FROM WEDNESDAY 14 ON SUNDAY 18/9
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In September it is mandatory to go to the Ribera Baixa to enjoy one of the most powerful performing arts festivals in the Valencian Community. Sueca hosts this year the 32 edition of the International MIM Festival with new artistic direction by Ángeles González (Joan Santacreu took a step aside at the end of 2021 after seven years at the helm of the ship) responsible for the selection of ten national companies from seven different communities (Aragon, Castile and León, Catalonia, Whaarse, Galicia, Madrid, the Basque Country) and the six foreigners from Belgium, Germany-Israel and France have opted in many cases for social content that connects us with reality and the current world such as war., the search for a home or the relationship with our elders. The Israeli-German artist Ariel Doron, For example, present your work Plastic heroes, a masterpiece of wild and refreshing black humor cooked with puppets that makes us reflect on war. For your part, the Belgian company Pikzpalace sets the black humor machinery in motion in its surprising street show Bacul Butchery.
Then this Or the Marie de Jong (a festival veteran), that proposes a meticulous work of gesture and masks, a poem in motion in which the acting and directing work are of a stratospheric sensitivity. In this sense he walks MDR-Death of laughter of The Galindos, a surprising staging, critical and acidic that is based on physical work and a frenetic pace that will keep the viewer in suspense at all times. Y Then of the Cia. D'es tro It is a highly awarded poetic piece that connects with the roots, tradition and the Mediterranean to engage the public from the beginning. This year synergies have been created with other festivals such as the Panorama Circada of Seville, in which the MIM has participated as a jury awarding the show Cans from the Zaragoza company D’Click. It will be one of the proposals of the festival this year, a piece that mixes circus languages such as acrobatics and the Chinese mast, with a theatrical dramaturgy full of imagination, poetic, gestures and a great sense of humor.
Four Valencian companies are part of this 32 edition and two of them come with absolute premieres such as Aforismats of the Valencian Institute of Culture, a hybrid proposal that brings us closer to the most ironic and irreverent spirit of Joan Fuster coinciding with the centenary of his birth. Another of the Valencian works that we can see is Zoociety of the left paw, with a staging full of gestural humor that shows us small fragments of the lives of hotel guests and, by extension, the fears that inhabit this increasingly dehumanized society. S.M.
