The show is taking over Villena. The circus and performing arts festival HOP!Villena starts today and will fill the streets with circus, dance and street theater for four days until Thursday, 24th.
Cultural Councilor María Server invited Villenses and visitors to enjoy the festival, which will not be held at its usual venue this year. “Plaza de Toros is leaving the bazaar and its surroundings due to the pyramid works and the lack of security while it is being organized, so the park of the Carsi is finished,” he says.
The mayor announced that he had moved to Plaza Martínez Olivencia and joined the La Paz Neighborhood Association. “If everything goes our way this year, we will try to preserve it when Hop! returns to its original location next year,” he says.
The Mayor reminded that this festival started in 2017 upon the request of the residents of the bazaar for such an event, and since 2021, disciplines such as dance and street theater have been included in its body in addition to the circus.
Pepe Ayelo, the director of Casa de Cultura, emphasized that this year the competition will be held from Monday to Thursday in order not to disrupt the pasodobles concert, and the program was delayed a little due to the heat. ” Thanks to this, the shows will be in the majority at 19:30 and 22:30. Some short shows will have two rounds at different times. As with previous releases, access will be free.
Ayelo talked about the program that will start on Monday, August 21 with a successful clown concert “Rocket Carnival Clownz”; At 21:00 and 22:00 there will be a city dance with the main character “Vacío”. On the 22nd, it will start with the circus show “El Entusiasmo” at 19:30 and at 22:30 it will be the turn of “Desprovisto”, one of the most important parts of this festival that combines acrobatics and dance.
There will be three shows on Wednesday as there will be one featuring the Chapí Theatre. At 19:30 and 21:30 they will start with “Baktana”, a circus and dance show at Plaza del Teatro Chapí. The second performance, “Aquiles”, a traveling street show with a large puppet, will be at 20:30.
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The poetic performance of the festival, which has been in the best festivals for five years, will close the day with a single actor moving the wooden tiles, impressing the entire audience.”
It will start with the song “Danzart en familia” by Juana Valera from Villena on Thursday at 18:30 and will bring contemporary dance together with children and young people. At 20:00, it will be the turn of “La Barca”, a very hooligan street theater. The “Karpty” festival, one of the ensemble’s biggest circus performances, will close.