Twelve works that you cannot miss from the performing arts festival Temporada Alta 2026

The Temporada Alta festival will celebrate a new edition between October 3rd and December 8th and will once again turn Girona and Salt into capitals of the performing arts. Great international masters, radical voices, and cult companies will meet there. We offer you a selection of the proposals that should not be missing from your agenda.

A high-level duel. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, one of the most international European choreographers, joins forces with Martin Zimmermann, a Swiss master of physical theatre. Between theatre, dance, and circus, together they have created a tragicomedy about the passage of time and the fear of being out of frame. More information: https://temporada-alta.koobin.com/ca/has-been

Fifteen years later, the Brazilian Christiane Jatahy revisits her celebrated version of Miss Julie. A master in the blend between cinema and stage, she transports Strindberg to present-day Catalonia to speak once again about class, desire, and misogyny. More information: https://temporada-alta.koobin.com/ca/julia

The Belgian Guy Cassiers, a renovator of the European scene, and the French actress Valérie Dréville adapt the award-winning book by Camille de Toledo. A family mourning serves to reflect the traumas of a disoriented Europe. More information: https://temporada-alta.koobin.com/ca/thesee-sa-vie-nouvelle

Cristiana Morganti, linked for more than twenty years to Pina Bausch's company, unites dance and biography with the theatre of the Argentine Claudio Tolcachir. Two women delve into a forest of memories, betrayals, and family wounds with echoes of Shakespeare. More information: https://temporada-alta.koobin.com/ca/the-forest

Piel de Lava returns, the Argentine collective that seduced the festival with Petróleo. Now, they place four deputies on a spaceship while the Earth burns. A sharp satire on politics as representation. More information: https://temporada-alta.koobin.com/ca/parlamento

Pablo Messiez brings into dialogue the interviews of the painter Francis Bacon with the novel El cordero carnívoro, by Agustín Gómez-Arcos. Instead of adapting them, he uses them to investigate the body and the reaction that a physical presence can provoke in those who look at it. More information: https://temporada-alta.koobin.com/ca/la-forma-humana

Xavier Bobés, a Catalan reference in visual and object theatre, premieres a scenic poem about death, memory, and accompaniment. Words, images, and presences to observe what is transformed when someone leaves. More information: https://temporada-alta.koobin.com/ca/epitap

After turning sexism and fascism into scenic dynamite, Agnès Mateus and Quim Tarrida now take aim at religion, blind obedience, and the merchants of faith. The fuse is lit once again. More information: https://temporada-alta.koobin.com/ca/massacre

Peeping Tom, a cult Belgian company and a benchmark in dance-theatre, recovers a key piece from its trajectory. A family keeps up appearances while their house falls apart. A classic of disturbing beauty, a trademark of the house. More information: https://temporada-alta.koobin.com/ca/le-salon-revisited

One of the undisputed successes of the season lands in Girona. The bailaora iconoclast Rocío Molina joins forces with director Pablo Messiez and musician Niño de Elche. Flamenco, theater and music to try to ensure the party never ends. More information: https://temporada-alta.koobin.com/ca/calentamiento

Romeo Castellucci, one of the most influential and radical creators in Europe, takes on Faust and the enigma prior to the pact with the devil. An immersion into the crisis of language with the visual power and mystical poetry of the Italian artist. More information: https://temporada-alta.koobin.com/ca/faust

Succession at the legendary Needcompany: Maarten Seghers and Sung Im Her take the creative reins and sign an anti-utopian manifesto about effort, failure, and human resistance. A new impulse for an unmistakable hallmark. More information: https://temporada-alta.koobin.com/ca/everything-must-change