FIBA 2026: Buenos Aires prepares for a major international performing arts festival
Buenos Aires will once again become the epicentre of a major celebration of the performing arts with the arrival of the new edition of the Buenos Aires International Festival (FIBA). The event will take place from 9 to 20 September, offering a wide-ranging selection of both local and international productions across various venues in the city.
The FIBA 2026 programme includes works from Argentina and countries such as Spain, France, Brazil, Chile, Belgium, South Korea, Ecuador, Colombia, Switzerland, Bolivia and Lithuania. The programme encompasses theatre, dance and different contemporary forms of expression, combining previously premiered works with projects involving local production and international exchange.
Among the most prominent international works are Cicatriz, from Spain; Contre-nature, from France; Dorian, from Lithuania; EDSON, from Brazil; Except That You Cannot See Me, Vol. 2, from South Korea; Monica, a co-production between Belgium and Spain; Vania, from Chile; and La trocha, a joint production by Ecuador, Colombia and Argentina. Also featured will be Encantado, by the Brazilian company directed by Lia Rodrigues, and NO/MAS/SACRE, from Spain and Brazil.
Argentine representation plays a prominent role in this edition of the festival. Selected works include ¡Oh cabezas locas de las religiosas!, by Mia Miceli; Amanuenses, by Constanza Feldman; Atlas de un mundo imaginado, by Silvia Gómez Giusto and Aliana Alvarez Pacheco; El trabajo, by Federico León; En Mitad De Tanto Fuego, by Alejandro Tantanian; Juego del tiempo, by Margarita Bali and Gerardo Litvak; La Gravedad de las burbujas, by Juan Pablo Galimberti; Menos detalles, by Gustavo Tarrío; and Venado asesino, among others.
The festival also serves as a space for promoting playwriting. In this regard, the 17th edition of the Germán Rozenmacher Prize for New Playwriting will be held in collaboration with the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Centre of the University of Buenos Aires, with the aim of encouraging theatrical writing by young authors.
The programme also places strong emphasis on regional exchange. In Encantado, for example, the Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Dança explores Afro-Indigenous imaginaries, fear and the construction of collective experience, incorporating music that includes songs by the Guaraní Mbya people. The work will be presented on 13 and 14 September at the Centro Cultural 25 de Mayo.
With a programme spanning multiple disciplines, generations and backgrounds, FIBA 2026 reaffirms Buenos Aires as a meeting point for local and international artists and as a space for the circulation of new forms of performing arts creation.