It seems that the announced seventh wave of the covid will not disrupt the plans to recover a more than normal Grec, with shows in abundance spread throughout the face of the city and with an absolutely normal number of productions: 86.
They are proposals for all tastes, without losing sight of the artistic avant-garde. The theatre, of course, is king, but it arrives well accompanied by dance, music, the circus, cinema and the hybrid scene, shows where more than one discipline converges.
The inauguration comes with dance, a dance with capital letters, the Nederlands Dans Theater, considered one of the most prestigious companies in the world, and also with the gala formation, the NDT1, which had not performed in Barcelona for exactly 34 years. The director of the festival, Cesc Casadesús, emotionally recalls the show offered by Nacho Duato and Maria del Mar Bonet from June 27 to 29, 1988.
"The Greek feels good about dancing," says Casadesús, who had been director of the Mercat de les Flors. The first show that this space will host will be Seises, a collaboration of the flamenco dancer Israel Galván and the Escolania de Montserrat. The cathedral of Seville welcomes the tradition of the Dance of the Six, that the dancer will interpret with the white voices of the choir of the monastery (2-3 / VII).
At the TNC it will be La Veronal who will bring the long-awaited Opening night to Barcelona. It is one of the star works of this festival, by the company directed by the Valencian Marcos Morau, coveted throughout the world. On this occasion, the company pays homage to the theater itself, making the stage take center stage and leaving aside all the artifices that make it up (14-16/VII).
With regard to theatre, the origin of everything, the Grec is honored with the presence of the prestigious director Thomas Ostermeier, who presents his version of Henrik Ibsen's work An Enemy of the People in a German version at the Teatre Lliure, with live music and public participation ( 2-3/VII).
In the amphitheater of the Grec, the first theater arrives with El burlador de Sevilla, work by Tirso de Molina, authorship that the director Xavier Albertí prefers to question and, therefore, says that it is "attributed". The work in question establishes the original myth of Don Juan, which Albertí radiographs (3-4/VII).
At the TNC, Chela de Ferrari directs a Hamlet with actors with Down syndrome (1-3/VII). And the Romea will offer a musical, visual and stage poem based on the poet Safo, with Christina Rosenvinge, Marta Pazos and María Folguera (14-24/VII).
After touring half of Europe, the company El Conde de Torrefiel arrives at the Lliure with Una imagen interior, a hybrid show between reality and fiction (7-9/VII). Cris Blanco takes the Grandissima illusione to the CCCB (7-9/VII). And the collaboration of the National Classical Theater Company, Rhum
In music, it is worth mentioning the Cosa de dois that will be performed at the amphitheater by Salvador Sobral and Marco Mezquida ( 23/VII), and the return to the festival, after three decades, of the OBC, with Alba G. Corral ( 22/VII). Even more: Jane Birkin (19/VII), Roger Mas (5/VII), Els Pets (14/VII) and the Nit de Fado (15/VII). They want more? Check the billboard because, throughout the city, the Grec spreads.
