The Museo Universidad de Navarra opens thenew season of Performing Arts and Music with National Dance Company Wales, which will offer two performances, on October 3 and 4, with two different programs. On both days the company will perform Tundra, which on the first day will be preceded by the piece Folk and the second by Atalaÿ. Tickets for the show, sponsored by Zurich, are already on sale and cost 26 and 20 euros.

The company visits Spain for the first time after a long tour that has recently taken it to Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Hungary and Hong Kong. It is characterized by its innovative work on any kind of stage and for all kinds of audiences, in different formats and contexts. She has commissioned works from international choreographers who had not previously worked in the UK such as Mario Bermudez Gil (Atalaÿ) and Marcos Morau(Tundra).

This season the new editions of the following series will take place Classics at the Museumwhich will be entirely dedicated to the theater of the Golden Age from the current scene, and Museo en Danza, which will focus on current dance creation.

Classics at the Museum will present works both in the Theater and in exhibition halls and intensifies its collaboration with the GRISO (Grupo de Investigación del Siglo de Oro) of the University of Navarra. It will begin on October 19, at 12 noon, with a literary wine tasting, entitled Better out with winewhich will relate common aspects between theater and the presence of wine in the literature of the Golden Age. That same evening, at 7:30 p.m., there will be a performance of the play Entre bobos anda el juego by Rojas Zorrilla, a co-production of the Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico and Noviembre Teatro, directed by Eduardo Vasco. As a novelty, one hour before the performance, the Professor of Spanish Literature Felipe Pedraza will give a free session with the keys to the play.

On Friday 25, at 7:30 p.m., the following will be performed Querella de Lope y las mujeresa current text by Yolanda Pallín that brings the spectator closer to the feminine cosmos of the most recognized characters of the famous playwright. One hour before, Carlos Mata, from the Golden Age Research Group (GRISO) of the University of Navarra will comment on the keys to the play. On Saturday 26th, at 7:30 p.m., the following will be staged No hay burlas con el amor by Calderón de la Barca, a performance with actors manipulating giant puppets, which will be commented one hour before by members of the GRISO. The cycle will end on October 30 with a dramatized reading of De los que entran sin pagar en la comediaa proposal that will bring short plays to the exhibition rooms of the Museum, starting at 7:30 p.m., with works by great authors such as Calderón, Lope de Vega, Cervantes, Lope de Rueda and Quiñones de Benavente.

November will be the month dedicated to dance, with the second edition of Museo en Danzasponsored by Obra Social LaCaixa and Fundación Caja Navarra, which will be inaugurated by the company of the National Prize winner Antonio Ruz with its show Present. The piece navigates between dance and scenographic installation and addresses the concept of present with a philosophical and sensory approach. It will take place on Thursday, November 7, at 7:30 pm. On Saturday, November 9, the choreographer and dancer will premiere a newly created work inspired by the Museum's photographic collection in the exhibition rooms, starting at 7:30 pm. On Sunday 10, from 12 noon, Ruz will share a vermouth with the public after a conference danced on the stage of the Theater in which he will present his professional and creative career, accompanied by dancers Irene Tena Mora and Albert Hernandez Lledó and supported by audiovisual projections.

On Thursday 14th the company Matxalen Bilbao will represent Fugas + Serenity Suite in the exhibition halls of the Museum. The first work, with five dancers, reflects on the idea of the group through images of gears, migrations and sculptures. The second is a duet that unites dancers who, with almost three decades of difference between them, adopt a common space to reject stereotypes and talk about the passage of time. On Friday 15, from 7:30 p.m. onwards, the world premiere of No Useless Flowers by Elephant in the Black Box Company, a dance and poetry show, choreographed by Marco Blázquez, based on the dream world of Federico García Lorca and born from the tribute to the women of 1939 in their exile in Europe and Latin America, their struggle and their need for freedom.

On Friday 22nd, at 7:30 pm, Lava Dance Company, with artistic direction by Daniel Abreu, will bring to the stage Bending the walls choreographed by Fernando Hernando Magadán (artistic director of Nederlands Dans Theatre 2), an exploration on the world of restrictions and limitations in our search for happiness, freedom and understanding; and Beyond choreographed by Virginia García and Damián Muñoz (La Intrusa), a humorous quest through the emotional landscapes of memory. On Saturday 23 Paula Quintana presents at the theater The Joysa solo accompanied -or a choreographed installation- about joy as a vital positioning and transforming power.

On Wednesday, November 27th, Taiat Dansa presents in the exhibition halls the choreographic installation No Half Measuresa reflection on the presence of dance in museums. The cycle will end on Thursday 28th, with the show Trasunto#2choreographed by María Siebald: six unpublished poems by contemporary Spanish poets and a deaf poet, adapted to body choreography and sign language syntax. Each poem is interpreted by a deaf or hearing impaired dancer who dances interpreting sign language.

The season also includes a meeting with Ignacio García, on November 21, the director of the Almagro International Classical Theater Festival will share with attendees his creative career as a stage director and playwright and his work as artistic director and manager.