The festival will showcase some of Catalonia’s most innovative art, including audiovisual productions and installations by Cabosanroque and Señor Serrano; Núria Guiu and Cris Blanco; traditional dances by Sonia Gómez; the renowned La Veronal; a disturbing portrayal by Agnès Mateus and Quim Tarrida; an intimate circus performance from Los Galindos, and from Perpignan, Tato Garcia’s Catalan rumba.

The Mediterranean city of Barcelona, where multiple influences converge, clearly takes centre stage. French programmers praise the creative force, cradle of a new generation of artists who has demonstrated its ability to evolve and grow despite the 2008 crisis, to transform industrial premises into places for creation, to organise international festivals and to develop a unique and distinct aesthetic.

The programme’s Catalan orientation comprises some “eccentric, surprising, fun, joyous and unconventional” proposals, just some of the adjectives used by Monica Guillouet-Gélys, director of this festival in the north-east of France, to “characterise this culture that is once again at the forefront of the European stage”.

Over a period of two weeks, La Filature will offer spectators some fifteen shows, as well as exhibitions, films, talks and conferences, and this year, the effervescent city of Tel Aviv is also on the agenda, located just across from Barcelona on the other side of the Mediterranean Sea.