Amaranta Osorio was selected for the National System of Creators of FONCA. It is the most important artist’s grant in Mexico. A three-year scholarship to write.
https://foncaenlinea.cultura.gob.mx/resultados/resultados.php?directo=4323
The short text «Rotunda», written by Amaranta Osorio, was one of the winning texts of the call Stories of Tea, of the National Theatre Company of Mexico and the producer Tejedora de Nubes. Mexico.
Magdalena Montpellier Festival
October 1st , 2019. 20:30hrs– Work-in-progress of “What I didn’t say” at the Maison pour tous George Sand. Montpellier, France. Written and performed by Amaranta Osorio. External eye: Marion Coutarel and Suzon Fuks; Video: Suzon Fuks; directing advisor: Marion Coutarel; movement advisor: James Cunningham; set design: Alicia Blas; Costumes: Victoria Velázquez; Music: Mohn. Translation: Cristina Ward. Co-production: Festival Mestiza Chile,Igneous Company and Amaranta Osorio. With the support of: Cornejo.
From July 31 to August 3 – Danzare la Terra Residency in Corsano, Italy. Project directed by Maristella Martella.
August 3 at 9pm- (S) Radicamento. With: Parvathy Baul, Edoardo Winspeare, Ippolito Chiarello, Luciano Ferrara, Amaranta Osorio, Romina de Novellis, Vincenzo Santoro, Compagnia Tarantarte. In the Ex-Macello. Via Campo la Donna, Corsano.
From June 30 to July 5 – Residency of Ibero-American playwrights at the Teatro Esquina Latina in Cali, Colombia. Project directed by Orlando Cajamarca. With the support of IBERESCENA 2019. Guest Teacher: Santiago Loza
Playwrights: Amaranta Osorio, Ana María Gomez, Erik Leyton, Henry Diaz, Jaime Chabaud, Orlando Cajamarca, Pedro Gundesen, Pedro Miguel Rozo, Ruth Rivas.
Transit Festival- Denmark
June 15 to 17, workshop “Breaking the Silence: Rituals through Memory” led by the Taiwanese artist Ya-Ling Peng and Amaranta Osorio
June 21- Presentation of the workshop results. With: Helen Varley, Ingrid Hvass, Isabel Cristina Lopez Hamze, Luana Sodré, Naná Sodré, Paola Luna Vellucci, Simon Samuelsson, Teresa García Herranz, Teresa Ruggeri.
Transit Festival- Odin Teatret- Danemark
June 18 – Show “Anonymous women” written by Amaranta Osorio and Julia Varley. Directed by Julia Varley, Guitar and performer: Teresa García Herranz; actress: Amaranta Osorio. Scenography: Gema Rabasco; lighting: Miguel Ángel Camacho; Sound design: Arne Bock. Production: Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium and Jeito Procucciones.
Photo: Francesco Galli
Transit Festival 9 – Hope in Action 2019
Transit Festival at Odin Teatret. Directed by Julia Varley.
June 15 – Work-in-progress of “What I didn’t say” written and performed by Amaranta Osorio. Video and external eye: Suzon Fuks; movement advisor: James Cunningham; set design: Alicia Blas; Costumes: Victoria Velázquez; Music: Mohn. Translation: Cristina Ward. Team in Denmark: Helen Varley and Fausto Pro. Co-production: Festival Mestiza Chile,Igneous Company and Amaranta Osorio. With the support of: Cornejo.
I will participate at the Transit Festival, directed by Julia Varley, at the Odin Teatret, Holstebro, Denmark.
From June 15 to 17, I will give the workshop “Breaking the Silence: Rituals through Memory” together with the Taiwanese artist Ya-Ling Peng.
June 15 – Work-in-progress of “What I didn’t say” written and performed by Amaranta Osorio. Video and external eye: Suzon Fuks; movement advisor: James Cunningham; set design: Alicia Blas; Costumes: Victoria Velázquez; Music: Mohn. Translation: Cristina Ward. Co-production: Festival Mestiza Chile, Igneous Company and Amaranta Osorio. With the support of: Cornejo.
June 18 – Show “Anonymous women” written by Amaranta Osorio and Julia Varley. Directed by Julia Varley, Guitar and performer: Teresa García Herranz; actress: Amaranta Osorio. Scenography: Gema Rabasco; lighting: Miguel Ángel Camacho; Sound design: Arne Bock. Production: Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium and Jeito Procucciones.
More info: Festival Transit
Collaboration in Primer Acto.
A memory of my childhood. Short text.
Patricia Ariza, Dijana Milosevic and Maimouna Jallow: Theater, woman and war. Interview.
My girl, my little girl will be presented on April 25, 26 and 27 at the Julio Mario Santodomingo Theater in Bogota, Colombia.
Written by Amaranta Osorio and Itziar Pascual.
Directed by Natalia Menendez
Actresses: Angela Cremonte and Gozailde Nuñez
Music: Luis Miguel Cobo
Video: Alvaro Luna
Scenography and customs: Elisa Sanz
Light design: Juanjo Llorens
Director assistant: Pilar Valenciano
Scenographer assistant: Lúa Quiroga
Video asistant: Elvira Zurita
Produced by Teatro Español of Madrid and Fundación Corpartes.
Mi girl, my li
ttle girl, was performed at the Teatro Español (Margarita Xirgu) from March 6th to April 7th, 2019.
The season was a success and the theatre was full almost every night.
Here some critics and articles.
March 12- Teatro Español.
Amaranta Osorio and Itziar Pascual, coauthors of My Girl, my little Girl , will talk about the compositional process of the text, conceived as a four-hand writing, as well as the different phases of composition, revision and correction of the same, the dialogue between dramatic writing and staging and the relationship with the translations of the text to different languages (French, German and English).
Ma petite, ma petite cherie sera du 6 mars au 7 avril au Teatro Español à Madrid, Espagne
Écrit par Amaranta Osorio et Itziar Pascual. Mis-en-scène: Natalia Menendez Jeu: Angela Cremonte et Gozailde Nuñez
Musique: Luis Miguel Cobo
Videoscene: Alvaro Luna
Scénographie et costumes: Elisa Sanz
Lumières: Juanjo Llorens
Assistant mis-en-scène: Pilar Valenciano
Assistant scènographie: Lúa Quiroga
Assistant videoscene: Elvira Zurita
Produit par Teatro Español de Madrid et Fundación Corpartes.
https://www.teatroespanol.es/
14 February 2019- Work in progress- What I didn’t say, withing the meeting of theatre and feminisms, directed by Alicia Blas and Ana Contreras at RESAD.
Work-in-progress. WHAT I DIDN’T SAY
Text and performance: Amaranta Osorio
Outside eye and video scenography: Suzon Fuks
Scenic Space : Alicia Blas
Choreography : James Cunningham
Music: Mohn Picemin
Translated into english by Cristina Ward
Coproduction: Igneous Company, Festival Mestiza, Amaranta Osorio
Tantidhatri is India’s first international Women’s Performing Arts Festival. Its First Edition took place in Pondichery in 2012 and the Second, in Bangalore in 2016. This third edition, will take place in Kolkata from 15th till 20th of January 2019.
The festival is directed by Parvathy Baul and I do the artistic direction. You can see the program here.
I participate in the magazine Primer Acto nº 355, directed by Ángela Monleón, with a small piece entitled ” Mi alegría” (My joy)
http://primeracto.com/revistas/primer-acto-355
