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The Night of Theatre

Posted on 30 March, 2016

This April 1th Madrid dresses up to celebrate The Night of Theatre. This year the event reaches its ninth edition coinciding with the commemoration of the fourth centenary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare, as well as the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ramon Maria del Valle Inclan, three parents of world drama that will honorees.

The program includes dramatized readings, programming of dance, music and puppet shows for younger, actions that are mostly free. The start will take place at the Real Casa de Correos, where the opening speech opening will be held at 17: 30h., Written by Alfredo Sanzol and read by Carmen Conesa.

The Real Casa de Correos will also be the scene of the adventures of Don Quixote, at 18 h, a free show about 50 minutes aimed at all audiences from age 3, where actor-puppeteers, musicians, dolls, figures, recycled objects and toys make up the different adventures in which will be involved the ‘ingenious hidalgo’.

Other participants spaces will be the Headquarters Office of Culture and Tourism, Casa Lope Museo de Vega, the Pilar Miró Cultural Centre, the Real Coliseo Carlos III, the Convent of the Trinitarias Descalzas, the Teatro de la Abadía, and other theatres in the city .

From Flat Sweet Home we want to recommend that you do not miss this special night dedicated to the tables! Here is the schedule.

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Chagall: Divine and Human

Posted on 12 March, 2016

The Fundación Canal presents the exhibition Chagall: divine and human. A unique opportunity to see the work of one of the most important painters and graphic artists of the twentieth century, considered the master color Modern Art.

This exhibition, which runs almost four decades of his artistic activity, includes a total of 100 works on paper from the funds of Marc Chagall Collection C. S. Paris Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster (Germany), reflecting the intense and surprising connection between the sacred and the profane in the chagaliana work. Both concepts together to become a single entity in the artistic universe of Chagall: the divine expands to human and human to the divine coming to live in the same space as a result of his artistic vision: a synthesis of personal experience, myth and religion.

The pieces selected for the exhibition include all the techniques used by Chagall for his graphic work. Etched recordings, woodcuts and lithographs illustrate the fundamental role of printmaking in creating Chagall. He is credited to them a place of honor in relevant production, either in terms of quantity and quality.
Flat Sweet Home recommends this exhibition at Canal Isabel II, until 10 April.

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La Phármaco in De Otoño a Primavera Festival

Posted on 10 March, 2016

La Phármaco, one of the most promising formations of contemporary dance in our country, with dancer and choreographer Luz Arcas forward, landing in March at the Sala Negra of the Teatros del Canal to present Kaspar Hauser. Orphan Europe, a physical show dialoguing with history to reflect our age dancing as training itself states, “the poetic and wild nature of humanity”.

On May 26, 1828 a young stranger who could barely stand appeared as from nowhere in a square in Nuremberg. The boy, who just carried an anonymous letter with some conflicting data on its origin, was welcomed immediately in the city and throughout the country, as a social, political and philosophical experiment. At six weeks he spoke with some fluency and could read and write. It was learned by himself who had lived in a dungeon and, so far being found, he had never seen any human being.

The leader of la Phármaco company explains his creation “in the dance of Kaspar Hauser, the engine movement is always tragic: imagine the peculiarity of their textures, born of an extreme hypersensitivity, a physical reaction, anatomical, against the real (Kaspar not bear the light, I could see in the dark, he perceived the magnetic force of metals, animals and people and hurt most aromas, sounds and tastes). ”

But Kaspar Hauser embodies the natural conflict with “the other”, is dancing the relentless violence of the world with the unspoiled nature of “the orphan of Europe”, as they called the media of his time. The premiere of Kaspar Hauser, the orphan of Europe, will take place in the Sala Negra of the Teatros del Canal in March, under the XXXIII Festival De Otoño a Primavera.

Flat Sweet Home recommends this show at the Teatros del Canal from 22 to 25 March.

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Ellas Crean Festival

Posted on 4 March, 2016

Ellas Crean, the most important festival of art and female creation, celebrates its 12th anniversary with more than 100 proposals of cinema, music, literature, art and, most especially for the second consecutive year, theater and dance, with several premieres for the occasion. The theater program will have 5 premieres and dance will bring two new choreographies, one world premiere and one in Spain. The music of the Iranian singer Mahsa Vadat and Israeli singer Sivan Talmor also sound for the first time in Spain, as well as the Saharawi singer Aziza Brahim posing in Ellas Crean his new album, Hamada Abbar.
In literature they will be presented to the public the new novels Monika Zgustova and Gordana Kuiç and poetry will reveal the forgotten voices of the best Spanish poets of the twentieth century, while the film will bring a documentary premiere and the projection premiere of two Iranian films recent production, among many other proposals of these disciplines. Until April 12th in Conde Duque.

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ARCOmadrid, an unmissable date with the art.

Posted on 17 February, 2016

Reach age 35, makes us ask ourselves if we are still young, or if we are already a little older, in the case of ARCOmadrid reaches this age in good shape but with much know-how. The fair celebrates this anniversary with an exceptional and one-of-a-kind edition. For the first time ever, some of the most prestigious galleries in the world will coincide at the Fair, making it a unique date on the international calendar.

In total, 221 galleries from 27 countries will participate: 167 form part of the General Programme; 18 of Solo Projects, and 18 of Opening. They will be joined by a new addition in the shape of some thirty great names from the international gallery scene that will make up the commemorative programme, Imagining Other Futures.

In addition, ARCOmadrid will also focus on the rising talents of contemporary art, with 98 proposals dedicated to one or two artists, consolidating the fair as a benchmark for the discovery and research of new artists. From February 24th to 28th in IFEMA.


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We love Priscilla!

Posted on 10 January, 2016

Priscilla is not a woman, it’s a bus! Who can forget the adventures of three friends artists who travel the Australian desert aboard a rickety bus, which names the musical-van while representing her show Drag. This fascinating musical offers more than 40 artists on stage, 500 stunning costumes, 200 wigs and delusional real bus on stage.

The audience will enjoy greatest hits of disco, from Tina Turner to Madonna, we can say that this music is the soundtrack is the most danced in all of history. It is a continuous parade of songs and choreography that make the musical “feelgood” par excellence.

This musical will fascinate the public until the end of February at the Theatre Alcalá.  Flat Sweet Home recomienda

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Cabaret en Madrid

Posted on 8 January, 2016

Cabaret es una de las obras maestras de Broadway,  adaptación de Harold Prince, el director y productor teatral más premiado de Broadway, con 21 Tony Award en su haber. Sigue cosechando aplausos 49 años después de su estreno en Nueva York. La trama se sitúa en Berlín, en 1931.

El inquietante maestro de ceremonias Emcee, regenta el Kit Kat Club, un local decadente donde una cantante, Sally, conoce a un escritor estadounidense que viaja a Alemania en busca de inspiración.  Ellos y otros personajes intentan mantener una cotidianidad normal, con amores, desamores y humor, en pleno auge del nazismo. Este montaje, dirigido por Jaime Azpilicueta y protagonizado por Cristina Castaño, Dani Muriel y un incomparable Edu Soto, es una apuesta más que segura para las noches de este invierno. Muchos de sus temas ya forman parte del imaginario colectivo en musicales: Willkommen, Cabaret, Two Ladies o The Money Song. Ha convencido a la crítica y a la taquilla.

Podéis disfrutar de él hasta el 28 de febrero en el Teatro Rialto. Flat Sweet Home recomienda

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Kandinsky. A retrospective.

Posted on 3 January, 2016

About to celebrate 150 years since the birth of this great artist, CentroCentro offers a retrospective, through 100 pieces runs the entire career of this master of abstract art. The exhibition runs through key periods of the life of Kandinsky, from the early years in Germany, through his years in Russia and ending with their stay in France, through fundamental works as Alte Stadt II (old town II, 1902), Mühle, Im Grau (in grey, 1919), Holland (mill, Netherlands, 1904), Gelb-Rot-Blau (yellow-red – blue, 1925) and Entassement règle (colorful set 1938). Until February 28th 2016 Flat Sweet Home recommends

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El Crédito, una tragicomedia muy real

Posted on 1 January, 2016

Dos grandes de las tablas como Carlos Hipólito y Luis Merlo, se ponen en la piel de un director de banco y un cliente que viene a solicitar un crédito sin más aval que su palabra de que lo devolverá. Os suena de algo?

Algunos trabajos nos permiten pasar asépticamente de largo frente a los problemas de la sociedad, pero otros, como ser director de una entidad bancaria, no. “Y es que hasta ahora, en nuestro civilizado mundo, cuando alguien necesitaba dinero iba al banco y pedía un crédito. La mayor parte de las veces tú se lo concedías, pero si no era así, callaban y volvían para su casa, cabizbajos, conformados, pensando que las cosas iban muy mal, que el crédito no fuía y te dejaban en paz. Hoy ya no puedes confiarte…”  Tragicomedia que lleva tres temporadas de éxito tanto de la crítica como del público en el Teatro Maravillas. Flat Sweet Home recomienda

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Jazz, jazz, jazz

Posted on 22 December, 2015

Until January 24, in the Madrid Circle of Fine Arts, we can enjoy this wonderful exhibition where the most famous jazz figures (Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, etc.) look at us from the black and white photographs and leave us enter the atmosphere of smoke and blues of the golden age of jazz. Flat Sweet Home recommends