Festival Grec de Barcelona

Over the course of its history, this long-standing event has become a major summer attraction in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

The festival takes its name from its main venue: an open-air theatre (the Teatre Grec) built on Mount Montjuïc.

The first Grec Festival both salvaged the theatre and achieved considerable public success.

[3] The festival pursues a two-fold mission: to stage the most outstanding works by Catalan artists and companies and to present other interesting shows from Spain and the rest of the world.

Artists who have appeared at the Festival include Dario Fo, Lindsay Kemp, the Martha Graham Dance Company, Ballet BC, Sydney Dance Company, Jan Fabre, Peter Brook, Sasha Waltz, Michel Piccoli, Robert Lepage,the Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan, Paco de Lucía, Cristina Hoyos, Carles Santos, Nacho Duato, Àlex Rigola, Calixto Bieito, Miles Davis, Manhattan Transfer, Joe Cocker, Celia Cruz, Chuck Berry, and Elvis Costello.