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Thu 19 – Sun 29 Jun

Thu & Fri 8pm/Sat 5pm & 9:30pm/Sun 6pm at Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (Plaça de les Arts, 1) 17€ Buy tickets

“Erre Danza” (Dance) offers us a reflection about the begining and the ending of love. Based on reflections of writers as Álvaro Pombo, Harold Pinter or Haruki Murakami.

Based on intuition and in the elaboration and development of diverse components: images, movement, time, body… to awake sensations and emotions in the spectator.

Seeking not common places about the idea of love, “Erre que Erre” makes an analytic and scientific analysis of the processes of falling in love and disaffection.  (Taken from www.compostelacultura.org and www.tnc.cat)

Thu 12 – Sun 15 Jun

Thu & Fri 8pm/Sat 9:30pm/Sun 6pm at Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (Plaça de les Arts, 1) 28 – 32€ Buy tickets

Harmony and chaos in dance “Preljocaj” takes as starting point the famous Vivaldi’s concerto “The four seasons”, one of the most popular pieces of the classical music repertoire, with the intention to discover new secrets in it . Its choreography lives together with the Fabrice Hyber’s “caosgrafía” to explode in a cheerful and colorful dance spectacle . (Taken from www.tnc.cat)

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Fri 5 & Sat 6 Jun

9pm at Mercat de les Flors / Ciutat del Teatre (Calle Lleida 59)  6 € per day / 10 € two day subscription

“The Marató de l’Espectacle” is a great celebration of performance and contemporary art in Barcelona where, year after year, more then 4000 spectators, as well as many professionals and programmers of the sector attend Mercat de les Flors for a marathon of more than one hundred different shows.

With nearly 200 productions and artists, who presents an extract of their work (10 min max).  In 25 years, the Marató has gained strong experience and professionalism. It has become an unique event, where a large number of artists from different origins, artistic trends and disciplines show a fragment of their work in excellent atmospheric and technical conditions.

This year, the Marató celebrates its 25th anniversary and for this special occasion we propose a wider programme of experimental, risked, original and creative productions. Any type of performance is welcome: performing arts of big or small format, music, video, cinema, flash projection, videogames, videoart, animation, itinerant shows, performances, visual arts, photography, installations.  (Taken from www.marato.com)

Marató 2007 -watch video