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IBERESCENA 2025

The 2025 programme was structured in two moments – residencies for invited artists and residencies through open calls to integrate the programme of FIO CONDUTOR, in July 2025, and VOLTS – International Meeting of Performing Arts, in September 2025.

The open call focused on artists whose practice seeks to revitalize ways of living and resources, engaging functional systems and encouraging dialogue, exchange and experimentation. The selected projects had a strong component of ALTERITY, valuing identities, especially within the context of the colonial history that marks Ibero-American countries.

Training Activities: Situated Contemporary Performing Arts Laboratory: July 8–10
Paula Aros Gho (CL) was invited to lead the workshop “Situated Contemporary Performing Arts Laboratory” as part of DISJUNTOR – a training cycle project by CRL – Central Elétrica, consisting of a programme focused on performing arts research, reflection, critical thinking and practical experimentation.

Residency: July 14–26, 2025 | Final Showing: FIO CONDUTOR, July 26
-ō-𝙨𝙞𝙨, by Paula Aros Gho (CL), developed during the residency from July 14–26, with a final public presentation included in the FIO CONDUTOR programme.

Residency: August 25–September 6, 2025 | Final Showing: 25 VOLTS, September 3
EARTH BODIES, by Martha Hincapié Charry (CO), developed during the residency from August 25–September 6, with a final public presentation included in the VOLTS – International Meeting of Performing Arts programme.

IBERESCENA 2023

In 2023, the programme was structured in three moments – training activities, residencies for invited artists and residencies through open calls.

Training Activities: Dramaturgy Workshop – July 17 and 20
Alexis Moreno (CH), stage director, playwright and actor from Teatro La Maria, led the dramaturgy workshop “Five Approaches to a Scene.” Through the exploration of a dramatic situation, participants sought to uncover the potential layers of reality, understanding it as a range of possibilities.

Invited Artists – WATTS 2023 (July 21–22)

Christian Galarreta / Sajjra (PE): With extensive experience in multimedia art, musical composition and electroacoustic composition, he has presented his work since 1998 across Latin America, Europe and Asia through different projects and bands such as DiosMeHaViolado, Evamuss, Sajjra, Chrs Galarreta and currently as Sajjra.

Tomás Tello (PE): His work is inspired by traditional music from his country and environmental sounds. He explores the possibilities of multiplying himself as a musician through a wide array of instruments including DIY electronics, cassette walkman, AM radios, remote controls, cameras, guitars, samplers, voice, flutes, bells, among many other devices.

Residency: August 14–29 | Final Showing: 23 VOLTS, September 1

The Central Elétrica 2023 – IBERESCENA Residency Programme open call ran from March 20 to April 9. Two artistic proposals from countries participating in the Iberescena programme were selected.

FUCK HER, by Ludmilla Ramalho (BR): The performer’s body, naked and stretched out on the ground, is covered with feed while fifty chicks walk over it pecking to eat. A linguistic game that reveals the true agent behind the consumption of the female body.

REMINISCENCE, by Coletivo La Insolente Teatre (CL): Using an archival methodology, the work explores Chile’s collective and personal memory through the history of Malicho Vaca’s grandparents. Malicho uses the city as a stage, re-symbolizing spaces to address their physical and symbolic transformations.

IBERESCENA 2021

The 2021 programme was structured in two major cycles – residencies for invited artists and residencies through open calls (New Artists).

Invited Artists | Final Showing: December 10, 7:30 PM

Josefina Gorostiza (AR) is a director, choreographer, performer and teacher. Her research focuses on movement, understanding the body as a vast creative force. Her residency project at Central Elétrica, SUCUMBO, investigated being on stage to generate tension between tenderness and brutality, between beauty and monstrosity, between the minimal and the excessive — creating friction between sweetness and exhaustion, cracks between immobility and irrepressible vitality. Exploring different textures to install and uninstall images.

Azkona & Toloza (ES-CH) have dedicated recent years to researching archives that focus on the close relationship between the barbarity inflicted upon Indigenous peoples of Latin America, their territories and communities, the development of neocolonialism and various forms of contemporary cultural expression. At Central Elétrica, they worked on the third part of their research project in ethnographic and anthropological photography, “La Colección,” contributing to a rereading of our cultural history and, ultimately, to the decolonization of our gaze and the memory of our bodies.

The Central Elétrica 2021 – IBERESCENA Residency Programme open call ran from March 1–31, 2021 and selected the following projects:

Residency (New Artists): August 16–September 5 | Final Showing: 21 VOLTS, September 2–3

CADELA FORÇA, by Carolina Bianchi (BR): Research into femicide cases that have occurred in different parts of the world from the 1990s to the present day.

YO SALVO LA MUERTE, by Nicolás Lange (CH): Based on interviews with LGBTQ+ individuals born before the Chilean dictatorship, reporting homosexual relationships with high-ranking Chilean army officials between 1973 and 1990.