Until next October 14, the International Festival of Living Arts (Fiav) will be held in Bogotá, with nearly 100 shows from all corners of the world that can be enjoyed in streets, halls, squares and parks.
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It is an event that has the participation of artists from five continents, 14 guest countries, 28 international companies, 43 district groups, 18 companies from the Colombian Pacific, three large-format shows in open spaces, 35 stages, 50 academic events, five days of professional market, more than 400 artists on stage.
Bogotá Living Arts Festival.
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Brazil stands out as the guest country, a nation that is a protagonist in the world’s performing arts thanks to its combination of ancestral traditions, contemporary innovations and popular expressions.
From Brazilian popular music to contemporary theater, The works that Brazil brings to Fiav 2024 promise a unique cultural experience, with shows ranging from indigenous narratives to adaptations of Shakespeare classics, through street theater and multimedia monologue.
The first edition of the International Living Arts Festival began with the large-format work ‘Pedaling towards the sky’, by the Belgian company Theater Tol, when a crowd saw, in amazement, bicycles that rose into the air and angels with balloons tied to the waist. A spotlight was pointed at the angel with the violin and his shadow, perfectly calculated, was reflected on the Palace of Justice.
The square was full of children, adults, teenagers, families, all kinds of couples. The angels pedaled, held by a structure similar to a carousel, and threw feathers, amidst fireworks.
A spectator recorded the spectacle with his cell phone. He was away from the crowd, with his wife and 8-month-old daughter. “I set up the stage where she is singing,” he said proudly. Her baby, wearing a jacket and wool hat, saw the angels without blinking. “I know she is very young, but I want my daughter to experience the beauty of art from now on,” they explained.
“To go to the theater people have to buy very expensive tickets. The beauty of what we do is that our works are up in the air for everyone to see. This show is made to illuminate, to bring light and joy to people,” explained Talitha De Decker, artistic director of the company.
Among the notable productions that viewers will be able to see tomorrow, Sunday, within the framework of the festival are Neoartic, a Danish music and multimedia production in which “a wake-up call is made against climate change, erosion, ferocious urbanization , invasive digitalization in all areas of life and the disappearance of so many biological species that characterize this era”, and which will be presented at the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Theater.
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Among the national proposals, Derrum-bà will be presented at the Teatro Libre Centro, a work that brings together multimedia and Escenafro elements (a fusion of contemporary Afro dance, urban afrorrumba, biomechanics and dramatic body mime) to reclaim the territory as a space that resists oblivion.
With free entry, a good Fiav option for tomorrow is the play Dream Garden, by the New Zealand company Colossal Circuss, which will be presented at 7 pm in the Portal Suba square, a family show in which the performers will move and swing between white silks and aerial ropes to explore the world of dreams.
Another free work is Fire Stilts, by the Afro-Colombian Cultural Corporation Calipso, with 20 young people from Tumaco who climb on their stilts to display all their acrobatic skills in manipulating fire. They will appear in the Obelisk square at 6 pm
Remember that you can consult the complete program on the festival website: www.fiavbogota.com.
