WORKSHOPS
WORKSHOP 1
CorpoRealidades
IMPROVISATION AND CREATION LABORATORY THROUGH MOVEMENT
Karen de Luna and Diego Martinez Lanz
Mexico
WORKSHOP 2
ARCHETYPES
OF THE ACTOR, OF THE ACTRESS
Santi Senso
Spain
Dance Hall
Querétaro Arts Center
Arteaga #89, Downtown Querétaro
August 8, 2025 | 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
August 9 and 10, 2025 | 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
REGISTRATION $1,200.
INFORMATION: 442 327 9992 or talleresalmargen@gmail.com
Dancers, circus artists, actors, martial artists, or anyone interested in curious and committed exploration, willing to play with the body in movement.
About the Lab
This practice proposes a creative experience that contemplates a process of constant dialogue between reflective theory and bodily action. The main objective is the practice of improvisation in constant reflection from the body in movement, developing the ability to listen to ourselves, others, and the sound or silence that accompanies it.
During the sessions, different contradictions are worked on that will generate poetic layers related to space, sound, emptiness, tension, balance, coordination, speed, multidirectionality, touch, and contact, among other things. The idea is for each participant to inhabit their process, guided by invitations that allow them to construct poetic body writing that does not stem from imitating the forms of others, but from discovering their own language.
Each day, various topics and practices will be introduced through games, either individually, in pairs, or in groups.
KAREN DE LUNA
Mexican artist, dancer, creator, and environmental educator. She holds a Master's degree in Environmental Education from the University of Guadalajara, a Bachelor's degree in Integral Design from the ITESO University of Guadalajara, and a dance graduate from the Escuela Profesional de Danza de Mazatlán (EPDM) in Mexico.
She was part of Delfos danza contemporánea for seven years, performing on four continents. She subsequently participated in the companies ASYC / El teatro de movimiento and Physical Momentum, collaborating as a performer-creator on specific projects.
She founded the interdisciplinary collective Proyecto al Margen in 2010, performing in the United States, Hong Kong, Spain, and Denmark, as well as at major festivals in Mexico. She was one of the companies selected by the National Dance Coordination to be promoted at the Tanzmesee with the work Somos con Quien Estamos (We Are with Who We Are).
Among her most notable works are: Inert Times, Exercises to Close Issues, What We May Be (created with the MákinadT company), Verdesaparecer, and Del negro al silencio, created through an interdisciplinary dialogue with audiovisual artists, musicians, lighting designers, and costume designers. For several years, she has focused on linking dance, improvisation, and environmental education through her pedagogical proposals: "Cuerpo Presente," "CorpoRealidades," and "Tiempo para el Cuerpo," designing various workshops and practices, as well as writing articles that share diverse processes and lessons learned through reflection and practice in dance.
She has taught workshops at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, the Civic Centre, Barceloneta (Spain), the University of South Florida (USF), Kunst-Stoff Arts (San Francisco), the Santander Performing Arts Ensemble, the University of the Americas in Puebla, the CAMP-IN Festival (San Luis Potosí), the Invernadero (Oaxaca), the National Dance Encounter, the Atlas México Festival (Guanajuato), the REVÉS Encounter (Costa Rica), the Primate Escénico Festival (Xalapa), the Menorca en Dansa Festival (Spain), the Árvore Casa das Artes (Brazil), and independent venues in Ireland, among others.
In 2014, she was invited to teach the audition class for the second cast of the Contemporary Dance Production Center (CEPRODAC), a national project, in Mexico City.
She was selected as one of 20 dancers to participate in the Opera Prima@ elcolectivo project, a reality show held in Mexico that allowed her to perform works by renowned choreographers from Mexico and abroad, finishing as one of the eight finalists.
She has received the PECDA Jalisco scholarship and the Scenic Creators Program from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) twice, as well as the Proyecta Producciones scholarship for several of her creations. She is currently a recipient of the Scenic Creators with a Career scholarship awarded by the National Program for the Support of Creation and Cultural Projects in 2023, which lasts three years.
She lives in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. She is a member of the Center for Environmental Culture and Educational Research (CCAIE), artistic director of the Bosque La Primavera Festival, which focuses on the conservation of threatened natural spaces. She has been held eight times, and teaches Expanded Arts in the Communication and Audiovisual Arts program at ITESO University, with whom she has collaborated since 2016.
For over 12 years, she has taught the movement workshop-laboratory "Cuerpo Presente" (Present Body), alongside musician Diego Martínez Lanz. The workshop is held at //espacio en el medio-Sala Oteart, where she collaborates with dancer Guyphytsy Aldalai.
MASTER CLASS
Somatic and restorative practice
Barbara Alvarado
Mexico
City Museum
Guerrero #27 Downtown, Querétaro
August 4-6, 2025 | 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
REGISTRATION $1,200.
INFORMATION AT 442 327 9992 OR actointimos@gmail.com
Dancers, circus performers, actors, martial artists, or anyone interested in curious and committed exploration, willing to play with the body in movement.
During the "work in progress," you will learn about the language developed by actor, director, playwright, screenwriter, and professor at the Central de Cine de Madrid, Santi Senso, for the performer's work in front of the camera, working individually and in groups with scripts, enhancing the vulnerability and honesty of emotion. Starting with Intimate Acts, Senso has created a way of working that draws out the most honest and genuine aspects of each performer.
Then, they go on location to shoot on set or in real locations, putting the knowledge acquired during the workshop into action. They can experience what a shoot with Santi Senso is like and obtain a recording endorsed by him.
The starting point is the premise-question posed by Senso:
What happens when you don't lie, but rather truly feel and share it with the truth?
This can be frightening, but if you work on it and accept it, it's a POWERFUL thing that makes you UNIQUE, not similar, not different, and certainly not the same as another performer.
During the meetings, the language "INTIMATE ACTS" is introduced, a unique, genuine language created by Santi Senso, working on:
Being part of your partner's proposal, so as not to impose, but to propose.
Learning to recognize that actions are not improvised but are acts
reflections of that honest emotion that dwells within us.
Creating your own texts: "the LIVING script."
"Analyzing" the text from the unconscious, so as not to be rational and to allow VULNERABILITY to cause an impact that surprises without paralyzing.
Not judging yourself, nor nullifying yourself, but empowering yourself.
Not rehearsing or making pacts, trusting in the unknown so that the direction is organic,
without pretending, without lying.
Leaving the subtext behind to go deeper.
An intimate X-ray to understand how the actor/actress is feeling and feel that they are inhabited by
VULNERABILITY before filming.
Working on accepting the ego and self-esteem to be UNIQUE, and not the same or
similar, nor different, to another actor or actress.
Discovering the DESIRE and POWER of the performer.
Trusting one's own real imagery, which is neither fantastical nor an imagination.
Emotional disruption to avoid settling, but rather launching into the unknown and inhabiting the
fear that doesn't paralyze but mobilizes.
Circular emotion passing through the solar plexus.
PERSONALITY.
SANTI SENSO
Actor, Director, Playwright, Screenwriter, professor at the Central Film School of Madrid. Director of the International Intimate Film Series.
As an actor, throughout his professional career, he has worked in theater, musicals, TV series, and national and international films. He provides emotional anthropology in the relationship between
an entire cast of a film, series, or theater. He participates in his own language at the "International Congress of Musicals in Uruguay" before continuing his work in New York and continuing with the "Livin' Broadway" study program. He organizes discussions at the legendary Café Gijón in Madrid, "Without Absolute Truth. With Absolute Love." He is the founder of the first theater in Venezuela, "Casa Teatro Andante." He is the performance director for the French-Spanish dance company "Elephant in the Black Box." He is the director of the International Festival of Intimate Theater in Private Homes. He has been inhabiting unconventional spaces, halls, and theaters for over 20 years with his so-called "Intimate Acts." In film, he has shot two feature films with his own language, "Session," working with actors and actresses on their sexual dysfunctions. He also directed "My Will Be Done," a show about Jesus Christ who does not wish to die but to Live. And two other testimonial audiovisual pieces, "Orthopedic Blue" and "Alone, Before I Die," among other works filmed at various meetings with actors and actresses where Intimate Acts have been part of the programming of International Film Festivals or in schools. Her unique language has also inhabited Classical and Contemporary Theater Festivals, cultural meetings and conferences, competitions, and research laboratories in Europe, the US, and Latin America. Her most recent productions include "Addicted to Me," "Cor's Tetraplegia," and "The Holocaust of Love." Many of her experiences are reflected in her first book, "INTIMATE ACTS," published by Punto de Vista Editores, where she captures her authentic language for performing on stage and in front of the camera. She recently published her second book, "Giving Birth, Returning to the Womb," with Ediciones Invasoras.
AUGUST 1 to 3, 2024
EL SOTANO THEATER
UNIVERSIDAD #103 DOWNTOWN. QUERETARO.
FROM 10:00 h TO 13:00 h.
REGISTRATION $500.
REPORTS AT 442 338 2635 OR tallereitai@gmail.com
During this workshop we will delve into body explorations that will enhance our creative being, with which we will play in group improvisations focused on spatial and body composition, which will lead us to train a present, proactive and observant stage being.
Directed to:
Dancers of any discipline or style, with a lot or little stage experience.
Actors interested in exploring and expanding their body tools for the stage.
Performers looking for a place to experiment with their (body) approaches to space and movement.
And any individual who likes to move their body and be creative with and for others.
Objectives:
Share improvisation tools that enhance the bodily capabilities of each individual and that can be transferred to any of their stage practices.
Propose a space where being on stage is practiced in unity, before and with others, as well as in a group.
Provide a safe space for play and reflection where everyone feels welcome to share their artistic and personal background.
Carry out a group improvisation and composition work to show it to an invited audience.
ELISA ROMERO RAMÍREZ
Dancer with a degree in contemporary dance, graduated from the Mexican Dance Academy incorporated into the INBA and with a “Fire Year 2022-2023” postgraduate degree taken at the Salzburg Experimental Dance Academy (SEAD) in Austria. She has taken numerous courses in movement techniques and stage creation inside and outside the country with renowned dancers and choreographers of national and international stature.
Performing arts professionals, students and the general public with an interest in engaging in a dialogue with the new theatricalities of the 21st century.