• Con un positivo balance concluye la más reciente edición del Festival Internacional Santiago a Mil, luego de 18 días de destacada programación de teatro y danza nacional e internacional. Un total de 600 mil personas disfrutaron de las múltiples actividades del Festival, que incluyeron artes escénicas, música, artes visuales y conversaciones.
• Del 3 al 20 de enero se presentaron 71 espectáculos con 296 funciones en salas y 90 en las calles y espacios públicos, alcanzando 21 comunas de Santiago. Las regiones de Arica y Parinacota, Antofagasta, Coquimbo, Valparaíso, Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins y Bío Bío también disfrutaron de la programación del Festival.

• El teatro continúa en la Región del Bio Bío, con la presentación de montajes en Concepción, Talcahuano, Chillán, Tomé y, por primera vez, Lota, entre el 22 y 27 de enero. Allí se mostrarán seis obras nacionales e internacionales, entre las que estarán Las ruedas de colores, Human body parts y El druida de Jagul.

• En Santiago sigue en cartelera El centauro y el animal del director francés Bartabas. Las funciones se realizarán entre el 24 y el 27 de enero en el Teatro Municipal de Santiago.

Santiago, 21 de enero de 2013.- El Festival Internacional Santiago a Mil cierra su más reciente edición dedicada a celebrar los 20 años de historia de uno de los eventos culturales más importantes de Latinoamérica. 600 mil espectadores disfrutaron de los 71 espectáculos nacionales e internacionales que se presentaron en teatros, calle y espacios públicos de 21 comunas de Santiago. 

En esta XX versión, Santiago a Mil presentó 34 montajes nacionales y 37 internacionales en 21 comunas de la capital y 30 funciones en otras 7 regiones de Chile. Hasta allí llegaron 259 artistas nacionales y 360 figuras internacionales, provenientes de 20 países. Tocatas Mil regresó este año con 21 conciertos íntimos de destacados músicos locales e internacionales y por primera vez incluyó dentro de su programación conciertos para toda la familia.

María Olivia Recart, Vicepresidenta de Asuntos Externos de BHP Billiton, operador de Minera Escondida, destacó la presencia del Festival en otras regiones del país. “Sienta un precedente respecto a la descentralización, con cada vez más espectáculos de excelente calidad que llegan más allá de la Región Metropolitana. Este año volvimos a estar presentes en Iquique donde participaron 73.104 personas y también en Antofagasta con 21.884, en ambas ciudades se presentaron montajes de gran calidad artística que irrumpieron la cotidianidad de las personas, buscando nuevos espacios de diversión y de encuentro en ambas ciudades. Estamos felices y orgullosos de haber sido parte de esta gran fiesta cultural”.

Desde Chile al exterior

La Semana de Programadores que se realizó del 14 al 20 de enero, se confirmó como la principal cita de América Latina para 140 directores artísticos y productores de teatros y festivales provenientes de todo el mundo, que llegaron a Santiago en busca de nuevos socios para producciones y giras de espectáculos. Este evento fue clave para generar nuevos espacios de exhibición para las artes escénicas de nuestro país.

En este contexto,  la Fundación Teatro a Mil suscribió un acuerdo de cooperación con el Ministerio de Cultura de Perú, a través del cual se busca visibilizar y difundir las propuestas de creadores escénicos chilenos y peruanos, en ambos países. Asimismo, se dio a conocer la nueva obra del actor, director y dramaturgo argentino Claudio Tolcachir. Emilia será coproducida por el Centro Cultural General San Martín de Buenos Aires y la Fundación Teatro a Mil.

El Festival continúa: Arica, Bio-Bio y Santiago

Santiago a Mil terminó oficialmente ayer en la capital, pero sus actividades continúan en otras regiones de Chile. En 2013, por primera vez el Festival llegó a Arica y en esta ciudad continúan las artes escénicas con El Druida de Jagul, que se presentará el 22 de enero.

En la Región del Bío Bío la programación gratuita recién comienza. Entre 22 y el 27 de enero se presentará una selección de obras chilenas e internacionales en las ciudades de Concepción, Talcahuano, Chillán, Tomé y, por primera vez, Lota. Dentro de los montajes estarán Brigadas y Entre gallos y medianoche. Desde el exterior se presentarán Las ruedas de colores (Francia), Human Body Parts (España) y El Druida de Jagul (España).

En Santiago, en tanto, se han extendido las funciones de una de las obras más llamativas de la XX versión del Festival Internacional Santiago a Mil: El centauro y el animal. En forma excepcional, el montaje proveniente de Francia y dirigido por Bartabas volverá a realizar funciones en el Teatro Municipal entre el 24 y 27 de enero.

Los números de la XX versión de Santiago a Mil

• Días del Festival: 18
• Países: 20
• Regiones: 7 (Arica y Parinacota, Tarapacá, Antofagasta, Coquimbo, Valparaíso, Libertador Bernardo O´Higgins, Biobío)
• Comunas de la Región Metropolitana: 21 (Santiago, El Bosque, Cerrillos, La Cisterna, Conchalí, Las Condes, La Granja, Independencia, Isla de Maipo, Maipú, Melipilla, Pedro Aguirre Cerda, Peñalolén, Lo Prado, Providencia, Puente Alto, Quilicura, Recoleta, San Joaquín,  Talagante y Til-Til)
• Obras: 71
• Obras nacionales: 34
• Obras internacionales: 37
• Artistas nacionales: 259
• Artistas internacionales: 360
• Funciones gratuitas de calle: 90
• Funciones de sala: 296
• Público total que asistió a la programación en salas: 51.864
• Público total que asistió a la programación gratuita: 535. 708
• Público de Eventos Especiales: 2.000
• Público de Tocatas Mil: 3.136
• Exposición “La historia detrás de la historia”: 7.292
• Programadores: 140

• The recent edition of the Santiago a Mil Festival concluded with a positive balance after an outstanding 18-day program of national and international theater and dance. A total 515,530 people enjoyed the Festival’s multiple activities, which included the performing arts, music, visual arts and conversations.
• This year, Santiago a Mil celebrated its twentieth anniversary, with theater performances that also included a special program commemorating the forty year anniversary of the Chilean coup d’état, titled Memory: 1973-2013.
•  Running from January 3 to 20, the Festival presented 71 productions with 296 indoor and 90 street and public space performances, reaching 21 municipalities in Santiago. The Festival’s program also reached the regions of Arica y Parinacota, Antofagasta, Coquimbo, Valparaíso, Libertador Bernardo O´Higgins and Bío Bío.
• The theater continues its itinerary in the Bío Bío Region with presentations in Concepción, Talcahuano, Chillán, Tomé and, for the first time, Lota, on January 22- 27. Six national and international works will be shown, among them Las ruedas de colores, Human Body Parts and El druida de Jagul.
• In Santiago, performances continue to be shown of The Centaur and the Animal, by French director Bartabas. Presentations will be on January 24-27 at the Municipal Theater of Santiago.
• The Santiago a Mil Festival is a project that adheres to the Cultural Donations Act, and is presented by Minera Escondida (operated by BHP Billiton), organized by the Fundación Teatro a Mil, and supported by the National Council of Culture and the Arts. For the third consecutive year, the main stage of the Santiago a Mil Festival was at the Gabriela Mistral Center (GAM).

Santiago, January 21, 2013. The Santiago a Mil International Festival closes its latest edition, dedicated to celebrating twenty years of history of one of the most important cultural events of Latin America. 18 days of programming ended with a positive balance: 515,530 spectators enjoyed 71 national and international performances that were presented in theaters, the streets and public spaces in 21 municipalities of Santiago. Some 10,426 people attended activities held in parallel to the Festival, such as music and expositions. And more than 60 Special Events also enjoyed great success: 2,000 people participated in conversations, talks, and master classes.

For Carmen Romero, executive director of the Fundación Teatro a Mil, the Festival represented, once more, the spirit of democratic freedom, diversity, encounter and joy that has inspired Santiago a Mil since its creation in 1994. “This motivation has kept us alive among the citizens who have accompanied us in our activities for twenty years. On this occasion, the audience vibrated again with topnotch productions and performances that took to the streets. By now, our Festival forms part of the society’s memory and this year we chose to reflect on the present and the past.”

María Olivia Recart, Vice President of External Affairs at BHP Billiton, operated by Minera Escondida, highlighted the Festival’s presence in other regions across the country. “It sets a precedent with respect to decentralization, in that more and more first-rate theater productions reach other regions beyond the Metropolitan Region. This year again we were present in Iquique and Antofagasta with productions of great artistic quality that burst onto the local scene and into people’s daily lives, seeking new scenarios for diversion and encounters in both cities. We are happy and proud to have been part of this great cultural party.”

This year, the Fundación Teatro a Mil presented 30 performances in 7 other regions of Chile: Arica y Parinacota, Tarapacá, Antofagasta, Coquimbo, Valparaíso, Libertador Bernardo O´Higgins and Bío Bío, where activities continue this week.

In this twentieth version, Santiago a Mil performed in 21 municipalities of the capital city: Santiago, El Bosque, Cerrillos, La Cisterna, Conchalí, Las Condes, La Granja, Independencia, Isla de Maipo, Maipú, Melipilla, Pedro Aguirre Cerda, Peñalolén, Lo Prado, Providencia, Puente Alto, Quilicura, Recoleta, San Joaquín,  Talagante and Til-Til. More than 259 national artists and 360 international figures arrived from 20 countries. These included France, the guest of honor, as well as Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Spain, UK, United States, and Russia.

34 national and 37 international productions were part of the Santiago a Mil program. The enormous local offer was classified into Theater Selection 2012, Emerging Theater, Family Theater and Street Theater, Dance Selection 2012, Emerging Dance, Production and Coproductions. This year also included the special section, Memory 1973-2013, dedicated to commemorate the forty year anniversary of the Chilean coup d’état.

Coproductions

The Fundación Teatro a Mil continues to support the work of notable national directors so as to develop and disseminate local performing arts within Chile and on the international circuit. An important part of this mission translates into productions and coproductions that each year are one of the main attractions of Santiago a Mil.

The twentieth version of Santiago a Mil premiered the play Escuela, by Guillermo Calderón, as part of the Memory 1973-2013 cycle, while Cerca de Moscú, by Paulina García and coproduced by the Fundación, was presented free-of-charge in a Santiago heritage site, the Museum of Contemporary Art in the Quinta Normal Park.

Both productions will return to perform in the third Teatro Hoy cycle in March until June.

To see and listen

The 20 year history of Santiago a Mil was remembered in the exhibition “The story behind the history” installed in the GAM Center. To date 7,292 people have visited this visual exhibition, offering the chance to reminisce over the most important events of the Festival since 1994 with photographs, audiovisual records, press archives, stage decorations and more. The exhibition will remain open until March 17, except for February 11-March 1 when it will be closed for maintenance work.

Tocatas Mil returned this year with 21 intimate concerts featuring outstanding local and international musicians. Chile was present with Luma!, Congreso, Los Tetas, Pink Milk, Magdalena Matthey, Silvestre, Angel Parra Trío, Inti-Illimani Histórico, Los Chamullentos, Juan Cristóbal Meza, Andrés Pérez Cuarteto Jazz and Ana María Meza, Dënver, Francisca Valenzuela, Gepe, Carlos Ledermann Trío and Camila Moreno. And from abroad hailed the highly acclaimed singer-songwriter Lula Pena (Portugal), Beatriz Pichi Malen (Argentina) and Los Camotes de la Sierra (Mexico).

For the first time, Tocatas Mil programming included concerts for the entire family. The GAM Center –official stage of Santiago a Mil – presented the rock band for children, Mosquitas Muertas, while Inti-Illimani Histórico also offered a recital based on their children’s CD, Travesuras.

From Chile to the world

The Presenters’ Week, carried out from January 14 to 20, was confirmed as the main venue in Latin America for artistic directors and theater and festival producers from around the world, who arrived to Santiago in search of new talent and partners for theater productions and tours.

This year, 140 local and international presenters participated in the seven-day exhibition of activities and shows of the most prominent artistic productions of Chile and Latin America.

Among the attendees were Darío Lopérfido, of the Buenos Aires International Festival (Argentina); Marie-Hélène Falcon, of the TransAmeriques Festival (Canada); Joe Melillo, of the Brooklyn Academy of Music (USA); Christophe Lemaire, of the Théâtre de La Ville (France); Krystyna Meissner, of the DIALOG Festival (Poland); Mark Ball, of the London International Festival of Theatre (UK) and Eric Bart, of the Odeon Theater in Paris (France).

In this context, the Fundación Teatro a Mil signed an agreement of cooperation with the Peruvian Ministry of Culture with which it seeks to visibilize and make known the proposals of Chilean and Peruvian stage directors in both countries.

Likewise, the new work of Argentinean actor, director and playwright, Claudio Tolcachir, was also presented. Emilia will be coproduced by the General San Martin Cultural Center of Buenos Aires and the Fundación Teatro a Mil.

A theater production of the company Timbre 4, to make its debut in April, will be the third coproduction with the Fundación after Tercer Cuerpo (2008) and El viento en un violín (2011).

Presenters’ Week was a key element for stimulating the circulation and generation of new exhibition venues for the performing arts in our region. On this occasion, work-in-progress was shown of the local plays No alimentar a los humanos, by Compañía Teatro de Chile, Histoire d´Amour, by Teatro Cinema, and Comedia, by Argentinean director Juan Pablo Gómez. New coproductions of the Fundación were also announced which will debut in the Teatro Hoy cycle: Castigo by Cristián Plana, and La imaginación del Futuro by Marco Layera.

Special Events

More than 60 free activities were programmed during Santiago a Mil and held in parallel to the Festival. Over 2,000 people attended these Special Events that brought artists and spectators closer together through dialogue and reflection. Renowned national and international artists participated in Theater Conversations, Late Night Meetings, Open Interviews, Master Classes and Small Audiences. This latter activity was carried out with children from the municipalities of Pedro Aguirre Cerda and Lo Prado.

This year, the Santiago a Mil International Summer School was also launched, a learning space where important international guests offered free workshops for Chilean artists and interested audiences in general.

The Festival continues: Arica, Bio-Bio and Santiago

Santiago a Mil officially ended yesterday in the capital but its activities continue to run in other regions across Chile. For the first time in 2013, the Festival reached Arica where the performing arts will continue with El Druida de Jagul, to be presented on January 22.

In the Bío Bío Region, free presentations are just taking off. Between January 22 and 27, a selection of Chilean and international works will be shown in the cities of Concepción, Talcahuano, Chillán, Tomé and, for the first time, Lota. The presentations will include Brigadas and Entre gallos y medianoche. And from abroad, performances will include Las ruedas de colores (France), Human Body Parts (Spain) and El Druida de Jagul (Spain).

Meanwhile, in Santiago, presentations are set to continue of one of the most eye-catching performances of the twentieth Santiago a Mil International Festival: The Centaur and the Animal. As an exception, the production from France and directed y Bartabas, will return to the Municipal Theater of Santiago to perform between January 24 and 27.

The Festival’s financial model integrates funds from public and private sources, of the municipal, regional, national and international levels. It is also supported by private companies in the region and with the incorporation of new collaborators such as the Costanera Center, Sparkling People and MasterCard, who join the contributions made by Minera Escondida, operated by BHP Billiton.

Santiago a Mil adheres to the Cultural Donations Act and is supported by the National Council of Culture and the Arts, subsidized through the Chilean National Budget Law.