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ANTON COUCHEIRO

SUBJECTS: IMPRO PRACTICE · PHYSICAL THEATER AND MOVEMENT · CHARACTER CREATION · FINAL SETTINGS

Actor, director and comedian. He studied theater and dance in Compostela and Prague, and circus in Rio de Janeiro. Master in Screenwriting at the URJC (Madrid), Diploma in Impro at the Universidad del Bosque (Bogotá) and Master in Theater Direction at the ESMAE (Porto). He trained in comedy, clown and improv with the best international teachers. He worked as an actor and as a scriptwriter in TV, theater, cinema and advertising. He directed short films, theater shows and again circus. He produced half a dozen solo shows, with which he performed in more than 15 countries. She trained hundreds of clowns and improvisers in Spain, Portugal and Latin America.

Antón Coucheiro
Cou

GALA MARTÍNEZ-ROMERO

SUBJECTS: PRACTICE OF IMPRO · ANALYSIS OF FORMATS · MISE-EN-SCENE · FINAL SETTINGS

Periodista, actriz, cómica y gestora cultural. Graduada en periodismo y comunicación audiovisual y formada como actriz, improvisadora y directora en Central de Cine, Espazo Aberto, Circo9, Global Impro, Escuela Nave 73 y Escola Espontánea. Ha impartido clases de improvisación en Escola Espontánea, Tu Patio, Azarte, Centro de Directores de Escena, Escuela de artes Drag y la Casa de las mujeres de Vallekas. Actualmente da clases en Estudio Teatro Madrid, representa espectáculos de comedia e improvisación en diversos locales de Madrid y fuera de la capital y trabaja como guionista y coordinadora artística en una empresa especializada en experiencias teatrales interactivas e inmersivas.

Gala Martínez-Romero
Gala

FEÑA ORTALLI

SUBJECTS: IMPRO PRACTICE · TEXT DRAMATURGY · SPACE DRAMATURGY

Feña Ortalli began her acting career in 2001. In 2006 she founded Global Impro, a theater improvisation company dedicated to international collaboration and exchange. Currently, he lives in Madrid where he performs and teaches regularly. He also participates in different international events and tours with his shows and workshops around the world. He is the founder and director of Status Magazine (2011) and author of the book Impro: Dinámica de lo Unpensado (2018). Since 2011 it has worked in more than 70 cities on five continents.

Feña Ortalli
Feña

DIEGO INGOLD

SUBJECTS: COLORS AND LECOQ

For more than 12 years he has been teaching workshops on Theatrical Improvisation, Physical Theatre, Comedy dell'arte and Object Theatre. In recent years he has been participating in festivals and training companies in different countries. Although he works most of the time on his own, he is currently part of three companies: Global Impro, DAUS and Hermanas Picohueso. He has been researching tools to bring the plastic arts and theater closer to the world of improvisation, trying to blur the lines of different artistic disciplines.

Diego Ingold
Diego

ENCARNI CORRALES

SUBJECTS: EMOTION AND IMPULSE

Sevillian, trained since she was a child in the Álvarez Quintero theater group, she has received numerous professional monographic courses with great teachers and from different disciplines, interpretation, improvisation, text and circus. Actress, improviser, director, assistant director, clown, singer, children's teacher, educational psychologist and researcher in clinical psychology. Founder of the Teatro Indigesto company (2006, Zaragoza) specialized in theatrical improvisation. He has participated in numerous national and international festivals and events of this discipline. Creator and director of the Zaragoza Improvisa festival.

Encarni Corrales
Encarn

TAMARA BERBÉS

SUBJECTS: VIEWPOINTS

Trained at Replika Teatro and has taught amateur theater groups since 2007. Viewpoints with Vertico Madrid, Ex Límite, Siti company NY, Carlota Subiros, Marie Overlie (creator of the viewpoints). Since 2011 he has directed La Íntegra Teatro and teaches improvisation, acting and writing courses there. Within the world of impro, he has taught classes in Spain and Argentina, and has specialized in the application of viewpoints for choirs and group improvisation, and in interpretation: effective techniques for the creation and development of the character and silence as an emotional tool . As an actress she has worked in theater and audiovisual, reaching, in her last role as protagonist, the shortlist of the 2022 Oscars for best short film.

Tamara Berbés
Tamara

OMAR GALVAN

SUBJECTS: SCORES AND PROTOCOLS

Freelancer improviser, globetrotter. In 1994, in Buenos Aires, he began his path as an improviser (on stage, in teaching, in direction, in research). Co-founder of the company Sucesos Argentinos, a pioneer in Impro on a continental level. In 2000 he began his Impro-tour. He directed and organized the First Impro World Cup in Spanish in Mexico 2004. He is itinerant, based in Madrid and Mexico. He went around the world (2017/18). He worked on five continents, in more than forty countries. He wrote an Impro manual (“Del Salto al Flight”) and a short essay translated into five languages (“Yes, but”). He has forged his own, particular and recognizable poetics. Build bridges between Impro people from all over the world. In the last two years he edited a book of cartoons (If I tell you I love you, will you tell me too?), a collection of poems (Últimas ventas), and wrote and directed an interactive medium-length film (Karaoke Kamikaze).

Omar Galvan
Omar

FRANCISCO CONDE

SUBJECTS: THEORY AND ANALYSIS OF THE IMPRO

Filo teacher, psychoanalyst and above all father. He studied his Bachelor's degree in Philosophy in Santiago de Compostela and his PhD between Barcelona, Cologne and Berlin. He worked as a secondary school teacher in different Galician schools. Since 2010 he has worked at the University, teaching at the Faculty of Humanities of Lugo and now at the Faculty of Philosophy of Santiago de Compostela. He has a degree in Psychology (UNED) and has completed a master's degree in Psychoanalysis in Paris VIII. He currently practices as a psychoanalyst. He is interested in Marxism and Aesthetics from the perspective of Critical Theory.

Francisco Conde
Francisco

ALFONSO MEDINA

SUBJECTS: CHARACTER CREATION

Since 1999 he has been performing as a circus artist, impro and director of Soundpainting in Spain, England, and part of Latin America. He graduated in circus from The Circus Space University of London. And he is co-founder of companies such as Pistacatro, The Momento Impro, Impro y Punto or Baraldi. He directed the first impro festival in Bilbao Primo Fest. in 2018 and 2019. And in 2018 he founded the Impro and Clown school La Espontanea, in Bilbao.

Alfonso Medina
Alfi
Patxi
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