24th Canarias Dance Festival Transforms Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz de Tenerife will host the 24th Canarias Dentro y Fuera Dance Festival from December 26-30, featuring over 100 artists performing 40 pieces across a dozen cultural and urban venues.
The 24th Canarias Dentro y Fuera Dance Festival will turn Santa Cruz de Tenerife into a major stage for dance from Friday, December 26. Over 100 artists will perform up to 40 dance pieces in a dozen cultural and urban venues across the capital of Tenerife until December 30. This highlights how dance connects different cultures and reaches far and wide across the Canary Islands.
Audiences can find performances at various locations, including the Intercambiador hall, the Museum of Fine Arts of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the Museum of Nature and Archaeology (MUNA), Espacio La Granja, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, the Iberostar Heritage Grand Mencey hotel, Espacio Cultural CajaCanarias, Pasaje Cachimba, the newly renovated Círculo de Bellas Artes de Tenerife, and Teatro Victoria, which also organizes and promotes the festival.
The opening performance next Friday perfectly shows what Canarias Dentro y Fuera is all about: the direct link between the dancer's body, the space, and the audience watching. The festival will kick off at 12:00 PM at the Museum of Fine Arts with Daniel Abreu. He will show his piece Entre obras (Among Works), a dance that interacts with the museum itself. Afterward, the María Mora Dance Company will perform another piece created specifically for the location.
The first evening of the festival will be at Espacio La Granja at 8:00 PM. Here, Aleksandar Georgiev invites the audience to experience his large-scale work, Fantastic Futures (FF), which explores our shared ideas about the future, identity, and what we want.
You can find the full program, details about dance workshops, the 9th CineDanza Exhibition, guided discussions, and tickets for performances that require them, on the website canariasdentroyfuera.com.
For five days, the Canarias Dentro y Fuera Dance Festival will encourage audiences to think about the connection between the body and its surroundings through live performances. It will feature several well-known artists, including choreographer and dancer Paula Quintana, a recent winner of the Premios Réplica for Performing Arts in the Canary Islands. She will present Irse al limbo (Going to Limbo), a piece created specifically for the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Tenerife, performed on December 29 at 4:00 PM, inviting the audience to explore their own thoughts and feelings.
Another artist, María Toledo, will present Indoor Generation at the Museum of Nature and Archaeology (MUNA) on the 28th, with two sessions starting at 6:00 PM and 7:00 PM, aiming to engage visitors.
The festival also includes an urban dance circuit on the afternoon of December 30. Four companies—Élida Dorta and Román Brito; Sonia Rodríguez/Enrico Paglialinga & Giacomo Corvaia; EnbeDanza; and Luz de Esperanza—will perform at the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Tenerife, the courtyard of Espacio Cultural CajaCanarias, and Pasaje Cachimba.
As in previous years, the festival will highlight connections with other islands and countries. On December 27 and 28, the program will feature a company from Italy (Gaetano Palermo's, performing Swan) and one from Ireland (Amir Sabra's, with Within this party), showing once more that dance truly knows no borders.
The 9th CineDanza Exhibition will move beyond its usual venues to include everyday public spaces, such as the lobby of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Intercambiador. This shows its dedication to using public spaces and bringing dance to unexpected places.
In short, starting next week, the Canarias Dentro y Fuera Dance Festival will again present the wide and varied world of dance. For five days, music and dance will fill cultural venues and public areas across Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
"This 24th edition," say the organizers, "confirms the Canary Islands' strong connection to dance and once again establishes Santa Cruz de Tenerife as a creative hub. Here, local, national, and international artists connect with each other, with the city, and with the audience." They add, "The festival is a great reunion of bodies, eyes, and spaces, a common territory where dance gives new meaning to the capital and encourages everyone to move."