The cultural center dedicated to children and adolescents celebrates the arrival of autumn with dance, concerts, activities and eco-responsible workshops
- The last weekend of this month (September 24 and 25) the arrival of autumn is celebrated by the company Aracaladanza, with a show of its own production and family art, rhythm and movement workshops
- During the presentation of the program, the group Dimensión Vocal has played live, as an appetizer of the a cappella concert that will be offered on November 19 and 20
- This season will feature the designer and artisan Marta Boza as a guest artist, who will bring creative carpentry closer to the little ones
- Tickets for the fall season are now available at openspaceqm.com/
Madrid, September 13, 2022
The delegate for Culture, Tourism and Sports of the Madrid City Council, Andrea Levy, and the artistic director of Espacio Abierto Quinta de los Molinos, Beatriz de Torres, presented this morning at a press conference the program for this new season that starts last September weekend and that comes loaded with proposals for the whole family, among which the shows of Aracaladanza, Jesús Rubio Gamo, Collectif Kahraba, Companhia do Chapitô or Vocal Dimension stand out. Espacio Abierto is the first cultural center of the Madrid City Council dedicated exclusively to children and adolescents.
During the presentation of the program for this fifth season, which has featured a performance by the acclaimed group a cappella Vocal Dimension, which will perform on November 19 and 20 in the Espacio Abierto auditorium, Levy has highlighted the benefits of some “inspiring” proposals, based on dance, music, cinema and theater to enjoy with the family, which It has adaptations of classics, with workshops to play and create and with the participation of national and international companies.
The delegate also highlighted the quality of a program that “combines a high creative level with the fun that must always accompany experimentation and learning” and recalled the importance for the Madrid City Council of “promoting spaces with own personality like this, designed by and for the youngest”.
De Torres, for his part, stressed that this year’s objective is to “fly several generations into the future and begin to rethink ourselves as the ancestors of the world that is to come and be aware that every grain of sand that we sow in this center , has a vocation to transcend beyond”. He has also taken stock of these four years of Open Space and has insisted on “the need to give the public a leading role, to think long-term and to become aware of what art and creation bring to human beings.” humans”, in addition to promoting “empathy, care and the light that we can bring to the times to come”.
Aracaladanza show and harvest harvest celebration
Aracaladanza returns to celebrate the arrival of autumn with the family, and it does so with the playful-festive dance show The game is between almonds. Under the baton of Enrique Cabrera, an own production is being cooked up that can be enjoyed the last weekend of September, together with art, rhythm and movement workshops. And, all this, to end with a grand finale after which an aperitif prepared by La Quinta Cocina, the center’s restaurant and solidarity space, will be offered, where the training and social and labor insertion of vulnerable young people is promoted. A tradition that dresses up as a popular and festive pilgrimage with The Fifth Harvest, a multidisciplinary show around the harvest harvest festival, which will be held on September 28 and 29 in the outdoor gardens of Espacio Abierto, and poetry and delicacy, during the wonderful flowering phase, in February, with The Fifth in Bloom.
Dance for all audiences, including babies
Dance will have a leading role this fall. It will not only be leitmotif and guide in The Fifth Harvestbut in October the third piece of the cycle will also premiere Are you dancing, baby? in which Espacio Abierto challenges top-level choreographers and dancers to create a piece of contemporary dance for babies and early childhood. After the wonderful experiences of Luz Arcas and Cesc Gelabert, it is now the turn of Jesús Rubio Gamo, who will premiere on October 22 and 23 in the center’s auditorium.
Also, the program returns The Fifth In Company to accompany and promote the new project of El Lagarto Baila. After several weeks of inspiration, experimentation and a lot of work throughout the summer, Leire Amonarriz and the rest of the company are bringing three family game and creation workshops to the public, throughout the quarter, with which to investigate, try and make grow your new production Hizkidantza (The dance of words), which will premiere in February, in Open Space.
Along these same lines, with a multidisciplinary proposal that is committed to cognitive and functional multidiversity on stage, and without ceasing to revolve around dance for children, Espacio Abierto brings the first two pieces of the trilogy cities, which Patricia Ruz has launched; in the first, with the actor and dancer Alberto Romera and in the second, with the scenic artist, composer and trainer Nacho Bilbao.
Theater
Multidisciplinary is also the work Le Fumiste, by Dondavel, which in this case plays with object theatre, magic and the circus and which arrives at Espacio Abierto thanks to the collaboration, once again, with the Festival Pendientes de un Hilo. However, the theater in Open Space starts, again, with the latest production of the documentary theater program with adolescents World Fifth (Do you want me pins?), created by Los Quintis, under the direction and accompaniment of Belén de Santiago and Ángel Perabá, from Cross Border Project. El Oroño will also feature the incorporation of companies as consolidated as Ultramarinos de Lucas, who bring their particular adaptation of Waiting for Godotby Becket, for children from 5 years old, with When is Samuel coming?
Three international companies complete the stage menu: the Greeks based in Berlin, Merlin Puppet Theatre, with its Noone’s Land; the Lebanese Collectif Kahraba, who this time bring us, for the first time and thanks to the collaboration with the Autumn Festival, the delicate puppet show Songe d’une forêt oubliée (Dream of a forgotten forest); and the Portuguese Companhia do Chapitô, who have become a fixed and safe bet of the house and who, on this occasion, return with a hilarious new version of one of the great classics, Antigone 3 x 3.5for a teenage audience.
This season, continuity will continue to be given to the center’s stable music and theater programs, led by the Cross Border Project (Mundo Quinta 5) and Acción por la Música (#HazQueSueneLaQuinta).
music and film
Likewise, the conjunction of music and cinema recovers its presence in the center’s programming, thanks to Roni di Capo and his concert play it again(Cinema songs), that will remember the best musical moments of the cinema to the rhythm of jazz, rock, blues and swing.
For its part, Dimension Vocal will surprise with an a cappella concert with a most varied repertoire, seasoned with a touch of beatbox and large doses of humour. For his part, Yuvisney Aguilar will bring the public closer to the spirituality of Afro-Cuban rhythms in the workshop The music of the African gods.
We continue our collaboration with MICE (International Exhibition of Educational Film), which brings us several film workshops (A creative journey through the history of cinema, Learn ‘stop motion’ animation with recycled materials Y Know the secrets of horror makeup).
Eco-responsible workshops
Children and adolescents will be able to enjoy eco-responsible workshops in the Open Space classrooms where they can learn and recover craft techniques such as manual weaving techniques (finger knitting), glassblowing (Learning to blow and shape glass and the magic of glass blowing) or the reuse of recycled elements to give life to automata games (Axles and handles and Wheels and nuts). Workshops will also be held to learn how to make personalized jewelry (Design and create your own jewelry! Earrings and pendants that express your style), with a clear commitment to the “do it yourself” philosophy as opposed to irresponsible consumerism. Lastly, there will be proposals linked to experimentation and creative development, open to families and schools, such as hexagoning.
Marta Boza, guest artist for the 2022-2023 season
One more year, Espacio Abierto has the talent and the gaze of a guest artist. This time it is about Marta Boza, a creative carpentry teacher who not only creates a unique artistic piece for the center, “which gives shape, color and shelter to the season, and who will dress and live in different colors and characters ” -in the words of De Torres- but, in addition, he will share his talent with the children and adolescents of the #ComunidadQuinta, through various workshops that will be held from September to June./