Analia Mayta, Argentina 2022
Analia Mayta is an Argentinian actress, playwriter, teacher and director. She has a Degree in Scenic Direction from the U.N.A (National University of Art). And has written 18 plays and directed 13 of them. As an actrees and director she has participated in several tours for Europe with different plays and workshops. She was invited in many internationals festivals in Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Slovenia, France, Brazil and Uruguay). In July 2019, she was selected among 5 Latin Americans by the "American Academy of Dramatic Arts of New York". In 2018 her play "Las Idiotas" was premiered in Athens, Greece directed by Ioanna Niaxa, invited to attend the premiere by the Argentine Embassy. In 2020 she was invited to be a director of the Graduation Proyect of Performing arts, in the University (UNA). And was the first play directed by zoom because of the global pandemic. She is a Professor at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Buenos Aires.
The Actor’s Poetic
This workshop intends to explore the creative capacity of the actor, at the service of the scene or the text. The proposal, is to stimulate the actor to find and develop his own poetics with different exercises, both physical and emotional. Putting the body at the disposal of the scene and the character is essential in this workshop because it’s the tool with which the actor has to work.
The purpose of the workshop is to create a scene from a text or an image. And the improvisation as a resource to explore the different ways of approaching a text or topic. The work will focus on exploring how to approach a character in a certain situation or dramatic text and how that character characterizes physically and mentally.
My intention is to be able to provide tools so that the actor can face a work or character in a more organic way. The participants of this workshop need to bring comfortable clothes and an open mind to new things. My desire is that we can investigate and have fun together in this new adventure.