The Festival Centro Histórico de Méxicois and has been one of the most significant and inventive springboards for the performing arts since its establishment in 1985.
For its 30th year the festival is featuring the Atra Bilis company and its play Te haré invencible con la derrota (I Will Make you Invincible with Defeat), directed and performed by Angélica Lidell. AC/E is collaborating with the festival by supporting the participation of this company through the mobility awards of the PICE.
Angélica Lidell is one of the most significant women authors and directors on the Spanish art scene. She has been awarded many prizes throughout her career, prominent among which are the National Prize for Dramatic Literature (2012) and the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale (2013) in recognition of her whole career.
Te haré invencible con mi derrota consists of an inner dialogue between the author and Jackie du Pre (1945–1987) – one of the finest cellists of the twentieth century who died at the age of 42. In this moving text Angélica Lidell examines the conflict between matter and spirit, when the body and illness have sway over the will. And she explores beauty and pain – a personal pain which becomes universal here – and Jackie’s inability to carry on playing the cello owing to the multiple sclerosis that caused her hands to become atrophied by the time she was 30.
For its 30th year the festival is featuring the Atra Bilis company and its play Te haré invencible con la derrota (I Will Make you Invincible with Defeat), directed and performed by Angélica Lidell. AC/E is collaborating with the festival by supporting the participation of this company through the mobility awards of the PICE.
Angélica Lidell is one of the most significant women authors and directors on the Spanish art scene. She has been awarded many prizes throughout her career, prominent among which are the National Prize for Dramatic Literature (2012) and the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale (2013) in recognition of her whole career.
Te haré invencible con mi derrota consists of an inner dialogue between the author and Jackie du Pre (1945–1987) – one of the finest cellists of the twentieth century who died at the age of 42. In this moving text Angélica Lidell examines the conflict between matter and spirit, when the body and illness have sway over the will. And she explores beauty and pain – a personal pain which becomes universal here – and Jackie’s inability to carry on playing the cello owing to the multiple sclerosis that caused her hands to become atrophied by the time she was 30.