About 200 acrobats from the eccentric Spanish theater group La Fura dels Baus open the American Capital of Culture 2016 in Valdivia, Chile. Reuters described as the event as a "high-flying" acrobatic show.

In an interview with the outlet, La Fura dels Baus director Carlus Padrissa explained the highlights of show.

"What's different about La Fura performing here in Valdivia was adding the Ninth Symphony, in the street, with our images. It's possible, it was possible. Thanks to the capital that invited us, we made it possible, and it turned out well," he said in Spanish as translated by Reuters.

According to the outlet, the American Capital of Culture 2016 is a title granted every year by the International Bureau of Cultural Capitals to a city or town all over the world. This has taken place since 2000.

During the event, La Fura performed the "Novena Sinfonía de Beethoven," which their official site described as "a tribute to the brotherhood between man and nature.

The show also involved performances from musicians of the Philharmonica of the Region of Los Rios, the Choir of the Universidad Austral de Chile and the Chamber Orchestra of Valdivia, with soloists Luciana Mancini, Andrea Aguilar, Patricio Sabaté and Gonzalo Tomckowiack.

The musicians performed Ludwig van Beethoven's "Symphony No. 9" as the show proceeded with four acts by gymnasts, dancers and technicians of La Fura. They were joined by local talents from the Los Ríos region. A crowd of about 50,000 people in an open area in Valdivia attended. 

La Fura dels Baus is famous for their acts filled with "eccentricity, innovation, adaptation, rhythm, evolution and transgression."

"Such characteristic and unique essence led the company to pioneer the reconceptualization of two of the most significant aspects of the dramatic art: the theatrical space and the public," the group's website explained.

The site further described the group to have "incessant curiosity and the need to explore new artistic trends" that helped them develop a unique style, which is now being called the "Furan language."

Aside from street performances, La Fura's style has been translated into several other genres, including cinema, opera, and large-scale performances.

This style has also captured the attention of Britons, who attended "XXX," a two-hour play that depicts "naked actors performing simulated sex acts in front of video screens depicting further explicit sexual activity" in 2003. This was featured in a past report from BBC.

The show, based on Marquis de Sade's writings, is said to "challenge boundaries of what is acceptable without a moral judgment." It is described by Riverside Studios artistic director William Burdett-Coutts as "a very, very graphic, probably the most explicit, shocking thing ever seen in a British theatre."