The Museo Universidad de Navarra inaugurates its new season with the opening of the exhibition Parallel Memoryby Japanese artist Hiraki Sawa, on September 25, and with the debut in Spain of the National Dance Company Wales, which will offer performances on October 3 and 4. In addition, September will also see the start of the new film program, which will begin with a cycle dedicated to the French filmmaker Jacques Demy.

TWO NEW EXHIBITIONS

In Sawa's works in Memoria Paralela, objects and images taken from photographs come to life and move in domestic spaces, almost in a dreamlike manner, recreating both the memories that populate our minds and those that may have been forgotten. In this way, the guiding thread of the exhibition establishes parallels with memory and oblivion, exploring the memories that it rescues from the collective amnesia prevailing in our time.

In addition to this exhibition, on October 23rd will be the inauguration of Jane Clifford. The Treasure of the Dolphin. The exhibition, curated by Mario Fernandez, brings together 54 historical photographs of the nineteenth century, of the works that make up The Treasure of the Dolphin, a collection of rock crystal objects and hard stones that houses the Museo del Prado. The authorship of this early example of documentary photography is attributed to the British Jane Clifford. It is surely one of the first photographic projects with this new art carried out by a woman in Spain.

Both Hiraki Sawa and curator Mario Fernández will give a masterclass open to the public on each exhibition. In addition, activities have been organized around the exhibits, such as the cycle Hausu. Domestic Spaces in Japanese cinema, with screenings on Saturdays from November to January; and the performative conference About Jane Cliffordwith the artist María Gimeno.

THEATER AND DANCE

In the field of performing arts, the season will begin with a performance, sponsored by Zurich, of the contemporary dance company from Wales, which will offer two performances with different programs. On both days the company will perform Tundraby Marcos Morau, which on October 3 will be preceded by the piece Folk by Caroline Finn and on October 4 by Atalaÿ by Mario Bermúdez Gil. The company visits Spain for the first time after successful tours in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland or Hong Kong and lands in Pamplona directly from Japan.

This season will see the new editions of Classics at the Museo, in collaboration with the Grupo de Investigación del Siglo de Oro de la Universidad de Navarra (GRISO) and Museo en Danza, focused on contemporary dance creation.

Classics at the Museum approaches the theater of the Golden Age from a contemporary perspective, covering the works of Calderón, Lope de Vega, Cervantes, Rojas Zorrilla, Lope de Rueda and Quiñones de Benavente. The cycle will begin with Entre Bobos anda el juegoa play by Rojas Zorrilla Noviembre Teatro and the Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico directed by Eduardo Vasco. The following will also be performed Querella de Lope y las mujeresa monologue by Carolina Calema with text by Yolanda Pallín that presents Lope's female characters from today's point of view; No hay burlas en el amor by Calderón de la Barca, which will be performed with giant marionettes; and De los que entran sin pagar en la comediaa review of the hilarious short plays of the Golden Age with direction and dramaturgy by Liuba Cid.

The second edition of Museo en Danzasponsored by Obra Social LaCaixa and Fundación Caja Navarra and subsidized by the INAEM, will be inaugurated by the company of the National Prize winner Antonio Ruz, with the show Present. In addition, the choreographer and dancer will premiere in the exhibition halls the newly created work Transmutación. This edition includes the world premiere of There are no useless flowersa work of dance and poetry by Elephant in the Black Box about women and the civil war.

The theater will also feature Lava Compañía de Danza, with artistic direction by Daniel Abreu, and Paula Quintana with Las alegrías; Chilean choreographer María Siebald presents a work that uses sign language as a vehicle for dance. In the halls of the Museum the company of Matxalen Bilbao and Taiat Dansa can be seen and there will be meetings with choreographers Antonio Ruz and Daniel Abreu. The season also includes a meeting with Ignacio García, director of the Almagro International Classical Theater Festival.

CONFERENCES AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

This season also sees the return of a new edition of the lectures program The work chosen by...in which artists, critics, curators and directors select a work from the Collection or artistic elements of the building to offer a personal reading. On this occasion, artists Daniel Purroy and Paco Polán and architect Francisco Mangado will participate. Seminars have also been programmed, such as Women who observe. Science, Art and Gender in the Two Spains with Juan Pimentel; and The (dis)institution of public space through artistic practices with Óscar Cornago. with Óscar Cornago. In addition, a new workshop has been programmedThe writing of short stories with short stories by Borges..

For its part, the Museum's Education Department continues to promote school programs and children's workshops. Each month, it organizes one linked to one of the temporary exhibitions or to the Collection, aimed at children from 4 to 14 years of age. This year, in addition, there will be the Rothko 50 Collaborative Project, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Mark Rothko's Untitled. Younger children will also be able to foster their creativity and sensitivity through music, dance and the plastic arts with the Initiation to the Performing Arts Workshop The Tower of Babelinspired by the work of the same name by Eusebio Sempere.