Creative Path
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Creative Path TEAM BIOS Ernesto Donas (Uruguay, 1971) Academic & Educational Development | General Production Musician. Degree from the University of Brasilia and the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv. He took specialization courses in Argentina, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Israel and the United States. He is teacher at the University School of Music (EUM-UdelaR, Uruguay), bassoonist and contrabassoonist of the Montevideo Philharmonic Orchestra since 2008, has acted as an extra musician for the OSSODRE Orchestra and is member (and founder) of Tungue Lé Cuarteto. He is currently a member of the Hornero Migratorio project team, being responsible for the area of educational development. He completed doctoral studies in ethnomusicology at New York City University (CUNY). The research areas of his studies focus on the relationship between music / sound and political processes, memory and place. He co-authored a book with Denise Milstein about the popular song in Uruguay (Cantando la Ciudad, Nordan: 2003) and has written articles and reviews in books and magazines of Ethnomusicology, The World of Music, Anthropológica, Trama and others. He received project support from both the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations and the City University of New York. Sabina Harari (France, 1980) General production | Field Production | Photographer Technician in Cultural Management from the University of Culture (CLAEH), Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (FHCE-UDELAR); Photography and Literature. She works as a community cultural manager in the territory for the Culture Corners Program -Department of Culture, Municipality of Montevideo. Together with Francisco Lapetina, creates the sociocultural, artistic and educational project “Hornero Migratorio” with audiovisual and musical imprint, in which she performs general, field and camera production tasks, having traveled much of the national territory as well as abroad, from 2012 to the present. She has been working in association with cultural production in different fields (Editorial, Music, Theater, Performing Arts and Audiovisual) since 2005 without interruption and also as a press agent for the communication and dissemination of theater, music shows, film premieres, among others. She creates the production company "S&V Producción Cultural'' together with Virginia Scasso, carrying out, until now, a multiplicity of projects mainly of theater and music; In this context they create the " Ciclo Cuerdas'' together with artists such as Pablo Routin, Sara Sabah, Nicolás Ibarburu, Carmen Pi, Gonzalo Franco, Juan Pablo Chapital, Edú Lombardo and Martín Buscaglia. They are actually producing the new Ruben Rada Show "Part of History: Opa, Totem, Kinto and Rada" (2019), and plays like Potestad with Julio Calcagno, among others. Francisco Lapetina (Uruguay, 1970) Artistic Direction | Music and Audiovisual Production Based on sound and music, his work is located in a territory of hybrid exploration where he experiments with voice, body, instruments and technology in audio and video. His work, which is supported by his studies at the University of Architecture and more than 10 years of as a visual communicator, has been translated into works of transdiscipline, music for short films and documentaries, sound art in installations and works of contemporary dance, multimedia performances and collective audiovisual creation devices such as Hornero Migratorio. He has 5 musical albums with compositions (songs, instrumentals and electrónica) and productions of his authorship, in addition to record projects as a producer. His focus on artistic creation projects and production (mainly in areas of music and sound but also text, image and body on stage) is personal and inclusive: creativity, human relations and networks, local identities, collaboration and technology have a structural role. Miguel Grompone (Uruguay, 1973) Production | Transmedia Development | Film Photography & Multimedia Filmmaker, producer and audiovisual artist. His work has diverse profiles in the use of audiovisual as a language. On the one hand, he is a producer of fictional or documentary pieces, content for TV and various platforms. In that territory, his projects have a deliberate cultural interest, such as the audiovisual creation project "Hornero Migratorio" or the science documentary series "Sobre Hombros de Gigantes". In addition, he develops audiovisual language on the scene, creating visual montages (which generate and / or manipulate live video) in theater, dance, opera, classical music and ballet performances. Within this diverse range of stage proposals, the theatrical devices of Sergio Blanco, director with whom he has collaborated in the last 6 scenic pieces. Gabriel Calderón (1982, Uruguay) Playwright | Theater Director | Actor He was a member of the COMPLOT Performing Arts Company with which he has created or collaborated in more than 30 shows for the span of 10 years. He has written more than 20 plays and has been recognized with different awards including: Florencio Award 2005; 2008 Iris Award, New Dramaturgy Award from the International Theater Institute; Morosoli Award; 2006 Young Talent Award from the Bank Boston Foundation. In 2004 he received a scholarship from the Carolina Foundation to take the "Professional Dramaturgy and Theater Direction Course" in Spain and in 2009 he was accepted to the International Residence of the Royal Court Theater in London for his international program that year. Since 2011 he has been a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab and resident artist of the Théâtre des Quartiers d'Ivry in Paris France. His works have been performed in Argentina, Brazil, Panama, Peru, Spain, France, the USA, Greece, Mexico and Colombia and his texts have been translated into French, German, English, Greek, Catalan and Portuguese. At the same time, he has lectured at the Nouvelle Sorbonne Paris 3 and at the Casa de América Latina. His work in management include: Director of the National Institute of Performing Arts, General Coordinator of the celebrations of the Bicentennial Uruguay, Director General of Cultural Projects of the National Directorate of Culture of the MEC (Uruguay), Director of ENCONSTRUXION, Platform of young stage creators from Uruguay, Coordinator of Contents and International Protocol of the MONTEVIDEO SITIADA Festival. He was one of the creators of the University Technical Dramaturgy. Currently he has just returned from staging his text "EX that the actors burst" at the National Theater of Catalonia with great acceptance from the public and critics. This year he will make up four shows in which he is linked from different roles, will premiere his new play "IF- they celebrate the lie" in September and will direct the National Comedy for the second time in "The return to the desert", to be released in October. Tamara Cubas (1972, Uruguay) Choreographer | Dancer | Project Manager Bachelor Degree in Plastic and Visual Arts, from the National School of Fine Arts Institute, University of the Republic (IENBA / UDELAR). Master in Art and Technology in EMMA, Utrech School of Arts, The Netherlands, EMMA Award in Image & Technology. Graduated from the Contradanza contemporary dance school, Montevideo. She is artistic co-director of the Perro Rabioso collective, from where she has carried out numerous cultural projects related to artistic dissemination, training and production such as the FIVU, the Uruguay International Video Dance Festival and the Montevideo Video Library. In recent years she has focused on her artistic production. She designed and was the general coordinator between 2006 and 2009 of PLATAFORMA, an incentive program for artistic production and innovation (Ministry of Education and Culture, Uruguay), director of the International Festival of Performing Arts, FIDAE 2009 (MEC), advised on various projects of the Directorate of Culture of Uruguay such as Funds for Competition, AEscena !, among others. She was a dance programming consultant for the Solís Theater, Montevideo, 2008-2009. Jury for the Competitive Funds Uruguay 2010. She was a FECFA 2012-2014 scholarship holder, an incentive fund for artistic creation of the Ministry of Culture of Uruguay. Currently, she is a member of the Programming Advisory Council of the Solís Theater in Montevideo and the Career Commission of the Bachelor of Dance at UDELAR. Among her recent artistic works, the scenic works “Anthropophagic Trilogy”, “Multitud”, “Puto Gallo Conquistador” and the exhibitions “El día más hermoso”, (Montevideo 2012) and “El lugar de la Ausencia” (Mexico 2015). Her recurring themes are Memory, Power, the Political, the Other and the Collective, using various formats for her artistic proposals. She is the director of Campo Abierto, Center for the Promotion of Creative Thought located in Rivera, Uruguay, from where she carries out extensive cultural actions and projects. She is part of the PROAC Civil Association as a manager producing sociocultural projects. Magela Ferrero (1966, Uruguay) Photographer | Visual Artist She has been working for more than twenty-five years in activities related to photography. Throughout that time she exhibited her work dozens of times in different formats and in different places inside and outside Uruguay, inside and outside photography. She was a jury of numerous prizes related to the arts, standing out the 54th National Visual Arts Salon, the Juan Carlos Onetti Poetry Prize awarded by the Directorate of Culture of the municipal government and the first Photography Prize awarded by the Ministry of