The Department of Culture of Dénia, continuing with an initiative started last year, has scheduled a series of performances for Fridays in May at the Auditorium Theater of the Social Center with the aim of making visible the female talent on stage.
«From the conviction that culture is the place where the seeds of social transformations are sown and that one day we will have a more shared society, in which women have space and voice, we have designed the En feminine cycle with which we give voice to diverse perspectives, because it is the time for women and their cultural contributions, the time for the feminization of culture, for a parity culture with plural content," indicates the Councilor for Culture, Raúl García de la Reina.
After last year's cycle, Donate and music, which had exclusively musical content, this year's artistic proposal also includes performances of other performing arts, such as theater and clown circus.
Admission is free with an invitation, which must be downloaded on the Notikumi platform. All shows will start at 20:00 p.m.
Theatre, jazz, circus clown and the Sorolla universe
Programming in feminine begins on May 3, with a tango-jazz concert by Sheila Blanco & Federico Lechner Trio. Singer Sheila Blanco and pianist Federico Lechner reunite for a new project after their first collaboration on the album Puro Gershwin (2018). On this occasion, their talents come together to develop the fusion of tango and jazz, with a repertoire that includes original songs, as well as jazzy classic tangos and famous standards with tango arrangements.
On Friday, May 10, the actress Nuqui Fernandez interpret the play Menina. I'm a fucking work of Velázquez, a reflection on the aesthetic canons imposed by society. Menina addresses topics such as bullying, fatphobia, body diversity and self-love. It is a desperate and empowered cry for freedom and improvement against this social scourge.
The work has been nominated for Best New Show at the Max 2024 Awards.
The pianist from Xabienca Marta Espinós will offer the recital on May 17 Sorolla, a musical imaginary content of Sorolla's universe, drawing an audiovisual and interdisciplinary parallelism.
The concert provides a complete aesthetic experience, revealing the analogies within the currents of Sorolla's luminism and impressionism and musical nationalism. The program is a selection of pieces directly related to the main themes of his work: portraits, scenes of children, beach and port prints and the painter's passion for Andalusia. Included are works by great Spanish composers who were contemporary with Sorolla (1863-1923) and from the later generation such as Albéniz, Granados, Falla, Turina, Esplá, Mompou and Rodrigo.
Elena Donzel and Mari Marcos, they bring the show circus clown The Couchers. Sugar talks to the stage of the Social Center on May 24.
The protagonists, the clowns Consuelo and Socorro, accompany the audience on a journey of healing, improvement and personal rebirth. Through irony, gossip and easy jokes, satire and humor of all colors, Consuelo and Socorro reveal the fragility of human beings, their greatness and misery, their contradictions, desires, dreams and failures. .
The show The Couchers. Sugar talks He won the Audience Award at the 2022 Cabanyal Íntim Festival and the Award for best circus performer for Elena Donzel at the 2023 Valencian Performing Arts Awards.
The cycle in feminine says goodbye on May 31 with a jazz-soul concert of the singer, songwriter and producer from Dénia Alba Santos.
In 2020, the singer published her first solo album with her own compositions called Improvisation and has participated in numerous collaborations with different artists from four continents. Researcher of the sounds of the world, specialized in jazz and Brazilian music, she makes her work a set of her musical experiences lived throughout her career.
In the concert on the 31st, Alba Santos proposes a trip without a passport, where you can enjoy the vibrant melodies of Brazil, the passion of Cuba and the musical richness of Spain, all seasoned with a touch of jazz.
