Resumes:

 

Oriana Del Mar Salcedo Jimenez, (Cali-Colombia). Bachelor in Drama (Institute of Fine Arts- Cali). Master in Arts of the Scene (2016) by the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). She focuses her research on the performing creation processes and how theater impacts community development. She conducts educational and theater activities as part of social programs and projects (Art and culture, health, education, environment, social inclusion, peaceful coexistence). Since 2008, she facilitates the workshop "Theater for beginners" and, since 2015, the workshop "Image, sensation and body". She develops also her career as an actress/performer and dancer (folk dances of Colombia). One of her last performances is "Woman fighting, woman in war". She is the author of the article: "Woman, memory, and war. From the image to the body of Performer" published in the magazine Papel Escena part of the Departmental Institute of Fine Arts (Cali - Colombia), in the Aspas Magazine of the School of Theater of the University of São Paulo and in the Colombian Magazine of the Scenic Arts of the University of Caldas, Colombia. In 2016, she joins, as a teacher and theater director, the group "Grito" theater, working in this project with Pamella Villanova.

 

Pamella Villanova (Campinas-Brazil) She is an actress, director and theater professor. She holds a bachelor's degree in Performing Arts from Unicamp and a Master in Arts of the Scene from Unicamp with funding from FAPESP and guidance from Prof. Dr. Veronica Fabrini. She is the artistic director of Coletivo Passarinha, itinerant art collective from Brazil that promotes "interdisciplinary" cultural exchanges in different social contexts. In 2016 Passarinha produced and held the Cortejo Workshops in the states of Ceará, Paraná and São Paulo, with the support of the Ministry Of Culture via Rouanet Law. She is the author and performer of the performance-lecture “Helena Vadia”, with which she has toured 11 Brazilian states attending to national and international academic and artistic events. She is a co-founder of the theater company Teatro Acidental, which has been awarded federal, state, municipal and private promotion of theater between 2006 and 2013. She has been a theater teacher since 2006, with 11 years of experience conducting classes and directing Shows in theater and formal schools for children, adolescents, and adults. She currently directs the group “Grito”, teaches theater in a private school in Campinas and coordinates the Garatuja Terrace cultural space in the same city.

 

 

Beatriz Afonso (Caracas-Venezuela) Director and actress. Bachelor in Drama and Specialist in Theater Direction from ESADT-University of Kent (England - Madrid). Co-founder of the group Áncora Teatro in Spain (2007) and the group 3 Estaciones (Spain-Australia 2011). In 2014 she began the research and creation of the solo "Theater Recipes" (sensorial theater) that she developed between Spain, Brazil and Venezuela. She has worked as a performer, teacher and director in Venezuela, Spain, Brazil, Australia, Canada and Mexico. She has completed her training in Europe and Latin America with courses focused on physical theater (Clown, anthropology of the movement, Comedia dell Arte, neutral mask, intervention-performance, Schinca technique of body expression, body mimesis and object dynamics, Suzuki method). She focuses her research on different lines of body awareness and expressivity and in the relationship between femininity and masculinity in women. She facilitates workshops of body language-stage creation focused on sensory stimuli. She also works as a creative writer and content editor.

 

Grito de Teatro (Theater Group- Brazil) the group has been working for nine years in the city of Campinas with shows such as "Urban Types" from the work of Will Eisner; "Never again we will be so young,", a collective creation, and "Roda Viva" by Chico Buarque, all of them directed by Pamella Villanova. Nowadays, it meets in Garatuja Terrace, where it has been developing actions to reach the local the community, either through events on the space Garatuja itself or in partnership with other organizations in the city. The group's production is focused on art that "comes from the soul", which contemplates the artistic desires of these people who work in different fields and continue producing theater together “for love”, as amateurs. They are currently exploring possibilities of working with other senses beyond sight and hearing in the theatrical scene, influenced by the research of Venezuelan director and actress Beatriz Afonso. Directed by Pamella Villanova and Oriana Del Mar Salcedo, the group is working on a new show where a dinner will be prepared on stage and shared with the audience. It is an independent group formed by young people from different regions of Campinas, seeking to produce theater that addresses political issues and sustainability.