They are Christmas concepts you are familiar with, which fill the Stations of Christmas with meaning. An unusual, captivating event in which four Catalan companies, Pea Green Boat, Andrea Díaz Reboredo, Mambo Project and Zero en Conducta, were given the assignment to create four brief, intimate small-format shows for a limited number of spectators at each function, all centred on visual and object theatre.

You’ll see how each artist evokes Christmas under the common concept of “stations”. Each of the vignettes you’ll see performed is a station on the audience’s journey to a singular world. Christmas scenes and stories will lead you on an emotional journey. Stop for a moment, look and question. A proposal by four artists and artist collectives that have created a shared, interwoven story. Come, feel, discover...

Where can we go to find the best ideas to improve the Earth... if not another planet? Els Atrapasomnis have climbed into a hot-air balloon which has taken them to the Violet Planet, and there they’ve found a world filled with colours, music and surprising characters, where anything is possible. And lots of ideas to make the Earth a better place. Would you like to know what they are? They’ll share them with everyone in this show.

This is a huge celebration where you’ll find new friends, overcome challenges and enjoy unforgettable moments talking about equality, respect, healthy eating and a commitment to the world. All of this is enlivened with the magic of the top music hits you’re sure to know that are now part of Els Atrapasomnis’s history. See how you’ll become part of the adventure. Welcome to the Violet Planet!

Founded in 2013, Els Atrapasomnis, creators of songs and shows, first smaller and later larger, have managed to connect with families by creating fun family adventures that are a hybrid of music and theatre and always have an underlying message.

The show El planeta Violeta will be available in sign language on 21, 27 and 28 December.

You may already be familiar with the more uninhibited, mischievous artistic project of this clown and musician whose songs document the truths of romantic relationships. However, this Christmas, Mama Calypso is toning down her critique and, without giving up the ebullient personality that is her hallmark, she’s coming onstage to present the artists and shows in an afternoon of circus and dance that you’ll have a hard time forgetting. Christmas and rhythm with Mama Calypso... What more could you ask for!?

Have you ever heard about power with the language of dance and movement? Dominare has, a contemporary dance show by Cia. Maduixa which is coming to the Barcelona Christmas Festival as an advance première to explore the physical limits of movement to talk about the abuse of power and controlling dynamics and reflect on power relations in different spheres. With a critical yet poetic gaze, it focuses on situations of abuse which have become so normalised that they go unnoticed. Have you ever been a victim or maybe an abuser in any of these dynamics? The choreography takes place on a square space of air that transforms into a floating, striking work will make you think. Each suspended movement captivates the gaze and shakes the soul.

Cia. Maduixa makes artistic creations for theatres and streets for all audiences. The search and blend of disciplines are the main creative engine of each of the company’s productions, which seek to explore new performance languages and always take risks to create their own stories.

You may already be familiar with the more uninhibited, mischievous artistic project of this clown and musician whose songs document the truths of romantic relationships. However, this Christmas, Mama Calypso is toning down her critique and, without giving up the ebullient personality that is her hallmark, she’s coming onstage to present the artists and shows in an afternoon of circus and dance that you’ll have a hard time forgetting. Christmas and rhythm with Mama Calypso... What more could you ask for!?

Two great artists make a dream come true: sharing their worlds in a tight-rope walking act. This is how they’ll share with the audience the thrills and technique they’ve learned from each other throughout years of distant complicity. Don’t miss a show in which two different ways of understanding balance engage in dialogue. Pay attention to the music, performed by Laia Ruis with voice and violin, because it is a complete celebration of the beauty of coinciding.

All of this is by La Corcoles, an artist specialised in skywalking, with a ground-breaking, contemporary perspective on this discipline that she explores through movement. She is accompanied by the self-taught Manolo Alcántara, who creates shows with meticulous visuals which he births through intuition, self and curiosity, using innovative stage structures.

This Afro-Latin artist, dedicated to merging traditional Colombian sounds with contemporary electronica with a fresh, danceable aesthetic and a narrative laden with meaning, is becoming one of the most prominent emerging voices on the Catalan scene after being chosen for some of the most important professional music fairs, like the Mercat de Música Viva de Vic, the Mediterranean Fair of Manresa and the FIM in Vila-seca. You’ll hear her fusing rap, electronic and Afro-Colombian sounds yet again in Entre caminos (2025), her latest record that solidifies her deeply rooted yet contemporary project. She and her band feature in a vibrant experience brimming with energy, sounds and emotions that connect with the audience. Afro-Latina warmth in the heart of Christmastime!

Urban and contemporary dance are the languages that dancer Chey Jurado uses to tell us the story of a hermit searching for himself who, the deeper he digs into himself, the more he goes into himself. But the more he does it, the more visible the result, and he thus veers away from his original purpose. A choreographic piece with a message and reflection that reminds us that looking inside should not stop us from continuing to move forward.

It is a performance by Chey Jurado, a dancer from Badajoz who began to teach himself how to dance in early 2005. His career includes both urban dance and performing arts competitions (he has partnered with Veronal and Peeping Tom), as well as teaching. He now applies all his experience to his own performance creations.

Come, let’s take a trip. We’re not going to a physical place but in search of the essences of Christmas and the values it represents. We’ll do it through emotion, magic and especially the talent and power of the voices of the Cor de Teatre and the creativity and direction of Segura Bernadas and David Costa. They’ll use not texts but songs to tell the story of a person, stressed out with the festive preparations and loaded with shopping bags, who has slipped and fallen in the middle of the square. Perhaps the trumpet made them daydream, because just like Alice falling through the rabbit hole or a Mr Scrooge sleeping in front of the fireplace, they suddenly find themselves in a place full of magic, dreams and emotions. With the music of those voices showing the way, you’ll discover a world with familiar characters between reality and dreams. Because this is also a homage... to traditional Christmas soup! It features shared magical, emotional scenes that we all know strung together in a montage featuring traditions, Christmas meals and lots of nativity figurines, including the caganer.

And it’s all by the Cor de Teatre, both a vocal ensemble and a theatre company, a choir that includes movement, action and theatre resources. Founded and directed by David Costa, they have been searching for new sounds for 25 years. More than a vocal group, it’s a company that has carved out a new path in the performance of the polyphonic repertoire.