TALK ‘FOLLOW YOUR BLISS: CREATING A SHOW THROUGH PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTATION’, led by André-Anne LeBlanc, from SNAFU.
Talk held as part of the 50th anniversary of Visual Theatre at the Institut del Teatre. This talk explores the process of creating a performance through a series of decisions about what to stop doing: suspending judgement on ideas, allowing time for experimentation, and making room for play and… Continua llegint
EL GEST COMPARTIT (MEDIATION PROJECT OPENING), by CAP Les Hortes / Poble-Sec and Font de la Guatlla Social Services / La Comunitària / IF Barcelona
As part of the community celebration marking the International Day of Caregivers, El gest compartit is presented: a co-creation project that aims to create spaces for leisure, creativity and social interaction for people caring for dependent family members, while highlighting the value of care work and its essential role… Continua llegint
DIRTY, by Juan Domínguez
Starting from the concrete experience of touching clay with the hands, Juan Domínguez proposes, in this performative and participatory installation, paying attention to senses beyond sight, such as touch and hearing. The work explores a form of listening through contact, and contact as a form of knowledge. Two questions… Continua llegint
I WANT TO LOOK INTO THE CRATER OF A VOLCANO WHEN IT IS ABOUT TO ERUPT, by Javiera Gazitua
* Premiere I Want to Look into the Crater of a Volcano When It Is About to Erupt explores volcanic and human processes. This visual and narrative work delves into the latency of events, desire and tension. The volcano becomes the guiding thread for a broad, subjective reflection. In… Continua llegint
EL TEMPS A TRAVÉS D’UN FORAT, by Aina Roca Mora
El temps a través d’un forat (Time Through a Hole) is a visual theatre piece, winner of the IF Barcelona – Fira Mediterrània de Manresa 2025 open call. Through the use of scale models, it explores the reconstruction of three spaces through memory. In this stage-based exploration, the model… Continua llegint
OPENING OF THE DENTAL POEMS LABORATORY, by Javier Mansilla
Sculptures, drawings and poems explore the mouth, teeth and the act of chewing as a way of sculpting matter and intervening in the world. Javier Mansilla investigates the oral impulse as an expression of personal concerns and of the relationship between the intimate and the collective, as in Poemas… Continua llegint
ANTIPODI, by Compagnia Dromosofista
Foto: Julia Upali Three actors invite the audience on a dreamlike journey aboard a miniature horse, among ambiguous apparitions and shadow men running towards their antipodes, a place that exists yet moves further away with every step. Through puppet manipulation and live music, movement guides us to the edges… Continua llegint
UN DÍA DE VEINTICINCO HORAS, by AzkonaToloza & amigues
Durational performance / press conference / opening One performance and two press conferences. Three hours of slowed-down cumbia And four double Americanos. Five yellow pills And six meals. Seven guided tours, one of them in English. Eight hours’ time difference with Luisa. And a few less with Luis. Nine… Continua llegint
APPEAR-DISAPPEAR, by Mila Ercoli
Graner’s Estudi obert programme, a centre for dance and live arts creation, is collaborating with IF Barcelona to present a work-in-progress by Mila Ercoli, a Graner 2026 resident artist in the research category with her project Appear-Disappear, supported by the centre. (Estudi obert is Graner’s annual programme, which offers… Continua llegint
UNA IDEA INACABADA, by Taller Placer
13, 14, 15 nov | 19:30 h (Sunday at 12:00) |
Centre de les Arts Lliures - Fundació Joan Brossa (BCN) |
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Una idea inacabada (An Unfinished Idea) is an object theatre piece conceived for a small audience of around forty people. The action takes place inside a model of Valencia’s Rialto Theatre, a space that was once a cinema many years ago. This cinematic memory runs through the work, reminding… Continua llegint
TEIXIDORES 2026. INTERNACIONAL PRO GATHERING. Otherness as a Form of Complicity
12 to 15 nov |
Fundació SGAE (BCN)Centre de les Arts Lliures - Fundació Joan Brossa (BCN)Institut Ramón LlullTeatre L'Artesà (El Prat de Llobregat)Antic Teatre (Barcelona) |
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Foto de Laura Van Severen Teixidores 2026 is structured around the professional sessions, taking place from 13 to 15 November, and a programme of parallel activities that includes visits to creative and performance venues and attendance at shows in the IF Barcelona Festival. This complementary itinerary is aimed… Continua llegint
ALUSINASONS, by Jaume Clotet
ALUSINASONS is a concert performance that disruptively honours the world of partying and alcohol consumption. The show is a performative presentation of a music album, a work by the artist’s alter ego, jaujee: a ‘holyinnocent’ clown who invents/sings his daily delirium and laughs at the drift of the world in… Continua llegint
MAPA CANÍBAL, de Maria Camila Sanjinés
Mapa Caníbal is a site-specific piece that combines performance, territorial research and relational art through a participatory lecture. The project transforms cartography into an edible map, inviting the audience to literally consume the territory while reflecting on food and cultural identity. The work uses gastronomy as a symbolic tool… Continua llegint
WORKSHOP THE OBJECT IN ACTION, by Timoteo, Tommaso and Rugiada Grignani (Cia. Dromosofista)
16, 17 | From 16 h to 20 h |
MIT Museu Internacional del Titella a Catalunya - Teia Moner (Palau-solità i Plegamans) |
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Foto: Lucia Herrero A workshop led by Compagnia Dromosofista exploring the expressive freedom that emerges from the encounter between the puppet and the actor’s living body. An invitation to discover the remarkable effort of stepping back on stage to bring life to something that remains silent: the puppet. For… Continua llegint
RECREATIVOS FEDERICO, by Alex Peña
17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 nov | During the centre’s opening hours |
Centre de les Arts Lliures - Fundació Joan Brossa (BCN) |
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A space of play, humour, irony and poetry inhabited by the figure of the Granada-born poet and playwright Federico García Lorca. Starting from the premise that when artistic heritage becomes a souvenir, dramatic literature turns into a game, Recreativos Federico (Federico’s Arcade) presents a composition of seven arcade and… Continua llegint
JRAP À POIL (adaptation), de Xavier Michel
Dancing a slow dance with an absent body, installing miniature grand pianos that dispense peanuts, trying to disappear behind and in front of a transparent folding screen, and installing flexible, soft neon lights. Melancholy and absurdity are closely intertwined through awkward gestures and sound compositions, leading up to those… Continua llegint
IL TERZO REICH (EL TERCER REICH), by Romeo Castellucci
19, 20, 21 nov | 17 h, 19 h, 21 h |
Centre de les Arts Lliures - Fundació Joan Brossa (BCN) |
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A video installation about the spectral representation of all the nouns found in the Italian dictionary, subsequently translated into other languages. Projected one after another in sequence onto a giant screen, the words cause our gaze to lose control, making it impossible, in the blink of an eye, to… Continua llegint
GHOST IN THE MACHINE, by Karla Kracht
How would a future AI reinterpret human traditions and myths in a world where humans no longer exist? Ghost in the Machine is a ritualistic future space of boundless imagination. The piece speculates on humanity’s spiritual heritage through the lens of post-sapiens intelligence, weaving a narrative that uses puppetry, illustration, video… Continua llegint
CATERINA, by La Dona Calba
Foto: Marta Vilardell CATERINA is a puppet theatre performance featuring objects and live music that invites us into the emotional world of an older woman. The piece tells the story of a grandmother who, as she lets go of the objects that have accompanied her throughout her life,… Continua llegint
INTERNATIONAL GLOVE PUPPET DAY: FROM TRADITION TO CONTEMPORANEITY. Mediation and curation by Toni Rumbau
Led by writer and puppeteer Toni Rumbau, this international event explores different ways of understanding and experimenting with glove-puppet theatre. From the popular tradition of the Italian company I Burattini di Mattia to the contemporary approach of the French Cia. L’Alinéa, the event invites audiences to discover the richness… Continua llegint
EMERGING STILL, by Francisco Camacho and Kotomi Nishiwaki
Foto: EIRA Emerging Still is a contemporary dance piece that explores the relationship between the body, space and matter. Through movement, the two performers constantly transform the space they share: one gesture prompts another, one movement alters the surroundings, and each body affects how the other moves and is… Continua llegint
SE NECESITA UN PANTALÓN, de Víctor Colmenero
26, 27, 28, 29 nov | 19:30 h (12 h Sunday) |
Centre de les Arts Lliures - Fundació Joan Brossa (BCN) |
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LIFE AND DEATH OF DR. FAUSTUS, by Colectivo Patillas Black
Doctor Faustus, shut away among potions and manuscripts, summons Mephistopheles during a sleepless night: a wicked, gallant little devil. A game of strategy begins between them, culminating in the famous pact with the devil: an existential deal of life or death that drives Doctor Faustus to embark on the… Continua llegint
SI FUERA UNA PELÍCULA, de Macarena Recuerda Shepherd
Mila Ercoli Si fos una pel·lícula (If It Were a Film; winner of the «Most Innovative Show» award at Fira de Titelles de Lleida 2026) explores the possibilities of sound in cinema as a way of rethinking theatrical performance. Sound can dramatise, fictionalise or give new meaning to the… Continua llegint
CREATIVE WORKSHOP: FOLEY AND SOUNDSCAPE, by Macarena Recuerda Shepherd
Inspired by the piece Si fos una pel·lícula (If It Were a Film), Macarena Recuerda Shepherd proposes a two-hour participatory workshop exploring how sounds are created for cinema. Through play and experimentation with everyday objects, participants will become a Foley team, creating sound effects live for stories and film… Continua llegint
ELK, by Sònia Gómez
ELK is the second piece about stage practice after the age of forty and the fascination of being on stage for 25 years. It is part of a journey that began with the performance ‘Bailarina’, an unapologetic work about the profession and the passage of time. ELK is a… Continua llegint
POESIA VISUAL CULINÀRIA, by David Ymbernon
Poesia Visual Culinària (Culinary Visual Poetry) is an artistic action by David Ymbernon that combines cooking, magic, object theatre and visual poetry to play with appearances and question the relationship between them and reality. Dressed as a chef, Ymbernon prepares an apparently conventional meal, but nothing is what it… Continua llegint