Today “Sueños encantados filarmónicos” arrives at the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo, as a prelude to the Invasion of Popular Culture International Artistic Festival (Faicp). This work has more than 35 artists on stage that include acrobats, dancers and musicians, a six-meter-tall doll, stilts on skates and special effects, and many more surprises, which will lead the public to experience a unique show dedicated to the ancestral Tchyminigagua, Bachué and Bochica culture of Colombia.
This staging is part of the launch of the XXXV Faicp, a special commemorative edition in which groups from 35 countries will invade the city with joy, celebration, hope, peace, art and popular culture from November 15 to December 19.
“Sueños encantados filarmónicos” celebrates 4,500 performances in 34 years with the special participation of the Women’s Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Paola Ávila.
The show recreates a dream world in which children create various fantastic figures to recreate a fight between dreams and nightmares: a play involving flying acrobats, stilts and all the vitality and message of peace that characterizes Tchyminigagua.
“Sueños encantados” is an emblematic show of Colombian theater with its acrobatic technique and circuses, premiered in 1990 with 3,450 performances in 25 years of repertoire; with surprising full validity in festivals, artistic and cultural events worldwide; with actors, acrobats, musicians and dancers, 60 minutes of performance, circus and acrobatic theatrical magic; energy, color, stilts and stilt skates, music, choreography; dramaturgy and images of parties and carnival, through a girl who makes you dream of fantastic enchantments of joy, peace and life. Enchanted Dreams “Theatrical and Circus Acrobatics” has toured Europe, Africa, America, recognized by spectators and the international press as “The Colombian Flyers”.
Tchyminigagua Foundation
This organization was born in 1985 from a popular and festive theatrical language of joy, rhythm, strength, energy, memory, commitment and politics. Currently the group is internationally recognized for its acrobatic, circus and musical stage techniques, as well as for the stilts on skates, an invention patented worldwide.
Creators of more than 50 plays, theatrical shows and international stage co-productions, they have more than a dozen international tours during which they have participated in festivals, carnivals, fairs, parties and theatrical, artistic and cultural programs in Europe, Africa, Asia and America.
Tchyminigagua has traveled the world with its integral artists UA, UA, UA, a guarantee of quality and Colombian theatrical identity, generating a 37-year history of theater and popular culture of social transformation and peace.
This is how the “Mhuysqua Trilogy: Bachué, Bochica and Tchyminigagua” is part of one of the three shows that the Foundation has been developing in homage to the Muisca culture. This work rescues the myth of these deities, the creation of the universe and the arrival of the conquistadors, crudely and truthfully represents the destruction of a people because of the impossible search for El Dorado and questions what it is to be descendants of the great god of origin and the creation.
The show interweaves the acrobatic and festive popular theater of Tchyminigagua with a wonderful plastic proposal: a six-meter figure, conventional and roller stilts, colorful makeup, live music and twenty actors and actresses who represent this critical, raw and powerful celebration of our ancestral territorial memory.
His achievements include co-directions of around 20 international co-productions with companies such as Xarxa Teatre, Comediants, Generick Vapeur and Cia Carles Castillo. Similarly, the Foundation has a permanent school of theater, poetry, music, dance, acrobatics, plastic arts and stilts; in fact, the skating stilt technique was invented at the Foundation, where more than three thousand people have been trained.
Among their artistic productions, Tchyminigagua has led to the scene “Juglaradas de la muerte”, with which they debuted as a group; “Circus of Melquiades: magical realism”, “Singing and dancing to the river”, “I fight in Glory, Tururu Tutú”, “Macondo. The town’s circus” and “Enchanted Dreams”.
artistic festival
The International Artistic Festival Invasion of Popular Culture “Carnaval de la Alegría” (Faicp), a cultural heritage event of the Nation according to Law 1040 of 2008, has been consolidated as a metropolitan event of culture and art of social transformation in Bogotá. It was declared a living cultural heritage of the nation through Law 1040 of 2006.
This year the Faicp celebrates, from November 18 to December 22, its first 35 years of history. In this special commemorative edition, and already consolidated as a metropolitan cultural event, it will have the participation of 35 countries (Spain, United States, Palestine, France, Holland, Italy, Australia, Turkey, Korea, India, Morocco, Russia, China ,Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Costa Rica, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, Peru, El Salvador, Honduras, Ecuador, Paraguay, Venezuela, Mexico, Bolivia, Panama, Cuba), 1,902 artists and 302 performances (100 international and 200 national), which will be presented in 32 theaters, seven metropolitan parks, 130 community and cultural halls and 32 zonal or neighborhood parks.
There will be 30 days of festival in which it is expected to impact three million direct and indirect viewers, through the performances themselves and live broadcasts on Canal Capital and RCN Radio (the Festival’s official media), coverage on social networks and on digital platforms, mass and alternative media.
“At the Faicp a month of theatre, music, dance, circus, literature and art, where we invade Bogotanos with dreams, hopes and joys; who freely enjoy artistic and cultural programming, full of fun, innovation, professionalism and quality. Being one of the largest festivals of popular culture in Colombia”, said its organizers.
2023-08-27 16:18:03
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