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DESCRIPTION:Sep 10-13\, 2026\nFingers crossed that Spain has escaped the la
 test hellish heat dome by mid-September\, when this four-day\, 62-show art
 s fair opens in Tàrrega\, a lovely old Catalonian town two hours by train
  from Barcelona. That the performances are free or low-cost and mainly tak
 e place outdoors—in plazas\, amphitheaters\, pavilions\, the shells of s
 wimming pools—lends lightness to genres that already tend towards joy: s
 mall-bore circus\, clowning\, street dance\, and contact improv\, a dance 
 idiom where bodies merge and separate according to gravity and ballast. Th
 is is not to suggest that the artists have forgotten various and sundry 
 “repressive contexts” plaguing the world\, the very serious FiraTàrre
 ga Web site reassures us. But the best creators at this year’s fair let 
 their disciplines set the terms. In the quartet KMS of Resistance\, by the
  Gen-Z French Moroccan choreographer Mehdi Dakan\, breath unites disparate
  dramas. Two dancers lock lips as if providing emergency oxygen\; all four
  roll like tumbleweed according to the rhythm of their inhales. The patter
 ns look simple and feel urgent. Manolo Alcantara’s art also has fundamen
 tally to do with rhythm. In his affectingly graceful solo Refuge\, the Cat
 alan circus performer organizes a whole poetic hour around walking the wir
 e. As for Tom de Ronde & Nick Deroo\, the deadpan Dutch duo turns the push
  and pull of partnering into a very funny meditation on intimacy.
LOCATION:Various Venues
SUMMARY:FiraTàrrega
URL;VALUE=TEXT:https://airmail.news/arts-intel/events/firatarrega
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