Marie Chouinard’s company is set to unveil a world premiere at the Auditorio during the FAM festival.

The festival, celebrating its fifteenth anniversary, kicks off next week with eleven days of events.

The fifteenth edition of the Arts and Movement Festival gets underway next week. This year’s FAM25 programme features the world premiere of a piece by Marie Chouinard’s company, to be staged in the Symphony Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife on 31 May and 1 June at 7.30 p.m. Performances will also take place at La Salita hall, at the cultural venue ‘Espacio La Granja’, in the Museum of Fine Arts of Santa Cruz, and at several open-air locations in the capital from 27 May to 8 June.  Entry to indoor shows requires the FAM pass, available for a single payment of 15 euros.

This edition begins on Tuesday, 27 May, at 6 p.m. at Espacio La Granja with the family-oriented show ‘Sujeto-verbo-predicado’ (Subject-verb-predicate) of the company CondeGalí BL. The show, which the public may take part in, depicts the relationship between syntax and choreography as language-specific forms of composition. With a price of admission of five euros, it is the only event not included in the festival pass, precisely because it is a family-oriented show.

Over the next two days of the festival, site-specific works by Jesús Caramés and Esther Martínez will be performed at the Museum of Fine Arts of Santa Cruz, starting on Wednesday, 28 May, at 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. Performances have also been scheduled for Thursday, 29 May, at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., as well as a conference hosted by Javier Martín at 6 p.m. on Thursday.

Caramés presents Caminar sobre lo quebrado: compartir los caminos (Walking on the Broken: Sharing the Paths), and his proposal will interact with the work Caminar lo quebrado (Walking the Broken) by Adelaida Arteaga Fierro, winner of the first prize at the Santa Cruz Biennial of Visual Arts in 2015. Meanwhile, Esther Martínez offers us her show titled ‘Dentro del vacío’  (Inside the Void), which she will perform alongside the work Los paseantes (The Walkers) by Gloria Delia Padrón Padilla.

Among this year’s most promising events are two works of iconic Canadian choreographer Marie Chouinard. Six days after its world premiere in Madrid, her new creation MAGNIFICAT will be interpreted in Tenerife, along with BodyremixRemix, another new work which will be performed at the FAM for the first time. Both shows are scheduled for Saturday, 31 May, and Sunday, 1 June, in the Symphony Hall of the Auditorio at 7.30 p.m.

The second week of FAM25 kicks off on Monday, 2 June, at 7.30 p.m. at the cultural venue ‘Espacio La Granja’ with the company Clémentine & Lisard and La mecànica de l’infortuni. The dancing duo Clémentine Télesfort and Lisard Tranis will fill the stage with their art in a show that features body language and the reflexes that are produced in response to adverse circumstances. Two days afterwards, at the same location and time, Estévez/Paños and their company will perform Tríptico #2 (Meter los pies, Nondedéu y Silencios) (Triptych #2 – Putting Feet In, Nondedéu, and Silences).

FAM 25 will take to the streets on 5 June, on the grounds of the Guimerá Theatre. At 6 p.m., the first performances will be Laura López Muñoz and Pablo Pérez Alonso interpreting Bailaban las perolas, along with the premiere of RÆM by Galicia-born Javier Martín during his artistic residence at the La Salita hall. This will be followed by Kiko López Company performing Honest at 7.30 p.m. and Ángel Durán Performing Arts interpreting Clinch. On June 6th at 7.30 p.m., Espacio La Granja welcomes Paula Quintana with her latest show, Atlas de anatomía humana (Atlas of Human Anatomy).

The festival’s second weekend will begin with two new creations scheduled for Saturday, 7 June at 10 a.m. at Espacio La Granja. Under the billing ‘Jornada FAM’, the company Colectivo Lamajara will interpret Cuaderno de campo, el legado de una obra (Field notebook, the legacy of a work), and the troupe Javier Arozena cía will perform Cuarto. On the afternoon of June 7th, the Symphonic Hall at the Auditorio de Tenerife will present another major production of this edition: Mellowing, by Dance On Ensemble, at 7:30 p.m.

The festival will conclude on Sunday, 8 June, with two shows at the Auditorio de Tenerife. The first performance, taking place at noon in La Salita hall, will showcase the company of dancer and performer Sonia Gómez with her piece Calidoscòpica. Later, at 7.30 p.m., Richard Mascherin will conclude the festival’s 15^th anniversary in the Symphony Hall with the world premiere of his new indoor work, Abertura.

Alongside the Tenerife Island Council, the FAM festival is supported by the Canary Islands Government through the Regional Institute of Cultural Development, the Autonomous Department of Cultural Affairs of the City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the programme ‘Danza a Escena’, which is part of the Spanish Network of Theatres of the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM) of Spain’s Ministry of Culture. The festival holds the EFFE Label (Europe for Festivals, Festivals for Europe) of the European Union. The label is an acknowledgement of the quality of festivals with artistic missions, commitment to local communities, and strategic vision.

The festival passes can be purchased at a single price of €15 on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium’s box office, or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. You must collect your festival pass in person at the Auditorium’s box office or the Espacio La Granja on performance days to attend the shows. The only event for which admission will be charged separately is the show scheduled for the first day, because it is a family-oriented show.