Festival Medieval Elx 2008

from 24th October to 2nd November

Every year the Medieval Festival of Elche involves the city in the mistic and sounds of remote times. International artists bring through music, theatre and parallel activities the opportunity to encounter the past.

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Información Turistica Elx

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30 octubre 05

A big show of pyrotechnics and music will close the X Festival

The tenth edition of Elx Medieval Festival is going to finish tonight, Sunday the 30th, October. Ten days of performances, concerts, shows in the streets, workshops and different activities.
The group from Valencia Visitants is going to be be the responsible of the closing with FAMdeFOC, a great show of street containing scenic arts, pyrotechnics and music. This company has created different assemblies, they have promoted artists training, they have investigated new languages of communication and they have invented an original concept of theater clearly seen in the staging.
Before the X Medieval Festival closing, there will be different shows during all the weekend: los Abanderados del Palio de Asti from Italy, they will brighten the streets up with typical dances. Moreover the Quixotic street Market (in the historic center of the city), will offer the possibility of going back in time to the Ingenious Noble era.
During the second weekend of the Contest there have been again activities for children with Visitants (“Tirant y Carmesina”) and Tirita Teatro (“El Retablo de Maese Pedro”). And also a Magic Show (on Saturday at 20:00 h in the Great Theater) entitled “Druidas y Leyendas”.
Tonight at 22:30 h in the Iglesia de San José, one of the last performances of the Festival: “Amor es poder”. Mixing music and theater, in which two companies work together: “La Trulla de Bozes” and “Teatro del Mundo”. Love will be the central theme, treated with a direct and popular language which is written in the language of the shepherds, the sayagués.

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