Kick off the summer on the right beat by participating in Tutti Frutti FEST, the firs performing arts festival created by the Performing Gender: Dancing in Your Shoes (PG:DIYS) Madrid community. Performing Gender: Dancing in Your Shoes was a three-year Creative Europe project that implemented dance, the creative process and decision making as tools to empower communities in risk of exclusion, particularly due to gender diversity reasons.
On 10-16 June, the Teatro Pradillo will become the home and stage for the activitied that the Spanish association Pasoa2 and PG:DIYS have designed based on the concept of "archive". Thanks to the support of the British Council, British choreographer Bakani Pick Up will be joining the festival. During the week, participants will be able to enjoy a physical/dance practice guided by a choreographer, followed by an artistic activity related to choreographic creation (photography, fanzines, etc.). On Saturday, the theatre will open its doors for a dance improv session created by the PG:DIYS community in collaboration with other allied communities in Madrid. But that's not all: the iconic MariBingo (bingo, performances, gifts and vermú) will take over on Sunday.
Join us in building together a space where you can tell our own stories, find ourselves as dissident bodies, document and leave a trace of our stories. And join the party!
Guest artists: Bakani Pick Up (Performing Gender UK), Laura Nadeszhda, Megane Mercury, Ámbar Tenorio, Artemisa Semedo, Marina Santo, Triana Martincano García y Paloma Fdez. Scharfhausen, Miren Muñoz Vitoria, Manuel F. Tirado and Javier Vaquero. Produced by Paso a 2 and the PG:DIYS community in Madrid, with support from the British Council and theTeatro Pradillo.
PROGRAMME
MONDAY 10
18:00 – 19:00. Physical/dance practice. Led by: Javier Vaquero.
19:00-21:00. Activity: Resonances: Think, Observe, Act. Led by: Miren Muñoz.
TUESDAY 11
18:00 – 19:00. Physical/dance practice. Led by: Bakani Pick-Up, thanks to the support of the British Council.
19:00 -21:00. Activity: Self Portrait and Identity. Led by: Megane Mercury.
WEDNESDAY 12
18:00 – 19:00. Physical/dance practice. Led by: Marina Santo.
19:00 -21:00. Activity: A Cow with a Frog Face or How to Map From Lived Experiences. Led by: Laura Nadeszhda and Manuel F. Tirado
THURSDAY 13
18:00 – 19:00. Physical/dance practice. Led by: Bakani Pick-Up, thanks to the support of the British Council
19:00 – 21:00. Activity: Living Word: Spells, Poems and Noise. Led by: Ámbar Tenorio and Artemisa Semedo
FRIDAY 14
18:00 – 19:00. Physical/dance practice «XULA, GUAPA Y CHISPERA». Led by: Triana Martincano García and Paloma Fdez. Scharfhausen (Colectivo Chipén)
19:00 – 21:00. Activity: «XULA, GUAPA Y CHISPERA». Led by: Triana Martincano García, Paloma Fdez. Scharfhausen (Colectivo Chipén) and the PG:DIYS community in Madrid
SATURDAY 15
21:00-22:00. PERFORMANCE: Queride, bailemos… Atentamente, Little Richard.
SUNDAY 16
13:00 – 15:00. PERFORMANCE: Mari, tutti al bingo!
The iconic MariBingo will visit Tutti Fruti led by Mujer Vaquero. In collaboration with the Performing Gender:DIYS community.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Performing Gender: Dancing in Your Shoes (PG:DIYS) is a Creative Europe project that for the last three years has implemented dance, the creative process and decision making as tools to empower communities in risk of exclusion, particularly due to gender diversity reasons. Since its launch in 2020, it has involved eleven institutions across eight countries (France, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia, Sweden, The Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom), and has been supported by the British Council.
Currently, the project has continue din some countries, as is the case in Spain, despite no longer being under the Creative Europe umbrella. It is now at a new phase in which the community has started to gain central relevance regarding the course of the project organising working sessions for decision making and collaborating with other institutions and collectives (La Parcería, Centro Juvenil Pipo Velasco, La Colé, Colegio Courage, Euforia, Aulas, etc.). Physical/dance practice sessions have also carried on focusing on research and critique through the body.
The project team is formed by artistic director Laura Kumin, mediator and facilitator Miren Muñoz Vitoria, choreographers Javier Vaquero and Marina Santo, producer Elena Prados, and communicators Marta Baeza, Paloma F. Scharfhausen and Jesse Robleño García.