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Updated Monday, February 5, 2024-00:21
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There is no one better than a master of creativity, clothing and artifice to inaugurate, precisely, those festive days during which costumes prevail to become another person, the ingenuity of transformation, masks that escape boredom and the color that enhances all styles. The
couturier Lorenzo Caprile
will serve as a town crier at the capital's carnival, which, from February 10 to 14, will have its ballroom in
Matadero Madrid
. With concerts, workshops, giants, troupes, parades, big heads, gymkhana and the Goyesque manteo of the pelele included, for the enjoyment of family and young audiences.
Organized by the
Department of Culture, Tourism and Sports of the Madrid City Council
, on this occasion
La Juan Gallery,
also the ideologists of the Summers of the Villa Hot Cinema sessions, was involved in the design of this programming, with « an approach that balances entertainment and learning with the desire to encourage participation" of all ages, as explained by the City Council.
The couturier Lorenzo Caprile.ISABEL SOLANO
After the start next Saturday (11:00 am) with the blessing of the Madrid television station, which will soon return to the set of
Masters of Couture
, the party will continue with three workshops where boys and girls will be able to create their own wigs, bird wings and recycled instruments . If the first will have the advice and artistic imagination of the
Corta-Cabeza
team , in the second it will be the
artist Lidia Toga
who will help turn its participants into birds that fly over the Manzanares. While the
music collective Vibra-Tó
will help the invention of recycled instruments, inspired by the celebrations of Rio de Janeiro, Venice, Cologne and Cádiz.
Once dressed, the adventure will take the form of a gymkhana about the carnivals of the world, directed by
Juan Gómez Alemán
and with the artistic direction of the
costume designer Matías Zannoti
, to continue with the Almavera puppet show
(sonata for violin and puppets)
, by the
Granada company Etcétera
. As a garnish, the traditional giants and bigheads will be around in a troupe and the sounds of swing, rumba and klezmer music from the band
Jingle Django
, with the culmination of the parade (2 p.m.), where artists and participants will be able to march through the Matadero venue.
The theater company Etcétera.ENRIQUE LANZ
The fun will continue that same afternoon at
The Great Party of the Wigs
(4 p.m.), with three hours of music to the rhythm of the
artist Silvi ManneQueen
as master of ceremonies and with DJs
El Cuerpo del Disco, Oro Jondo and Laura Put
. And with a mandatory wig, as unusual and extravagant as possible, although the forgetful can resort to the creation workshop led by the members of Corta-Cabeza.
One day later (Sunday, 11 a.m.), the
Arrabel Cultural Association
will recover the custom of the manteo del pelele, in the style of the tapestry cartoons that Goya painted, and with a troupe of giants and bigheads, which will precede the songs of the murgas and chirigotas (12 h.). The end of the carnivals, of course, will be marked by the essential
burial of the sardine
(day 14).