The Leioa Street Artists Fair, organized by the Leioa City Council, will celebrate its XXIII edition and will do so with a powerful program that will bring the performing arts to each of the streets and squares of the municipality.
Umore Azoka Leioa has established itself as the showcase for artists who bet on the street as a space for creation, since more and more state and international companies are choosing Leioa to show their work for the first time. In fact, this year a total of 550 applications have been received (14% from the Basque Country, 56% from the State and 30% international) to participate in the Umore Azoka. These are figures that are exceeded every year.
In total, there will be 43 companies that will pass through Leioa this 2023, which will offer 90 street shows. It is worth noting the great diversity of disciplines that the program covers, with dance, theatre, circus, performances, clowns, itinerants, installations and music of all kinds.
Basque Country companies
A good example of this variety are the 17 participating companies from Euskal Herria: Aukeran Dantza Konpainia. Andoni Aresti Dantza, Panta Rhei, Barré Taldea, Harrobi Dantza Bertikala, Hortzmuga Teatroa, Deabru Beltzak & Hortzmuga Teatroa, Kimua Dantza, La Glo Zirko eta Dantza Bertikala, Lekittoko Deabruak & Zozongo, Pantzart, Piszafaktoria Ideian Laborategi, Rojo Telón, Sokaire Violinistas, Trapu Zaharra and Zirkozaurre.
State companies
As for the rest of the companies, 21 are from different provinces of the State. Thus, from Andalusia will arrive David Cebrian, Mariana Collado & Lucio Baglio, La Banda del Otro, Priyecto Kavauri and Vaivén Teatro; from Castilla La Mancha, Captain Maravilla and Mario Enzo; from Castilla y León, Jean Philippe Kikolas, La Pequeña Victoria Cen and Miguel Barreiro; from Catalonia will be Ambae Company, Pau Palaus, Jam and Las Kakofónikas; from Extremadura, CÃa Chimichurri; from the Balearic Islands will arrive the CÃa. Unbalanced; from Madrid, Non Sin Tri and Trip de la Noria; from Murcia, the company Uparte and from Valencia, Jimena Cacalletti and La Raro.
international companies
In addition, there will be the presence of six international companies: Batcharte Dantza and Collectif Primavez (France), The Black Bkues Brothers (Kenya), Vaya and La Wetumtum (Portugal) and La Lazuz de (Sweden/France).
All these shows, together with the different parallel activities planned such as the presentation of EZE-Euskal Zirku Elkartea, meetings with managers from Flanders, the signing of the Euskadi-Portugal agreement for collaboration in Street Arts, the Umore Meetings or quick business rounds , etc., will make Leioa the center of Street Performing Arts.
