Complete the week of theater: What Artedram organizes in Aulesti offers anyone the opportunity to fully immerse themselves in the world of theatre. On the one hand, from Monday to Saturday, debates, promoting knowledge and exchange among those who work in the performing arts of the Basque Country. On the other hand, offering top theater programming every day.

As for the training offered by the Artedrama Basque Laboratory (ADEL), this year it will be carried out by seven teachers and the enrolment has exceeded the best expectations, covering all the places offered.

Ander Lipus, who has been one of the main promoters of the initiative since the beginning of the Aulesti laboratory, will be among the teachers. This year it will offer the course “Dance of the Actor”, with teamwork and the autonomy of the actor as the main line, an eight-hour training that aims to deepen the techniques for the actors.

Bodies and texts in the game

Along with him, many other long-time playwrights: Aiora Sedano will work through the course “Here and now” on how to put aside the thought, that judge that we carry inside; how to accept failures, how to concentrate on the group, communication and play.

Ways of transforming texts into bodies will also be addressed in the ADEL courses. Oier Guillán and Javier Barandiarán in the course “Corps involved” will dynamize their attempts to create poetic physical images from short texts written by themselves, interspersing the imaginary linked to performance, collective writing and elements of visual poetry.

Once again, the course will be led by Pako Revueltas (“The Organization on the Scene. Playing with texts”), it will ask how to get in touch with the theatrical texts and the people who have them in their hands. The aim of the course is to play with the texts, explore the possibilities of staging them and try to do different things.

Cultivating vitality and movement

This year’s ADEL will also include two courses that place capital letters in the physical area: Through the course “Imbalance”, Iraitz Lizarraga will help participants to find strategies to make the body appear alive in the scene, promoting research and experimentation, as well as sharing the conclusions drawn from these attempts.

The Mizel Théret course will finally focus on dance with few movements and gestures. “Dancing alone, without feeling alone” is the name of the formation that will offer its name and will be completed around a minimalist internal dance, with the ultimate aim of seeking the freedom of the actress.

A play every day

In addition to the training offered by the ADEL, in Aulesti it will be possible to see a play every day between the 2nd and 7th of April.

Artedrama and Le Petit Théâtre du Pain’s recent premiere of Seven Brothers will open the series of performances. It is a work that brings together seven stories of fraternity, formed from the testimonies of Lander Garro, Mal Sarasola, Lorentxa Beyrie, Aitzaro Arano, Luz Perú, Unai Ituraga and Eñaut Castagnet.

On April 3, the Lekeitio by Mizel Théret, who will be teaching at the ADEL, will offer a show that combines the musical experimentation of Mikel Laboa with dance.

On the 4th of April Gilkhope will bring him to Aulesti hanging from the Horns: The comedies of two friends, born in 1975, will be staged by Ane Zabala and Galdór Pérez, offering a humorous look at the crisis of turning 40.

Trampoline theatre groups in Oingoa yes! It will be performed on April 5, a 20-minute play directed and performed by Josune Vélez de Mendizabal. The protagonist is Gertru, a character who wanted to be a dancer and singer, who has spent too much time waiting and now, yes, he is going to start a journey.

The theme of evictions will also have a place, as this is the focus of the work in the Red Street that Barsanti Teatro will stage on the 6th, which narrates the situation of some grandparents who are about to be dismissed after living in a house for 40 years. They've already got the police under the house, ready to fire them. Marino doesn't want to leave the house. Begoña, on the other hand, prefers to end this situation as soon as possible.

On Friday, April 6, the theater group Abarka will offer Bessilla, a play directed by Ander Lipus and written by Obispo Barandiarán, in which eight actors will take us to a future world, criticizing the society that lives immersed in comfort.

Miss Karaoke from the collective metrocadre will close this year’s Aulesti offering with a work that combines humor, absurdity and a soul of performance.

In anticipation of what 2018 will bring, last year Ion Olano Carlos experienced the Aulesti theater week from the inside. He chronicled his experience as a student: "Theatre without shame."