Events Calendar
To Thursday 16 July 2026
Date: July 14–16, 2026
Venue: Barcelona (Mercat de les Flors and Teatre Lliure)
Admission: €29 (advance booking required through Festival Grec)
The Korean Cultural Center in Spain (Director: Jaekwang Shin) is proud to present a special collaboration with Festival Grec, Barcelona's prestigious performing arts festival, featuring two outstanding contemporary productions from South Korea: a dance performance and a theatre production. Through innovative artistic languages, both works invite audiences to reflect on global and personal issues from fresh and compelling perspectives.
1) Contemporary Dance: Sung Im Her (1 Degree Celsius)
Synopsis:
This abstract, emotionally charged and hypnotic dance production explores the individual and collective body in the face of climate change. Through electrifying movement, pulsating music and dynamic lighting based on data tracking the rise in global temperatures, seven dancers perform with remarkable precision. The work places humanity at the heart of its relationship with both the urban and natural environment, revealing how bodies interact, confront one another and adapt to a world in constant transformation.
Dates: Tuesday, July 14 and Wednesday, July 15, 2026 – 8:00 p.m.
Venue: Mercat de les Flors, Sala MAC (Barcelona)
Admission: €29
Ticket reservations: Book tickets for Sung Im Her
2) Participatory Theatre: MULJIL (ELEPHANTS LAUGH)
Synopsis:
Inspired by muljil, the traditional free-diving practice of the haenyeo (the "women of the sea") from Jeju Island, who confront death with every dive, this production reimagines the concept in an urban setting. A series of ordinary characters perform while submerged inside transparent water tanks, inhabiting a fragile threshold between breath and suspension. The piece offers a powerful exploration of those critical moments when we confront our own mortality and ultimately find the strength to resurface.
Dates: Wednesday, July 15 and Thursday, July 16, 2026 – 8:30 p.m.
Venue: Teatre Lliure, Sala Fabià Puigserver (Barcelona)
Admission: €29
