Thursday 11 February begins the ninth consecutive edition of the Temporada Alta Festival in Buenos Aires (TABA), with local and international programming.

Despite the global situation the world is experiencing as a result of the pandemic, TIMBRe4 and the Festival Temporada Alta de Girona look for possible ways and formats to continue betting on the internalization and scenic exchange. In this edition you will be able to access artistic works from Catalonia, Mexico, Chile, France and Argentina. Programming includes, for the first time, audiovisual formats and actions will be carried out simultaneously with the editions of the festival in Uruguay and Peru. Tickets will be in various modalities with access from $400 and free activities.

In this ninth edition, proposals will be made via streaming, face-to-face for a spectator and with reduced capacity, experiences through audio guide and audiovisual projections. The transatlantic drama tournament will be held and there will be talks with companies and artists to continue establishing exchange points through different digital channels.

From Catalonia, the sound artist duo CaboSanRoque will present a montage in virtual format designed to download and listen to, through your cell phone and / or tablet, in a supermarket. Audioguide for the supermarket in times of pandemic, simulates the experience of walking through a supermarket through everyday sounds.

The Count of Torrefiel, one of the most unclassifiable Catalan companies and with the most international projection, will offer an experiment on the desire to look at those artificial worlds that we have created. You breathe in the garden like in a forest, it is a scenic experience for a single spectator.

The Catalan grid continues with Psicosis de las 4.48 by Sarah Kane, with the performance of Anna Alarcón and Informe para una academia, renowned short story by Franz Kafka with the interpretation of Iván Benet. Both proposals will be live from Catalonia, via zoom, and will be held simultaneously with the editions of Temporada Alta in Montevideo and Lima. These two works can be seen on the day the session is scheduled and with a reduced capacity to facilitate the artist-spectator connection.

For its part, the Mexican Company Vaca 35, will open the process of two works that will be transmitted online: Project Women and When everyone thought we had disappeared. These are two works in co-production with TIMBRe4 and Vaca 35, with Mexican and Argentine members.

Chile will be present in the audiovisual field with Looking at something that explodes, medium-length film directed by Tomás Espinosa that focuses on the social outbreak in Chile during October 2019 and in particular with victims of eye trauma, as it happened to more than 400 Chilean men and women who still demand justice.

Chile will also present Creative Contagion, the first inclusive dance residency at the Gabriela Mistral Cultural Center. A collective work in digital format with a creative team that ranges from non-professional performing artists to people with disabilities.

For France, through the TIMBRe4 online platform, se proyectará Letters from the continent, by Virginie Dupray. An audiovisual piece composed of 21 letters, written in 2020, witnessed by various self-portraits of a new generation of dancers, choreographers, performers and directors. In person, will be presented Les impassé.e.s. A choreographic device created by Julie Nioche during confinement 2020. This contemporary dance piece will be directed remotely with local dancers in Buenos Aires and Lima.

Inserts, by Lorena Vega and brothers, will represent Argentina. A documentary play that revisits the place lost by three brothers. Two face-to-face functions will be held at TIMBRe4.