Fira Tàrrega 2026: 10 shows designed to celebrate

Barcelona"In a complicated, hostile moment with little hopeful news, this year we want to reclaim the act of celebrating," says the director of Fira Tàrrega, Anna Giribet. The event, one of the most relevant in the world of performing arts in Catalonia, will take place from September 10th to 13th and will host almost sixty shows by established artists and emerging talents. We have chosen 10 that focus on the theme of this 46th edition: the party and the gathering.

The company Kamchàtka takes on the challenge this year of inaugurating Fira Tàrrega. It will do so by recreating the remains of a city in the Hort del Barceloní to bring to the forefront those people who are forced to leave their homes and flee without direction. Between poetry and protest, Incontinuo aims to be a tribute to the courage and bravery of all those anonymous people who do not know if they will be able to return to their homes.

The Korean company A-Run Crew will deploy at the Plaça de les Nacions a show made of virtuous, delicate and at the same time risky movements. Between dance and circus, Wazac is a proposal revolving around wooden objects that collapse before the eyes of the spectators. Upon these ruins, the performers will build new movements to make a cry for regeneration.

As the creator Vero Cendoya said when she presented this show in January at the National Theatre of Catalonia: "It is a protest and luminous party". With this objective, the choreographer brings together performers with and without functional diversity in a piece full of courage and vindication of difference, with the promise that everyone will leave dancing.

What if streets could return to being play spaces free of rules and restrictions? Under this premise, the British companies Chameleon and Clémentine & Lisard will transform one of Tàrrega's most iconic squares into the quintessential recreational space. But this is not just about playing, but about discovering how, through these activities, we can connect with other cultures and experiences.

With a table in the middle of the street, tablecloths, chairs, instruments, and speakers, Sound de Secà is all set: the party can begin. This company fuses root percussion and voice with electronic sounds in a proposal that is not simply a concert, but an open-air gathering that unites tradition and modernity.

The multi-award-winning Basque company Marie de Jongh presents its first street show, designed to be a critique of the touristification of the territory in the form of a comedy. The protagonist of the play is Bo, a bossy and rude man who walks around accompanied by an entourage of servants and many suitcases, convinced that the entire space is his and that everyone who inhabits it is at his service.

Two high-security agents await the arrival of a high-profile public figure. They are men highly trained in lethal techniques, convinced of their professional worth. And, while they wait, everything will happen. Through physical theater and humor, the Trasla2 company constructs a piece of political satire designed to appeal to a diverse and intergenerational audience.

The clown Alba Sarraute, co-director of the Fira Trapezi in Reus, brings to Tàrrega one of the shows designed for all audiences to enjoy. As the title indicates, this is a traveling proposal with the moon as a guide. The protagonist, Lua, will seek to ignite her own light through an adventure that emphasizes subtle humor and the relationship between children and their companions.

The fascination aroused by the Inuit and their way of life has led the company Festuc Teatre to build a space that is not an igloo but looks very much like one. All those who enter it will discover firsthand how people live in the world of the Inuit and how they became one of the few peoples capable of inhabiting one of the most extreme and beautiful places on the planet.

We all carry a burden, even if it is not always visible. Based on this idea, the company L'Atapeïda launches a show that plays with the actions of lifting, dismantling, moving, and supporting to reflect, through humor and acrobatics, how weights are not always perceptible to everyone, but can have consequences.