A total of 17 international and 26 transnational projects, which cross local artists with references from other latitudes, and 59 national ones will star in the new edition of the Buenos Aires International Festival (FIBA) which will take place from Friday, February 24 to Sunday, March 5 in rooms, cultural spaces, and unconventional places and outdoors.
Theatre, dance, music and visual arts will be at FIBA, created in 1997 and transformed into one of the great scenic festivals of the country.
The schedule, ticket reservation links and the digital catalog can be found on the website buenosaires.gob.ar/fiba.
On Friday, February 24, at 9:00 p.m., the festival will open at the 25 de Mayo Cultural Center with the presentation of By Heartthe play created, performed and directed by the Portuguese director, Tiago Rodriguesdirector of the Festival d’Avignon, in France.
In addition to presenting performing arts in theaters and cultural spaces, FIBA offers a wide range of proposals that invite you to go through participatory, immersive and interactive experiences, where the city appears on the scene, sometimes through interventions or unexpected performances in the middle of the street during its development.
“With this new edition of FIBA, a hundred artists from different parts of the world will show their productions in the most diverse formats imaginable, and in very different types of spaces, theaters, and modes of presentation and circulation”stressed Federico Irazabalartistic director of the festival when announcing the new programming.
“Also -added- It is time for Argentine stage artists to offer their talent, not only, but also, to the public that usually fills our halls, but to the world that visits us to see what we know how to do so well in our country and that is a fundamental brand. of our culture”.
Part of the programming arises from open calls such as “projects already released”, “co-productions between FIBA and the Buenos Aires Contemporary Dance Festival” and the “15th Germán Rozenmacher Award for New Dramaturgy”.
This edition presents “The toad”, of Ignacio Tamagno, premiere fully co-produced with a Cordovan company; In addition to the participation of projects linked to artists and companies from different cities and provinces of the country such as “West Detour: Trails in Time”of the artistic collective Bineural Monokultur (Cordova), “Obstructions to Act. Project Atlas”of Beatriz Catani (La Plata, Province of Buenos Aires), “The Big Mountain” of Brai Kobla (La Plata, Province of Buenos Aires).
The closing of the festival will take place on March 5 and will have a double function. Director Christopher Frick will present a site-specific version of the piece at 6:30 p.m. “Palmasola”, a prison town that he created and premiered in Bolivia, which will be presented in the Ex-Cárcel de Caseros; and at Teatro Coliseo, it will be presented at 3:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., “Carbonium”of the emblematic Piccolo Theater in Milanwritten and directed by the young Pier Lorenzo Pisanowhich narrates a hypothetical encounter between humanity and other possible forms of life.
The international programming will have 17 proposals whose creators come from Germany, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Korea, Spain, the United States, France, Greece, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Uruguay.
The transnational programming will have 26 projects that establish crossovers between artists from Argentina, Germany, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Spain, New Zealand, Switzerland and Uruguay.
The national programming will have 59 projects selected by call, co-productions and Guests from different provinces.
The festival also continues to promote the Market/Fiba with the main objective of internationalizing the performing arts sector and where a huge number of programmers come together willing to come into contact with the Argentine scene to invite, create, develop and co-produce projects.
Tickets are free, with prior reservation online. The reservation is made on the website buenosaires.gob.ar/fiba, two days before each show, from 2:00 p.m.
Some of the FIBA venues will be the 25 de Mayo Cultural Center, the San Martín Cultural Center, the Colón Theater, the Coliseo Theater, the Eva Perón Amphitheater at Parque Centenario, the Cervantes National Theater and the Rector Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center.
