The Crepuscle Festival returns with its fourth edition to invite the public to live the magic of sunset from the emblematic gardens of the Port de Sagunt. Between 19 and the 22 of June, Right in the days before the summer solstice, This unique appointment with music and performing arts is celebrated without artificial lighting, Taking advantage of the natural beauty of sunset. Conceived as a unique cultural experience, The Festival proposes theater and music shows that happen in what photography directors call "the magical hour", That fleeting moment between the day and night in which natural light transforms the environment. The idea, edition after edition, is to organize a cultural encounter around the night of San Juan, where all the arts live together and in which the shows use natural light.
The festival will start next Thursday, 19 of June, With the reading of a manifesto, where, Zarzoso advances, “The need for a meeting space will be discussed, of a place for joint, of a festival that celebrates life in the beautiful weather of the summer solstice ”. In the words of its responsible, In the twilight claims the essential, It does not allow artificial light, Great scenographies, technological elements or screens. “Everything is genuine. Actresses and actors say, musicians play and someone listens to them and looks ". The night will be completed with the debut as a playwright and theater director of Lara Salvador, What no one knows or Penelope's letters, converted into a long piece after winning the Russafa scenic award 2020. The proposal evokes a cabaret in its structure, because it consists of a succession of small scenes of tones, different styles and disciplines. As for the subversion of the genre, it has been replaced by emotional nude: In this self -fiction, Its author reveals a family wound. On stage will be accompanied by her father, The renowned percussionist and composer Jesús Salvador ‘Chapi’, that he has been in charge of composing songs and fixing the successes of popular folklore that make up the soundtrack of the work to be interpreted with vibraphone and voice.
The Festival will continue the following day, 20 of June, con The butler, The second text of the triptych of the epiphany of Josep Maria Miró. The three texts deal with the destruction of beauty and bet on an essential theater where all their strength lies in the word and the interpreter. The first of these three works for a single interpreter was the most beautiful body that will have ever found in this place, Awarded with the XLV Born Award 2020, The National Dramatic Literature Award 2022 And the criticism award 2023. This second installment is starring Rosa Renom in the skin of a woman who appears on the floor she fled almost three decades ago. There she will meet her husband, to which he abandoned, as well as your child, the day before he turned four years. Now call "the butler". He has known the power and the men who ambition to conquer it, being able to ruthlessly end beauty, The landscape and other people. Once entering the night, at 23 h, Argentine musician Marcelo Márquez will present a brief sample of his artistic path, With folklore songs, Julio Cortázar poetry that his brother Ramiro Márquez and poetry of his father musicalized his brother, Raúl Márquez Alonso, musicalized by himself, who have accompanied him throughout his life.
The next day, 21 of June, It will be the turn of the Valencia rope quartet, Born 15 years at the Superior Conservatory of Valencia. Formation is composed of Valencian music Paloma Castellar, Lola bless, Oreto Vayá and Teresa Alamá, that combine their teaching work with the interpretation of camera music and will interpret a repertoire of ropes in the twilight. They have collaborated with prestigious orchestras and perform actions in emblematic rooms of the Valencian Community, like the Palau de la Música and the Bancaixa Foundation. They stand out for their premieres of local composers and their participation in initiatives such as the I Day of Music in Women at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. In addition to its classic facet, from 2017 The quartet has worked with pop and rock artists like Víctor Manuel and Dani Martín, And participated in the recording of records and projects such as the Musical Short Film European Acoustic History. Their versatility has led them to present themselves in the media and participate in the CandleLight cycle of Fever, With concerts in cities like Madrid and Paris. That same afternoon will be represented Stone and crossroads, A metateatral proposal of Hortesa Teatre that plays with the boundaries between reality and fiction. The work is written and starring Paco Zarzoso in a version of itself where such universal issues are explored as generational conflicts, relationships with our parents and our children and even more important: Life decisions, What a way to take before our own vital intersections.
Finally, as a festival culmination, he 22 of June, the assembly To the fresh, of Pablo Rosal, It is proposed to exalt the stops along the way, the suspensions of any purpose and the amplitude of the error. In an idyllic country house, Three characters know thanks to the virtues to go to the fresco. Eusebio, A writer looking for refuge, Return after 20 years who was the villa of his grandparents. There he meets a cook and a mason in the region. This effervescent work is held in the smallness of the talk and words. This is a tender story where we still talk to the neighbor. Where is that current to sit in the fresco so that. Fresca is a space where to dignify rest.
