Valencia is known for hosting a wide variety of performing arts festivals throughout the year. Some of the most notable festivals in the city are the following:
Contemporary Dance Festival - Dansa Valencia
Contemporary dance festival that serves as a platform for dance companies from all over the world to present their creations. Dansa Valencia is a festival of dance and new languages related to movement that aims to become a space for meeting, dialogue and plural views.
The festival, promoted by the Institut Valencià de Cultura, is celebrated in the month of April, in numerous locations, both in public and private rooms as well as in heritage and unconventional spaces. Theatres, museums, squares and parks host scenic proposals that form an x-ray of the most recent Spanish contemporary creation.
Classical Theater Festival - Sagunt a Escena
Sagunt a Escena is a benchmark festival of the performing arts that takes place in Sagunto in the months of July, August and September. All performances take place at the Teatro Romano de Sagunto, which is close to Valencia, and features classic theatrical productions in a stunning historic setting.
In the summer months, thousands of spectators enjoy the shows presented at the Roman Theater, the nerve center of the Festival. Theater, music or dance, among others, come together every year on stage to speak to viewers about the universality of classical myths from the perspective of contemporary artistic creation.
In recent years, in addition, a new concept of exhibition spaces has emerged within the Festival that, under the name Off-Roma, presents free street theater and gestural theater, circus, and music shows. , etc., to a more heterogeneous audience, fundamentally a family audience, who thus have the possibility of enjoying popular shows in the city environment – in their parks, squares and gardens – that allow them to approach the performing arts from a different perspective. closer perspective.
10 Senses Festival
The 10 Senses Festival, held every year in Valencia in the month of May, is an encounter with performing, plastic, cinematographic, audiovisual, literary and didactic art from a critical spirit and reflection on today's society.
The 10 Senses Festival is committed in each edition to making visible issues that concern citizens and to highlight the power of art as a catalyst for social action. Each year the programming is articulated under a motto that proposes an open reflection from the perspective of the different participating creators in dialogue with the public and citizens.
Festival Cabanyal Intim
The Cabanyal Intim Festival is an urban and proximity festival, focused on performing arts of an intimate, close and experimental nature. It is celebrated annually, over two consecutive weekends, inside the houses and other unique spaces of Cabanyal, the old fishing neighborhood of Valencia.
Designed for all audiences, the festival offers new stage experiences tracing an itinerary through the neighborhood with contemporary shows from various disciplines (text, physical, object and gestural theatre, dance, contemporary circus, performance, clown, music, underground cabaret, video art, dramatized poetry, puppets, etc.) with the aim of promoting dialogue between theatrical culture and the idiosyncrasy of a neighborhood, its history and its inhabitants.
Russafa Scenic Festival
The Russafa Escenica Festival, held in September, is a multidisciplinary festival that transforms the central Valencian neighborhood of Ruzafa into a large theater and meeting point for premieres, activities, discussion tables and exhibitions in the field of the scene. This is an event that occupies private spaces, such as offices, shops, swimming pools and bookstores, to convert them into representation spaces.
