The 49th International Theater, Music and Dance Festival will offer 16 shows from August 1 to 24

The monumental set San Juan de Dios, in Murcia, was the place chosen today to present the 49th International Festival of Theater, Music and Dance of San Javier with a claim of baroque on the part of its director David Martinez, in an act that opened the mayor of San Javier and that The participation of the painter Gonzalo Sicre, author of the poster of this edition, and the director of the Institute for the Arts and Cultural Industries, Marta López-Briones.

A group of soloists of the Orchestra of the Region of Murcia put the music to an act, which counted with the presence of a broad representation of the theater world regional, in which the sculptor Juan José Quirós had just given form the Festival Award that will be given to dancer Sara Baras on August 24. The program consists of 16 shows, the most of them representative of contemporary Spanish theater where you can see the San Javier Festival that always has a hollow for classical theater, music and dance.

Program

The Festival will begin on 1 August with "Ben-Hur", a fun theatrical montage devised and directed by Yllana and written by Nancho Navo that addresses from the humor to the mythical character fictionalized by Lewis Wallace. The play, co-produced by the Festival de Mérida with Focus and Yllana, it enjoys a Trepidante pace and a visual ingenuity that they have defined as "Teatromclass = "western" style = "margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%" align = "justify">

He Festival, which emerged 49 years ago driven by the theater group local amateur, book a date each year for the current group of San Javier Theater, heir to the original, which this year will present the famous "Orquesta de Señoritas", by Jean Anouilh, in which post-war France is recreated through a decadent orchestra of young girls played by male actors, directed by Orlando Gabriel Panizzoli.

The theater of improvisation is a novelty in the program of the San Javier Festival that presents to the company "Impromadrid", on August 8. Actors experts in improvisation are thrown to play with the Golden Age to starting from the phrase of Lope de Vega that gives title to the assembly "A nobody was given poison in laughter "through comic scenes driven by the suggestions of the public.

Pedro Casablanc and Pepe Viyuela head "Filotectetes", the second production of the Mérida Classic Festival, which will be seen in San Javier, under the direction of Antonio Simón. The text of Sophocles in Jordi Casanovas' version tells the story of one of the heroes Greeks who were part of the expedition to Troy, whose comrades abandoned on an island to which they will have to return ten years later.

He Saturday, August 11, the musical section will be released with the concert by Martirio and Javier Ruibal, both National Prize of Current Music, granted by the Ministry of Culture. Next to a band composed of piano, guitar, Tres Flamenco, contrabass and drummer, will make a trip through traditional Spanish music and Latin American with a nod to Maghrebi music.

The family theater will come Sunday August 12 with the musical "The crazy story of beauty dormant ", in which La Ratonera Teatro gives a twist to the famous story from which the characters are disappearing because children have stopped reading stories.

The street theater will arrive with "A S'ombra", a circus show by the hand of the Balearic company Atirofijo Circ, in the Plaza de España, in San Javier. It is a contemporary circus piece, in which investigate new processes of connection with the public, including classic disciplines such as trapeze to flight, launching knives, acrobatic balances, manipulation of objects and the circus acts, from the story of two errant characters.

The actress Loles León is part of the cast of "Las Amazonas", which will arrive on August 15, along with Silvia Abascal, Olivia Molina, Laura Pamplona, Maxi Iglesias, Xabi Murua and Karina Garantivá, directed by Magüi Mira. The work, co-produced by the Festival de Merida and Pentación, recreates in tone of humor the Penthesilea de Von Kleist, about the female myth of female warriors who choose the sex without love in order to procreate and continue to increase the tribe.

Celtic music will be the protagonist in the second of the concerts scheduled in 49 Festival of Theater, Music and Dance of San Javier that will feature one of the first concerts of the summer in Spain, after its premiere in the United States, by Carlos Núñez and Jordi Savall. With the title "Dialogos Celtas", the two musicians who are experts in music historical render homage to the origins and development of culture Celtic musical.

On Friday the 17th there will be one of the legendary companies of Spanish theater, La Cuadra de Sevilla with the replenishment 45 years after the first feature of the great Salvador Távora, "Quejío" a work that marked a before and after after the Spanish and flamenco theater, the director of the Festival.With almost total absence of text, the drama of singing and flamenco dancing served Távora to reflect the oppression of Andalusian proletariat in this "archaeological piece of our theater ".

The closing of the Festival will put on 24 August the bailaora Sara Baras, who will receive the Prize of the 49 Festival of Theater, Music and Dance of San Javier, which He visited for the last time in 2012 with "La Pepa". Sara Baras directs and choreographed his latest show "Sombras" a trip to through the time he goes through his flamenco career without repeat choreographies and with a magical and unique staging.

The director of the Festival, David Martínez announced the upcoming incorporation of new street shows as a parade with which it will open the festival. The ticket prices will range between 8 and 20 euros The tickets will go on sale with a price of 130 euros including all shows except the family theater and the show of Sara Baras. As usual, the Festival includes a training course for actors that in this edition will impart the actor and dancer Alberto Velasco on "Interpretation and creation bodily".

The mayor of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo highlighted the efforts of the San Javier City Council for maintain the quality of the Festival of Theater, Music and Dance, as well like Jazz, "turning San Javier into a cultural reference inside and outside the Region. " Luengo thanked the work developed by the Festival team, which is run by the councilor of Culture, David Martínez, as well as the participation of collaborators and sponsors, among which is the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia.

Marta López-Briones, responsible for the Murcian Institute for Arts and Industries Cultural highlights the height of the San Javier Festival "that placed next to the great summer festivals in Spain "and thanked the City Council for its contribution along with the rest of Festivals of the Region to "place the Region of Murcia in a place where Culture prevails ".

cultural activity inside and outside the Region. " Luengo thanked the work developed by the Festival team, which is run by the councilor of Culture, David Martínez, as well as the participation of collaborators and sponsors, among which is the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia.

Marta López-Briones, responsible for the Murcian Institute for Arts and Industries Cultural highlights the height of the San Javier Festival "that placed next to the great summer festivals in Spain "and thanked the City Council for its contribution along with the rest of Festivals of the Region to "place the Region of Murcia in a place where Culture prevails ".