ACT 2025
Programme
ACT Festival
4-7 June 2025
The ACT FESTIVAL 2025 programme will take place in five different venues in Bilbao and Barakaldo: Guggenheim Museoa, Sala BBK Aretoa, Kafe Antzokia, Teatro Campos and Teatro Barakaldo Antzokia.
‘To be able to attend the ACT shows as an audience, we offer to buy individual tickets for each session on the websites of each venue or directly from our website’.
To access detailed information about the sessions, plays and companies that will be part of ACT FESTIVAL 2025 download the programme in PDF version or consult the extended on-line version below.
*Two of the selected pieces could not participate for bureaucratic reasons and have been replaced. We mention them here for the record, encouraging them to try again next year.
Unspoken Queens – ZAN’KORA –Cameroon
Balle aux pieds –Lesg’arts – Ivory Coast
Kafe Antzokia
|20:30 | OPENING
Alter Nation
Idoia Tapia | Basque Country
A whole system of different identities.
PERFORMATIVE LECTURE
Crime Brûlé
Teatro del Cielo | Ecuador
A murderer from the 1940s has just committed the most heinous crime…
PHYSICAL THEATRE
Barakaldo Theatre
| 18:30 |
Coloving
El Faro | Madrid
Finding a flat is so difficult that, at any moment, they will demand impossible requirements.
TEXTUAL THEATRE
Mondo
Lauro / Italy
The resilience of a child playing in a playground.
DANCE
Teatro Campos-Cúpula
| 20:30 |
Material
Teatro de los chinos | Valencia
It is about putting those ideas that were left in a drawer back on their feet.
THEATRE
Alleo
Colectiivo Glovo / Galicia-Portugal
That burning loneliness burns and destroys the privilege of the glimpse, leaving us in abandonment before the eternal immensity.
DANCE
Mantra by night
Venérea| Valencia-Basque Country
CANCELLED!!
Mysticism, movement and frequency converge in a delicate rite of nocturnal flowering.
DANCE
Barakaldo Theatre
| 18:30 |
Cuir-darme
Kike Arias | Castilla y León
Yesterday evening at the dance
you looked at me.
And when you looked at me with doubt
I was already undressing.
DANCE
ÊTRE
Cía. Miguel Jiménez| Valencia
‘Who am I? Who is the other? Where do we come from? What
do we belong to?’
DANCE
T Campos- Cúpula
| 21:00|
Pre-Giudizio
GDO/UDA – Gruppo Danza Oggi | Italy
The PREJUDICE that permeates everything, distorts everything, modifies everything.
DANCE
Pink Lady
Rosalie Wanka| Germany
What is there, behind our socially requested avatar that bears our name?
DANCE
An Act
Neil Höhener | Switzerland
An autobiographical solo show exploring the fluid boundaries of identity and gender.
DANCE
Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa Auditorium
| 12:00 |
Choose to stray than stay GOMsisun / Korea
Our true love may inevitably be an uncomfortable and unfortunate choice.
DANCE
Re-garde
Cie MF | Maxime & Francesco | France
It’s an innocent, clear-sighted way of looking at things and ironically enjoying life.
DANCE
Sala BBK Aretoa
| 20:00 | CLOSING
ACT AWARD 2024 Metamorfosis 2.0
Yeinner Chicas / Nicaragua-Aragón
A dialogue between his folkloric origins, indigenous roots and the contemporary scene.
DANCE
AWARD CEREMONY
ACT RESIDENCY AWARD 2024
Repoblar el alma en tiempos de mascarilla
Maravilla Theater | Cataluña
It is a theatrical work based on Grotowski’s principles and a real event related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
PERFORMANCE