Theater, dance, rap and circus predominate in the artistic manifestations of the festival program for this day.
As part of the School of the International Festival of Living Arts Loja 2021 (FIAVLab), the Ecuadorian dancer, choreographer and teacher Christian Masabanda offers the dance workshop ‘Space, body and movement’ (for intermediate or advanced dancers), at 10:00, in room 832 of the Private Technical University of Loja (UTPL).
Manobanda has a degree in Contemporary Dance and Artistic Education from the Veracruzana University (Mexico), and a teacher in Advanced Studies of UNIR Theater (Spain). It is director of the Callejón Vacío collective, member of the National Dance Company of Ecuador and teacher of the Dance career at the Central University of Ecuador.
Rap and documentary meeting ‘Rapyala’
Simultaneously, at 10:00, the rapper and artist Caye Cayejera, the music producer and performer Nicolás Dávila (Musikraft) and the audiovisual producer Gabriela Giacometti (Sunday Lab) they will hold the meeting Rapyala, aimed at young people, who will be given the tools to perform artistically in rap and build a collective piece in this genre, accompanied by a documentary video clip (at Coordination Zonal 7, MIES).
‘The city of ignoble women’, dance and gender
The Choreographic Laboratory presents the dance show The city of ignoble women (for people over 12 years old), at 3:00 pm and 8:00 pm, at the Benjamin Carrión Theater. In the same place, the urban art exhibition will be available from 08:00 Kay Pacha Mural, from the artist Right-handed (Javier Flores).
The play was created around citizen participation, gender violence and the city as an experimental stage space. It combines dance-theater, music and art, and also takes elements from the cinema.
The story of Mary in ‘The name of the mother’
The Sánchez Aguilar Theater takes the theatrical piece to Loja In the name of the mother, to be represented in the Bolívar University Theater, at 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. It represents the interrupted adolescence, pregnancy, travel and childbirth of Mary, a young Jew from Galilee, narrated by herself. It stars Montse Serra.
Andean folklore with Grupo Asiri
Asiri Female Folklore Group from Loja arrives with the musical proposal Folklore with a woman’s face (for all audiences), in the Plaza de la Cultura, at 4:00 p.m. They perform folk melodies with Andean wind instruments, such as zampoña, quena, charango and Andean bombo, together with guitar and piano, to create a fusion of rhythms and styles.
Circus theater, circus without tent
The Carigán park will be the scene of two groups of circus theater. They will go first The time Machine, at 15:00; The following will be presented Rujano Brothers, at 4:00 p.m., and it will follow Its Paya, at 17:00. Circore will be at 18:00.
Theatrical games with persons deprived of liberty
The theater company UTPL and Panas del CAI they will present the theatrical work in a virtual way for all audiences The poetics of the seed, performance of theatrical games mixed with the construction of records in audiovisual format, as part of the I Intercultural Encounter Theater and Prison, with the participation of a group of young people deprived of liberty. It will be at 17:00. (AND)

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