Carlos García Estévez Madrid, Spain (1976)
Carlos is an actor, director and trainer in physical theatre, specialise in Commedia dell’Arte and Mask play.
He trained for three years (97-00) with Jacques Lecoq at his École Internationale du Théâtre and at the Laboratoire d’Etude de Mouvement (LEM). Motivated by Jacques Lecoq he began research into the tragic depth that exists in Commedia dell’Arte. And he start to develop his own methodology of training actors and seeing theatre that has been inspire to many theatre makers, actors and pedagogues from all over Europe and United States.
In the same period (99-00) he was accepted by Mario Gonzáles, the mask master from the Conservatoire Nationale de Art Dramatique of Paris and former actor from Théâtre du Soleil. In the same period he also met mask maker Den Durand, beginning a long-standing collaboration. Den’s masks have been used throughout the history of Teatro Punto, and they continue to research and work together, discovering new expressive forms in masks and physical theatre.
In the summer 1999, to further his own research, he travelled to Italy to study with Donato Sartori (sculptor and master in mask construction) at the Centro Maschere e Strutture Gestuali, Padova. There he started to discover the Gesture’s Architecture and the Anthropology of the Mask. A few years later he collaborated with Donato Sartori, as a movement teacher at the Centre of Sartori itself and as an actor in his conference at the University of Padova. Sartori’s work has served as an indispensable reference point for all of Teatro Punto’s work.
In 1998, in Paris, he founded the International Theatre Company TEATRO PUNTO with actors from different European countries, all of them trained by Jacques Lecoq.In 2000 he moved the Company to Madrid where they produced two Commedia dell’Arte shows. There he was called upon by José Luís Gómez, director of the Teatro de La Abadía of Madrid, to act as an assistant director of the Training Centre of La Abadía. The same year he worked as an assistant of the Balinese Master Tapa Sudana, former actor of Peter Brook.
In 2001 he moved the Company to Galway, Ireland with Miquel A. Barceló and Judith Higgins, both of whom enacted important developments in the direction of the Company. In that period they produced several Commedia dell’Arte and Clown shows.
In 2003 he met Katrien Van Beurden. Together they began to direct the Company from Amsterdam and created the Teatro Punto´s Lab ”CanZannone” in Barcelona-Girona, Spain.
He works as an actor, director and trainer of Commedia dell’Arte and Mask play in Spain, France, Ireland, Holland (Arnhem, Amsterdam, Rotterdam), Italy (Accademia dell’Arte, Arezzo), and USA (Boston University, Brown University, NYU, Sarah Lawrence College, Wagner College)
Carlos has also trained with Gennadi Bogdanov (biomechanics), Antonio Fava (traditional Commedia dell’Arte), Pierre Byland (clown), Kevin Crawford (Roy Hart vocal technique), and Eric de Bont (clown).
He also works as an actor, director and movement coach for other theatre companies, opera productions.
Languages: English, French, Italian and Spanish
Contact: carlos@teatropunto.net
+31(0)612118550 (NL)
+34 618368607 (SP)
