Sinopsis: 

De Farra is a feast with seven performers and an orchestra that comes in a surprising shape. It is a performance about pleasure and joy, a performance that smiles, a performance that embraces you.

Credits:

  • Artistic Direction and choreography: Roberto Olivan
  • Creation and performers: Valeria Garré, Ben ‘Fury’/Mambo, Cruz Mata/Tati, Martin Kilvady/Claudio Stellato, Laida Aldaz/Florencia Demestri, Peter Jasko/Erick Jiménez/Benjamin Boa and Roberto Olivan
  • Music composition and live performance: Pierre Bastien
  • Dramaturgy advisor: Marianne Van Kerkhoven
  • Lighting design: Thomas Walgrave
  • Costume design: Isabelle Lhoas and Frederick Denis
  • Video animation: Murielle Félix
  • Production assistance: Marc Olivé and Zita Gerenday
  • Production: Theater Het Net (Belgium)
  • Co-production: Concertgebouw Brugge (Belgium) and Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
  • With the support of: SACD – Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (Belgium) under the program ‘1500 hours to dance’
  • With the collaboration of: Karim and David Weemaels, Cristina Sosa, Bruno Grollet and Nico Manssens

Performances:

2007

  • 05/05 Théâtre Saragosse – Festival de Dans Pluriels (Pau, France)

2006

  • 30/10 SPAF Festival (Seoul, South Korea)
  • 28/10 SPAF Festival (Seoul, South Korea)
  • 27/10 SPAF Festival (Seoul, South Korea)
  • 23/09 Dansens Hus (Stockholm, Sweden)
  • 22/09 Dansens Hus (Stockholm, Sweden)
  • 18/05 Festival Nouvelles Strasbourg Danse – Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg (Strasbourg, France)
  • 24/03 Casa das Artes (Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal)
  • 23/03 Teatro Aveirense (Aveiro, Portugal)
  • 19/03 Teatro Virgínia (Torres Novas, Portugal)
  • 18/03 Cine-Teatro Curvo Semedo (Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal)
  • 04/02 Auditorio Municipal Víctor Jara (Arganda del Rey, Spain)
  • 01/02 Festival Escena Contemporánea (Madrid, Spain)
  • 31/01 Festival Escena Contemporánea (Madrid, Spain)

2005

  • 13/10 Théâtre Le Manège (Maubeuge, France)
  • 30/07 Urban Festival – Stoa the Cultural Centre of Eastern Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland)
  • 29/07 Urban Festival – Stoa the Cultural Centre of Eastern Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland)
  • 16/04 Festival MuDanzas, Encuentros con la Nueva Danza (Cartagena, Spain)
  • 24/02 Animac festival – Teatre Principal (Lleida, Catalonia, Spain)

 2004

  • 13/11 Dantzaldia festival (Bilbao, Spain)
  • 12/11 Oltner Tanztage – Kulturzentrum Schützi (Olten, Switzerland)
  • 11/11 Oltner Tanztage – Kulturzentrum Schützi (Olten, Switzerland)
  • 29/10 CC Sint-Niklaas Stadsschouwburg (Sint-Niklaas, Belgium)
  • 10/10 Festival Internacional Tensdansa (Terrassa, Catalonia, Spain)
  • 08/10 Feria Internacional de Teatro y Danza de Huesca (Huesca, Spain)
  • 02/07 Festival Cruïlles – Teatre Auditori Felip Pedrell (Tortosa, Catalonia, Spain)
  • 29/04 Rosas Performance Space (Brussels, Belgium)
  • 28/04 Rosas Performance Space (Brussels, Belgium)
  • 16/04 Driemast Festival – HETPALEIS (Antwerp, Belgium)
  • 22/02 Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) 
  • 21/02 Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
  • 20/02 Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
  • 19/02 Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
  • 18/02 Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)

2003

  • 22/11 Concertgebouw Brugge (Bruges, Belgium)
  • 21/11 Concertgebouw Brugge (Bruges, Belgium)