Dance, music, theatre and family share spotlight in L'Illa a Escena this fall

Today the Formentera Office of Culture presented the fall programme of performing arts and music under the banner of L'Illa a Escena. Susana Labrador, councillor of culture and education, explained that the seven-show programme, which runs from 24 September to 11 December, encompasses dance, music, theatre and family-friendly performances for adults, youth and children. Labrador hopes that "islanders enjoy the premier programming that has been prepared to promote culture and offer ideas for leisure activities".

September
On Saturday 24 September, Trio Bórea will present the concert Alte Liebe. The group's first project features a selection a chamber music interweaving a digital and interactive audiovisual piece showcasing the life and work of three great musicians of the nineteenth century: Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms. The pieces are linked through a narrative based on the featured composers' epistolary documents.

The concert starts at 8.00 pm in the Sala de Cultura (Cinema).

October
The second show, a family-friendly production titled Soc una nou, is borne under the hands of Lleida-based company Zum Zum Teatre. Marinetti is a relentless and bitter solicitor who has taken almost the entire neighbourhood to court. Everything changes the day Omar, a young refugee, falls from a branch of Marinetti's walnut tree and transforms her life completely.

Winner of the 2021 Feten Awards for Best Direction and Best Choral Performance, the show starts at 6.00pm, Sunday 2 October, in the Sala de Cultura (Cinema).

With Imaginaris Monstruosos, Lioparda Teatre help Formentera commemorate International Day of Action for Trans Depathologisation.

Imaginaris Monstruosos is visual theatre with puppets and prostheses. Youth and adults alike will enjoy its innovation and transgression, which carve out a place for the marginal smack dab in the centre. Succinct and poetic symbolic language is but one feature of a montage that takes audiences from a monster's uncertain depths to the tenderness that awakens when we acknowledge our own vulnerability.

The show starts at 8.30pm, Saturday 22 October, in Sala de Cultura (Cinema).

November
Olympia Metropolitana and El punt de la i kick off the November programme with El Plan, a black comedy in which the protagonists slowly strip off masks to test the limits of their survival instincts and notions of friendship. Bolstered by shining set design and masterful sound effects, three performers in a state of grace bring to life a brilliant text as they move between hilarity and the very essence of drama.

The show starts at 8.30pm, Saturday 12 November, in Sala de Cultura (Cinema).

The next spot on the November calendar is occupied by DA.TE Danza troupe's family-friendly Natanam, a contemporary dance show in which two performers, or two friends, or two accomplices, meet in a playroom. They discover that water, fire, wind and earth are ordered and at their fingertips. A playroom can be a beach, it can be a desert, it can be the sea. And, when you are alone, it can be many worlds.

Natanam is an exploration of the path to joy. It is a multilevel production whose varying degrees of symbolism reveal themselves based on viewers' age and maturity.

Winner of the 2021 Feten Award for Bringing Dance to Early Childhood, the production starts at 6.00pm, Saturday 26 November, in Sala de Cultura (Cinema).

December
December begins with Matrimoni per medicina, the new theatrical comedy from Grup de Teatre des Cubells. A wealthy father intends to marry his daughter to the man who most suits his needs. As time goes by, things grow complicated and the father ends up with a taste of his own medicine.

The play starts at 8.30pm, Saturday 10 December, in Sala de Cultura (Cinema).

Tying the bow on L'Illa a Escena, Sunday 11 December, Formentera's youngest will enjoy Shows Ibiza's La màgia dels colors, a magical, lighthearted and educational show where children will learn to name their emotions with colours.

The play starts at 6.00pm, Sunday 11 December, in Sala de Cultura (Cinema).

Admission
Children's shows are priced at €4 and shows for adults at €7. Unemployed individuals, underemployed freelancers, retirees, under-25s, single-parent families, large families and people with functional diversity pay half price. In the words of Susana Labrador, the discounts are about ensuring culture reaches everyone.

With the exception of Alte Liebe (Saturday 24 September), which goes on sale Monday 19 September, tickets can be purchased at www.entradesformentera.cat starting Friday the week before each show.

Cultural support
L'Illa a Escena is supported by the Spanish Ministry of Culture's National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (Instituto Nacional de Artes Escénicas y de la Música, INAEM).

16 September 2022
Communications Office
Consell de Formentera