Passage Insòlit, the Santa Coloma de Gramenet fairground arts festival, returns this year free of all the restrictions of the pandemic. To celebrate its 17th edition, the festival will have its first international collaboration.
The festival, the only one in Spain specialized in fair disciplines, will celebrate its 2022 edition on October 21, 22 and 23 with a very diverse lineup. The proposal that stands out the most is that of the Aakaar Puppet Theater company, which came from Rajasthan (India).
The performance that the Asian guests will present is based on a thousand-year-old tradition: that of kathpuli puppetry, which comes from the artistic discipline that began in the community of Bath.
Puran Bhat is the director and puppet master who will bring the figurines of the Amar Singh Rathor show to life. Bhat's roots lie in a family of kathpuli puppeteers, from which he learned all about the tradition that was born a thousand years ago. In his proposal that he takes to Passatge Insòlit, but, he mixes kathpuli with other contemporary disciplines, to make the show more accessible to an international audience.
Apart from the guests from Rajasthan, the festival will have ten more proposals for street performances, circus and traveling music. On the other hand, two parallel activities are also being organized: on October 18, the company John Fisherman will present
For this reason, the different shows are articulated with a clear political connotation. For example, Heat from the company Kikolas reflects on the experience of people who are forced to leave their homes. Or, on the other hand, Sfumato de Cia Llum de Fideu, illustrates the unequal relationships that humans establish with other species that coexist in the same spaces we inhabit.
The festival facilities will also feature its most characteristic elements, such as attractions built from reused materials from Antigua
The Passatge Insòlit festival will thus celebrate its 17th edition in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, its city of birth. The entire program can be consulted on the official website, where up to eleven shows are presented that claim alternative modes of human relations and also value the fairground arts, which are clearly a minority in the Spanish state.
