| Mariaelena Roqué |
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| Lecturer TTT07 Extreme costumes as living Art | ||
| Born in 1952, is a
Venezuelan-Catalan artist. In Caracas during the 70s she became a member
of various new theatre, cinema, photographic and contemporary dance
groups.Later on individually Deep investigation and studies made “the
costume” her principal tool to expresses herself on stage and art works,
working for this proposal with absolutely any interesting material
collected in her exhaustive travels and research on continents, (old
and new textiles, industrial, ethnic, metal,…) to create special and
individual characters on performers. As well she developed later
scenic props to act together, or with the costume from the performer´s
action and personal-own character . Since 1982 until today lives in
Catalunya where started her work in exclusivity with Carles Santos,
as performer and creator contributing in the building of the musician
and director´s theatrical “mise en scene” visual language. The company Carles Santos is formed by both of them where they have acted together as artistic directors and main creators,Two individual retrospective exhibitions in Barcelona took place in 2OO6-2OO7,actually on tour , showing most of the last 2O years of their work together in their different fields. The last piece of work is “El Fervor de la Perseverança”, a soap opera represented in El Teatre LLiure on November 2OO6,turing this year in Europe. |
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