The schedule of FIBA, which will be held from Friday 24 February to Sunday 5 March. The International Festival of Buenos Aires (FIBA) will last 10 days, in 50 venues including halls and cultural spaces, unconventional places and open-air venues, in all the municipalities of the Federal Capital. There will be more than 1,500 artists on stage in more than 300 events including functions, activities and work in progress.
Organized by the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires, it has been one of the most important cultural festivals in the region since 1997, bringing together in each edition the best of theatre, music, dance and visual arts, both from the local and foreign scene.
This year, 17 international projects will be presented, 26 transnational projects, mixing local artists with references from other latitudes, and 59 national projects. The programme, ticket booking links and digital catalog are available at buenosaires.gob.ar/fiba. Through the whatsapp BOTI (the virtual assistant of the Municipality, 11 5050-0147) it is possible to check the timetables.
Friday 24 February at 21:00, the festival will open at Cultural Center 25 May. will be presented By heartwork conceived, interpreted and directed by the Portuguese director Tiago Rodrigues, from this year director of the most important festival in the West: the Festival d’Avignon, in France.
A piece of profound sensitivity that is a reflection on literature and memory. It has the support of the Institut français d’Argentine and the French Embassy in Argentina.
In this edition, the festival will explore and promote various axes that it has developed in recent editions such as federal integration, the gender perspective and LGBTIQ+ diversity and inclusion policies, the development of sustainable communication and care for the environment through measures which contribute to the reduction of the CO2 footprint.
The programming will also have proposals resulting from the following calls open to the whole country: already released projects, co-productions between FIBA and the Buenos Aires Contemporary Dance Festival and the 15th Germán Rozenmacher Prize for New Dramaturgy, promoted in collaboration with the Rector Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center of the University of Buenos Aires.
For the first time, a first integral co-production is being presented with a company from Cordoba that will come to the city to specially assemble this piece. Regard the toadby Ignacio Tamagno, who had a work selected for tender in 2021 and a work in progress in the previous edition.
In addition, this edition participates in projects related to artists and companies from different cities and provinces of the country such as Detour West: Paths through time of the artistic collective Bineural Monokultur (Córdoba), Obstacles to action. Atlas Project by Beatriz Catani (La Plata, Province of Buenos Aires), The Big Mountain by Brai Kobla (La Plata, Province of Buenos Aires).
And projects generated by creators from different parts of Argentina, such as network phonethe Canadian project with texts by Nelson Valente (Banfield, Province of Buenos Aires), I sell smoke by Juan Onofri (Río Negro, Cipolletti), I’m not alone Iván Haidar (La Plata, Province of Buenos Aires) e Stubborn by Marcelo Savignone (Santa Fe).
After the enormous international repercussion that its transition to the 2022 edition had, the new creation by Tiziano Cruz (Jujuy) is presented in a work-in-progress format. The festival continues to promote MERCADO/FIBA with the main aim of internationalizing the performing arts sector. Every year a huge number of programmers gather eager to connect with the Argentinian scene to invite, create, develop and co-produce projects in which all parties are involved.
The festival also has exclusive virtual platforms where programmers can get a precise idea of the projects, with rounds of meetings and proximity to the Argentine scene, and with spaces of continuity: the platform is still available and is being updated so that, once the festival is over, visitors can get a taste of what the program they were a part of was like.
In the last 4 editions, more than 30 projects have had the opportunity to present their productions in more than 60 theaters and festivals around the world.
The closing of the festival will take place on March 5 and will have a double function. Director Christophe Frick will present a site-specific version of the work at 6.30pm. Palmasola, city-prison which he created and premiered in Bolivia. Bolivian interpreters, together with a Swiss, will be present at this creation which will be presented in the former prison of Caseros, which closed its doors in 2001 and has since meant a space held in time, full of stories and memories.
And at the Teatro Coliseo, it will be presented at 3.30pm and 8.30pm, carbon, from the emblematic Teatro Piccolo in Milan, written and directed by the young Pier Lorenzo Pisano. The work narrates a hypothetical encounter between humanity and other possible forms of life.
The international programming will have 17 entries whose creators come from the following countries: Germany, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Korea, Spain, United States, France, Greece, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, United Kingdom, Switzerland and Uruguay.
tickets
They are free, upon online booking. Reservations are made on the buenosaires.gob.ar/fiba website, two days before each show, from 2.00 pm. It is possible to book 1 (one) ticket per person per show. Some shows will not allow entry once the show has started, and you will not be allowed to join tours that depart from a departure point once they have started.
The functions of the Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires will be free, without online reservation, by collecting the ticket 2 hours before at the theater box office.
The following invited projects have, exceptionally, ticket sales: the young promises, GRUB extension, The kings, Paquito: Head to the ground, paradise lost trap, Translation, the illuminations, Ben the foal AND work of the devil.
The locals
25 de Mayo San Martín Cultural Center Colón Cultural Theater Colosseum Theater Centennial Park Amphitheater Recoleta Cultural Center Rector Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center – UBA MALBA San Martín Theater Royal Theater Sarmiento Theater Cinema El Plata Theater Cervantes National Theater
Former prison Caseros Teatro Metropolitan Paseo la Plaza Teatro Astros Teatro Picadero Darwin Space Palermo Dumont 4040 El Portón de Sánchez El Guevara Warehouse Callejón Space The Kairós Method Hunters Foundation Cultural Center of Cooperation – Solidarity French Alliance Room AREA 623 HOUSE Theater/Studio Floor inclán
ZELAYA ARTLAB Piazza Clemente Rodney Bar Beckett Theater Station Park Library DGEART Windows DGEART Metropolitan School of Dramatic Art – Jufré Headquarters (EMAD) PROA21 Argentine Building Roseti Real Estate Company El Extranjero Theater Roma Bar.
Source: Clarin
