FIRST EDITION / AUGUST 2004
Release and improvisation of contact: postmodern proposals of scenic creation was the name of the first edition of this Festival were invited the theater-dance company LABORATORIO puntod and the contemporary dance company Angulo Alterno danza.
LABORATORIO puntod is originate from Guadalajara's city, it has stepped on forums of the City of Mexico like Guadalajara, Querétaro, Oaxaca and Xalapa, and another countries like Uruguay, Buenos Aires, Holanda, Bélgica, Madrid and Poland.
Angulo Alterno danza is originate from Xalapa and it has shown its works at festivities and theaters of Veracruz, the city of Mexico, New York and recently Germany, the Philippine islands and Barcelona.

The program of this first edition was:
5 shows of both companies with his respective plays; on the one hand, LABORATORIO puntod presented the play “Ulrich” and for the other the company Angulo Alterno danza presented “el busca pies en k...” the aforementioned shows were at the IMSS's Theater and in the Zapopan's Culture House Theater.
The workshop release and contact improvisation was focused on the creative process was given to dancers and actors during seven weeks by Olga Gutierrez.

Support this first edition:
Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores, FONCA, CONACULTA, Town Council of Guadalajara, Secretary's Office of Culture of Jalisco, Promoter of dance Mudanzas, Theatrical Independent Promoter, and the Rojo Café and Caf-Eco restaurants.

SECOND EDITION / NOVEMBER 2005
This edition was on November 2nd to 8th and was call Tradition vs. Innovation.
The questions that were answered during the activities in this year they were:
Which are the subject matters that move the new creator?

What is that the creator takes like starting point for the creation: Tradition or the need to innovate?

Which is the true significance of the invention in front of the one belonging the tradition?

The activities program was:
12 shows at theaters of Guadalajara like Experimental Theater, IMSS's Theater, Theater Alarife Martín Casillas and some municipalities like Tlajomulco of Zuñiga, Ayotlán, San Gabriel, Autlán, Jalostotitlán and Ciudad Guzman.
3 dialogue encounters at different places, the first one named The new creators and the new panoramas of the scenic creation in Guadalajara and some states of  Mexican Republic, it was done on Friday 4th at the City's Museum. The choreographic composition and his legacy in Guadalajara was the title of second table of dialogue on Saturday 5th at the City's Museum. The third table of dialogue was called The theater in Guadalajara and his legacy since the 70 ´s. it wason Monday 7th at Casa Vallarta.
The companies invited to this edition were: Gabriela Nuñez fromXalapa, Veracruz; Oscar Ruvalcaba from the City of Mexico; Alfonsina Riosantos and Luna Morena from Guadalajara. The creators selected were Manuel Ballesteros from Hermosillo, Sonora with his company producciones la lágrima and Laura Martínez Ayala, from Morelia Michoacán with her company La Serpiente..

Support this second edition:
Culture UDG, Secretary's Office of Culture of Jalisco, Support to Municipalities of the Secretary's Office of Culture, Coffee Restaurant and Gallery Teu Lloc and the Town Council of Guadalajara.

THIRD EDITION / O 2006
The experimental present-day scene in Mexico was the name of the third edition of this Festival, in the one that international companies and nationals of great prestige encountered; were knowned some predecessors, proposals, characters and companies at the present moment work developing a concrete and solid proposal of the scenic task called in the 70´s  “experimental”.

What do ourselves referred when we talked about the experimental present-day scene in Mexico? Which are parameters and background of what's experimental as of the present moment?  These were the questions that we answered ourselves of the 11th to the October 27th.

In this edition, we inaugurated the first laboratory of creation, leads by the prestigious director Rubén Ortiz, this laboratory was created to open a space of interchange and profesionalize where the goal be the creation of a scenic performance that implicate local artists from different disciplines; It was created “algo de aquellos o ejercicios para pequeñuelos”, presented at the art gallery Sector Reforma during the encounter's frame.

The activities program was:
5 shows in different spaces like: Teatro Diana, Teatro Estudio Cavaret, Maz's Auditorium and Gallery  of Art Sector Reforma.
1 Creation Laboratory: Between character and performance, performer presence in the contemporary performance,by Rubén Ortiz
3 dialogue encounters at Teatro Estudio Diana.

Companies and participating artists:
Akhe group (St. Petesburgo, Russia), Theater Line of Shade (DF), Theater the Ghetto (DF), Rubén Ortiz (DF), Alberto Stanley (Guadalajara) and Gabriel Arteaga (DF).

Support this third edition:
Culture UDG, CONACULTA-FONCA, Institute of Culture of Zapopan, Diana Theater, Gallery of Art Sector Reforma, Hotel Hermanos Reyes, Restaurant and bar Teu Lloc, Restaurant La Vid and Preludio.

 

 

 

 

 

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