The “Escuela de Artes Escénicas” is an initiative of professional artists from the sphere of the theatre whose main purposes are the theatrical education as well as the investigation and promotion of theater in Nicaragua to strengthen the presence of the performing arts on an national level.
The project was consented to in April of 2003 and started its first course in June of the same year. It consists in the creation of a theatre school that develops a program of activities oriented on the organization and creation of a group of young scenic artists who impinge on programs and projects related to the cultural and social sector.
The mission of the Theatre School is to be a meeting point for national and international creative persons who contribute to the professional education and preparation of young students of the performing arts.The school is a place for experiments, investigation, exchange and apprenticeship in the field of the performing arts in all its diversity on a local and universal level.
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The main task of the „Escuela de Artes Escénicas“ is the diffusion of art and culture to complete that way the recreational offers on a local level and thus support the participation of the municipal youth in development-strategies that improve their quality of life.
Further plans for the nearer future are trainings of institutions and groups in the fields of art and culture, the support of youth clubs and associations as well as civil society and the assistance and diffusion of varying activities for the benefit of the continual development of the theatre.
The team consists at the moment of seven professional collaborators.
The Theatre School was founded by Pepe Prego, who also took an essential part in the origins of the National Theatre Movement in the eighties.
Karla Acevedo is responsible for the academic area of the school. She was educated at the National Theatre School and the National Dance School and can look back to an experience on the stage of 12 years as actress, choreographer and theatre and dance teacher. At the moment she is as well lecturer at the catholic university UNICA and the National Theatre School.
Francisco Blandon has been an actor and acting teacher for twenty years. In 1979 he founded the theatre group NIXTAYOLERO and the National Theatre Workshop, located in Matagalpa.
Xiomara Centeno founded the National Comedy in 1960 and until now is an active investigator, poet, director, dramatic adviser, actress and acting teacher.
Carlos Luis Mejia Raudez graduated from the „Escuela de Artes Escénicas” in 2003 – 2004 and momentarily works there as an acting teacher. Inside and outside of the school he took part in the organization of different stage plays and in 2003 participated in the IX Festival of Monologues, Dialogues and More.
Lesther Fernando Gomez Contreras is founder member and acting teacher of the Theatre School and in addition studies International Relations (UNICIT). He came in contact with the theatre when the School for Comedy and Traveling Theatre was founded and with it he undertook national and international tours.
Jeaninne Torres Lezama graduated from Cultural Studies on the Central American University (UCA) and at the moment is a student at the "Escuela de Artes Escénicas”. There she also works as administrative assistant to the director.
The current program of the theatre school includes further training seminars, advice for the organization of stage plays, especially if these deal with the development of society (gender, health, environment), the planning and realization of projects and investigation in the social and cultural field:
Since its existence the Theatre School has already performed a number of artistic productions.
“Como los Músicos de Bremen” (“Like the Musicians of Bremen”) is a co-production of pupils and teachers of the theatre school. It is a diverting play which - with the help of humor, music, dance and theatre - brings up for discussion the theme of social exclusion and helplessness of the young people of our days. It deals with the absence of social spaces and the lack of perspectives for the future; with the choice between risk and danger, the social and even corporal death; with youths, humiliated by poorness and dissatisfaction that drives them to delinquency and death.
In the play „El evitable caso de Verónica“ („The Avoidable Case of Veronica“) the tools of power that are responsible for violence against women and help to continue it are analyzed, starting from subjective points of view, myths, values, archetypes and symbols.
„Vida Carnaval“ („Carnival Life“) is a play, organized by youths and adults. It reflects responsible and irresponsible sexual relationships and points out the fatal consequences the latter can lead to.
Further realized projects include the international Theatre Day, celebrated on the 27th of march and different theatre techniques related to environmental themes with the target group of the youth clubs PROGRA – JICA SILAIS de Granada.
In the future these youths shall be educated more and more in the field of the theatre (period: April – July 2004). Furthermore it is planned to perform three plays about environmental themes, to stage plays of the students of the first and second semester of the theatre school, as well as a project for animated tourist itineraries.
All young people from the age of 16 are invited to enroll in the courses of the "Escuela de Artes Escénicas”. It offers lessons in dancing, voice technique, corporal expression and performance. On the end of each semester a stage play is performed in cooperation and the participants receive a certificate accredited by the National Theatre School.
For further information contact:
Escuela de Artes Escénicas
Casa de los Tres Mundos
Telf. 552 41 76 Ext. 19
Hours: 8:00 – 12:00 a.m.
Lic. Jeaninne Torres Lezama.
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