Remember, these are just a few of the shows on the programme at the Grec 2013 Festival of Barcelona. The full 2013 programme, featuring many more shows, will be made public in late-May.
What can go beyond the circus? A truly different show from Australia and France opens the 2013 Grec Festival to the sound of Shostakovich’s string quartets. A company that has triumphed around the world returns to Barcelona, a city that has taken them to its heart.
This captain is in luck: a mermaid will help him to find his lost treasure. However, he will have to overcome many dangers in an adventure featuring marionettes and glove puppets.
Nine years after announcing their breakup, this Minorcan band return to the stage to give a one-off mini-tour. The Grec Festival hosts a musical journey through the back catalogue of an essential name in the history of Catalan pop-rock.
The moods or emotional states that shape us as people form the thread in a lively, dynamic, eclectic dance show that explores the feelings or, what is the same thing, the “soul genes”, to hip-hop, flamenco and other rhythms.
Family theatre and science make an excellent combination. Come and meet Neutri, a mischievous particle who teaches how to see the world from a scientific point of view.
Emerging artists from Berlin, Montpellier and Barcelona speak to us about the fears and challenges facing a generation of young people thrown into the maelstrom of the crisis and globalisation.
Eòlia, Escola Superior d’Art dramàtic de Barcelona, ETI (Europäisches Theaterinstitut), Berlin, and La Cie. Maritime, Montpellier
Flamenco and South American music go hand-in-hand in the latest album by Diego El Cigala, a flamenco singer with a long history of musical fusions with the Latin world.
Hitting people with sticks gets you nowhere, but in a puppet show, this can be fun. Even more so in the hands of a master of the genre such as the British puppeteer Rod Burnett.
The theatre is a good way of introducing children to the greatest show on Earth. Words, sounds, rhythms and songs in a shadow theatre that is, at the same time… a circus!
Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Bizet... A repertoire of dances by these and other great composers will resound in a truly disconcerting concert. There will be good music, but there will also be plenty of humour and tender feeling.
Dance is the starting point for this tribute to the cabaret shows that, one hundred years ago, lined one of the busiest avenues in Barcelona during those times.
The choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and his company Eastman, formed by artists from a wide range of backgrounds, assemble a choreographic and musical puzzle, a great contemporary dance show that resembles nothing more than a piece of precious metalwork. The results are... beautiful.
There’s no one like a grandparent to tell a good story. And Helena’s granddad, even more so, because he knows such incredible and fascinating tales as this one about a giant horse.
In the jazz world, tradition has a name: Wynton Marsalis and a legendary orchestra that celebrates its 25th anniversary by performing music by the greats.
One hundred Barcelonan women taken part in a unique theatrical experience that gives them the chance to express their opinions about today’s world and to talk about their relations with their city and their times.
What kind of childhood must Dalí, the genius of Figueres, who revolutionised the world of painting, have had? Who knows, but it was probably as full of fantasy as this theatre production.
One of the finest jazz ensembles and best-loved choirs in our country pay tribute to Salvador Espriu on the centenary of his birth. They remember the Catalan poet in a cantata based on a selection of his civic poetry.
Her sensual voice, performing a wide range of rhythms, has been acclaimed on stages the world around. Some say that Concha Buika does not interpret flamenco, jazz, blues or soul, but is a genre in herself.
Two genres, jazz and flamenco, are fused on stage to demonstrate that talent can overcome musical frontiers. A score of musicians join forces for a live performance of an absolute masterpiece.
In Fuegos, Yourcenar lays herself bare and defies the very limits of her writing in order to overcome a great disappointment in love. Carmen Machi performs the poetic prose of an author who, taking inspiration from the voice of classical heroines, brings out all her passion.
If, as they say, there is a whole world in every book, then how many things must there be in an enchanted library? This show tells us, in music and song.
The tango is at the centre of a musical evening featuring the trio led by a master of the bandoneon, one of the world’s most outstanding ensembles in the genre. The trio is accompanied by tango dancers and a special guest, one whose repertoire ranges from copla torch songs to jazz, not forgetting Argentinian music.
The whistling on “Pa amb oli i sal”, which won the Enderrock prize for the best pop/rock song in 2012, is one of this group’s best-known melodies. Blaumut now present their debut album live, showcasing their self-penned blend of pop and folk.
A key name in the fusion music scene returns to inject us once more with the “poison” of pop, flamenco and rock as he revisits his trademark sound in a fresh yet melancholic journey.
