WCT to Host Guest Artist Carlos Garcia Estevez in Spring 2016

carlosazulCarlos García Estévez

is an international artist based in Amsterdam. He is an actor, stage director, theatre researcher, pedagogue and specialist in Contemporary Commedia dell’Arte and mask performance.

Artistic director of Manifesto Poetico Lab, he is an associate artist at LEM (Ecole Jacques Lecoq) in Paris. He directs, together with François Lecoq, the project Manifesto In Action.

He trained with Jacques Lecoq for three years, both at his École Internationale de Théâtre and at LEM (Laboratoire d’Etude de Mouvement).

Carlos performed with Simon McBurney – Complicite in A Dog’s Heart and The Magic Flute.

He participates as a movement director at the Dutch National Opera Academy and Holland's Diep Muziektheater. With Manifesto Poetico he directs his own shows and research projects in Europe, South America, the United States and Asia such as Tito’s Dream (USA, 2014) and Nama Kamu Atas Perahu (Kuala Lumpur, 2013), Bogota In Action (Bogota, 2015).

He is currently touring his solo performance “Solo dell’Arte” in Spain, France, The Netherlands, Argentina, Romania, Austria, Italy, Turkey, Cyprus, Greece, United Kingdom, United States and Canada.

Other artists with whom he worked include Donato Sartori, Gennadi Bogdanov, Pierre Byland, Eric de Bont, Kevin Crawford and Kaya Anderson (Roy Hart – Voice technique), Mario Gonzáles (Theatre de Soleil) José Luís Gómez (Teatro de La Abadía, Madrid) and Tapa Sudana (Tribuana master and a former actor of Peter Brook’s company).

For many years he has been a collaborator of Donato Sartori as a movement teacher and an actor. There he began his exploration of the architecture of gestures and the anthropology of the mask.

He founded and created the international theatre company Teatro Punto (1998-2013).

Carlos teaches and performs in English, French, Italian and Spanish.