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The curatorial standard used in the selection of the international shows was the esthetic diversity in order to offer a broad panorama of what is happening in the theater world as wide as possible. Most of the shows involve different area-crossing: theater with music, dance, audiovisual resources , and essentially, the theater as a tool for reflection on social problems. We believe that one way or other, these characteristics that we have set as a trigger, are present in this selection. Diversity of esthetics, and also ideological diversity in sophisticated creations of high artistic level, disembark in Buenos Aires after a strong worldwide recognition from the theatre field.
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The Festival includes in its special activities two different proposals closely related to the stage activity: the graphic exhibition that the Spanish artist Isidro Ferrer will be showing at Centro Dramático Nacional (National Dramatic Center) of that country and that will be exhitibed in the Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires (sede Paraná), (Spanish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires), and the film Pina from the German filmmaker Win Wenders, a tribute to the remarkable choreographer Pina Baush, which will be on during the Festival de Cine Alemán (German Cinema Festival). FIBA strongly recommends these two events that enlighten different aspects of the contemporary creation.
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National Showsup
The national programming consists of five sections: Theatre Projects Contest, organized together with the Instituto Nacional del Teatro (INT), which will allow six local shows to go on stage for the first time; Already On-Stage Works, a selection of sixteen works already on stage which gathers the best of the city of Buenos Aires theatre and dance scene; Provinces Productions, six proposals from different provinces of Argentina; The ClassicProject, a special project from the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas which aims at rereading classic texts; and Claudio Tolcachir Retrospective, that includes most of Timbre 4 productions, directed by the well-known Argentine artist.
For two weeks, spectators wil have the opportunity to peer at such a rich variety of national productions in all its forms, from the acclaimed ones to the new and promising ones; from the text-based theatre, dance and movement to the most unexpected language expressions on stage.
Claudio Tolcachir Retrospective up
In this opportunity, FIBA has decided to honor the actor, director and playwright Claudio Tolcachir and his work by means of a retrospective comprising three of his paradigmatic creations: The Colemans’ Omission (La omisión de la familia Coleman), Third Wing (Tercer cuerpo) and The Wind into a Violin (El viento en un violín). Born in Buenos Aires in 1975, Tolcachir participated in over thirty plays in which he was directed by local theater scene leading figures such as Daniel Veronese, Norma Aleandro, Carlos Gandolfo and Roberto Villanueva, among others. As a director, he set up a company called Timbre 4 in 1998 and staged not only well known classic and contemporary playwrights pieces but also others he wrote himself. In 2001, he restructured his own home –a large old “sausage”-shaped house in Boedo, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires– into Timbre 4, a cultural space where he first presented The Colemans’Omission; this play portrayed him as a playwright and toured foreign stages. From then on, his works have been acclaimed and awarded prizes: he got the ACE, Clarín, Maria Guerrero, Teatros del Mundo, Premio Ercilla and Teatro XXI prizes and has recently been nominated to the Konex Award as one of the best directors of the decade. His plays have been staged in over twenty countries and have been translated into six languages.
Concurso de Proyectos Teatralesup
The Theatre Projects Contest organized by FIBA and the INT aims at stimulating the creation of theatre pieces within the framework of the Buenos Aires Internacional Festival. With this purpose, an announcement for the presentation of unplublished free-subject-matter projects was made, and 156 proposals were presented, all of them from groups, authors or directors who live in the city of Buenos Aires. A jury of well-known characters within the theatre field such as the critic Carlos Pachecho, the director and actor Jorge Graciosi and the artistic director of the Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires Alberto Ligaluppi chose six winners, each of which received a 30.000 pesos prize to carry their project through and make their opening at FIBA 2011.
Obras del interiorup
FIBA receives six companies from different provinces offering an overview of the theater activity that takes place in other parts of the country. From a puppet theater show portraying the Argentine idiosyncrasy (Kruvikas, from Misiones), another one that brings the story of Martin Fierro back (De Fierro, from Salta), to a powerful sole-performance based on Lorca (Carnes tolendas, from Córdoba). There will also be a story in which everything is achieved without uttering any words: only their fully expressive bodies and music (Pan de cada día, Buenos Aires Province), a free version of a text from an author from Buenos Aires (La funeraria, from Chubut), and an intimate account of strong emotional load (Javiera, historias que se despliegan, from Mendoza). An interesting opportunity to get an insight of the kitchen theater that develops in other cities of the country.
The Instituto Nacional del Teatro and FIBA were in charge of curating the selection of performances.
Obras porteñas ya estrenadasup
Serving as FIBA 2011 Buenos Aires Programming Curators we have undertaken the responsibility of evaluating a total of 150 proposals, most of them theatrical and a smaller percentage from the contemporary dancing field. This data eloquently reflects an annual decrease in our city numerous and varied stage activity since the selection process is based on plays self application instead of those currently or ever-present on Buenos Aires plentiful boards.
Based upon this outlook, we set a prioritizing criterion to perform our curatorial work: each of us watched all the presented works and produced a brief opinion report; this task demanded close to a month. We had also previously agreed to allot as much space to dancing as possible to enable the depletion of several local expressive lines portraying their languages and searches heterogeneity though, above all, we focused on privileging the selected plays quality, rigor and solidness.
This section content is therefore the result of a hard debate and consideration process undertaken by the three judges and we are of a one mind to offer a balanced and coherent programming made up by solid proposals in all the artistic fields stemming from common self-management origins. Not only are well-known and praised authors, directors and choreographers present but also others whose backgrounds might be less wide but whose views are new and promissory.
Gustavo Lesgart, Alejandro Ullúa and Alina Mazaferro
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ProyectoClásicoup
The Theatrical Department of the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, dependent on the UBA (Universidad de Buenos Aires), and directed by Lic. Cecilia Vázquez, presented this project created by Matías Umpierrez in which three important directors have been summoned under a premise: to adapt a universal theatre classic text. The “classics” comprise those works by great authors which have gone beyond the times and continue exciting contemporary audiences. Costly production budgets are generally necessary to take them to stage thus demoralizing their presentation in smaller formats. The ClassicProject (ProyectoClasico) aims at defying these great works by proposing a personal view starting from the drama text adaptation and its conversion into a spectacular text fenced into its space and time dimensions. The project entails three plays which share a tragic character structure and a common linkage from a theme standpoint: a protagonist who as life goes by will face the dilemma of political power usage and abuse.
Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires in Chileup
For the first time, the Festival International de Buenos Aires is presenting a selection of plays in Santiago, Chile, through an agreement signed between the FIBA and FITAM, Fundación Internacional Teatro a Mil, responsible of the organization of Festival Santiago a Mil.
The productions that will be on stage are Hamlet directed by Thomas Ostermeier (October 1st. and 2nd); A Magic Flute, Peter Brook’s version of Mozart‘s opera (October 6th. And 7th.); the Spanish singer Estrella Morente (September 27th); and the Argentinian play La familia argentina (The Argentine Family, October 8th and 9th., directed by Cristina Banegas. The four shows choosen by FITAM will be performed at the Teatro Municipal de Las Condes.
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Since a festival is not limited to be a series of shows, FIBA offers special activities
such us open talks with artists, workshops and masterclasses, books presentations,
the second Laboratory Workshop for young students, and the Graphic Exhibition for
Theater Productions by Gonzalo Martínez. The Festival also suggests two important
options: Pina, Win Wender’s film about German choreographer Pina Bausch, and the
exhibition of billposters that the Spanish graphic designer and illustrator Isidro Ferrer
has been producing for the Centro Dramático Nacional.
Once more the Festival will be offering to local artists and general public different
workshops, master classes and talks with foreign creators, ensuring a space to deepen
the scenic creation, discover new searches and techniques, get into the creative kitchen
and discuss with the creator. It is an opportunity to get closer to the great figures of
this edition in a more personal and direct way. There are three modalities: workshops
where artists work specific themes and techniques with the participation of the
assistants; master classes in which the creator analyzes a main problem of his play; and
there will be also informal talks once the function is over, which will take place in the
same room where the play has just ended. These are different instances so that those
who are interested can enjoy the other theatre, dance and music dimensions, and also
be in contact with the inquiries, challenges and the aesthetic of foreign artists.
Admission to OTHER ACTIVITIES is free but limited to room capacity.
Except for the activity FIBA Recommends at Village Recoleta, where admission tickets are required, just like for any screening at the movie theater complex.
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The Festival includes in its special activities two different proposals closely related to the stage activity: the graphic exhibition that the Spanish artist Isidro Ferrer will be showing at Centro Dramático Nacional (National Dramatic Center) of that country and that will be exhitibed in the Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires (sede Paraná), (Spanish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires), and the film Pina from the German filmmaker Win Wenders, a tribute to the remarkable choreographer Pina Baush, which will be on during the Festival de Cine Alemán (German Cinema Festival). FIBA strongly recommends these two events that enlighten different aspects of the contemporary creation.
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