ESCENA PATRIMONIO DANCE FESTIVAL AWAITS YOU
The 8th edition of the ESCENA PATRIMONIO International Dance Festival will take place on September 13th, 2025, in Spain’s 15 World Heritage Cities.
This year, under the theme “Intimate Vestiges,” the event features national artists from all over Spain and guests from Italy, Japan, and Taiwan.
The 8th edition of the ESCENA PATRIMONIO International Dance Festival will take place next September 13, 2025 in the 15th World Heritage Cities in Spain: Alcalá de Henares, Ávila, Baeza, Cáceres, Córdoba, Cuenca, Ibiza, Mérida, Salamanca, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Santiago de Compostela, Segovia, Tarragona, Toledo and Úbeda
The festival and platform for choreographic creation in heritage spaces. ESCENA PATRIMONIO continues to strengthen its commitment to the valorization of “living heritage”of Spain’s 15 World Heritage Cities, highlighting both local and emerging talents and the leading figures in contemporary creation at the national and international levels. Thus, once again this unique experience will be repeated in September, creating a space for exchange between UNESCO World Heritage cities, their monuments, their artistic territories, and diverse audiences.
To date, the festival has welcomed more than one hundred choreographers and companies from all the Autonomous Communities, as well as international artists, offering them the extraordinary opportunity to inhabit and dialogue with these great vestiges of the past and our present.
In this way, ESCENA PATRIMONIO has established itself as a benchmark in the decentralization of cultural offerings beyond the limits of large metropolises, serving as a model for exploring new audience-building formats for dance and movement arts.
The programming includes 15 pieces by established and emerging choreographers, including seven world premieres and one national premiere, in more than 25 performances, accompanied by context activities linked to heritage and dance, such as workshops, presentations, talks, and dance video screenings.
Once again this year, the programming will give special prominence to the female creation and artistic diversity, with the participation of artists from the Heritage Cities themselves, eight Spanish autonomous communities (Andalusia, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Community of Madrid, Extremadura and Galicia), as well as guest artists and companies from countries such as Italy, Japan and Taiwan.
Among the artists of this edition are Carmen Fumero and Chang Dance Theatre in Alcalá de Henares, Alberto Velasco in Ávila, Irene Naranjo in Baeza, Sol Picó in Cáceres,Laila Tafur in Córdoba, Javier Martín in Cuenca, Magdalena Garzón in Ibiza, and Marco Flores in Mérida, Antonio Najarro in Salamanca, Carlos Carvento in San Cristobal de La Laguna, Lorena Nogal in Santiago de Compostela, the National Dance Company in Segovia, Marc Fernández in Tarragona, the National Choreographic Center / Aterballetto in Toledo, and Celia Espadas in Úbeda.
This year, under the motto“Intimate Vestiges” the program invites us to inhabit heritage from a sensorial, emotional, and living perspective. Dance engages in a dialogue between memory and the present, between the imprint of time and the impulse of the body, activating the invisible layers that reside in the architecture of heritage spaces. Places that not only preserve history but also actively participate in contemporary artistic experiences, where each gesture echoes what was and what continues to beat at the heart of our living heritage.
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