Bogotá’s ballet takes the sky
Bogotá’s FIAV 2026 festival staged large‑scale outdoor ballet performances March 28–29 (and again April 4–5) with dancers performing across Plaza Cultural La Santamaría and Plaza de Bolívar — billed as citywide spectacles that literally 'take to the sky.' (eltiempo.com)
Spain’s Zenit Aerial Ballet is the company behind the festival’s sky pieces and its opening title “Aria” is offered as a ticketed evening performance with boletas priced at COP 11.200. (bogota.gov.co) “Aria” brings eight dancers suspended as high as 30 metres, choreographed to Vivaldi’s Las Cuatro Estaciones with live musicians and synchronized lighting, a production organizers say can draw on the order of 10,000 spectators per installation. (culturarecreacionydeporte.gov.co) The festival’s closing aerial work, “Nexus,” is presented as a 360º immersive piece that fuses ballet‑aéreo movement with live instrumental electronic soundscapes created in collaboration with the French ensemble Collectif Arbuste. (eltiempo.com) Collectif Arbuste is a Marseille‑based art collective known for percussion‑driven electronic projects such as Instrumentarium, and “Nexus” previously premiered in Spain in a production that paired an aerial company with the collective’s live electronic score. (lafriche.org) FIAV 2026’s official program lists more than 100 works from 18 countries, including a breakdown of roughly 27 international, 32 national and 43 district productions, with a mix of paid and free open‑air shows sold through the festival site and Tuboleta. (fiavbogota.com) Producers note the shows’ technical scale — touring rigs, specialist riggers, audiovisual crews and on‑site engineers travel with the productions — and the festival has coordinated with municipal cultural authorities to manage staging, street logistics and crowd operations. (youtube.com)
