuously or choose just one.
The rest of the grid in Cologne is completed with Ctrl Zwhich is an interactive performance installation that combines circus and technology; the folk dance show Horse, Madness is a question; and the dramatic comedy Extracts.
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