Cia de teatre Anna Roca Contact: Anna Roca Fernàndez Phone: 656 836 655 annaroca@annaroca.com
CONTENT PROJECT DESCRIPTION...... PARTICIPANTS CURRICULUM... PROJECT...... 03:00... 04:00... 08:00 -OBJECTIVES...... 08:00 07:00 -THE SPACE... 09:00 08:00 -AUTHOR AND NOVEL... 10:00 07:00 -THE CHARACTERS... 11:00 08:00 -THE MUSIC......12:00. -ARTISTS AND CREATION FILE......1..3:.0..0.. -AWARDS......14:00. PHOTOGRAPHS AND MAPS.....15:00. Mom 02:00
PROJECT DESCRIPTION is a spectacle of creation which simmers slowly, where the main protagonists are time, looks and visual poetry. It wants to make us reflex on our rhythm of life. How long has it been since you have stopped for a while, just being, without doing anything, yawing, staring, looking at people passing along, listening to the noises of the street? - Now I can t, I don t have time, Maybe when I retire. Is it really possible to waste time? And where does it go when we waste it? We live and educate our children fast. We want them to speak English, Russian, Chinese that they play football, theater, and they are good at everything We prepare them for the future, so they have a good job, a nice house, a good car But we don t educate them to play freely, to learn to relax, to stop at a friend, or just talk and listen to each other. With, from Michael Ende, we have found inspiration to give life to this idea. Who else could give a better meaning of the word listening? This has been a challenge for the whole team. We start with the setting of the stage, and from the space and the three characters we built the whole story. It s a performance with impressive ambitions, directed to a family audience, from 8 years onwards. The audience come into the stage where will fit 80 people approximately. Three very peculiar characters meet in an abandoned area. One, which communicates through live music, and the others play the story of the story. It s an indoors performance which could be represented in a multifunctional space, an abandoned hall of a Factory or in a space of 9 meters minium. Our intention is to build a completely autonomous stage, with the lights built in, only needing a few plugs from the theatre. 03:00 03:00
CURRICULUMS Jesús Arbúes. Theatre play writer and Director. Graduate in theatre art, specialized in Direction and drama at the Theater Institute of Barcelona. He has created more than 20 performances when he went on tour in France, Portugal, Bulgaria, Cuba, Mexico, Santo Domingo, Argentina, Peru and Morocco. The most memorable are Terror i misèria del tercer Reich (Centre dramatic d Aragó), Habibi / amado (Festival Pirineus Sud- Boulevar Festival-Instituto Cervantes de Casablanca). He directed the play of the permanent performance in the Hall Aragó at Expo Zaragoza. These performances have had prizes like Gran Premio Cumbre de las Américas in Mar del Plata, Prize for the best performance at the Mostra de teatre de Barcelona, and have been nominated by Premis Max during three occasions. Anna Roca. Producer. Her acting skills are beginning to be evident at the Institute Festino Barrocc in Barcelona with Manuel l Illo and Txiqui Berraondo. In 1996 she sets up Anna Roca Theater Company with her first play Contes de l Anna. Years later she sets up a theater school in the centre of Olot, in Els Catòlics, a cultural centre. At this moment she had started the workshop Teatre Groc Llimona with Marta Rius. As an actress she collaborated with Cia Viridiana d Osca and took part in I és quan no em plou a sobre, em plou a dins in the project 3.0 (Osca, Tournefueille, Olot) directed by Jesús Arbues. Following, she assisted in the management of the production of Carretera y Manta directed by Jesús Arbues. 04:00
Iris Schneider. Actress. She started theatre lessons in Olot being very young and soon began to stand out as an actress. In 2006, she was elected to play the main role in "El soldat i la nena" directed by Anna Roca. Since then, she has continued to study and train as an actress with several courses in Girona and Barcelona. Ovidi Llorente. Actor. Actor, musician and clow trained at the Col legi del Teatre de Barcelona with Leo Bassi, Jango Edwards, Jesús Jara, Eric Davis, Philippe Gaulier, among others. In the city of Malmö(2009), where he lived for five years, creates the Cia. Red the Nosepaper (poetic and silent clown)with wich acts in several european countries and australian and indian cities. Currently, he resides in Girona where he works as a teacher in El Galliner and is involved in several projects with his company La Minúscula. Alba Tomàs. Musician and actrees. She is accordionist and singer in several bands and as solo too. Ten years of artistic career spans over Catalonia and other places in Europe such as Ireland, Germany, France... She participates in concerts, festivals and tours, workshops and courses in traditional dance, theater and dance shows, private parties. The most highlighted projects are: Stukat del Bolet, Folkestra Addicional, NIU, Saladina and Sigelpa. The last year she has been busking in Galway (Ireland). Judith Torres Mitjà, costumes, objects and production. She was the next one to join our team. Together we came to the idea of the space to tell the story- an abandoned botanical garden. She takes care of the costumes, the props and part of the production. She is a stage specialist at the Institute del Teatre de Barcelona. She has made the costumes and stages for the following companies- Las Lolas, Mentidera Teatre, Pere Solés, Atot Produccions, Cia Minuscula, Poca cosa teatre. As a supporting actress she has worked with Juan Carlos Lérida, Lluis Baulida, Rafael Spregelburd, Jordi Purti and Xavier Fàbrega. She has also done production tasks, stage councelling and theater sales. 05:00
Pablo Paz, scenography They had talked very well to me about him. After the first meeting I really knew he was the one to make the scenography. Specialist in construction and interior architecture, Master in Interior Designs from the University of Salamanca. He has designed and built several stages, the costumes and the artistic development of performances such as Cop de Rock, Dagoll Dagom, Ma, me, mi Mozart! de l Auditori de Barcelona, Operetta Cor de Teatre, L Encarregat Teatre Lliure, A Cau d orella Comsona, Safari Pitarra TNC, Krum Festival Grec. Guille Góngora, stage constructor. His main work currently is putting up stages for TNC (Teatre Nacional de Catalunya) and for different companies and theatres. He has repaired several TRAMOIAS in different theatres in the province of Girona. He has also councelled at the construction of new tramoies. He has been Technical Director during the Tour of the TNC with several performances- El Ball, La nit més Freda, La plaça del diamant, Aigües encantades, Lecturer at the Escola Superior de Tècniques de les Arts de l Espectacle in Terrassa. Jordi Roca, Technician of the Company. He has been working at Radio La Vall for 15 years with his own program. He sets up the equipment and maintains it with the technical team of the radio station and the mobile unit. In 1998 he started with Anna Roca Theatre Company as Light and Sound Specialist. Later he started to collaborate with other companies like La Pera llimonera, La Bleda AND Pere Hosta, Viridiana Productions. In 2008 he did a course as Sound Specialist in La Mirona, in Salt, where they recorded a CD live, and later he worked as a technician at different concerts in La Sala. Occasionally he has worked as a Sound Technician with groups like Estopa and Manola García.. 06:00
Anna Roca theatre Company Anna Roca Theatre Company has been working with different styles and registers for adult and children tales for 21 years. In those 21 years, I have created 7 theater tales performances. The following plays have gone around Europe- Contes al terrat, Can Pere petit, Quan jo era petita, Contencinc, Les Sabates noves de l Emperador, La Granja més petita del món. In 2010 I created Captius based on tales of Joan Barril, with the direction of Josep Maria Miró, a performance for adults and with a strong change in register. Now the company makes another big change, recovering an idea that had been kept in a draw for a long time. We have created a play that comes from the heart-. 07:00
PROJECT: THE AIM Theatre Pedagogue one of the main aims I put to myself with the students of the theater school is that they learn to listen to each other, to look at each other and be in silence. I was looking forward to take these aims to the stage and make them into a play for a teenager audience. I would like the audience to enjoy a play which actually has the purpose to make people think and reflex. Those aims are not easily and quickly achieved. I am not pretending to give answers but to create questions that make families, friends and people from our surrounding discuss. This performance wants to make us reflect on the rhythm of life we have and the rhythm of life we want our children to have. Maybe after this we have gained another person in the world who will know the importance of holding the time and listening to silence. 08:00
PROJECT: SPACE The backstage tries to emphasize the idea of holding the time. With the creation of a tidied space but in decay. We show the slow progress of the passing of time against the speed with which we live our everyday life. In this space we want to be in a very specific moment of time- between the past and the future. And this is portrayed in the botanical garden, where vegetation has started to sprout and take roots. 09:00
THE AUTHOR AND THE NOVEL Michael Ende (Germany, 1929-1995) Writer of children s literature and fantasy. His books have been translated to more than 40 languages and his most famous books are and The Never Ending Story. He was son of the Surrealist painter Edgar Ende which makes it easy for him to get introduced in the artistic and humanistic world. He starts to write stories in the 50s and becomes very popular with Jim Boto I En Lluc el maquinista (1962). Later he publishes (1973) and The Never Ending Story (1979), with which he receives the so deserved recognition. It is a novel of social criticism of society told like a fairy tale. It stresses the value of social relations. It is against the maximum use of time, by people of our society, which only look for insaciable consumption of the products we manufacture, which finally will end up destroying them. 10:00
PROJECT: THE MUSIC Marta Rius, the musician and plays can t be conventional. Based on the sound of the passing of time. It will take us to different sensations, which gives support to our story. A bird, the sound of leaves moving in the wind, the rain, the ticking of the clock, are sounds that inspire us for the melodies of the play. And how will she do it? With her voice, the accordion, a music box and with the sound of water in a bottle converted into music, a zip, a plastic bag, and all kind of stuff. With these ingredients she will create the sound of Beppo and his message. 11:00
PROJECT: ARTISTS AND CREATIONS FILE Original idea: Anna Roca Original direction: Jesús Arbués Stage direction: Anna Roca Dramaturgia: Jesús Arbués Actors: Ovidi Llorente i Iris Schneider Live music: Alba Tomàs Original music: Marta Rius Stage design: Pablo Paz Stage construccion: Guillermo Góngora i Pablo Paz Lighting design: Nino Costa Costumes and props:judith Torres Sound Technician: Jordi Roca Executive production: Anna Roca i Judith Torres Producer: Companyia de teatre Anna Roca 12:00
AWARDS has won the award for criticism in 2015 I obtained two nominations to the Max. Awards: best family show and best private production. 13:00
PHOTOGRAPHIES AND MAPS Map of the stage 14:00
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Free interpretation of Michael Ende Cia de teatre Anna Roca 656 83 66 55 annaroca@annaroca.com