EL CANTAR DE CANTARES / WORK IN PROGRESS

El Cantar de Cantares is a poetic stage proposal by Ignacio García, director of the Almagro Classical Theater Festival, produced by the Museo Universidad de Navarra. The play will be presented in work in progress format.

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El Cantar de Cantares is a poetic scenic proposal by director Ignacio García, who has been invited to participate in the creative residency program of the Museo Universidad de Navarra. In this program, invited artists are inspired by the Museum's collection, spaces or projects to generate a new work.

Ignacio Garcia visited the MUN Photo Archive on February 21, 2020, following a previous visit in November 2019. Since then, conversations have followed one after the other to give shape to this project. Thus was born El Cantar de Cantares, in the eighth rhyme translation of Fray Luis de León, on photographs by José Ortiz Echagüe, whose holdings belong to the Museum's collection, and music by Ignacio García himself on melodies by George Gurdjieff, Antonio Vivaldi, Bárbara Strozzi, the Mancuso brothers, Nityn Shawney and others.

The stay of the director and the performers at the Museum for a week allows the opening of the final process of creation to the research and teaching environment in the form of workshops, meetings with the director and the cast, attendance to rehearsals, etc.

RELATED ACTIVITIES

Workshop with Ignacio García: Communicating effectively. The word and beauty as a force of communication.

Aimed at all audiences.

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The Song of Songs. Work in progress. Performance for students.

Special function for students of the University of Navarra Campus

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BIOGRAPHY

At the helm of the Almagro International Classical Theater Festival Foundation since January 1, 2018, Ignacio García (Madrid, 1977) stands out for his broad projection as a director and stage manager and has extensive experience in the dissemination of the Spanish Golden Age repertoire.

With a degree in stage direction from the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Madrid, Ignacio García has received several awards such as the José Luis Alonso Award for young directors granted by ADE (Asociación de Directores de Escena de España) and the first stage creation contest organized by the Teatro Real de Madrid.

He has directed plays based on texts by Calderón de la Barca, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Francisco de Quevedo, Juan Del Encina, José María Rodríguez Méndez, Ernesto Caballero, Max Aub, León Felipe and José Saramago, among many others, on stages, festivals and national theater companies in Spain, Europe and Latin America.

He has been assistant to the Artistic Direction of the Teatro Español in Madrid; programmer of the International Festival of Contemporary Playwriting Dramafest in Mexico; he has collaborated, among many others, with the Gran Teatro Nacional de Perú, the Teatro Nacional de Bogotá or the Compañía Nacional de Teatro de México.