Cooking with Leonardo, a paper theater performance with Alejandro Benítez, Avelina Correa and Natalia Pérez Turner
Paper theater show based on the book “Leonardo da Vinci's Cooking Notes”, by Shelagh and Jonathan Routh, which shows the very little known facet of Leonardo da Vinci as a food lover, cook, ephemeral tavern owner and master of festivities and banquets in the Milan court for thirty years.
Recipe:
Mix a bit of history, a generous portion of Italian genius and a part of paper theater with another of live music. It is left to marinate in the cool of the night and we will get a compact performance that will immerse us in one of Leonardo Da Vinci's deepest passions: cooking and its secrets.
Cooking with Leonardo Based on “Leonardo DaVinci's Cooking Notes” by Shelagh and Jonathan Routh
Adaptation and direction: Alejandro Benítez and Natalia Pérez Turner.
Production: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) and Facto Teatro.
Paper theater acting and manipulation: Alejandro Benítez and Avelina Correa
Cello, musical arrangements and improvisation: Natalia Pérez Turner
Theater design: Raquel Suárez Net and Alejandro Benítez
Puppet design: Raquel Suárez Net, Mauricio Martínez and Claudia Castañeda
Theater and puppet construction: Raquel Suárez Net, Alejandro Benítez, Mauricio Martínez and Claudia Castañeda.
Lighting design: Eduardo Acosta
Actor and puppeteer. He studied Dramatic Literature and Theater at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM. Founder and director of the Facto Teatro company and the Mexico City International Paper Theater Festival. He took the improvisation workshop at the Latin American Improvisation League and the acting improvement course with teacher Ludwik Margules. He has participated in 42 theater shows as an actor, puppeteer, percussionist, co-director and/or co-producer in Mexico, the United States and Germany since 1991.
FIG: @benitez_alejandro
Actress and puppeteer. Avelina has a degree in Dramatic Literature and Theater from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM. She has taken numerous voice, dance, improvisation and acting courses with teachers such as Héctor Mendoza, Juan Felipe Preciado, Alberto Lomnitz, Linda Wise and Anna Strasberg. She has more than 70 professional performances from 1989 to date.
FIG: @correa_avelina
Cellista and improviser. Member of the Spontaneous Generation, the Filera Trio and the Liminal Ensemble. Collaboration with artists from other disciplines, such as dance, visual arts, theater, performance and literature, is a fundamental part of their work. She has composed music for video art, theater, film and dance. She has not only dedicated himself to exploring the repertoire for contemporary cello, but also to that of the instrument itself, to the exploration of its sound and expressive possibilities. She has been presented at different forums both in Mexico and abroad. She was a FONCA fellow for the period 2005-06 (interpreter) with the project La cellista is an installation that proposed recitals of contemporary music for cello only in museums and galleries. He studied at the CIEM, at the Ollin Yoliztli School of Improvement, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA, where he obtained his Master of Fine Arts Music Performance; and at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
Arte Abierto inicia su programa de mediación y comunicación educativa 2022 con una conversación entre la investigadora y escritora Irmgard Emmelhainz y Sebastien Noel de Troika, tomando la exposición No Sound of Water como punto de partida. Abordarán los temas presentes en este proyecto, como el Antropoceno, y harán diferentes lecturas y cuestionamientos (Materialist Realism / Philosophy of Matter / Art as Image).
Irmgard Emmelhainz transmitirá en vivo desde No Sound of Water en Arte Abierto.
