Sara Baras will receive the Prize of the 49th International Festival of Theater, Music and Dance of San Javier

Dancer Sara Baras will receive the 49th Festival Award International Theater, Music and Dance of San Javier the next 24 August when the Festival closes with his latest show , "Sombras", with which he celebrates the twenty years of his company. The presence of Sara Baras is part of the advancement of the program made by David Martínez, Councilor for Culture and director of the Festival in which there will also be contemporary dance with the Canadian company of Marie Chouinard and his tribute to the work of El Bosco, "The Garden of Earthly Delights".

In the theater section you can see two co-productions of the Classical Theater Festival of Mérida as "Ben-Hur", with the seal of Yllana and adaptation of Nancho Novo, which inaugurated the Festival on August 1, and "Las Amazonas" with address Magüi Mira and with Loles León in a distribution of exception, on 15 August. The 49th edition of the Festival that did not want to lose replacement of "Quejío" by Sálvador Távora, a masterpiece of one of the most important contemporary Spanish playwrights, that will arrive on August 17, also surrenders to ancient music with "Diálogos Celtas", the concert that unites the piper Carlos Nuñez and the violagambista, Jordi Savall, on August 16.

The Festival will start on August 1 with "Ben-Hur", a montage based on the novel Lewis Wallace and the famous movie that starred Charlton Heston in a theatrical and comical vision interpreted by Eva Isanta, Agulign = "justify"> In the advancement of the programming of the 49th edition of the Festival International Theater, Music and Dance of San Javier will know in full the next month of May, is included, in the musical section the concert "Diálogos Celtas" with the piper and Galician flutist Carlos Núñez and the violambadista and musicologist, specialized in ancient music, Jordi Savall. The two musicians, who have collaborated on previous occasions both live and in recordings, they come back together in an international tour with a exquisite Celtic repertoire that will come to San Javier on the 16th August.

The 49th International Festival of Theater, Music and Dance of San Javier will offer the possibility of reviewing "Quejío" the first work Salvador Távora, one of the most creative Spanish playwrights and highlights of the last 50 years in Spain. The work premiered in 1972 and re-released in 2016, already contains the scenic force that characterizes the work of Távora, so rooted in tradition Andalusian as removed from the topics. With almost total absence of text, the drama of flamenco singing and dancing served Távora to reflect the oppression of the Andalusian proletariat in this work mythical of the Spanish theater that can be seen in San Javier on 17 August.