Press Release The Roundhouse & Kindred Partners Announce The Return Of Global Phenomenon Fuerza Bruta With Their Brand New Show, Aven, For Summer 2024

[Jan McNulty]

PRESS RELEASE

Tuesday 14 November

 

THE ROUNDHOUSE & KINDRED PARTNERS ANNOUNCE 

THE RETURN OF GLOBAL PHENOMENON FUERZA BRUTA WITH THEIR BRAND NEW SHOW, AVEN, FOR SUMMER 2024
 

• FUERZA BRUTA WILL PRESENT THE EUROPEAN PREMIERE OF THEIR LATEST, AND HAPPIEST, SHOW,  AVEN
   
• IT WILL BE 10 YEARS SINCE THE COMPANY WAS LAST SEEN IN LONDON
   
• AVEN HAS BEEN PLAYING TO CAPACITY HOUSES IN BUENOS AIRES THROUGHOUT 202
   
• STRICTLY LIMITED 8 WEEK RUN STARTS ON 9 JULY AND IS ON GENERAL SALE FROM 16 NOVEMBER

 

 

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After 10 long years, Fuerza Bruta is finally returning to its London home - the Roundhouse - with its incredible new show – AVEN, a rollercoaster ride of euphoria, optimism and desire beyond the imagination. 

 

Fuerza Bruta brings a unique, club-theatre, experience to audiences through a spectacle of dance, music, movement, and passion that fills hearts with collective joy.

 

AVEN is a celebration of adventure and paradise. A place that exists in our minds. A space without a floor, without boundaries. This is a show that seeks collective happiness and pushes everyone’s  limits to find it. It sweeps the audience  up and envelops them with an unstoppable force. This is a show that will leave everyone breathless for more. This strictly limited 8 week run begins on July 9 running until 1 September 2024. Tickets go on general sale on 16 November.

 

AVEN is created by Fuerza Bruta Artistic Director Diqui James with music and musical direction by Gaby Kerpel.

 

Diqui James said: ‘We have spent a long time dreaming and building a show. A show that completely changed when we came back to rehearsals after the pandemic.

 

In AVEN we abandoned any note of darkness, we got rid of every trace of intellectual or aggressive strife. And we decided to create “the happiest show we have ever done” . 

 

AVEN is the show that demanded us the most effort from its conception to the grand premier. For 5 years we poured all of our joy and passion into AVEN, heedless of all else.

 

We return to the Roundhouse to let it overflow with Fuerza Bruta. To give it an emotional embrace. We yearn for it to be an immoderate reunion. The reunion of two kindred souls. Once more, we want to make those columns dance.  We missed it. Although, in truth, we never actually left the Roundhouse,  we are always returning.’

 

Marcus Davey, CEO and Artistic Director, Roundhouse said; ‘I am so delighted we're bringing the truly breathtaking new show from Fuerza Bruta to the Roundhouse next summer. Ever since Fuerza Bruta reopened the Roundhouse in 2006 we've been their European home, selling out night after night to hundreds of thousands of people over the years. I can't wait to welcome those people back who already love the company, as well as introduce new audiences to the incredible spectacle.’

 

More about Fuerza Bruta 

 

From its beginnings to the present Fuerza Bruta has visited 37 countries, 68 cities, with more than 6.8M live audience worldwide.

 

Fuerza Bruta was born in 2003, when Diqui James, creative director, Gaby Kerpel, music composer, Alejandro García, technical director and Fabio D´aquila, general coordinator, all former members of the theatre company De La GUarda, came together to form a new company. After months of creating and producing their own ideas, in the year 2005 the show Look Up premiered in Buenos Aires, and a year later reopened newly refurbished, remodelled, rebuilt Roundhouse and was a smash hit..

 

In 2007 Look Up opened in New York at the Daryl Roth Theater, where it  ran until 2016. In 2010, Fuerza Bruta produced the Argentina Bicentennial Parade, with a crowd of over two million spectators on the streets of Buenos Aires. That same year, the Fuerza Bruta show premiered in China, undertaking a tour that not only included Shanghai and Beijing but also many other cities in China.

 

In 2011 Wayra was created. Four companies and productions continue simultaneously in Asia, USA, Europe and South America with Wayra and Look Up. In 2017, Fuerza Bruta produced WA! A show based on Japan's cultural history, with the Fuerza Bruta hallmark, performing 500 shows in a year.

 

In 2018, once again Fuerza Bruta took to the streets of Buenos Aires, for the opening ceremony of the Youth Olympic Games, at the Obelisco. This was the first opening ceremony in the entire history of the Olympic Games that took place in the streets. 

 

In 2019, for the first time Fuerza Bruta premiered at Rock in Rio, the most important Latin-American music festival, to perform a show based on the festival´s 30 year history.

 

Created in 2022/23 AVEN sees the passion and experiences of all these years brought together. The show premiered at a new venue in Buenos Aires; Sin Piso, a space prepared for everything to happen, a factory of theatricality, music and celebration. Designed and built to continue experimenting and welcoming artistic challenges from all over the world.

 

Listings Information

 

Fuerza Bruta - AVEN

Tue 9 July - 1 September

Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Rd, Chalk Farm, London NW1 8EH

https://www.roundhouse.org.uk/

 

Performance schedule: Tuesday - Sunday various times see website for details. 

Tickets: £49 (Concessions £20 Tue - Thur; £25 Fri - Sun)

 

On sale

Wed 15 November, 10am advanced members presale / 2pm members pre sale

Thu 16 November, 10am - general on sale

 

Creative credits:

Diqui James - Creator/Artistic Director

Gaby Kerpel - Musical Director/Composer

Alejandro Garcia - Technical Director

Fabio D’Aquila - General Coordinator 

 

Notes to Editors

 

Biogs

 

Diqui James (Creator/Artistic Director): 

Diqui was born in 1965 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the age of 18, he started taking theatre lessons, in spite of never having attended a theatre before. He left the theatre school (Conservatorio Nacional) six months after having begun his studies. After that, Diqui enrolled in acting classes with various teachers for the next four years. 

 

In 1987, he formed part of La Organizacion Negra (1985-1992), an independent theatre group that created its own plays. 

 

He performed in the group's plays: UORC, La Tiroleza and Almas Exterminadas.

 

In 1993, together with some of his mates from L.O.N, Diqui co-founded De La Guarda (1993-2006).  In 2002, with many of the members of De La Guarda, he founded Fuerza Bruta with the goal to form a company in which creativity and experimentation are priority.

 

Gaby Kerpel (Musical Director/Composer): 

 

Gaby was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 18th, 1964. 

During his adolescence, he was encouraged by his older brother Anibal to take music lessons. He later played keyboards in several jazz-rock and pop bands. 

 

About the Roundhouse

Roundhouse is an iconic music and arts venue in Camden. Since the 1960s we’ve opened up space for creativity to empower people and communities – day in, night out. We’re on a mission to raise the creative potential of the UK so we give young people and artists the space to experiment, develop skills and be part of incredible moments that go down in history. 

We host world-famous musicians, iconic events and we create and curate our own shows too, in a pioneering programme of live music, theatre, spoken word and circus. This includes our flagship arts festivals, Roundhouse Rising, The Last Word and In The Round. 

 

Alongside live events, harnessing the creativity of young people and new artists is built into our DNA. Through our ambitious youth programme, 11-30 year-olds can take part in creative opportunities or use affordable studio space that can ignite a passion, develop skills or help them turn their creativity into a career. We also nurture freelancers and entrepreneurs that are changing the future of the creative industries.

 

 

 

About Kindred Partners

 

Kindred Partners are proud to present current, future and recent projects and partnerships including: the UK tour of The Official Take That Musical Greatest Days; the award-winning cabaret Only An Octave Apart; Coven, a new musical; the West-End transfer of the National Theatre‘s Dear England; Sarah Snook in the UK transfer of Sydney Theatre Company’s The Picture of Dorian Gray; the multi award-winning play Red Pitch; the award-winning musical, Two Strangers; and two new premium immersive dining experiences. Kindred are also proud to work as General Managers and Production Consultants to Elf the Musical; Mamma Mia! The Party; and the Winter Trails, Sweden. New musical development projects include: Call My Agent!, a new musical based on the Netflix sensation; Siren, a new musical; Prohibition, a new musical; and new collaborations with Elvis Costello and Macy Gray. Launched by Adam Kenwright in 2021, Kindred Partners is delighted to be collaborating with The Roundhouse exactly 25 years after Adam brought De La Guarda to The Roundhouse in 1999.