The Salto del Negro prison wins the Penitentiary Institutions Theater Competition


Inmates of Salto del Negro during the performance of the play & # 039; Al Límite & # 039;

Inmates of Salto del Negro during the performance of the play 'Al Límite'
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He Las Palmas I Penitentiary Center has been awarded the National Prize for Theater in Prisons of the 2020 edition thanks to its work To the limit, as announced this Friday by the General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions, organizer of this contest for six years.

Ten inmates of the Salto del Negro prison participate in this choral work in which they explore and expose their limitations, strengths and desires through monologues and that has "a precise rhythm and careful choreography" that make it a "poetic act", as highlighted by the state department in a statement.

To the limit It is the result of Social Theater workshop carried out by the Hestia Association in the capital penitentiary center, and in which more than fifty prisoners have participated between 2019 and 2020.

Inmates of Salto del Negro represent the play 'Al Límite' LP / DLP


This activity is about "create a space where inmates can become aware of themselves and others, develop personal skills, as well as identify and express emotions ", reads the statement.

The group of inmates worked on the limit concept, understood from the geographical to the emotional, personal and collective.

The work was represented in three functions in the capital prison during the month of February of last year before an audience of about 100 external spectators and another 300 inmates, and even It was programmed within the theatrical season of the Sala Insular de Teatro de Gran Canaria, but the pandemic of Covid-19 has temporarily suspended that exhibition until sanitary measures allow it.

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