Kappa FuturFestival Makes Its First Mexico Stop in Monterrey

Kappa FuturFestival, the dance festival founded in Turin, Italy, is holding its first edition outside Italy this weekend. FuturFestival Mexico runs on Nov. 13 and 14 at Parque Fundidora in Monterrey.

The festival is operated by its Turin-based parent company, Movement Entertainment. For the Mexico debut, Movement partnered with Lostnights, a dance event producer based in Mexico City. Billboard reported the partnership and the choice of venue.

The venue has an industrial past. Parque Fundidora was once home to a steel and iron foundry, which the same report describes as the first foundry of its kind in Latin America. Today it is a public park, and the festival's setting is a converted industrial site in both cities. The Turin home of the festival, Parco Dora, was formerly a Fiat steel-making facility and a tyre plant before it was renovated into a park. The festival's main stage there is called the Futur stage, which the festival describes as the industrial heart of the event.

The Turin edition offers a premium option called the Gold Experience. According to the festival's website, it includes a place on the Futur Stage next to the DJ, free entry to side events, and dedicated transport from downtown Turin to the festival site.

Another part of the programme is D-Lab, which hosts STOOR. That is an immersive techno jam session, opened by the DJ and producer Speedy J, where established artists and newcomers play together. Techno is a style of electronic dance music built on repeating beats, and a jam session is an informal set in which musicians play together without a fixed plan. The format gives less-known performers a chance to share a stage with names the crowd already knows.

For anyone heading to Parque Fundidora this weekend, the story is straightforward. A festival that began in Turin is taking its format to a park that was once a steelworks, and the first crowds in Monterrey will be the first to see how it translates.