São Paulo hosts Ibero-American Performing Arts Festival

After passing by Santos, on the São Paulo state coast, the sixth edition of the Mirada – Iberian-American Performing Arts Festival arrived today, September 14, in São Paulo City, returning to its presential format.

Until September 24, the event, organized by Sesc São Paulo, presents its theatrical program to the São Paulo audience.

In the São Paulo state capital ten international plays will be presented: Reminiscencia and DRAGON (Chile), Estreito/Estrecho (Portugal/Chile co-production), Ensaio para uma Cartografia (Portugal), La Luna en el Amazonas (Colombia), Hamlet (Peru), Teatro Amazonas (Spain), CUANDO PASES SOBRE MI TUMBA (Uruguay), Cosmos and Aurora Negra (Portugal).

The plays will be staged at Sesc’s units 24 de Maio, Belenzinho, Bom Retiro, Consolação, Pinheiros, Pompeia, Santana, and Vila Mariana, and address, among other themes, the symptoms of colonization and migration processes.

This approach includes, for example, Estreito/Estrecho, in which artists from Teatro Experimental do Porto (Portugal) and Teatro La Maria (Chile) revisit the path of the navigator Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) in a critical and satirical way.

The Colombian group Mapa Teatro starts from a 2019 news story about the existence of indigenous communities voluntarily isolated in the Colombian Amazon to talk about resistance in the play La Luna en El Amazonas.

Another highlight is the play Hamlet, which crosses Shakespeare’s text with the lives of eight actors with Down syndrome.

Since September 9, the festival has been held in Santos, on the São Paulo coast. Until next Sunday (18), the event will showcase 36 performances of multiple languages in theater, dance, performance, and street theater at the Sesc’s unit in Santos, as well as in public spaces, theaters, and historical buildings in the city.

More information and the program of the Mirada Festival can be found on the event’s website.

With information from Exame