Announcing RUTAS panamericanas International Performing Arts Festival

August 9, 2016

Aluna Theatre, in partnership with Native Earth Performing Arts, presents the third edition of RUTAS panamericanas International Performing Arts Festival.

RUTAS gathers artists and communities from across the Americas to witness, experience and celebrate the rich diversity of our hemisphere.

October 5–16, 2016
Aki Studio and Ada Slaight Hall, Artscape Daniels Spectrum
565 Dundas St. East

From a reinvention of European classics like Antigone, Hamlet, Othello, and Life is a Dream, to innovative ritualistic and physical theatre – artists from Colombia, Bolivia, New York, New Zealand, Venezuela, Argentina and Switzerland challenge how we frame our understanding of each other and our histories.

'Antígonas, Tribunal de Mujeres' (‘Antigone, Court of Women’) is a collective creation where six women victims of violence in Colombia do catharsis on stage while denouncing crimes against humanity. In the photograph, Lucero Carmona (left), mother of Omar killed by the Army in the 'false positive'; Fanny Palacios Romero (middle), whose family was killed by the Army for belonging to the leftist party UP, on stage with actresses Ángela Triana Gallego and Karen Roa; on the right, actresses Ángela Triana Gallego and Karen Roa. Bogota, April and October 2014. — Antigonas: Women’s Tribunal (Tramaluna Theatre) | Direction, Dramaturgy and Design by Carlos Satizábal | *Winner of the Art and Memory Scholarship from the city of Bogota. Photo:* Viviana Peretti.

For two weeks, the RUTAS panamericanas International Performing Arts Festival takes over Daniels Spectrum, featuring over a dozen Canadian, Indigenous, and Latin American groups, with performances, master classes, cabarets, concerts, film, art exhibits and a multi-day conference on the intersections of performance and human rights.

2016 will be the third edition of Aluna Theatre’s RUTAS Festival, founded by Aluna Theatre’s Artistic Director Beatriz Pizano. The Festival presents the work of artists from the Diaspora living in Canada, exposes Canadian audiences to some of the most innovative theatre companies on the continent, and creates cultural bridges between the South and the North.

RUTAS panamericanas 2016 also marks the third year Aluna Theatre is partnering with Native Earth Performing Arts to bring dynamic arts programming to Regent Park. Ticket packages (4 tickets for just $70) and single tickets are now available at rutas.ca.

RUTAS is programmed and produced by Beatriz Pizano, Artistic Director; Trevor Schwellnus, Artistic Producer; and Sue Balint, Producer, all for Aluna Theatre.
Select additional curation by Native Earth Performing Arts.

Media contacts:
Suzanne Cheriton, RedEye Media, suzanne@redeyemedia.ca, 416-805-6744
Jenn Perras, RedEye Media, jenn@redeyemedia.ca, 416-525-7625

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Read the press release here.

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