Festival Complicitats

Complicitats is a new biannual international and intercultural festival focused on contemporary dance and the performing arts, in which we aim to weave complicities between artists, audiences, disciplines and cultures, hoping for a more propitious context in relation to the commitment of artists, cultural agents and audiences with the present time in all senses.

Under the subtitle "Local - global" Festival Complicitats 2007 proposes not only to discover innovative works from local and international artists, but also to favor reflection and debate on intercultural practices in the performing arts.

Artists from Spain, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Croatia, Egypt, France, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Morocco, New Zealand, Portugal, Thailand, Turkey and Tunisia will be our guests on this first edition of Festival Complicitats.

Some of them, are established artists and have an international long-standing career such as Jérôme Bel, Pichet Klunchun, Xavier Le Roy or Thomas Hauert, others are emerging artists such as María Jerez, Sònia Gómez, Sergi Fäustino, Abraham Hurtado, Anna MacRae o Cláudia Dias that will show at our festival their recent projects, first works or first collaborative projects with artists from other countries.Some of them create performances that are more based in movement, others freely use formats from other artistic disciplines or inclusevily from “non artistic” ones.

However, there are other projects that will turn the first edition of Festival Complicitats into a more intense international meeting and cultural exchange event. On the first three days of the festival, we welcome our partners of the European network APAP (Advacing Performing Arts Projects) for a meeting in Barcelona, and on the last week we organize the 1st international meeting of emerging contemporary dance makers of the arab and european mediterranean countries, in which around 20 young artists, Arab and European, will meet in Barcelona to get to know each other, exchange experiences and work together.