On May 17, 2017, the Paulsen studyon the painted house; an infrastructure of more than 150 years, built in the traditional street Numa Pompilio Llona del Las Peñas neighborhood. From this place a deep love for the performing arts has been sown through workshops, talks, plays, performances and the process of artistic training with the Meisner technique, as an acting method.
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Personalities from the arts in general have passed through this site, such as Sebastian Cordero, Marina Salvarezza, Shany Nadan, Joselyn Gallardo, Ricardo Velastegui, Montse Serra, among others, And much earlier, in 1866 Antonio Neumann composed the National anthem.
Its main auditorium has been the stage for theater pieces, conceived from co-production and own production, such as cock (2018), closed mourning (2018), tales of the plague (2019), Oleanna (2019), Great anthem! (2019), the hare song (2021), Five ways to break your heart (2022), among others.
This month the Paulsen Studio celebrates five years of existence and resistance, five years of making more than one viewer smile, cry, blush, reflect and intimidate. “This project has changed my life as a person, as a human being and as an artist. He is like a five-year-old son.”declares in conversation with this newspaper Marlon Pantaleonexecutive director and precursor of the Meisner technique in Ecuador.
Inspired by what he learned in New York, Pantaleón undertook a series of workshops in 2011 at the Teatro Centro de Arte, using this acting method. Given the demand and the need for continuous professional training, it was decided to open the Study. “Since now I have not stopped managing workshops with various teachers from the United States, Spain, Peru, Argentina. It is a bridge that I have wanted to create, an international platform, where children can realize that what they are going to learn here is of universal application”the actor points out.
“Our objective is to train talents, train actors, spread an acting technique, propose/present a different contemporary theatrical formation”, Add.
Around 100 students have gone through the professional acting process, already adding four promotions. “The boys receive acting classes with the Meisner technique, they receive scenic body classes, voice classes, drama classes. The idea of the Paulsen Studio is that the boys come out with a complete training and can develop, gain experience in the medium, be it in the theater, cinema or television”, Pantaleon explains.
This is how some of those trained in the Studio have been part of the scenic proposals that have been presented in the place. “It is a job opportunity for students. It is also so that they feel that their work, that their investment of time, energy, economic investment and their dreams are being taken into account here at the Studio; and in this way a community of artists is created, to which we can go and with whom we can work”, He says.
Student sample 2022
In the context of the celebration for the five years of the Paulsen Studio, the students of the fourth promotion of the Actoral Training program They will make two samples of short plays, directed by the head teacher Raul Sanchez McMillan.
The first function will be this Friday and Saturday with an original story, from Vanessa Vizcarra. The work addresses some social issues such as gender violence, the search for answers and the need to heal. Students will act Carlos Joshua Vera, Sofia Donoso, Joshua Galarza Y Thais Hurtado.
A second group will present Pictures of love and humor, fresh, from Jose Luis Alonso de Santos. As its title says, the work goes through the long road of love, from a perspective of humor and reality. “This is a play that goes a little beyond qualifiers or stereotypes, and that is why it is deep and funny at the same time,” reads its description.
students act Andrés Yépez, Ariana Morales, Ariel Sánchez, Deysi Muñeton, Eduardo García, Jacobo Cepeda, Karla Medina, Luis Isaac Miranda, Marcelo Rivadeneira and Sofía Freire. Its functions are scheduled for Friday May 13 and Saturday May 14.
Admission to the student show presentations is free, with reservations to the number 096-018-9636.
“This is part of the activities that the Paulsen Studio has been carrying out in these five years, in addition to the theatrical production that it presents in parallel”, says Pantaleon.
The next class period of the Actoral Training Program will begin on August 29, 2022 and will last until April 2023. The calls and registration of students will start at the end of May.
billboard 2022
For this year the Paulsen Studio and the Albert Paulsen Foundation maintain their parallel strategy of theatrical presentations in the main auditorium. with the work Five ways to break your heart from Catherine Suarez, which was on the billboard for five weeks, started its 2022 season.
What follows for this year is pure theater and the most varied; the next work that will be on billboard is The Shape of Thingfrom Neil LaBute, and it will be led by Javier Andrade (Unseen). Its plot focuses on how artistic creativity transforms a person’s life. Then it will be the turn of The bride and groom enter a compendium of short works on gay marriage by various authors. The direction will be in charge of Raul Sanchez McMillan.
In addition, the dance theater will be staged Hip Love Hop, which will be led by Peter Moscoso; your story will introduce a young couple who face their most intimate problems with an unusual therapy: dance. In addition, by the end of the year the assembly of An hour in the life of Stefan Zweig, from Antonio Tabares; that as its name says, it is about the recreation of a crucial moment of one of the great novelists of the last century.
For this year also returns to the billboard The platypus, from Humberto Robles, and directed by Adrian Cardenas. An unconventional comedy that explores sexuality in our days between a trio of friends.
Similarly, the work Medard at home, written by Dario Castro Egas and mentalized by Carlos Icaza returns to the Guayaquil stages. After its premiere in 2020 as a read theater, it will be staged this year as a play with performances. It is a free interpretation of the intimate life of the writer Medardo Angel Silva. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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