During January, Santiago experiences the largest performing arts festival in Chile. This is the Santiago a Mil International Theater Festival, whose billboard has attracted, since 1994, thousands of people to halls, open spaces and the street. The 2024 version will take place from January 3 to 28 in different cities in Chile. Its central purpose is to allow the majority of the population access to high-quality artistic shows, many of which are free and staged in public spaces.
Some unmissable free activities will take place in the commune of Santiago.
LE TRACEURS. In the heights, above the heart of the civic neighborhood of Santiago, the acclaimed tightrope walker Nathan Paulin will bear witness, through a choreography by Frenchman Rachid Ouramdane, of the feelings and impressions that surround him as he walks through the air. This show stars Nathan Paulin, an exceptional tightrope walker and holder of the record for the longest crossing, on a 2240 meter highline on Mont Saint-Michel, France. Crossing between the Banco Estado building and the Paseo Bulnes building, on the Alameda.
DEAR LAILA. From Palestine, this installation replicates a family’s miniature house, where a father tells his five-year-old daughter about the place where he grew up and why they can’t visit there. Through audio stories, photographs and artifacts, its creator Basel Zaraa shares his own story of exile, displacement and resistance. January 3 to 6, 2:00 p.m. to 9:45 p.m. in Barrio Yungay.
PACHAKUNA. GUARDIANES DE LOS ANDES. La Patogallina, one of the most important street theater companies in the country, prepares this parade with sculptures of three Andean animals that call to reconnect with nature and history. January 4, 8:00 p.m. at Bandera con Compañía.
FRANKESTEIN. This montage by the company Viajeinmóvil mixes grace and torment. A proposal with great emphasis on visual and auditory stimulation. The stage adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, or the modern Prometheus is a delight for the eyes and ears, a subtle mix of grace and torment. January 4 to 7, 9:00 p.m. Fine Arts Amphitheater. North side Museum of Fine Arts.
DANCE KARAOKE. The acclaimed Austrian choreographer Willi Dorner invites you to an entertaining karaoke party, where instead of following a lyric and singing, you must follow the steps and dance. Residents will be asked to spontaneously dance to a song of their choice in front of a camera at home, at work, in the park or in urban areas and from the material, dance clips will be created and projected on a big screen. January 7, 8:00 p.m. Location to be confirmed
CHEF.
Enjoy the return of this successful 2010 work by Jaime Lorca, a satire in which the reality of two characters is presented, who, despite their age difference, share the same fight against the crisis that their country is experiencing. January 8 to 21, 9:00 p.m. Anfiteatro Bellas Artes. North side Bellas Artes Museum.
PLANETA VERDEAGUA. This hilarious story for the whole family has charming aliens as protagonists who will make us appreciate the natural and cultural heritage of Chile. These strange characters who travel the galaxy have heard with admiration fascinating stories about humans, how beautiful they are in their varieties of forms and races; Now is the time to meet them live on planet Earth which, due to its appearance, they have innocently called “Planet Verdeagua”, but this adventure will not be entirely easy, because the place is threatened by modernity and lack of appreciation. of cultural heritage and its exponents. January 11 to 14, 9:00 p.m. Anfiteatro Bellas Artes. North side Bellas Artes Museum.
TRES ELEFANTES PASAN. Three giant elephants, a Celtic music band and an army of tin soldiers will roam the streets to end in a spectacular live concert. As if they had come straight from Gargantua’s son’s toy box, three mechanical elephants, with a squadron of metallic phoenixes, cross the city to the sound of bagpipes, bombards and drums of a small army of tin soldiers. This show – which will include the participation of Chilean volunteers – is inspired by the imagery of the production Transhumance, l’heure du troupeau (Transhumance, the hour of the flock) by the same company. January 12, 8:00 p.m. Constitution Plaza.
DRAMAWALKER: GALERÍAS SANTIAGO CENTRO. This audio tour, composed of dramaturgical fictions, stories and sound stimuli, is an invitation to wander through the galleries like a labyrinth. But be careful, you will have to make decisions to reach an unexpected ending. Dramawalker is a project of the National Dramatic Center of Spain (CDN) based on geolocated sound fictions, whose main objective is to show the stories and identity places of the center of the city of Santiago. The public will tour the galleries of Santiago Centro connected to a mobile device and their headphones, taking an immersive journey through the sound fictions about the city center. From January 16 to 20, at 11:00 and 17:00 meeting point. Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art Gallery, Compañía con Bandera.
DEEPER. Deeper is an immersive experience that combines art and technology, live performance and 3D reality, to explore and question the limits of what we know today as “human consciousness” manifested in threshold experiences. January 19, 3:00 p.m., GAM Center. Alameda 227
DIASPORA. Diaspora narrates the massive departure/escape of transvestites and trans women from Brazil who dream of a better life in Europe, showing the path traveled by these bodies: childhood, family rejection, perception, body changes, compulsory prostitution, violence, political struggle and life in Europe. January 19, GAM Center. Alameda 227
EFECTOS ESPECIALES. The Argentine duo made up of Luciana Acuña and Alejo Moguillansky, return to the Teatro a Mil Festival with a site-specific where the public is a witness and part of a live film shoot. The city is the set of an impossible movie where the character dies and does so over the course of days, nights, winters, rain and darkness, in a very long sequence shot, probably the longest ever filmed in that region. January 18 and 19, 8:00 p.m. Start in Zenteno with Alonso de Ovalle.
EL TEATRO EN SUEÑOS. The historic Peruvian company Yuyachkani celebrates its 50 years of experience with a multidisciplinary intervention in the public space, which seeks to pay tribute to theater. Spectators will witness a dreamlike moment, where aristocratic characters heading to the reopening of a theater encounter an unexpected situation: the characters of the play have escaped from the theater. January 19, 7:30 p.m. Municipal Theater of Santiago, Agustinas 794
PRENDIDAS FUEGO. Based on certain cases of dancers’ accidents that occurred in the mid-19th century and mentioned in the so-called history of Western stage dance, the work will attempt, through texts, movements and songs, to reflect on the female body in dance, on the world of dance and work, about dance throughout history. January 19. GAM Center. Alameda 227
SEA OF SILENCE. It is a project driven by a deep desire to immerse oneself in the journeys of migrant women who travel deserts and seas pursuing the dream of a change in their lives. Sea of Silence is in itself its own journey, in which the artist Tamara Cubas embarks and has as its final destination a scenic piece about which she knows little because the focus is the journey itself. January 20, 4:30 p.m. GAM Center. Alameda 227
TE MANA HAKAÂRA. The figure of the indigenous woman, through this show in progress, will bear witness to a fragmented memory that is reconstituted to the present day, through the performing arts as a heritage inheritance, giving value to cultural diversity, the right to life , and the assessment of the historical-cultural memory of Rapa Nui. January 18, 11:00 am. Room N2 GAM Center. Alameda 227.
TINKUNAKAMA – HASTA EL ENCUENTRO. This free version of El run run de la calavera by Ramón Rocha Monroy, one of the 15 most important novels in Bolivia, becomes a human comedy with masks worthy of the Comedy of Art. On the eve of the All Saints’ Day, an unexpected tragedy shakes a town: its oldest inhabitant has died. Despite the grief over this loss, preparation for the visit of the dead continues with chicha, food and music, while the deceased in the cemetery demand their place in the party. Tinkunakama, “until the meeting” in Quechua, is the name of this play – winner of the Peter Travesí Canedo National Theater Award. January 21, 8:00 p.m. Teatro Novedades. Cueto 257. Yungay neighborhood.
TOTAL. This is a pitch performance that covers the foundations of the scenic research of Paula Aros Gho (“Verdar”, “Granada”, “Correo”) who, upon completing 20 years of her career, decides to put together a total work of art (Gesamtkunstwerk), transferring her artistic-creative vision towards the Wagnerian notion of integration of the six arts: music, dance, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture. But unlike Wagner, what the director proposes is based on the integration of cartographies and the human relational map. January 21, 11:00 am. GAM Center. Alameda 227.