Teatro de los Sentidos

Camí Polvorí, 1

With Enrique Vargas as its artistic director and a long career behind it, the Teatro de los Sentidos is a company of actors who explore the world of theatre from a sensory perspective. They are based at the Polvorí de Montjuïc, once the castle’s gunpowder magazine but now municipally owned and leased to them.

Contemporary theatre

Teatro de los Sentidos is an experimental theatre company that approaches stage creation through non-verbal communication and from a multidisciplinary perspective. They have taken part in festivals all over the world and are seen as a model on the contemporary stage scene.

Besides creating and performing shows, the company provides training through the Escola dels Sentits, a centre recognised by the University of Girona that offers workshops, a master’s programme and a postgraduate programme.

From a military building to a cultural centre

Despite being a military building, the Polvorí looks like a typical Catalan farmhouse, made of stone and with a gable end tiled roof. Built in 1733, it was one of the buildings that Philip V had built after the War of the Spanish Succession to keep the city under his thumb. It was refurbished in 2005 and is listed as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest but presently closed to the public.