ANTIFAZ was founded in 1993 as a theatre company, under the direction of Abrahamsanhueza López, who developed the company’s artistic creation until 2011. During this period, she staged productions with the playwright Iquique Iris di Caro. Among those that stand out: La Fuente del Milagro, Kuyaskay and El Sinchi del ojos en Sombra.
Over the years, it has won several Fondart – Culture Fund projects of the Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio del Chile, both in the field of creation and in circuiting, within and outside the Tarapacá region, becoming one of the most important representative artistic groups in the region.
In 2002 the company got its legal personality, which allows it to expand its field of work in the fields of management and training. In 2011 the Cultural Space Antifaz was created, a place with a stage, technical lights , audio equipment and a capacity of 50 spectators.
Antifaz still wants to strenght art and culturein the Tarapacá region. This is the reason why it has a professional team working on the Management Plan funded by the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage through the OIC Program (Altro Istituzioni Collaboratrici dello Stato / Other State Collaborating Institutions). Since 2018, it offers a wide range of artistic workshops, programming of the performing arts and educational proposals for new audiences who are available to the entire community.
Since 2007, it has organised the International Theatre and Dance Festival Antifaz – FINTDAZ, which in the last 12 years has established itself as one of the most important festivals on the American continent with more than 3,000 guest artists and over 180,000 spectators.
As part of the festival’s programming, a meeting dedicated to operators is organised, linking several Ibero-American festivals with European and intercontinental ones.
