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ESTHER CARDOSO

Sinopsis:

The actress, director and producer Ester Cardoso talks about the history of Gaia Teatro de La Habana. Concepts such as the "theater for a candle" are handled. Gaia was a theater group removed from the Theater Center. With an artistic and social work for years. Ester Cardoso tells the memories of her space.

Bio:

Esther Cardoso


Esther Cardoso was a professor of literature at the Central University of Las Villas. In 1977 she entered the Higher Institute of Art. She has a PhD in Performing Arts. Cardoso was a co-founder of two of Cuba's leading theater companies, Teatro Buendía and Argos Teatro. She has been a professor at the Instituto Superior de Arte and has given numerous workshops in Cuba, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, England, Germany and Australia. As a director, she has staged important shows, fusing genres and taking advantage of various artistic currents.

In 1997 she co-founded Gaia, an arts center in Old Havana, dedicated to promoting creativity in theater, visual arts, film, and music. The center, which also uses performance to promote social and educational purposes, was officially opened on January 1, 2000.

To commemorate the premiere of Gaia, on the eve of the millennium, she co-directed A Millennium Night's Dream, a fourteen-actor show, inspired by the mythical conflict between Dionysus (god of pleasure) and Pentheus (lord of reason) in which shows of walk, fire-eater, acrobatics, dance, poetry and Cuban narration.

In 2005, Cardoso directed and produced 'Ruth's Ashes', a radical reinterpretation of the Biblical story of Ruth. In 2006 she starred in the films 'Gozar Comer y Partir' and 'La Edad de la Peseta'. The following year she starred in 'La Piel de Elisa', the Cuban premiere of a work by Carole Frechette.

She currently directs a permanent research workshop on the actor's art, based in Gaia.

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