After five editions devoted mainly to the circus and related arts, HOP! Villena leaning for this year widen your eyes to dance and directs the festival more and more towards performing arts. a dozen offers will take place between 23 and 27 August by professional companies Valencian Community, Catalonia, Madrid and Basque Country. All in open-air urban settings – between the stage of the fairgrounds, the pyramid of the bullring and the plaza of this city’s Chapi Theater – and with free and open access.
this HOOP!!! villa celebrating its sixth edition with some newssuch as adding hip hop competition, all kinds of warwhich will call more than twenty dancers Join hands with Let’s Grow, an association dedicated to hip-hop and urban art. And will also be offered first assembly after a few weeks residence at the company’s Villena House of Culture (KAKV) premises federika sansanowho made the piece fugitive With the dancer from Villena alice roy Y Esther Mondejar, from Monovar. Residence is part of the program Dance Impulse It is supported by the Dansa València festival and the Valencian Cultural Institute, which has pioneered development in six towns in the Valencian Community, and is the only one participating in the province of Alicante, Villena.
“We sacrificed some circus offerings this year for the benefit of urban dance because we want to try to achieve Balance between different disciplines of performing arts Joseph AyeloHe is the director of KAKV and in charge of this exhibition, which presents five dance performances and five circus or circus theaters in addition to the competition.
Following the advance offered last Thursday by the Lucas Escobedo Company, which takes their work to the streets manas An introductory program to the festival, this Tuesday at 7:00 PM, the Basque clown begins. Maite Guevara and his clown piece What a nice day! For all viewers who will be followed by the company at 22:00 circus g with Comfortcombining acrobatics, humor and physical theatre.
It starts on Wednesday at 18:00. all kinds of war The fun of hip-hop hip-hop at the fairground, which offers jam and dance battles accompanied by DJs in various styles and categories for adults under 16 and children under 16, returning to HOP for the third time at 19.00! ! clown Screw (Quique Montoya) with Gold Press Screwwhere everything is gold and magic and flow.
On Thursday, there’s a trio in Plaza del Teatro Chapi, thanks to the circuit dance on stage 2022 promoted by the Ministry of Culture Inaem, who brought the program to this place three in dancewith artistic suggestions Amaia Elizaran (Outsidedance born out of prison and out of respect for freedom), Alicante company Brown (between usan allegory around interpersonal relationships) and company Ertza Basque Asier Zabaleta, this brings a montage awarded with MAX 2018 for best street show (Meeting pointemotion from human conflicts).
A new show set almost entirely on a trampoline Back 2 ClassicCatalan humor, poetry, rhythm and carromance trampoline planet (Thursday 22:00), on Friday the contemporary circus spinach circus with Peus d’alt.
The festival ends on Saturday fugitive and city dance at 10 pm David Wind (expert last minute) and his show NeanderthalFETEN 2020 Award for the best night show with live music.