Queue theatre

Participatory queue entry performance

Theatre / performance | 20.02.2024 / 16'30h | Outside the Santa Mònica

Activity free of charge without prior registration

Performance participativa de cua d’entrada

The theorist of performance studies, Richard Schechner, usually affirms that the most human and relational moments of a theatre play are the moments before the start, before the beginning and after the end, but especially during the intermission. With this affirmation, the creator of Environmental Theater, tries to defend performative practices made in other spaces, such as the street, from other aesthetic and technical precepts that are not directly influenced by the traditional theatre in the stage box, such as the situation of the queue for any artistic or bureaucratic event. Schechner tries to give importance to the moments of human contact and experimentation potentially possible in the intermissions and queues.

Based on these reflections, the Spaces Guild proposes a programme of experimental actions and activations during the interval period between exhibitions, which it has identified as "EntreActe". The proposals investigate what lies between the outside and the inside of the centre, between the dismantling of an exhibition and the setting up of a new one.

Cua teatre proposes a participatory performance in front of the door of the Santa Mònica. Performers and public are invited to enter the situation of a queue and participate in the different situations generated by this everyday device that is so present in the city.

 

Activity within the framework of EntreActos, the programme of experimental actions and activations during the period between exhibitions, promoted by the Santa Mònica Spaces Guild.

Conception, script and direction: Pedro Bennaton

With the performance by Clei Grött, Constanza Blanco, Luana Raiter, Santiago Bastidas i Tatiana da Silveira, as well as voluntary participants during the action

In collaboration with Carlos Carbonell (Guild of Digitalisation) and Antonis Antoniou (Guild of Edition)

 

Pedro Bennaton: Resident and working in Barcelona since 2018, born in London, PhD in Theatre, co-founder of ERRO Group in 2001, in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. He is a director, researcher, playwright and actor, with experience in Arts and Theatre, and emphasis on Urban Intervention and Performance, working mainly on the following themes: street theatre, urban space, participation, invasion, observation, invisibility and displacement. Since 2021 he participates as a guest lecturer in the Artistic Research Days at Fontys University, and since 2022 he is artist-in-residence at the Santa Mònica arts centre.

Luana Raiter (Brazil, 1981): is a multidisciplinary artist, PhD in Theatre Studies and co-founder and member of the transdisciplinary and street collective ERRO Grupo (2001-2023). Resident in Barcelona since 2018, with her work as a performer, playwright and researcher, she has participated in different festivals and artistic events in many Brazilian cities, as well as in several countries: Mexico, United States, Canada, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Portugal, Spain, France and Romania. Together with ERRO he taught Urban Intervention courses at UB, USP, Sorbonne Paris IV, NYU, UDESC, etc.

Clei Grött: is an actor, performer, director and writer. He was born in Brazil, where he began his theatrical career at the age of seventeen, and where he graduated in Performing Arts. In 2009 his performance project "oferta.oferta" won the Premio Artes Cênicas na Rua of the Brazilian National Foundation for the Arts. In 2020 he was one of the selected authors in the Scenes of Confinement Competition, and his first theatrical text was published in the book from the competition. In 2019 he moved to Barcelona and since then he has been acting in the audiovisual and theatrical sector.

Tatiana da Silveira Minossi: Brazilian actress arrived in Barcelona in 200; she trained as a clown and dedicated herself to the world of clowning until 2009 when she started working with the company Sienta la Cabeza until 2019; in 2020 she began to investigate interventions in public spaces as well as rescuing her clowning, presenting herself to children and adult audiences.

Santiago Bastidas Grijalba: is a Colombian actor, playwright and teacher. He holds a Master's degree in Performing Arts with an emphasis on acting from the Politécnico Grancolombiano University and the National Theatre. He holds a Master's degree in Theatre Studies from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. His participation in the direction and dramaturgy of the play Intrusos with the Colectivo Artefacto, winner of the stimulus for the theatre sector of the Department of Culture of the Mayor's Office of Popayán-Colombia (2019), stands out among others.

Constanza Blanco Jessen: is a creator, teacher and stage researcher. Script doctor. Professional actress (Dept. of Theatre-University of Chile) and Phd in Theatre Studies (UAB- Institut del Teatre) specialising in relational dramaturgy and scenes of interaction. In theatre, she has worked as an actress, playwright, producer and director; and in the audiovisual field she has worked mainly as a Script Doctor. Throughout her career, she has received various incentives and grants from governmental and private funds.