The Formentera Office of Culture is pleased to report that from 6.00pm on Saturday 19 February, crowds at the Sala de Cultura (Cinema) can enjoy Ella Balla. The performance by Moskitas Muertas is the third show of the 2022 L'Illa a Escena calendar.

Ella Balla is designed for children six and up. With Xénia Fuertes as the musical composer, and choreography by Mireia Sobrevela, the two actresses use text, live music and circus and dance techniques to present the vision of Tea, the protagonist in an eponymous work based on the childhood of choreographer Gillian Lyne. Tea is a girl who feels misunderstood, but soon discovers that inside she has a great gift: dancing. The show invites children and adults to be who they really are.

Moskitas Muertas started in 2017 in the particular environment of the island of Formentera. Coming from different places and disciplines, Fuertes (musician and actress) and Sobrevela (actress and dancer) came together driven by the vital need to communicate with their environment through art. In Entre Camas, the pair's first collaboration, words, live music and movement provide the means of filter-free expression and creation.

Ella Balla is Fuertes and Sobrevela's second effort, and it meant laying their creative and professional foundations. The production premiered at Mallorca's FIET Festival of Children's and Youth Theatre, and will feature at the 2022 Igualada Festival.

Recent years have found the two working on a theatrical project about the darker sides of motherhood that is based on the play Órfiles and which the creators describe as "a colloquium on infertility".

Admission

Tickets cost €7 and can be purchased at www.entradesformentera.cat. Unemployed people, under-employed freelancers, retirees, under-25s and single-parent and large families are eligible for a 50% discount.

The show will be held in accordance with health and safety protocols and in compliance with current regulations.

11 February 2022
Communications Office
Consell of Formentera

The Formentera Office of Culture is pleased to announce that 7 to 19 February, the Sala d'Exposicions "Ajuntament Vell" will host the group exhibition Els ODS dels Baleàrics.

This year work will be shown by 18 Mediterranean artists – 17 drew inspiration from the sustainable development goals (ODS derives from objectius de desenvolupament sostenible), and one, Francesc Ramis, presents a synthesis of all the goals. The goals are part of the 2030 agenda for a better world.

This exhibition is the third in the series Els Baleàrics, which is curated by Antonio Torres Martorell and sponsored by the regional ministry of European funding, Universities and Culture and Balearia Foundation. The idea is to disseminate the work of Formentera artists; Enric Riera participated in 2018, Mar Ample joins the initiative in 2022. Featured artists also include Ibizan artists Bonet Vallribera, Julia Fragua and Miguel Ángel García López.

Els ODS dels Baleàrics has already been displayed elsewhere in the Balearic Islands and the Valencian Community. After Formentera, the show will conclude with a stop in Barcelona.

Doors open at 6.00pm on Monday 7 February. The "Ajuntament Vell" gallery is open 11.00am to 2.00pm and 6.00pm to 8.00pm, Monday to Saturday. The gallery closes on Sundays, Monday mornings and holidays.

4 February 2022
Communications Office
Consell de Formentera

The Formentera Office of Culture is pleased to report that Formentera will soon welcome the second act of L'Illa a Escena 2022: Aión. This dance piece from Fils Roulants will be performed at 8.30pm next Saturday 12 January in the Sala de Cultura (Cinema).

The play was created and directed by Valeria Del Vecchio, who shares the stage with Pablo Arias. The performance is anchored by movement and is backed by an original soundtrack by Diego León Arias.

Aión represents a place outside of time where there is a multitude of possibilities, experimentations, games, fluctuations. It is a kind of open window on the origin of all things.

Citing a fragment from author Lorenzo Alessandro Pepe served as a source of inspiration in the play's creation, Del Vecchio explains the setting: "Before kronos (time) dragged the universe into a free fall towards the end of all things, when the gods, still children, played in Aión their cruel games - games of life and death, love and hate, attraction and repulsion, innocent and merciless games that experience all the possibilities of the real, interpolating every possible permutation in infinite combinations".

In 2017 Del Vecchio and Arias began collaborating on local improvisational performances of live music and movement, as well as assorted intensive courses. From these experiences grew the idea of creating a new project together: a piece that can be tailored to distinct places and spaces. In 2021 a version of Aión premiered at Eivissa's Territori Festival.

Del Vecchio has lived on Formentera since 2009. Her schooling in ballet and dedication as a contemporary dance teacher began in Del Vecchio's native Italy. There she worked in the dance and theatre company Moto Mimètic. She has since created several dance works and performed movement pieces like Perdius i Paries. The interest and passion for the body and movement have led Del Vecchio to develop her own method based on a technique known as Body Weather. She currently teaches regular classes and intensive courses.

Pablo Arias' assorted projects in dance, corporal expression, performance and musical composition date back to 2016. He is a singer, musician, composer in the collective Negritos, of which he is also the co-founder. He has also performed with the collective on various stages in Europe and Latin America, and collaborated with musicians as varied as Manu Chao and Alice Cooper. He currently collaborates with the Nius project for the aesthetic stimulation of children from zero to eighteen months old.

Admission and tickets

Tickets are available from tomorrow, Friday 4 February, at www.entradesformentera.cat for €7. A 50% discount applies for unemployed people, under-employed freelancers, retirees, under-25s, and single-parent and large families.

Health and safety protocol and current regulations will be enforced at all times.

3 February 2022
Communications Office
Consell de Formentera

The Consell de Formentera reports that this year Carnaval celebrations 26 February will be suspended due to the public health situation on the island, which entered tier 4 of alert Monday 31 January.

When a territory is at tier 3 or higher, controls must be placed on access to events outdoors and in open spaces, namely, in the case of popular festivities. For local celebrations of Carnaval, a social and festive occasion, such measures could not be guaranteed. Additional challenges were envisioned to enforcing safe physical distancing measures.

2 February 2022
Communications Office
Consell de Formentera