La Fura dels Baus Day

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La Fura dels Baus is a Catalan theatrical group founded in 1979 in Barcelona known for their urban theatre, use of unusual settings and blurring of the boundaries separating audience and actor. From 1979 to 1983, La Fura dels Baus performed street theatre, these efforts evolved towards a concept of theatre that combines a wide range of stage resources based on the classical idea of an all-round show. The main contribution of La Fura was to approach its shows by encouraging the audience take an active part in areas traditionally reserved for the public and adapting its stage work to the very architectural elements found in the spaces in which each performance takes place. This blend of techniques and disciplines crystallized into the term “Furan language”, a term that has also been used to define the work of other theatre companies.

Since the early 1990s, La Fura dels Baus has diversified its creative efforts, moving into the fields of written drama, digital theatre and street theatre, performing contemporary theatre projects, opera or producing major corporate events. La Fura dels Baus has created its own record label, with a catalogue of 14 recordings; it has also published its work on other labels, including Dro, Virgin and Subterfuge. Naumon is a la Fura's ship, a floating performing arts center that has been to ports like Barcelona, Sardinia, Portugal, Beirut, Taipei, Newcastle or Haifa carrying various artistic, educational and cultural containers including the la Fura shows Naumaquia, Sub, Terramaquia and Matria. Currently, the Company is in process to create “Boris Godunov”, a new theatre piece, to be performed on stage and that will premiere next March. -- text collaged from various sources

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La Fura dels Baus Website

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Suz/O/Suz
Furan language performances
Opening: 30/08/1985

'Suz/O/Suz is an abstract show containing one idea: man. From that axis comes a fiction about human nature, about a man anguished by his own conscience. In order to develop this idea scenically, La Fura dels Baus devised a set which took advantage of the architectural elements offered by the different performance spaces, but which incorporated an entire complex and intricate series of scenic elements created by the company, which were able to modify the space and the audience’s participation. Poles, carts and moveable platforms, bathtubs and pools, scenic pieces which contained their own meaning and allowed the group to develop their language in order to express their vision of life.' -- LFdB

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Tier Mon
Furan language performances
Opening: 10/06/1988

'Tier Mon explores the always delicate territory of the relationships between the individual, humanity and power, which in this case is represented by three conflicting characters –the white god, the cripple and the dwarf– each struggling to dominate the other characters who symbolise the human race. The narration of this confrontation is articulated this time by a more complete and intricate dramaturgy than in the previous shows. The characters are described, they are uniquely identifiable and they establish a whole system of hierarchies within the show.' -- LFdB

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MTM
Furan language performances
Opening: 10/03/1994

'MTM is an allegory about the manipulation of information carried out by major political, economic and social forces through the mass media. MTM aspires to reproduce the news process, which is modified based on specific objectives. Here the truth appears as the result of the thousand different ways of relating an event or transmitting an idea. In order to achieve this goal, the show creates a web of fake images, fictions that the audience confuses with reality.' -- LFdB

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La condemnació de Faust
Opera
Opening: 19/08/1999

'This staging of the opera by Hector Berlioz, for the Salzburg Festival, established La Fura’s prestige in international opera circles and was the company’s second take on the Faustian myth.' -- LFdB

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TIM-e
Special events and large-scale performances
Opening: 18/10/2004

'La Fura’s starting point was the Prometheus myth, in which he steals fire from the gods to give it to man, a metaphor of science and scientific thought. From this they designed a performance that recreates an increasingly technological world, where a network of total knowledge is established thanks to communications.' -- LFdB

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Le Grand Macabre
Opera
Opening: 24/03/2009

'A singular staging for a singular opera. With music by Ligeti and libretto by Ghelderode, Le grand macabre has the carnal body as the thread that runs through this extraordinary tragicomedy, where laughter is the only magical spell to conjure up the fear of death.' -- LFdB





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