Art and Environmentalism

Preamble Given the negative balance of social and environmental situation exacerbated by climate change, the twenty-first century saw a new opportunity, perhaps the last, to restore balance. In this atmosphere of euphoria and good intentions, in 2000, in New York City, representatives of 189 states endorsed the Millennium Declaration, setting the objectives to fulfill by 2015, including urgent measures to alleviate inequality and the alarming global warming. A few years away, far from being met, developed countries are facing an economic crisis, social and environmental record, making shake its foundations. The current lifestyle of these violates the fundamental rights enshrined in the Declaration of Human Rights (1948), in the animal’s Rights (1978), signed by UNESCO and the UN and International Agreements on Sustainable Development. The emission of greenhouse gases, the destruction of large areas natural, poor management of natural resources and armed conflict for control of the same, the disappearance of species, migration, environmental refugees, rising and resurgent diseases considered extinct, increasing social tensions, are some of the indicators of human impact on climate change, increasing social inequality and leading to both animal and human genocide. The great paradox in the first world countries, alongside the great scientific advances and in this era of new communication technologies, there is a growing loss of values and identity of modern humans, making it difficult to self-knowledge and impoverishing notably his relationship with the environment, ensconced in the bubble of the welfare state, with individualistic and passive attitudes to the systematic violations of fundamental rights of every living being.

Blue Dragon

Madrid will celebrate the arrival of autumn with a new edition of this annual festival, XXVI and last, as from next year, will take place in spring, to avoid a clash with the start of the theatrical season. Until November 29, travelers are enjoying your stay in one of the hotels in Madrid are offered an attractive program of activities including theater, dance, music and circus. The Autumn Festival is one of the largest performing arts events taking place in Spain. Four weeks full of drama, dance, music and circus performances in eleven areas of Madrid and ten of the Community. The dance is what opens the festival with the company of the missing. Pina Bausch was a revolutionary who changed the conception of contemporary dance and moved its border to the theater. Lit House will host the performance of Whale Watching Tour, “a unique musical experience, a cocktail of artists similar concerns and diverse musical backgrounds, “according to festival organizers.

Robert Lepage, a regular at the festival, go this year with The Blue Dragon (20 to 23 November No Teatro Madrid), a show inspired by contemporary China that combines film language, dance, sound, voice and video with an array of multimedia effects to envelop the viewer on a journey east. Inside the circus offers, Lang Toi Vietnamese company exceeds the conventions of integrating different disciplines, theater, juggling, acrobatics, martial arts and music, to compose a narrative story that takes us to exotic Vietnam. Not to miss the Fall Festival prestigious international formations as the Piccolo Teatro of Milan, and domestic supply as Angelica and Marina Bollain Liddell, who runs a particular version of the opera 3 pence Brecht and Weill. Enjoy Madrid’s cultural offering this fall.