Carla Tovias
Arts and Movement
PERFORMER
Specialized in Jacques Lecoq's pedagogy, based on the use of the body and the mask, I enjoy working from the availability of the body and its relationship with space. With experience in different spaces: street, stage, or unconventional spaces, and various styles: text, gesture, performance, documentary theater...
For me, the concept of performer also encompasses being a part of the creative process. Each project is a journey where I enjoy finding my place.
STAGE DIRECTION
For me, directing is the act of coordinating a team and creating a comfortable and respectful workspace so that everyone can bring out and enhance their particular talent to grow the artistic direction outlined by the proposal.
Leading is about sustaining uncertainty and ensuring that each member of the team can bring out the best in themselves, making the creative process a space of safety, research, and enriching collective learning.
SCENIC MOVEMENT AND CHOREOGRAPHY
Accompanying creative processes from a body-focused approach, from the construction of specific characters to building scenes, adapting works to different spaces, or creating specific choreographies.
I don’t like to work from absolute truths. For me, creative processes are spaces of exploration where, through work and play, different perspectives are discovered from which to interpret.
The experimentation with different bodily territories through emotional and physical journeys, in order to consciously find the place from which we want to act. Linking movement, dance, theater, or circus exercises to work from the generic form of a scene, the emotional arc of a character, or even the physical impediment of a specific character.
PEDAGOGY
With experience teaching both children and adults, I see theater as a game. Theater in French is called jeu, and absolutely everyone can play and do theater.
Theater is a fantastic tool for self-work and for working with others, starting from physical play, where we can explore our limits both physically and mentally.