a Roi Escudero performance-art-cinema™ (Theatre-Media) Atelier
Biographies
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ANTONIN ARTAUD [1896-1948] French actor, director, playwright, poet, essayist of the avant-garde theatre, artist, and early member of the surrealist movement in Paris. He is one of the formative influences on the modern European theatre. His concept of the Theatre of Cruelty, his label for a theater intended to release feelings usually repressed in the unconscious that would assault the representational dynamics of traditional theater and break the boundaries between actor and audience, stage and spectacle, Artaud has been an important influence on modern dramatists such as Genet, Albee, and Gelber and on directors such as Grotowski, Beck, and Brook (among others), as well as the happenings of the 1950s & 1960s, the alternative theatre movement, and “performance art". He was born September 4, 1896, in Marseilles, France, to a Catholic cultivated family with a Greek background. His father was a wealthy ship fitter. Artaud’s mother bore nine children, but only three lived beyond childhood. An attack of meningitis at the age of four left him with terrible neuralgias. Later on he was prescribed laudanum to manage his pain, anxiety and depression, and became addicted to opiates for the rest of his life. After moving to Paris, Artaud became an actor. He appeared in silent classics such as Abel Gance’s Napoleon (1927) and Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), as well as on stage. He had a long and intimate relationship with Romanian actress Génica Athanasiou, the protagonist of his film, The Seashell and the Clergyman (1927) directed by Germaine Dulac. This silent film is considered the first surrealist film. He was a founder of the Theatre Alfred Jarry (1926-1929) with Robert Aron and Roger Vitrac. In 1935 Artaud’s adaptation of Les Cenci opened at the Folies Wagram Theater, where it had a short, unsuccessful run. Following a journey to Mexico in 1936 during which he lived among the Tarahumara Indians, and another to Ireland in 1937 Artaud began a nine year period of incarceration and electro-shock treatments in mental institutions following a lifetime of physical and mental instability. His best known written work, The Theatre and its Double, was published in 1938 and remains a highly influential piece of literature to this day. He recorded his final work, the radio broadcast Pour en finir avec le jugement de Dieu, shortly before his death at a clinic in Ivry at the age of 52.
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ROI ESCUDERO (MADAME NEBUNIE La FOLIE, Artaud's Madness and Conceptual Performance-Artist/Playwright/Director/ Production Designer. Mise en scène: scenic and virtual sets, costumes, masks, objects of art/ Multimedia-video Concept/Design/Editor/Director) is an award-winning conceptual performance artist-visual storyteller who uses her background in visual arts and theatre to create post-modern theatrical works and immersive spectacles. Roi is a citizen of the U.S., born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Roi’s paternal grandmother, Reyes, a fantastic storyteller, opened the little girl’s imagination. Roi’s parents, art lovers themselves, sent Roi to learn art with the renowned visual artist Juan Battle Planas and dance with Natacha Albrich and Maria Fux. Roi stayed with Fux into adulthood. She learned Littérature Française with Janette Kinot, who introduced Roi to the world of Andre Gide and the creativity of Antonin Artaud. Roi experimented with Costume Design with Elvirette Kinot who worked with Christian Dior in his cut and confection atelier and Roi's mother the designer Nené Laplacette. Roi collaborated on two projects with The Instituto Di Tella’s star, pop artist Edgardo Gimenez. He created a lithograph for Roi’s first conceptual installation of performance-art at Nordiska: Los Que Se Disfrasan de Sol con Alfileres de Gancho. This lithograph is part of MoMA’s New York collection. Roi continued her training in performance-art, writing and direction with Argentinian masters such as Carlos Gandolfo, Alberto Ure, Salo Vasochi, voice with Carlos Capdevila and film director Alberto Fisherman, who taught Roi screenplay writing. Her musical play Donald Sol y Luna co-scored by Donald Mc Cluskey won el Gauchito de Plata. Odeon and RCA Argentina produced her songs and records. Roi learned experimental theater with Guliano Vasilico, in Rome, Italy.
In the USA Roi studied TV production at H.S.B.H. Studio, Ca; Traveling Theater with Cuban director Osvaldo Praderes in NYC and attended The School of Visual Art, NYC. Renowned playwright Mario Fratti was her playwright mentor. Roi’s artwork including her performance-art plays and documentary-visual theatre have appeared at The Art Museum Council Gallery at the Los Angeles County Museum (LACMA), Los Angeles International Open Festival, The Charlie Chaplin Space L.A., The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, The Spanish Institute NYC and other cultural institutions and art galleries. Roi is the creator of performance-art-cinema™, (Theatre-Multimedia) an immersive work containing theater, installation art, multimedia, cinéma vérité, and live performance. Her vision paved the way for multimedia-theatre through her award-winning and nominated Series BUBULINOS’ DREAMS and the ANTONIN ARTAUD Series. In New York Roi Escudero’s theatrical work has been presented at the FRINGE Festival, FRIGID New York, The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), The Planet Connections Theatre Festivity (PCTF), Midtown International Theatre Festival, IATI Theater, American Theatre of Actors (ATA), Center for Remembering and Sharing (CRS), chaShama Gallery and other events and site-specific installations, including The Indie Theater Fund.
Roi creates theatrical installations for patrons of the art and art collectors. Her soft sculptures and puppets known as Bubi’s Dolls are part of international art collections, including those of Joan and Frederick M. Nicholas, Marcia Simon Weisman, Nancy Epstein, Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, Italian Designer Valentino and others.
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Roi is the Founder, Creative Producer/Lead Designer and Artistic Director of the awards-winning ETdC Projects' Lab. Its productions include:
*Roi Escudero's ETdC Projects' Lab PRODUCTIONS AWARDS NOMINATIONS and GRANTS
2024 ALUCINANTE a Roi Escudero Performance-art virtual Installation - Created -Written – Designed - Edited and Directed by ROI ESCUDERO - Movement by IOAN ARDELEAN Performed by IOAN ARDELEAN and CARMEN GHIURCO Music Performed by the TÍPICA MESSIEZ TANGO ORCHESTA - Music Directed by EMILIANO MESSIEZ Latin Grammy Nominee 2023 - Song – LOCA by MANUEL JOVÉS Assistant Director - DRAGOS STOENESCU Light and Soundboard –VLAD GRECU -SPECIAL THANKS TO The University of Arts Târgu-Mures Romania – Presented at IATI Theater Tertulia 2024
2023 Eternal Returning by Fredrik Brattberg - Directed by Ioan Ardelean, a production featuring a Roi Escudero performance-art-video produced by Valentin Ewan - Presented at North Theatre Satu-Mare Romania –
Since 2022 to the present ETdC Projects’ Lab has developed Roi Escudero’s performance-art virtual series ARTAUD Marat and The Inmates of His Mind. The project is produced by Roi Escudero Valentin Ewan with Movement by co-producer Ioan Ardelean - A remote project developed via Zoom at The University of Art Târgu Mures – Romania
2022) L’ AMOUR FOU, a performance-art-cinéma-vérité-tale Written, Designed, Edited and Directed by Roi Escudero -Movement by Ioan Ardelean. In collaboration with ETdC Projects and Teatrul NaÈ›ional Aureliu Manea Turda- Romania - A Virtual adaptation of ARTAUD MARAT award winner of Excellent Experimental Play FRIGID New York 2020
2022) A FAMILY ALBUM: Two short plays by Fredrik Brattberg: A Winter Journey and Eternal Return, directed by Ioan Ardelean. The production contains two video-art pieces by Roi Escudero. These were shown at the iconic Teatrul National Aureliu Manea Turda, Romania
2022) SISYPHOS a performance-art virtual tale, written, designed, edited and directed by Roi Escudero. A remote project developed via Zoom and sponsored by The Network of Ensemble Theaters NET/TEN Fall Virtual Exploration Grant. The piece utilized performance-art, dance, music and technology. Choreographed and performed by Antonio Fini. Music composed and performed by Daniel Meron, piano and synthesizer, the technical director was Valentin Ewan
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2021) Two video-art pieces directed and edited by Roi Escudero, for two short plays by Fredrik Brattberg: A Winter Journey and Eternal Return for a theatrical production A FAMILY ALBUM: directed by Ioan Ardelean, and artists in residence at ETdC Projects’ Lab. These pieces premiered in Romania at the iconic Teatrul National Aureliu Manea Turda, as part of its repertoire. The production had the support and backing of Leah and the Norwegian Playwrights Association and ETdC Projects' Lab, USA.
2021) UNDER The TURHEY OAK TREE, a Roi Escudero video-art tale. It was made possible by the New York City Artist Corps Grant. Partnered with New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), and with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME).
2021) The NET’s Summer Virtual Exploration Grants. Performance-art, Dance and digital technology. Partner: Dancer Choreographer Antonio Fini
2021) Above All, a performance-art video for Tertulia 2021 at IATI Theater Written, Designed, Edited and Directed by Roi Escudero. Movement by Ioan Ardelean. Present in collaboration with ETdC Projects and Teatrul Național Aureliu Manea Turda. - A Virtual adaptation of ARTAUD MARAT
2020 ARTAUD MARAT, a Roi Escudero Performance-art play cinema play, winner of The Excellent Experimental Award FRIGID New York
2019; The 11th DIMENSION which received a 2019 IT Award Nomination from the prestigious New York Innovative Theater Awards for Outstanding Performance-art Production.
2018 Roi also won for The 11th DIMENSION the 2018 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity AWARD for Outstanding Experimental Playwright, plus 3 NOMINATIONS: Outstanding Overall Production, Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Costumes Design.
(2016) Flow won The Greener Planet Award for its use of recycled material in set and props, the PCTF AWARD for Outstanding Scenic Design and Outstanding Performance-art-Multimedia-Projections. NOMINATIONS: Outstanding Direction, Outstanding Costume Design.
(2013) Artaud...mon mômo won the PCTF AWARD Outstanding Multimedia Event, Video and Projections. NOMINATION: Outstanding Direction.
(2012) B=Essence NOMINATION: Outstanding Multimedia Event, Video and Projections.
(2010) 11 Seconds of Ecstasy! won the PCTF AWARD for Outstanding Performance-Art-Multimedia Event, Use of Projections and Special Effects. NOMINATIONS: Outstanding Overall Production of a New Play, Outstanding Direction, Outstanding Sound Design and Antonin...mon Artaud at the MTF
Plays by Mario Fratti, Performed, Adapted, Designed and Directed by Roi Escudero;
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(2017) Cain won the PCTF AWARD for Outstanding Projections Design. NOMINATIONS: Outstanding Overall Production, Outstanding Playwright, Outstanding Direction. The Colonel’s Wife (2015) won the PCTF AWARD for Outstanding Overall Production Revival/Adaptation/Sequel. NOMINATIONS: Outstanding Direction of a play with Music Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play with Music, Outstanding Multimedia Performance-art and Video Projections. Roi also designed and directed Fratti’s play The Anniversary
Translated and Adapted La Matra India an award winning Literatura Fantastica short story by Patricio Gonzales Novoa, The Matra India (2011) won the PCTF 2011 for Outstanding Performance-Art-Multimedia Event. NOMINATION: for Outstanding Overall Production of a Short Play.
ETdC Projects' Lab also produced other plays by Roi Escudero: Antonin...mon Artaud, What a Trip!, After Charlie, Bubulinos Archetypes, Bubulinos Dreams and The Dimension of Progress.
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© 2024 Roi Escudero ETdC Projects' Lab
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IOAN ARDELEAN (ARTAUD and ALL His HALLUCINATIONS and Movement), attended the University of Arts Târgu - Mures - Romania, where he received his Ph.D. in Theatre and MFA in Directing. Mr. Ioan Ardelean is a NYC based actor and director born in Romania. He is an acting instructor of voice and movement.
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His formal training and versatile style are ideally suited for dramatic roles as well as Commedia dell' Arte characters. He has assembled an extensive list of stage, commercial and film credits. His repertoire includes Shakespearean productions and modern plays at The National Theatre in Cluj-Napoca-Romania, The Almeida Theatre in London, and several Off-Broadway productions in New York City. In November of 2021 he directed Family Album (Winterreise & The Returning) by Fredrik Brattberg in collaboration with ETdC Projects’ Lab at The National Theatre Aureliu Manea Turda, Romania. In June of 2019, Fourteen Little Red Huts, the show which he directed was presented in Voronezh-Russia at the Andrei Platonov Festival in September 2019 he conducted a workshop based on Suzuki&Viewpoints at Hop Festival- Constanta, Romania, and directed The Returning, at North Theatre Satu-Mare, Romania. In July 2020 and July 2021, he was part of the jury at Gala Hop Festival, Romania invited by UNITER and Gigi Caciuleanu.
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Ioan Ardelean has been an artist in residence at ETdC Project’s Lab where he has performed as an Actor and Associated Director. Since 2022 he has been portraying Artaud in a multimedia work-in progress: Artaud Marat and the Inmates of His Mind – a performance-art virtual installation produced, written, designed, and directed by Roi Escudero with movement by Ioan Ardelean- An ETdC Project’s Lab Production-Project produced by Valentin Ewan and co-produced by Ioan Ardelean at the University of Arts Târgu-Mures, Romania.
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Among his favorite roles are Artaud in Artaud Marat directed and written by Roi Escudero (Artaud Marat won the Excellent Experimental Play 2020 award), The 11thDimension directed and written by Roi Escudero (production nominated for the New York Innovative Theatre Awards 2019), Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Khlestakov in The Governor Inspector, Tormod in More and Samuel Beckett in The Last Godot. Currently he is collaborating with Medicine Show Theatre and National Theatre Targu-Mures, Romania and ETdC Projects’ Lab.
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As a recent citizen of the U.S, he has a heightened sensitivity to create an environment where diverse identities and communities are honestly and courageously affirmed.
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VALENTIN EWAN (The CARETAKER, The Ghost of Dr. Ferdière and Producer / Dramaturg/ Historian/ Stage Manager/Videographer/Multimedia and Technical Director), a NYU graduate with a Major and Honors in History from the College of Arts and Science, and a Minor in Documentary Film from the Tisch School of the Arts.
Valentin is an active artist at ETdC Projects’ Lab, where he works as creative producer, dramaturge, researcher, editor, stage manager --videographer multimedia designer and technical director. His work at ETdC includes award-winning and nominated productions like the performance-art plays and virtual installations by Roi Escudero: Alucinante at IATI Theater Tertulia (2024) Eternal Returning (2023) by Fredrik Brattberg Directed by Ioan Ardelean, a production featuring a Roi Escudero performance-art-video produced by Valentin Ewan - From 2022 to the present Valentin has been co-producing with ETdC Projects’ Lab, Roi Escudero and Ioan Ardelean the virtual series ARTAUD Marat and The Inmates of His Mind at The University of Arts Târgu-Mures Romania - Artemisia Brush ( 2022) Sisyphos (2021) Above All at IATI Theater Tertulia (2021) - In 2021 Valentin produced, wrote and directed Warm Company in Cold Park, a short video with music by Sami Arefin. Valentin's video was part of Under the Turkey Oak Tree in 2021. In 2020 Valentin was Producer, Dramaturge, multimedia technical director and performer in ARTAUD MARAT and The Inmates of His Mind a Roi Escudero performance-art play that won Excellent Experimental FRIGID New York 2020. Valentin likewise worked in various roles on The 11th Dimension (2018), Flow (2016), Antonin mon Artaud (2013) and B=Essence (2012), as well as Mario Fratti's plays Cain (2017) and The Colonel’s Wife (2015). For The 11th Dimension, Cain and Flow, Valentin won the PCTF award for Outstanding Multimedia/Projections/Special Effects, and a 2019 Innovative Theatre Awards nomination for Outstanding Performance Art Production as co-producer of The 11th Dimension.
Valentin loves working and creating with ETdC Projects' Lab, and he works as a freelance project manager and technical director for commercial and philanthropic multimedia events. Valentin is also a passionate freelance writer and editor who has written articles and reviews for many groups and is a member of the Innovative Theatre Awards honorary award committee. Valentin achieved his Major and Honors in History from NYU CAS with a Minor in Documentary Film from the Tisch School of the Arts. "I am ever eager to be part of the wonderfully collaborative and creative experience that is the indie community!"
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CARMEN GHIURCO (Genica Athanasiou, Artaud’s muse) has a PhD in Theatre a bachelor’s and master’s degree in acting from the University of Arts Targu-Mures. She also studied 2 years in the Master’s Degree Program for Dramatic Writing at the same university.
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Since 2022 Carmen Ghiurco has been an artist in residence at ETdC Projects’ Lab NYC -part of the multimedia work-in progress: ARTAUD MARAT and The Inmates of His Mind- a performance-art installation created, written, designed, and directed by Roi Escudero with movement by Ioan Ardelean – Carmen Ghiurco portrays Genica Athanasiou, Artaud’s muse. She is extremely happy and excited that she was given this amazing opportunity to collaborate with an international company such as ETdC Projects’Lab and she hopes that this collaboration will continue from this point on flawlessly. She’s collaborated with Ioan Ardelean since the first year of my acting studies, first as a student – teacher, and then as an actress – director. She’s always enjoyed working with him and now I am extremely pleased that I could continue and expand our professional relationship even more in this project of EtdC Projects’ Lab.
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Her accolades include classic, contemporary, and modern plays as: Mother tongue - Mameloschn by Sacha Marianna Salzmann, directed by Olga Macrinici / 2017, When love is missing… directed by Ioan Ardelean / 2017, Mede/ea or About domestic happiness, by Roxana Marian, directed by Monica Ristea and Elena Purea / 2017, Gen.Eu directed by Olga Macrinici and Andi Gherghe / 2018, Protected – Unprotected directed by Olga Macrinici / 2018, Coming of Stage directed by Radu Apostol / 2018, Sense of an ending, directed by Adi Iclenzan / 2019. She collaborates with Vlaicu Golcea at Teatrul Postnational Interfonic Interfonic since 2021, where she played under Vlaicu direction in: Flowers of children. Act 1. Grandmother by Carmen Ghiurco, ERA_TA by Carmen Ghiurco, PASSING GRADE Agata M. Skrzypek, Yes by Carmen Ghiurco, Identity card_001 by Carmen Ghiurco, Prelude in the afternoon with a cyborg by Monica Stoica, and ACTRESSES. I MEAN, SORRY FOR TOUCHING YOU by Michal Telega, directed by Mihai Pacurar.
She’s dedicated to a professional mindset, and I have a very deep respect for deontology. I’m very collaborative and curious about different kinds of theatrical or performative instances. Also, she is very musical, and she can perform her voice in many different ways including a broad variety of singing styles. She is a good organizer and of course, very organized in her work. She has an appeal to physical activities such as running, for example.
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GEORGE HÄ‚DÄ‚RIG graduated from the High School of Dramatic Arts in Cluj Napoca, Romania in 2016 and then he studied acting at the University of Arts in Târgu-MureÈ™, Romania where he received his bachelor’s degree. Since 2022 George Hădărig has been an Artist in residence at ETdC Project’s Lab NYC. He is part of the multimedia work-in-progress: Artaud Marat and The Inmates of His Mind – a Roi Escudero performance-art virtual series with movement by Ioan Ardelean. He is also a dancer at the People Power Partner-Ship, a project that is running on a large scale in several countries in Europe. His repertoire includes contemporary, classic and dans-theatre. Among his favorite roles are: Shaman in Artaud-Marat by Roi Escudero, Performer in Sweet Charity directed by Miklos Bacs, Rica Venturiano in O noapte furtunoasa by I. L. Caragiale directed by Dana Lemnaru, Priest in Our Class by Tadeusz Slobodzianek directed by Stefan Roman, dancer in Noaptea muze(e)lor directed by Denisa Badea, Reflections and Face(2)Face directed by Sigrum Fritsch.
DRAGOS STOENESCU MIHAI (Assistant Director) At the moment he is a student at the Masters of Directing at the University of Arts Targu-Mures. His work is centered on the experimental front, he is trying to find his own way of practising theatre. On the 10th of February his degree performance premiered at the Studio 2.1 at the University of Arts Târgu-Mures: Tatal nostru care esti in supermarket by Petre Barbu.
Since 2022 Dragos Stoenescu has been an Artist in residance ETdC Project’s Lab NYC – part of the multimedia work-in progress: Artaud Marat and The Inmates of His Mind – a Roi Escudero performance-art virtual series with movement by Ioan Ardelean. He was honored to work with ETdC Projects’ Lab, artistic director Roi Escudero on the Artaud Marat and The Inmates of His Mind project. It was a great opportunity to experiment and learn a lot of useful new things.
VLAD GRECU (Light and Sound) Board known as a actor who pays a lot of attention on details, Vlad has played roles in important shows based either on classical and contemporany writer’s plays, like Hamlet, by Whilliam Shakespeare, The three sisters by Anton Chekhov or Double or Nothing by Neil LaBute. He studied acting at University of Arts in Târgu MureÈ™, where he had important meetings and workshops with people from the industry of theatre and film, both from Romania and Europe, like Radu Mihăileanu (film director), Scott Johnston (theatre director), Ioan Ardelean (actor and theatre director), Silviu Purcărte (theatre director) or Mihai Mălaimare (actor). Vlad works for “I.D.Sîrbu” Dramatic Theatre in his hometown where he has the role of a policeman and dancer in the show “D-ale Carnavalului” by I.L.Caragiale, directed by Sandu Grecu (ex Minister of Culture in Republic of Moldova). Also Vlad is playing in commedia dell’arte show “Jester for a day at Count Dracula’s court” directed by Bianca Holobut and in the moving statues show “The dagger and the club” directed by Mihai Mălaimare, at “Studio Theatre” in Târgu MureÈ™. Vlad has a lot of skills for theatre, media and tech. In the theatre field he has ablitys for fencing (two workshops), dancing (one of the reason he is working with “I.D.Sîrbu” Dramatic Theatre), puppetry (bunarku, muppet and bi-ba-bo type), improv shows (one national tour last year), stage fights. He is also interesed in social theatre and the theatre as a form of emotional and personal development. He and his family loves animals and they are donating food and an amonte of money every mounth to a local animal shelter. Vlad speaks English (level B2) and French (level B1). Looking forward to work with eveybody that loves theatre and this beautiful world that we can be into it.
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MIKA OYAIZU (MADEMOISELLE Raison d'être and all her Manifestations) born in Tokyo, Japan, first started ice-skating at an early age, since then she has been deeply involved with music and dance, and later became a competition dancer in International style Ballroom Latin Dance. Mika has training in Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Ballroom, Latin, West Coast Swing, Yoga and Pilates as well as Acting and Narrating. She received her BFA in Scenography, theater arts. Since Mika discovered Tango in 1999 she has been studying and dancing different styles: Milonguero, Apirado, Canyengue, Traditional Salon, Fantasia and Nuevo. Mika has frequently danced in New York and Buenos Aires, studying with masters such as Juan Carlos Copes, Mingo and Esther Pugliese, Pablo Pugliese, Chiche and Marta, Gustavo Naveira and Giselle Anne, Olga Besio, Guillermina Quiroga, Chicho Frumboli, Maria Plazaola, Mariela Franganillo, Mauricio Castro, Adrian Veredice and Alejandra Hobert, Moira Castellano and Gaston Torelli, and great Milongueros among them. Mika has also taught Argentine Tango in groups and private, as well as choreographing, and performing in Milongas, corporate events and shows: NY Dance Center, Stepping Out Studios, The Arts Cure Center, Australian Consulate of New York, Lincoln Center, 92Y, Riverside Church Theater NY, New York Athletic Club, Bar Sur, and as far afield as Japan. Mika’s enthusiastic devotion to Tango was featured on "La Nación", the Argentine national newspaper, as “Tanguera from overseas”. As a dancer and actor, she has appeared in theatrical shows, films, TV and off-off-Broadway productions, including "Sayonara" at Miller Theater in NY, "Agapanthus Tango" at the Australian Consulate of New York, "Still Alice" by Sony Pictures, "Person of Interest" on CBS, and "Manhattan Love Story" on ABC. As an artist, she is working to achieve her own style based on strong traditional techniques. Since 2009 she has been a continual artist in residence of Roi "Bubi" Escudero's ETdC Projects' Lab and has featured in several of their productions: "Argentina Passionate!” at American Theatre of Actors at New York Musical Theater Festival, "B=Essence" at Bleeker Street Theater in NY, the award-winning production "Artaud...mom momo", "11 seconds of ecstasy!", "Matra India" at The Robert Moss Theater in NY, where she was nominated for Outstanding Dance Choreography, and "The Colonel's Wife" by Mario Fratti at The Paradise Factory Theater in NY, for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress by Planet Connections Theatre Festivity Awards. Currently, Mika is collaborating with the new production of ETdC Projects’ Lab: ARTAD MARAT, a Roi Escudero Performance-art play. mikaoyaiz@gmail.com
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© Umbrellas Installation by James Ewan at MOCA Museum, L.A. California
© Background painting by Günther Uecker at Lévy Gorvy Gallery NYC
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JAMES NICKERSON EWAN (Structure: Artaud's Door and Virtual Paintings: Celestial Intruder and Tarahumaras Dreams), has been painting independently since his youngest years spent traveling the world, and the powerful international cultures and politics of his travels became early influences on his work alongside a grounding in architecture at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. His installations of paintings mounted on large sun umbrellas, canvases and sculptures, are part of public and private collections in USA, France, England, Italy and Argentina. Art collectors and patrons of the arts that own James Ewan’s art work include: Joan and Frederick M. Nicholas, Marcia Simon Weisman, Nancy Epstein, Anna Bulgari, Nichola Bulgari, Joan Borinstein, George I. Rosenthal, Mary Frances Rand, Ambassador Carlos Muñiz, the John Wayne Foundation and other private collections. His work has appeared at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles California (MOCA); The Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires; ART L.A; The Rodeo Collection, Beverly Hills; The Peninsula Hotel, Hong Kong; Epcot Center, Orlando, Florida; Filmland Center, Culver City, CA.; The Dance Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. and other public spaces and private events. In New York his atmospheric theatrical backgrounds have been displayed in award winning productions like EtdC Projects’ Lab, Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, The Musical Theatre Festival, The Fringe Festival, The Midtown International Festival, Frigid Festival and the Spanish Institute.
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VICTORIA RIC (MADEMOISELLE Raison d'être and all her Manifestations) is a Bolivian actress based in New York City. She started her acting career in Barcelona, Spain 15 years ago in the Nancy Tuñón-Jordi Olivé Studio. She continued her education with teachers like Nickolay Mijailovich Kirichenko, from the Kupala Theatre in Minsk amongst other great names. Back in Bolivia she explored different contemporary dance techniques, writing poetry and combining them with her acting background in order to explore new expression languages while she kept working in films and theater. Over the last 3 years, she works and lives in New York City. Her last film shot in 2019 was “Waiting in the Lake” from Bolivian Director Okie Cardenas, where she shared credits with the greatest actors in her country. Since arriving in New York, she has been part of various casts of independent movies and theater plays. Among the best projects she performed in include the film “Extra Innings”, which won best film in the Manhattan Film Festival (and others), and the play “The Whale and the Dog Star” written by Ben Holbrook, with the Fundamental Theater Company. Her body of work is tainted with a great subjectivity that expresses a feminine universe, rebellious and melancholic, which makes her voice always recognizable.
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BUBULINA a REBEL HEROINE in The Dimention of Progress
a performance-art video from the award-winning play
The 11th DIMENTION from BUBULINOS’ DREAMS Series.
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Tango Bubulinesco - a tango cancion with Lyrics by Roi Escudero and
Music by Roi Escudero and Emiliano Messiez
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EMILIANO MESSIEZ (Composer and Pianist) is a Latin Grammy Nominee '23, and a composer and pianist originally from Argentina and based in New York City. With a very versatile and personal sound, he is the composer of The Guava Tree (2021), Casa Alfonsa (2022) and The City Dog and the Prairie Dog (2023), all musicals commissioned by the Creede Repertory Theater in Colorado, and he is the arranger and orchestrator of Ghost in the Machine and Mommy Moon, both musicals by Janine Robledo. He is the founder and director of the Tango Orchestra "Típica Messiez" and he is the pianist of the show Forever Tango. Emiliano is educated in classical music, jazz, tango, rock and Latin American rhythms, and he has performed all around the world in venues such as The Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and The Houston Opera Theater in Texas. For more information please visit www.emilianomessiez.com
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ETdC Projects’ Lab upcoming projects: BUBULINOS Work in Project
More Works in Progress with the collaboration of
MUSICIANS – COMPOSERS - SINGERS – CHOREOGRAPHERS and DANCERS
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DANIEL MERON (Composer, Arranger, Pianist and Synthesizer), pianist and composer Daniel Meron has established himself in the New York City music scene over the past decade, performing and recording as both a sideman and a band leader. A skillful improviser, Meron finds a way teature his unique playing style in brilliant compositions that are both sophisticated and lyrical, rich with influences from jazz, his homeland of Israel, and other folk traditions. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, Daniel has played at NYC venues such as Mezzrow, Soho House, and the Museum of Natural History. He has also performed in the Jacksonville Jazz Festival, Costa Rica Jazz Festival, and has toured Canada and Europe. Meron’s multiple records have gained rave reviews from music critics and radio stations around the world.
Daniel Meron composed the music for two of Roi Escudero's Performance-art-virtual-tales: Artemisia Brush and Sysiphos - Two videos produced by ETdC Projects’ Lab that will be presented in international festivals
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ANTONIO FINI (Choreographer and Dancer) is the Artistic Director of Fini Dance - Italian International Dance Award in New York City. Antonio has been a principal dancer with Michael Mao Dance since 2010, performing in New York City throughout the US, and Europe. He is a special guest with Erick Hawkins dance company and he has been guest artist for the Kosovo Ballet, Staten Island Ballet, Long Island Ballet, Boca Ballet Theater, Mare Nostrum Elements and the Martha Graham Dance Company. As choreographer he created works for the National Ballet of Kosovo, Roi Escudero, the Players of the Square, Company in residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and “La danza dei camorristi” for the New York City Opera at Rose Theater at Lincoln Center. He produced Dance The Audition a documentary now playing on Amazon Prime. In 2017 he became a special guest Judge for Dancing with the Stars Italy.
Antonio Fini portrays Sysiphos' music and narration.
