Historia del Amor @ Aranya Theater Festival

Historia del Amor @ Aranya Theater Festival

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  • Worked closely with our Chinese partners in supporting international programming for the 2026 Aranya Theatre Festival.
  • Ensured smooth communication between Agrupación Señor Serrano and our venue partner in every aspect of the tour, from artists’ schedules and technical preparations (including live video and projection) to media campaigns and various works related to the visit.
  • Assisted administrative tasks including performers’ visa applications, flights, local accommodation, and on-site management for delivering the performance successfully.

27/06/2026 – 28/06/2026, 2026 Aranya Theater Festival

How was love born? Why do we keep searching for it, again and again, even when we know some stories will never have an ending? Created by Barcelona-based Agrupación Señor Serrano, winner of the Silver Lion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, History of Love (Historia del amor) features a single performer taking on the impossible task of understanding why we love, and why we love the way we do. The piece unfolds through a double dramaturgy. It traces how love has been imagined across history, from a prehistoric cave to a trendy Barcelona restaurant, and sets this against the performer’s own experience of love today, leaving us to ask whether her stories are truly hers or ours. Running through it all is the myth of El Dorado, the city of gold hidden deep in the jungle that no one ever reached. Like the promise of love, it has been rewritten and reshaped across the ages, yet it remains one of the great driving forces of human existence.

The stage is a space halfway between an archive, a laboratory and a landfill, filled with the objects, remnants and debris left behind by millennia of love stories. Like both narrator and researcher, the performer finds, manipulates and dissects these traces through powerful monologues and an intense physical score. Live cameras magnify the smallest gestures and textures into vast projected landscapes, layering memory, myth and reality. Weaving together live video, objects, performance and physical theatre, the piece builds itself before the audience’s eyes. Rather than offering answers, History of Love holds up a mirror to our own ideas, frustrations and desires, revealing love not as a single linear truth but as a complex, ever-changing territory. Premiered at the GREC Festival in Barcelona in July 2025.

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