Gala of the XXII Max Performing Arts Awards

The gala will take place at 8 pm at the Teatro Calderón in Valladolid

Concha Velasco will receive the Max de Honor Prize in her hometown

TVE will broadcast the gala live and in high definition by The 2, within a special program dedicated to the theater

"The party of freedom". This is the motto on which the XXII edition of the Max Awards that SGAE Foundation organizes this afternoon, at 8 pm, at the Calderón Theater in Valladolid, a gala that will highlight the Castilian-Leonese culture through the arts, tradition and the avant-garde. The gala will be broadcasted by La 2 of Radio Televisión Española live and for the first time in high definition.

Organized by the SGAE Foundation, with the collaboration of the City Council of Valladolid and the Foundation of Universities and Higher Education of the Junta de Castilla y León, the awards for excellence of the Spanish Performing Arts will run for a holiday in which it will be celebrated before all freedom.

"We want the Max Awards to be a celebration of freedom, to give voice to all people and groups, always with respect, and to remind us that art, in any of its forms, should not be persecuted," he explained. Ana Graciani, which highlights that the gala is not just an awards ceremony, it is a unique show with a specific theme.

The great celebration of the Performing Arts arrives, for the first time, to Castilla y León, in a week that also celebrates the 20th edition of the International Festival of Theater and Street Arts of Valladolid, whose artists will liven up the red carpet prior to start of the gala, starting at 6pm.

The scenic director Ana Zamora leads a luxury team, made up of Elisa Sanz as a stage designer, winner of seven Max Awards, and Deborah Macías as costume designer and costume designer. Wheat, blue and gold colors will turn a sober proscenium into a brilliant field of Castile. A predominantly female team for prizes in which "this year women represent 53% of the finalists", as Graciani explained.

"The gala will be a holiday, from dawn to night," Zamora clarified. "The commitment of the SGAE Foundation to give it a theme and creative freedom when developing it has allowed us to build a party in which we have a group of people who are committed to an idea to transmit some principles from the scenic and the theatrical. "

On the stage, as master of ceremonies, the actor from Valladolid will meet Fernando Cayo (Dress of Púgil and with shirt of Darío Beltrán) that will lead the gala in its diverse moments: morning, afternoon and night. "It is a pride to present a gala that has personality and content, a celebration that celebrates the Performing Arts without copying the strategies of galas of cinematographic awards from other countries," he said.

The feeling of vindication of the Castilian art is the one that has prevailed at the time of fitting all the artistic proposals of the gala. A festival of the arts capable of combining tradition and avant-garde through recitals and performances that go from the dulzaineros and cabezudos to contemporary dance and pop today. The performances of Sílvia Pérez Cruz (dressed in Cortana), the Burgos group LA MODA, Amancio Prada, Eliseo Parra (Vertize Gala), Julia de Castro (dressed in Armani, with a dress by Leandro Cano in photocall), Nuevo Mester de Juglaría, Let the children play Big Band and in the memory figures like Agapito Marazuela, Luis Rosales or Miguel Hernández.

A XII edition that will have exceptional contributions to deliver the 22 prizes (19 of the finalist categories and three special prizes): Charo López, Lucía Miranda (dressed as Anita's Singer), Lucía Quintana, Marta Poveda, Ginés García Millán and Óscar de la Source (Dresses by Vertize Gala), Ana Otero (dressed by Laura Bernal), Alba Frechilla and María Negro (dressed as La Novia & Co).

Special broadcast in the Sala Berlanga

For the first time, fans of the Performing Arts have the opportunity to follow the Max 2019 Awards Gala live (streaming, today from 8 pm) from Sala Berlanga in Madrid (c / Andrés Mellado, 53. Limited capacity).

The SGAE Foundation has enabled the broadcast of the gala on the big screen for all fans of theater and dance who wish to live live the excitement of the award ceremony. A perfect occasion to meet in a room equipped to enjoy the most awaited ceremony of the year for the professionals of the world of Performing Arts, accompanied by the finalist companies.

At the end of the broadcast, there will be a raffle among the attendees to attend as a public the Max 2020 Awards (travel and stay for two people).

Three special prizes

Organized by the SGAE Foundation since 1998, the Max Awards, whose prize is designed by the poet and artist Joan Brossa (Barcelona-1919/1998), promoter of one of the renewing collectives of post-war Spanish art, have been consolidated as over these years as the broadest recognition in the field of Performing Arts in the Spanish State, reaching a growing number of followers and arousing the interest of companies of all types and throughout the national territory.

These awards celebrate 23 years keeping their three special awards: Max honor award, that this year has distinguished the figure of Concha Velasco as a pioneer of Spanish musical theater; the Amateur Max Award or of a social nature, which in its XXII edition share ex aequo the Alicante company Taules Teatre and the riojana The Garnacha Theater, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the Performing Arts; and the Max Public Award, granted to Genovese de Groc Teatre, by adding the highest number of votes through the online application #VotaMax

The Organizing Committee of the XXII edition of the Max Performing Arts Awards is composed of Ana Graciani, president of the SGAE Foundation; Pilar Jurado, president of the SGAE; the playwrights Juan Luis Mira, Paloma Pedrero and Óscar Castaño 'Garbitxu' (president of the Territorial Committee of SGAE in Euskadi); and the members of the School of Great Right of the SGAE Eduardo Galán, Yolanda García Serrano and the choreographer María Pagés.

Freedom, tradition and modernity at the XXII Max Performing Arts Awards

The gala will take place this Monday, May 20, at 8 pm, at the Teatro Calderón in Valladolid

Concha Velasco will receive the Max de Honor Prize in her hometown

TVE will broadcast the gala live and in high definition by La 2, within a special program dedicated to theater

"The party of freedom" This is the motto on which the XXII edition of the Max Awards which will take place next May 20 at the Teatro Calderón in Valladolid, a gala that will highlight the Castilian-Leonese culture through the arts, tradition and the avant-garde. The gala will be broadcasted by La 2 of Radio Televisión Española live and for the first time in high definition, from 20 hours.

Organized by the SGAE Foundation, with the collaboration of the City Council of Valladolid and the Foundation of Universities and Higher Education of the Junta de Castilla y León, the awards for excellence of the Spanish Performing Arts will run for a holiday in which it will be celebrated before all freedom.

"This is a freedom with responsibility and vocation," said Ana Graciani, president of the SGAE Foundation, at the presentation of the gala before the media, held today in Madrid. The act was also attended by Óscar Puente, mayor of Valladolid; Urbana Gil, director of the Culture and Society area of ​​TVE; José María Viteri, artistic director of the Calderón Theater in Valladolid; Ana Zamora, director of the gala, and actor Fernando Cayo.

"We want the Max Awards to be a celebration of freedom, to give voice to all people and groups, always with respect, and to remind us that art, in any of its forms, should not be persecuted," Graciani explained. , which highlights that the gala is not just an awards ceremony, it is a unique show with a specific theme.

For his part, the Mayor of Valladolid, Óscar Puente, thanked the SGAE Foundation for "having trusted in our city to host this important event. Be assured that Valladolid will be up to the level that the Max Awards deserve. "

The great celebration of the Performing Arts arrives, for the first time, to Castilla y León, because "it was already time for the Max Awards to come to Valladolid, a city that has amply demonstrated, and continues to do so, that it is a city of theater and in which this weekend the Max Awards coincide with the 20th edition of the International Festival of Theater and Street Arts of Valladolid ".

The feeling of vindication of the Castilian art, to which Bridge has made reference, is the one that has prevailed at the time of fitting all the artistic proposals of the gala. The scenic director Ana Zamora leads a luxury team, consisting of Elisa Sanz as the stage designer, winner of seven Max Awards, and Deborah Macias as costume designer and costume designer. Wheat, blue and gold colors will turn a sober proscenium into a brilliant field of Castile. A predominantly female team for prizes in which "this year women represent 53% of the finalists", as Ana Graciani explained.

"The gala will be a holiday, from dawn to night," Zamora clarified. "The commitment of the SGAE Foundation to give it a theme and creative freedom when developing it has allowed us to build a party in which we have a group of people who are committed to an idea to transmit some principles from the scenic and the theatrical. "

On stage, as master of ceremonies, will be the Valladolid actor Fernando Cayo who will lead the gala at its various moments: morning, afternoon and evening. "It is a pride to present a gala that has personality and content, a celebration that celebrates the Performing Arts without copying the strategies of galas of cinematographic awards from other countries," he said.

A festival of the arts capable of combining tradition and avant-garde through recitals and performances that go from the dulzaineros and cabezudos to contemporary dance and pop today. Outstanding are the performances of Sílvia Pérez Cruz, the Burgos group LA MODA, Amancio Prada, Eliseo Parra, Julia de Castro, New Mester de Juglaría, the Let the children play Big Band and in memory figures such as Agapito Marazuela, Luis Rosales or Miguel Hernández .

A gala, the mayor has continued, to be held at the Teatro Calderón, "we are delighted that our most emblematic scenic space, which celebrates 155 years of life and 20 since its rehabilitation, welcomes with that reason to the most beautiful of the Spanish scene ". And he also wanted to accentuate the vallisoletano flavor that will give to this event two natives of the city: his presenter, Fernando Cayo, and Max de Honor, Concha Velasco.

The artistic director of the Teatro Calderón, José María Viteri, has highlighted this space as "the theatrical heart of Valladolid, a city that loves theater with 6 rooms that have continuous programming, and that celebrates the best way the 20 years since its rehabilitation : with the Festival of Performing Arts ".

Special broadcast in the Sala Berlanga

For the first time, fans of the Performing Arts have the opportunity to follow the Max 2019 Awards gala live (for streaming, next May 20 from 20 hours) from the Sala Berlanga in Madrid (c / Andrés Mellado, 53. Limited capacity).

The SGAE Foundation has enabled the broadcast of the gala on the big screen for all fans of theater and dance who wish to live live the excitement of the award ceremony. A perfect occasion to meet in a room equipped to enjoy the most awaited ceremony of the year for the professionals of the world of Performing Arts, accompanied by the finalist companies.

To attend, it is necessary to register in advance through the e-mail address salaberlanga@fundacionsgae.org, before May 17, 2019. At the end of the broadcast, there will be a raffle among the attendees to attend as a public the Max 2020 Awards (travel and stay for two people).

Special programming in La 2 de RTVE

Televisión Española will broadcast the XXII edition of the Max Awards in rigorous direct and for the first time in high definition. A gala that can be enjoyed on May 20 from 20 hours on La 2 and on rtve.es.

Urbana Gil explained that RTVE will continue betting on prizes with which they have toured many cities in Spain since 1998, because they have "characteristics and importance within the Performing Arts that makes us very proud of this content"

Thus, the emission of the gala is included in a special program in which you can also see the interviews of Fernando Cayo and Concha Velasco in the program Attention Works! on May 16 and 23, respectively, in addition to the traditional special that this program dedicated each year to the awards.

In addition, the program History of our cinema from Friday 17 will broadcast two films, adaptations of plays: Yerma, by Federico García Lorca, and Almost a gentleman, José María Forqué's film, starring Concha Velasco, who will attend the program as a guest at the colloquium.

By last, Spanish version will emit this Sunday 19 Girlfriend, adaptation of Paula Ortiz for the big screen of the applauded text Blood Wedding of Lorca. The program will be completed with a symposium dedicated to the poet from Granada and the theater in which Jaime de los Santos, Councilor for Culture of the Community of Madrid, will participate; Carlota Ferrer, playwright and director of the Fall Festival; and Irma Correa, member of the Young Company.

Three special prizes

Organized by the SGAE Foundation since 1998, the Max Awards, whose award is designed by the poet and artist Joan Brossa (Barcelona-1919/1998), promoter of one of the renewing collectives of post-war Spanish art, has consolidated over these years as the broadest recognition in the field of Performing Arts in Spain, reaching every time a greater number of followers and arousing the interest of companies of all types and throughout the national territory.

These awards celebrate 23 years keeping their three special awards: Max honor award, that this year has distinguished the figure of Concha Velasco as a pioneer of Spanish musical theater; the Max Amateur or Social Prize, which in their XXII edition share ex aequo the company from Alicante Taules Teatre and the riojana The Garnacha Theater, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the Performing Arts; and the Max Public Award, granted to Genovese of Groc Teatre, by adding the highest number of votes through the online application #VotaMax.

The Organizing Committee of the XXII edition of the Max Performing Arts Awards is composed of Ana Graciani, president of the SGAE Foundation; Pilar Jurado, president of the SGAE; the dramatists Juan Luis Mira, Paloma Pedrero Y Óscar Castaño 'Garbitxu' (president of the Territorial Committee of SGAE in Euskadi); and the members of the School of Great Law of the SGAE Eduardo Galán, Yolanda García Serrano and the choreographer María Pagés.

The companies Taules Teatre and La Garnacha Teatro share the Max Amateur Award 2019

With several decades of experience and numerous awards in their curricula, they have become two reference companies in the panorama of Spanish amateur theater

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The organizing committee of the Max Performing Arts Awards has granted the Max Amateur or Social Character Award 2019 ex aequo to companies Taules Teatre of Pinoso (Alicante) and The Garnacha Theater of Logroño (La Rioja). The first celebrates four decades of uninterrupted activity. Forty years, since its premiere in 1979, during which it has made more than sixty productions with which it has toured throughout the Spanish geography and, even, by different international festivals, from Mexico to India, and that have earned them to harvest more of a hundred awards. The committee of the Maxs has wanted to emphasize especially the role that the company has developed as a cultural promoter throughout the province of Alicante and, by extension, of the Valencian Community, and its permanent commitment to a theater amateur of great quality and committed to the reality of its environment.

Also veteran is La Garnacha Teatro, which since its creation in 1983 has established itself as a reference company in the amateur stage scene, both for its numerous awards and the rigor of its proposals, and for showing the consolidation of a cultural project in the one that practically continues the same team from its beginnings. In addition, this group has been the driving force of the Garnacha National Theater Competition of Rioja Haro, aimed at amateur and professional companies, which this year reaches its 22nd edition and has become the most important competition in its category of how many are held in all Spain.

On May 20, the director of Taules Teatre, José Antonio Pérez Fresco, and that of La Garnacha, Vicente Cuadrado Palma, will go on stage at the Calderón Theater in Valladolid to collect their respective awards during the gala of the XXII edition of the Max Awards for Performing Arts, organized by the SGAE Foundation with the collaboration of the Valladolid City Council and the Universities Foundation and Superior Teachings of the Junta de Castilla y León.

"Receiving the Max Amateur has meant, in addition to immense joy, recognition of a whole career of forty years," explains the director of Taules Teatre. "Four decades during which we have not ceased to release and rotate a single year, always wanting to grow and achieve maximum excellence. You can say that we are already an institution in our region, "he adds. In similar terms, the head of La Garnacha Teatro, Vicente Cuadrado, highlights the "immense joy" that this award has been for the entire company. "It has been something quite unexpected. The highest award we could aspire to, "he says.

Taules Teatre: 40 years of passion for theater

The passion for theater is what undoubtedly defines the work of Taules Teatre. This is the only way to understand the enormous involvement of the members of this company in a project that has been growing at the same rate that its audience was doing, and that, despite its own vocation amateur, aspires to offer a professional quality product to the spectators. "We are very demanding with ourselves, but also our public is more and more. People value our effort and the quality of our assemblies, and, in fact, of the nearly eight thousand inhabitants that our municipality of Pinoso has, around two thousand attend our representations regularly, "says José Antonio Pérez Fresco.

There is an anecdote that the director of the company recalls and that, somehow, portrays the members of Taules Teatre: "The Catalan writer and playwright Jaume Serra i Fontelles, with whom we maintain a magnificent relationship, he wrote for us Refugiats i fugitius, which we premiered in 2009. The work is about a group of people who every night take refuge in a station without trains to share stories with which to try to escape from everyday life and the monotony of their own lives. Serra told us that this is how he saw us all and, in reality, this story is a metaphor that defines us perfectly. The theatrers are very rare people "laughs Pérez Fresco.

The origin of Taules Teatre dates back to 1979, when a group of young people, moved by the euphoria of the Transition and the nascent democracy, decided to create a cultural association that, among other initiatives, soon launched with great success a film club and a theater group. The projections lasted five or six years, the theatrical activities, however, gained momentum and have not stopped in these four decades. "The company lasted because from the first moment the venom of the theater was permeating all of us. And in our audience. We managed to give life to a town away from large populations, in addition to offering cultural alternatives to our young people, so that they could be integrated and participate, "says the theatrical director. In this line, the training work that Taules Teatro has been developing since the early 90s has been particularly relevant, through the creation of a Municipal Performing Arts Workshop for girls and boys, which years later was transformed into a Theater School that currently has with almost a hundred students of all ages and from all over the region. "Over the years, we have made children and adults consider the theater as an essential aspect for their development. From our school, in addition, professionals from the scene have come out. All this feeds us, renews our enthusiasm and passion for theater, "he says.

The director of Taules Teatre, finally, points out two milestones in this long trajectory of the company. On the one hand, when in 1989, coinciding with the tenth anniversary of the theater collective, the Casa de la Cultura de Pinoso was inaugurated. There they found a suitable space to rehearse and represent their shows in conditions, which led them to "take the leap and face much riskier productions". Already in the 90s, on the other hand, when the theatrical competitions began to proliferate all over the country, the members of Taules Teatro saw there a possibility of undertaking new challenges and continuing to grow. His passion, again, was reinforced and recognized with numerous awards, more than a hundred since then, and with the jump to the international scene, participating in the Indian Theater Olympiad and in the Revolt Festival of the Mexican State of Durango. Acknowledgments to those who now add the Max Amateur Award 2019, which, in the words of José Antonio Pérez Fresco, will serve to provide "added value and new doses of passion to the company." For many years.

La Garnacha Theater: the dream of the theater

With almost forty years of history behind it and a spectacular curriculum, La Garnacha Teatro is considered one of the most prestigious amateur theater companies in Spain. The figures support it: its components have staged around forty works (currently, they have eight different productions in their repertoire) and add more than 350 awards in national competitions (and, among them, a total of 66 first prizes) . Also, as they like to point out, the company keeps four of its founding members in its ranks. "It seems like a dream," says the director of the theater group, Vicente Cuadrado Palma. "We never imagined that we would travel and get to know the entire Spanish geography, its gastronomy, its culture, its landscapes, doing what we like the most and finally reaching a recognition as important as the Max's," he adds.

The adventure began in 1983, when a group of students from the I.E.S. Brothers D'Elhuyar of Logroño joined together to, simply, "make theater". Since then, those young people have grown, but they say they keep their enthusiasm intact for the scene and, although they have been integrating new members to the company during the journey, they still prefer not to talk about generational relief: "We are still young and would like to continue with This project is the same as we started it, along with those who have joined us to make this story that we are passionate about and to which we have dedicated so many hours of dedication during all these years possible. "

They also keep intact that kind of motto that has guided them on their way: "We make theater to do theater". So, without more. Cuadrado explains: "We have always considered that the most important thing for us was the fact of doing theater, without this vocation could serve as a source of income for any. Therefore, La Garnacha has dispensed with the subsidies and never any member of the company has charged anything for their activity. Everything that is generated is reinvested in the group itself. " In this way, the theater collective has been adding each season new productions to their history, increasing their level of demand and avoiding prejudices. "We have represented all kinds of genres: comedy, tragedy, classical and avant-garde theater, children's theater, musical theater … And from works by emblematic authors, such as William Shakespeare, Albert Camus, Dario Fo or José Zorrilla, to classics of the Riojan theater as Manuel Bretón de los Herreros or contemporary playwrights like Alfonso Sastre and Ignacio García May"

In 2006, La Garnacha Teatro received a nomination in the Max Awards, in the category of Revelation Show, for The night of Madame Lucienne of Copi, under the direction of Angel Facio. "It is the only time that we have been directed by a professional, although it adapted to our group philosophy, but we had to renounce the nomination because it was not a professional company," says Vicente Cuadrado Palma. On May 20, however, the head of the company can go on stage to pick up a statuette at the gala of the Max. "By residing in a small community like La Rioja, where there are also very few theaters, the contests have allowed us to travel and make our work known throughout Spain. In a way, the prizes are the seeds that constantly renew our illusion and allow us, in addition, to finance new assemblies and initiatives ".

Some of those projects parallel to the company is, for example, the National Garnacha Theater Contest that since 1998 organized in the town of Haro. "The contest has a phase for amateur companies and another for professionals. It is a risk and, in fact, at first we thought it would not work. However, more than two decades later, the festival is fully consolidated and is a reference in Spanish theater, "he concludes.

Three special prizes

Organized by the SGAE Foundation since 1998, the Max Awards, whose prize is designed by the poet and artist Joan Brossa (Barcelona-1919/1998), promoter of one of the renewing collectives of post-war Spanish art, have been consolidated as over these years as the broadest recognition in the field of Performing Arts in the Spanish State, reaching a growing number of followers and arousing the interest of companies of all types and throughout the national territory.

These awards, whose next edition will be broadcast live at 8:00 pm on TVE's La 2, celebrate 23 years of keeping their three special awards: Max honor award, that this year has distinguished the figure of Concha Velasco as a pioneer of Spanish musical theater; the Max Amateur or Social Prize, which includes projects in favor of integration and social projection and amateur companies with an outstanding contribution to Performing Arts; and the Max Public Award, which will be granted to the show that has obtained the greatest number of votes from the public through the online application #VotaMax. .

The Organizing Committee of the 22nd edition of the Max Performing Arts Awards is composed of Ana Graciani, president of the SGAE Foundation; Pilar Jurado, president of the SGAE; the dramatists Juan Luis Mira, Paloma Pedrero Y Óscar Castaño 'Garbitxu' (president of the Territorial Committee of SGAE in Euskadi); and the members of the School of Great Law of the SGAE Eduardo Galán, Yolanda García Serrano and the choreographer María Pagés.