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"Hear me with your eyes"the only solo by María Pagés to premiere in Madrid this June, will be the inaugural show of the upcoming season at the Teatro del Museo, which will begin on September 28. The performing arts program planned for the fall season will offer, in addition to some contemporary dance and musical creation performances, a lot of theater, in all its formats, for an updated reading of the classics of all times.

The flamenco dance show Pagés will offer is a reflection on maturity, where the choreographer reflects and shares her ideal of life, hope and faith through rhythm, song and melody, foot tapping and percussion, vocals and humor. Pagés has proven to be a pioneer in the understanding of flamenco as an evolving, contemporary and living art, using the fundamental codes of the flamenco language and researching inside and outside of it. For this Sevillian artist, an iconoclast by nature, modernity is tradition in movement. Her creative and aesthetic contribution lies in her serenity in speaking without complexes with all languages and making them accept the hospitality of flamenco.

María Pagés began her career at degree program in the company of Antonio Gades, whom she considers her undisputed master. In cinema, her participation in Carmen, El amor brujo and Flamenco, by Carlos Saura, stands out. In 1990 she founded María Pagés Company with which she has created 19 works. The artist and her company have been invited to the most prestigious stages and festivals around the world. María Pagés has collaborated with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Sidi LarbiCherkaoui, Tamara Rojo, Ángel Corella, Plácido Domingo, José Saramago and Oscar Niemeyer, among others. In 2002 he was awarded the award National Dance (Creation) and the award of Choreography ADE in 1996. He was awarded the Léonide Massine 2004 per l'Arte della Danza "Al Valore" and the award Cultura de la Comunidad de Madrid 2007. The eight Giraldillo Awards of the Bienal de Arte Flamenco de Sevilla confirm her as one of the most important flamenco dancers and choreographers. In 2014 she was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts. A year later, Santiago de Chile recognizes one of her shows as the best of International Dance and in 2016 she is awarded the IV award of Culture of the University of Seville. The newspaper La Vanguardia chooses Óyeme con los ojos as the best international dance show of 2016. Through ARTEDEA, association founded by the choreographer, she develops an intense solidarity and training activity.

The choreographer and dancer will share with students and all the interested public the story of her life experience, in a lecture-colloquium, the day before her performance.

Dancing photographs

The Museum Tower, which is the conference room exhibition space that houses "Aurelia Immortal"Aurelia Immortal, a production by Javier Viver, will be the stage for the performance of the dancer Valentina Pedica. The exhibition speaks to us with images (photographs, videos, sculptures, drawings) of the immortality of jellyfish, of future transhuman men and women, and of how art, science and religion are sciences that aspire to infinite life. Valentina Pedica will create a free and moving interpretation of this plastic work . The dancer has already performed at the Museum this season, with the solo "Gravity 0" in the tribute to Teresa Catalán.

Space for digital creation

Then, once again at the Museum Theater, a composer and digital artist, the Japanese Daito Manabe, will be presented. Music composer, performer, designer, DJ, VJ and programmer, is considered the most technological and fashionable artist in the world today. He will travel from Tokyo to Pamplona on October 3 to present to students of technology, engineering, biomedicine or communication and all interested people in the city, what are his production processes and his latest digital artistic creations.

Third edition of "Classics at the Museum".

This year's special autumn theater program at the Museum will take place from October 20 to November 4 and will combine large-format theatrical performances, refined dramatized readings, literary tastings and make-up workshops. For Liuba Cid, the cycle's curator, "the classics always have something new to say, an intrinsic knowledge that transforms us every time we delve into their dramas and comedies. This year's cycle proposes a meeting with the theater and its different ways of reinterpreting the infinite bequest of their works and authors; a reflection on their influence and permanence in the theatrical art of our time".

• Alfredo Sanzol and his tenderness.

Inspired in the universe of Shakespeare's comedies, and in such emblematic works by the English playwright as The Tempest, Twelfth Night, As You Like It or Much Ado About Nothing, "Clásicos en el Museo" presents "Tenderness", a comedy of woodcutters and princesses, by the Pamplona-born Alfredo Sanzol director . Its six characters speak to us of strength and the courage to love. Paco Déniz, Elena González, Natalia Hernández, Javier Lara, Juan Antonio Lumbreras, and Eva Trancón complete the masterful cast of one of the great theatrical premieres of the season. The play is a production of Teatro de la Ciudad and Teatro de La Abadía, and as its author says "Tenderness is the way in which love expresses itself. Without tenderness love is not seen. Tenderness is caresses, listening, small gestures, smiles, kisses, waiting, respect, delicacy. A society without tenderness is a society at war.

 

•  Theater for children.

The company Teloncillo Teatro, award Nacional de Artes Escénicas para la Infancia y La Juventud, presents Claudio Hochman's version of "Caperucita, lo que nunca se contó", based on the work by Charles Perrault, with original music by Suso González, which mixes harmonies and rhythms close to jazz and pop. A tale that passes from generation to generation and that Teloncillo Teatro takes to the stage playing with the characters, transforming the story into a comedy of dislocated entanglements, in a game in which nothing is as it should be.

 

• New dramatized readings.

The peculiar location of this theater, which is inside a museum, provides an ideal framework for dialogue between contemporary visual arts and popular characters from classical theater. This year's dramatized readings focus on Alejandro Casona, a 20th century playwright who draws his inspiration from the works of Cervantes, Boccaccio, Lope de Rueda's Pasos and folk tales of marked oral tradition. In this way, "La Fablilla del secreto bien guardado", a theatrical farce belonging to the Retablo Jovial, will be performed in the exhibition rooms of the museum.

 

• Theater and dance come together.

Actress Beatriz Argüello, under the direction of Hugo Pérez de la Pica, will present "Seasons of Isadora", a theatrical piece that addresses the life of the dancer Isadora Duncan in which word, dance and music merge. A poetic text that delves into the dreamlike space of the actress and the dancer, a song to the feminine that as Argüello would say: "sample beauty through hope, pain, loneliness, will and strength that will take the viewer to a myriad of non-rational states with a great emotional charge".

Other activities planned in "Classics at the museum" are a workshop on Theatrical Makeup with the goal to bring young people to the world of characterization, making a journey through the origin and the development of makeup, from the beginnings of theater, to the great musicals of today. The workshop is taught by Laura García, makeup artist of the musicals Beauty and the Beast, Forever King of Pop and The Lion King.

Another important event will be the literary tastings, this year under the degree scroll "Wine and Comedy", with the partnership of the experts of the GRISO (group of research Siglo de Oro of the University of Navarra), a sensory journey through time, through the uniqueness of wine and the essential characters of the works of Calderón de la Barca, Cervantes, Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina.

El Brujo returns to the Museum

Rafael Álvarez "El Brujo" will present his new show at the Teatro del Museo. Autobiography of a Yogi based on the book of the same name degree scroll, one of the most widely read books in the world and considered among the best spiritual books of the twentieth century, by the great yogi and Hindu guru Paramahansa Yogananda, promoter of Raja Yoga in the West. Rafael Álvarez has worked with the work of Paramahansa Yogananda to introduce us to the Hindu master and his quest.

The play has been made into a movie on several occasions and this is the first time that it comes to the theater in Spain. In this text, Paramahansa Yogananda tells us with ease and a great sense of humor the incredible events that he lived throughout his life.