The Teatro a Mil Foundation links Mexico and Chile through the performing arts

Mexico and Chile are intertwined with an exchange from the theater scene with the initiative of the Teatro a Mil Foundation, celebrated Carmen Romero, founder and director of the non-profit organization that promotes contemporary art and performing arts of excellence to be fundamental in the lives of citizens.

We are a country that is very far away, but we have managed to make collaborations back and forthhe commented in an interview with The Day during his recent visit to our country. Various Mexican proposals have been brought to the South American territory, for example, by Claudio Valdés Kuri, Jesusa Rodríguez, David Gaitán, Conchi León, Astrid Haddad and the company Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol.

Among the firsts, he announced that There are surprises coming that the International Cervantino Festival (FIC) will announce when the program is ready, with which we have always had a very close collaboration.; the same will occur with participation in the cultural activities of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

I am very nostalgic for this country, I am going to confess it to you.she said when recounting that she was very involved when she was manager of the group Los Tres, because 10 years ago they spent a long time trying to enter the Mexican music scene, Through them I met her and I have a great dear friend, who is Julieta Venegassaid the interviewee during the talk at the Franz Mayer Museum, on the occasion of the Chilean foundation’s co-production work for the exhibition Museo 31, which is exhibited in this area of ​​the Historic Center. In the first months of this year it was exhibited at the La Moneda Cultural Center, as part of the 31st edition of the Teatro a Mil International Festival, which was attended by 135 thousand visitors.

The collaboration with the children’s television program includes theatrical productions starring the puppets of 31 Minutos, in which they adapted the classic works Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, in 2016, as well as Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, in 2021.

The Teatro a Mil Foundation was created in 2004, as a result of the success of the Santiago a Mil International Festival, which has been held annually every January since 1994. The son was born before the mother in this caseThe fundamental mission is to promote the performing arts in Chile.We are a multidisciplinary team that works fundamentally in four lines: access, training, co-production and circulation of works..

Every year, the festival presents national and international plays, music, dance and performance. The extension aims to decentralize and not only have a presence in Santiago, the capital, but also in other regions, such as Antofagasta, Concepción and Valparaíso.

We are determined that theatre be part of children’s lives, for example, explains about the work in training. For eight years they have been offering theater classes in public schools, so that it becomes a life tool for children. Each project we carry out has a component of work towards artists, the public and people, especially small ones..

And then, my heart from musicwhich has included Julieta Venegas in the festival with a theatrical production lovelyin collaboration with Argentina, in addition to the fact that last year they held the exhibition I love you, with paintings, drawings and embroidery by the singer Mon Laferte.

Carmen Romero visits Mexico with the good feeling of receiving the news of being awarded the Goethe Medal, the most important award in Germany’s foreign cultural policy. We are very excited to receive this award, because we are talking about the whole, not only about literature, but about the arts in all their dimensions, such as his observation of humanity and science; Goethe is an indispensable thinker in our culture..

He pointed out that the Teatro a Mil Foundation maintains a very important relationship with the Goethe Institute, which together with the French Institute supported artists during the dictatorship, They were also spaces of resistance for the visual performing arts; It is a long-standing relationship as a country.