Festival Z Closing: Paella lunch at Plaça Assumpció

Festival Z Closing: Paella lunch at Plaça Assumpció

Plaça de l’Assumpció

Saturday July 11, 2:00 PM

Price: €14

Festival Z 2026 concludes with a paella lunch at Plaça Assumpció. After dancing with the open rehearsal of Abans que em mori, we will bid farewell to the sixth edition of Festival Z with a great meal in the square.

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Abans que em mori

Judit M. Gené

Abans que em mori

THEATRE | HYBRID SCENE | DANCE | MUSIC

Saturday July 11, 12:00 PM

Price: €8

Abans que em mori is a musical and theatrical performance that turns the stage into a traditional village festival (revetlla) and invites the audience to immerse themselves in the universe of a popular orchestra.

The piece combines songs, humour, storytelling, and memory to traverse a world of pasodobles, boleros, tangos, cuplets, and village dances that are part of the collective imagination of several generations, bringing them into the present and turning the performance into a living, intimate experience shared with the audience.

Abans que em mori incorporates material from real testimonies of elderly people, who explain how they loved, danced, and lived through music. As it unfolds, the piece delves into themes such as family bonds, ageing, memories, and everything that remains stored within the songs.

Original Idea: Judit M. Gené

Directors: Montse Colomé and Jordi Vidal

Musical Director: Jordi Vidal

Movement: Montse Colomé

Dramaturgy: Ramon Micó

Cast: Judit M. Gené and Rai Borrell

Set and Costume Designer: Joan Griset

Lighting Designer: Joan Griset

Production: Judit M. Gené

Distribution and Management: MònicaDeGira

Musical Arrangements and Sound Design: Gerard Bosch

Technician: Joan Griset

Photography: Estel Ibars

Video: Aïda Soler

Duration: 45 minutes

Language: Catalan and Spanish

Show for all audiences

Important notice: this show includes audience interaction.


Punt i Ratlla

Punt i Ratlla Teatre

Punt i Ratlla

THEATRE | CLOWN | GESTURE THEATRE

OPEN REHEARSAL

Friday July 10, 5:00 PM

Price: €8

Accessible function:

This show features amplified sound.

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Punt i Ratlla combines theatre, clowning, and gestural theatre. It presents two travel companions who find themselves caught up in a game of misunderstandings, in a world where everything seems like smoke and darkness.

With their reality disrupted by the invisible wall that separates them from one another, they will try to find a way to reconnect and continue their journey.

Through the body, rhythm, and humor, the show explores the difficulties of communication and the need for the “other” as the only possible way to keep moving forward.

Performance and Co-creation: Eric Remedios Vicente and Mercè Badia Pàmies

Bodywork and Clown: Eric Remedios Vicente

Dramaturgy: Mercè Badia Pàmies

Lighting, Sound and Video Design: Ivo Garcia Suñé, Neus Molina and Dúnia Boada

Artistic Consulting: Lola Luna, Celia García, Ainhoa Osuna

Technical Consulting: Ivo Garcia Suñé

Photography: Clàudia Blanco and Pol Naranjo

Duration: 50 minutes

Language: Catalan

Show for all audiences

Important notice: this show includes audience interaction, contains intense sounds (such as an alarm sound and slightly strident music), and features occasional flickering lights (no strobe lights used).

©Pol Naranjo Garcia

RAMAT

Oasi Teatre

RAMAT

THEATRE | CIRCUS

OPEN REHEARSAL

Friday July 10, 11:30 AM

Schedule:
11:30 AM – 12:20 PM – Ramat
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM – Aperitiu Fem Matx!

Price: €8

*This activity is part of the professional activities on Friday morning. With this ticket, you can participate in the Fem Matx! appetizer after the open rehearsal.

Ramat presents an austere, changing, and living landscape, where a lonely character has lost what is most precious to them: their flock. In their search for companionship and shelter, this performance unfolds, drawing on physical theatre, contemporary circus, and visual poetry to explore individual loneliness and the need to belong to a collective.

This shepherd cannot make the journey alone. The audience members become an active part of their new flock, a key piece for the survival of the show and the one who inhabits it. In this fragile and necessary bond between performer and audience, Ramat becomes a shared, organic, and unrepeatable experience.

Through natural materials, live music, the language of the body, and complicity with the spectators, the piece reminds us that perhaps being part of the flock is not as bad as it sounds.

*After the open rehearsal of Ramat, the Fem Matx! appetizers will offer an informal space to continue getting to know the companies and share a conversation while standing, enjoying a snack.

Original idea: Joan Riera Draper

Direction: Joan Riera Draper and Andrea Tur Galera

Performance: Joan Riera Draper and Andrea Tur Galera

Movement advisor and outside eye: Felipe Vélez Martínez

Artistic support: Última Vèrtebra

Set design: Treballs forestals Can Jordi, Oasi Teatre

Costumes: Oasi Teatre.

Production: Oasi Teatre.

Audiovisual material: Paula Ferrandiz Ortiz

Duration: 50 minutes

Language: Catalan

Show for all audiences

Important notice: this show includes audience interaction.

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De l'embolic al rastre

Dolça Alcanyís i Laia Picas

De l’embolic al rastre

PERFORMANCE | HYBRID SCENE

Friday July 10, 10:30 a.m.

Schedule:
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. – *Danceoké
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – De l’embolic al rastre

Price: €4

*This activity is part of the professional activities on Friday morning. With this ticket, you can participate in Danceoké at 10 a.m.

De l’embolic al rastre is an itinerant community mediation performance piece that takes place in public spaces.

A body of bodies follows the trail of memory. Rolling along. In the corners.

The street as a nest of memory, and a group of people crossing it, a tangle of intertwined legs and arms, with a head poking out here and there, advancing as a collective body. It leaves a mark: a trail of gazes.

The piece stems from a prior working process with local people, which serves as the starting point for this moving scenic device. The audience follows this journey, observing the movement of a collective body as it traverses the street and transforms the perception of the environment.

Through this languid movement, the piece invites us to listen closely and, beyond the daily murmur, perceive delicate polyphonies from other times.

Direction and mediation: Dolça Alcanyís i Laia Picas

Artistic accompaniment: Alejandro Santaflorentina

Participation of the Salt neighborhood

Acknowledgements to the students of the Degree in Performing Arts of the University School of the Arts (ERAM)

Duration: 30 minutes

Language: Catalan

Show recommended for ages 6 and up

Important notice: itinerant show taking place in a public space. The audience will wear headphones. The route is slow, short (max. 500 m), and flat, suitable for wheelchair users. The experience can be followed without the need to listen to the audio.


Vaga y Maleanta

Oniria Teatro

Vaga y Maleanta

THEATRE | DOCUMENTARY CABARET | VARIETY SHOW | HISTORICAL MEMORY

Friday July 10, 7:00 PM

Price: €14

Accessible function:

This show features amplified sound, a touch tour, audio description, and adapted subtitling.

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Vaga y Maleanta is a subversive cabaret that transforms memory into a show, bringing visibility to the history and past of our LGBTQ+ elders.

A documentary variety show where original music, improvisation, and dark humor are the main ingredients.

Kiki Morgan will be your mistress of ceremonies. This absurd, caustic, and risqué drag queen will take us through the era when the Ley de Vagos y Maleantes (Vagrancy and Thugs Act), later the Law of Social Danger, was in effect.

A comic, fresh, and committed show created in collaboration with the Fundación 26 de Diciembre, based on real stories and testimonies. A tribute to all those who suffered our past and fought for our future. An evening you will not forget.

Director: Jesús Lavi

Assistant Director: Lourdes García

Dramaturgy: Enrique Montero

Lighting: Leticia L. Karamazana

Set and Costumes: Fer Muratori

Tailoring: Clara Garrido

Musical Composition: Milo Giraldo

Choreography: Dolores Cardona

Sound: Hamblet Alejandro López and Víctor Rovira

Set Construction: Juan Carlos Rodríguez

Puppet Construction: Raúl Guirao

Musical Advisor: Íñigo Santacana

Dossier and Poster Photography: Igor Muñoz

Press: Manuel Benito

Executive Producer: Colette Casas

Production Assistants: Dolores Cardona and Yaiza Hervás

A production by Oniria Teatro

Duration: 90 minutes

Language: Spanish (subtitled adapted in Catalan)

Show recommended for ages 16 and up

Important notice: this show includes audience interaction.

Audio description icon: ©Freepik
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©Gregory Batardon

I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain

Lanormal // Sira Aymerich i Besalú

I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain

DANCE | OBJECT AND PUPPET THEATRE

Thursday July 9, 7:30 PM

Price: €14

Accessible function:

This show features amplified sound.

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I felt a Funeral, in my Brain combines dance, puppetry, wood, and the spoken word to explore identity, matter, and the spaces between the living and the inert.

At the center of the stage, a large pine trunk becomes a house, a refuge, a burden, and a coffin. This object, heavy with time and memory, engages in a dialogue with the performer’s body, which moves it, supports it, and confronts it. It is accompanied by a wooden puppet that functions as an alter ego, a conscience, or an inner voice.

The show offers an intimate journey that reflects on life, death, and the construction of the self, while questioning imposed roles. It creates a space where body, matter, and time converge to generate open-ended questions.

Artistic direction and interpretation: Sira Aymerich i Besalú

External view: Federica Porello i Jasmin Sisti

Scenography and costumes: Sira Aymerich i Besalú

Sound creation: Federica Porello i Yann Longchamp

Light creation: Théâtre du Loup // Alba Omedes

Video creation: Videoclub – Rémi Dufay, Sylvain Froidevaux

Co-production: Théâtre du Loup

With the support of: Fonds mécénat SIG, Loterie Romande

Acknowledgements: La Manufacture – Haute École des Arts de la Scène, Pep Aymerich, Nicolas Alvarez, Michèle Benz i Gaia Magrané

Duration: 45 minutes

Language: Catalan, Spanish, English and French

Show recommended for ages 8 and up

Important notice: this show uses strobe lights.

©Gregory Batardon
©Videoclub - Rémi Dufay, Sylvain Froidevaux

AARGH!

Mispronounced

AARGH!

THEATRE | DANCE

Thursday July 9, 7:00 PM

Price: Free (free admission)

AARGH! is a humorous dance-theatre piece that explores the scream as a point of tension between conformity and radical freedom. The work delves into the fear of being judged when expressing oneself freely and the transformative power of finding one’s own voice. Through a visceral journey from silence to noise, the piece turns the scream into a tool for self-affirmation and emancipation.

Creation and direction: Helena Gonçalves Alves i Mar Espona Moret

Interpretation and choreography: Helena Gonçalves Alves i Mar Espona Moret

Music: “Anadamastor” i “Lisboa Mulata” de Dead Combo

Art advisory: Stephanie Thomasen

Photography and video: Nikolaj Svansgaard

Production: Mispronounced Productions

With support from Dansehallerne, Dansekapellet, København Danser Studios, Uppercut Danseteater i Snabslanten

Duration: 15 minutes

Language: Catalan and Spanish

Show recommended for ages 5 and up

Important notice: this show includes audience interaction and shouting.

©Nikolaj Svansgaard

Shrek, Kebabs i la Caiguda de Iugoslàvia

Eduard Olesti

Shrek, Kebabs i la Caiguda de Iugoslàvia

THEATRE | PERFORMANCE

Thursday July 9, 5:00 PM

Price: €14

Accessible function:

This show features amplified sound, touch tour, and audio description.

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What do Shrek, kebabs, and the Balkan War have in common? In this academic-festive, insightful, and self-parodic lecture, the poet and his friends explain what you encounter when you reach the end of language.

Using words and PowerPoint, slide by slide, we will talk about men, pop culture, psychoanalytic delusions, the history of a vanished country, mass tourism in grim settings, Shrek memes, the metaphysics of the history of gastronomy, erotic desire, princesses, Tomàs Molina, the pain of others, cemeteries, speed, genocide, poetry, castles, and fear.

Creation and interpretation: Eduard Olesti

With the participation of his good friends: Maz Azemar, Rita Capella i Margarit, Enric Lizano i Marc Molins

With the support of: BCN CREA i la Fundació Joan Brossa, el Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya i el Festival TNT

Photography: Alessia Bombaci

Duration: 60 minutes

Language: Catalan

Show recommended for ages 12 and up

Important notice: this show includes sensitive content.

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©Alessia Bombaci

< Rap Rural >

Bewis de la Rosa

<Rap Rural>

PERFORMANCE | THEATER | DANCE | MUSIC | AUDIOVISUAL

Wednesday July 8, 8:00 PM

Price: €12

<Rap Rural> is the opening concert of Festival Z 2026: a performance piece by Bewis de la Rosa, one of the most prominent independent artists of the moment and a unique voice tied to rural territories. Her self-contained universe intertwines live music, dance, and performance with references to Castilian tradition and rural imagery.

With sound design by producer G. Rams, the project traverses rap, hip-hop, Latin rhythms, and folklore, building a scenic language with a powerful performative edge. It brings forward critical thinking, lineage, the importance of land access, self-sufficiency, spirituality, craftsmanship, historical wounds, and mental health-nourishing humanity with a cucharón (ladle) and a botijo (earthen water pitcher), while championing love as the ultimate engine for transformation.

Original idea, direction, choreography: Beatriz del Monte

Musical production: G. Rams / Doko Studio

Stage direction: Malditas Lagartijas

Performer: Bewis de la Rosa

Costume design: Mara Sannia

Graphic design: Cristina Meca

Sound design: Daniel García Marquina

Production: Nuria Gil

Communication: Victor Pereira / Promosapiens

Hiring: Carlos Barral / El Coet Internacional

Duration: 90 minutes

Language: Spanish

Show for all audiences

Important notice: this show uses strobe lighting and includes audience interaction.

Laura G. Muñoz

Âcid

Sound de secà

Âcid

HYBRID SCENE

Wednesday July 8, 6:30 PM

Price: Free (free admission)

Anarchic characters burst onto the streets with a traveling party. They spread a mischievous and cheeky energy, interacting with the audience through percussion, theater, movement, and voice.

In this roving show, the streets of Girona are transformed into a festive route where everyone ends up joining the revelry, set in an atmosphere of light, color, and visual extravagance.

A journey through funk and hip-hop that combines original beats with a fresh, striking, and electric sound.

Artistic direction: Genís Farran

Musical direction: Robert Canela

Movement direction: Heika Villar

Costume design: Josep Rosell

Cast: Laura Barquets, Robert Canela, Nil Centellas, Sandra Garcia, Joan González, Núria Pulido, Jordi Talavera, Natàlia Morales, Bernardo Manzambi

Duration: 50 minutes

Language: no text

Show for all audiences

Accessibility notice: this show includes intense sounds (percussion) and audience interaction.

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