el público
CERCO UN CENTRO (LOOKING FOR A CENTRE)
Is a community-based performance workshop about the centre of cities located in marginal geographies, from the perspective of young people.
Through a participatory process, performance's dramaturgy is built upon a map of interviews to persons and communities related to the centre of a city.
The performance documents the city-centre as a symbolic agora, and as simultaneously a meeting, a distancing, and a gravitating point of different people and perspectives about inhabiting.
Pilot project. Ragusa (Sicily), Italy.
Phase 1 Feb-June 2015; Phase II Mar-April 2025
LOCURA DE VHIDA
Locura de Vida is a participatory performance co-created with six women with HIV, in order to talk about the triple stigmatization they live: being a woman, having HIV, and experiencing mental health issues. A medieval legend tells that people considered to be "mad" were invited to board a ship that would travel adrift to be abandoned to their fate. Departing from the legend of the "Ship of the fools", the piece undertakes a cruise though women’s life-stories, crossing the uncharted waters of illness, madness, and female desire. Come on board and join us in the pool party, spa, rooftop rave, peep show, circus performance and much more!
Direction and dramaturgy: Nicoletta Cappello
Actors: Ana, Ángela, Belén, Teresa, Dominique
Music, live voice and looper: Mónica Acevedo
With the special collaboration of: La Doctora
Production: Sara Sánchez
Mediation and Production Assistant: Sonia Fariza
Premiere: Teatro de Las Aguas, Madrid 29 Febrero 2024
An initiative of
With the support of
THE REAL GAMES
The Real Games (los juegos de verdad/ i giochi veri) is a radio-dance/drama and a podcast that instead of being listened to is designed to be performed.
The podcast contains 21 real games, 21 audio-based dance scores and theatre games each to be performed in connection to a different everyday task. You can do the Real Games’ performances at home by following the step-by-step audio-instructions in real time while doing a daily activity.
Like meditations in movement, you can enjoy the Real Games by listening, by imagining or by actively dancing. You can do the performances alone or accompanied. Here, now, or later.
This 21-games challenge is created to add a spark of imagination to your daily moves, and it can lead to unexpected results…🕹️
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Concept and texts: Nicoletta Cappello
Music: Francesco Frasca
Production: El público
Partnership: Radio Relativa Madrid
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Play the Real Games now at radiorelativa.eu
MUJERES CON V.
Six women, who survived not only HIV, but also stigma related to it, take the stage to tell their life stories related to HIV, from stigma to violence, from sexual and affective relationships to motherhood, from activism to mental health issues.
Direction and Dramaturgy: Nicoletta Cappello and El Público
Performers: Carmela La Vela, Lola Power, Flor, Mariquilla, Arancha, La Faraona, La Doctora
Live music and voice: Monica Acevedo
Production and technique: Sara Sánchez
Assistant Director: Karla Meneses
Mediation and communication: Debora La Doctora Álvarez
Read the press about the project in "El Salto"
An initiative by
With the collaboration of
STATO VEGETALE (online)
Moved by the current ecological crisis, Charles Darwin has returned to Earth with an experiment, Stato Vegetale, to save human beings from extinction. The experiment is a performance that invites the audience to get into the body of a plant, to learn its survival skills. Anyone can participate in Stato Vegetale: you will perform the performance live, from your own home, following Darwin's instructions. We also invite you to join the experience, even if you don't want to actively participate.
In Spanish with English Subtitles.
Concept, direction and dramaturgy: Nicoletta Cappello
Director assistant: Marlene Michaelis
Sound design: Francesco Frasca
Technical direction: Maria Virzí
Audiovisual design: Olimpia Pierucci
Performers: Livia Maria Antonelli, Laura Ayala, Karla Meneses
Production Direction: Yara Himelfarb, Angelina Mrakic
English: Angelina Mrakic
Premiered the 19th of January 2021 at Teatro de La Abadía Madrid
Produced by Il Pubblico
With the support of an Extraordinary Award Carlota Soldevila, Teatre Lliure Barcelona
DRAMASOFÍA +more
An autobiographical travel to author's adolescence through the theories of six philosophers they studied at High School and that impacted them the most at that young age: Socrates, Plato, Hume, Mill, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.
Philosophical concepts materialize on stage, as if they came out from a secret diary.
Suitable for a classroom or a theatre environment, the show invites the audience to consider their intimate relationship with philosophy, by actively taking part to the performance.
Concept, devising, performance: Kira Anzizu and Nicoletta Cappello
Technical support: Maria Virzí / Fabio Pecchioli
Coproduction: Casale Rappini Terracina / Camere d'Aria Bologna
Foto and video: Raquel Rappini / Hector Noguera
Production: Moveosofia
Premiered the 4th of July 2019 at Impact Hub Madrid
Awarded with Premi Born a la Creación Contemporánea / Premio Citofonare PimOFF / Residency prize Fabra i Coats Barcelona / Creative Business Studio Impact Hub Madrid / Selected at Festival Presente FuturoTeatro Libero Palermo
SENSELESS REVELATIONS
UNDER RANDOM PLANNABLE SYSTEMS
Collective creation of a multidisciplinary group of artists. The piece reflects on the process similarities between the scientific method and artistic research methodologies, observing the paradoxes that arise from the encounter between a rationalistic mentality and the instances of artistic creation.
Concept, devising and performance: Lena Kunz, Clara Gohmert, Nicoletta Cappello, Jens Eike Krüger
Premiere: 4 June 2016, Pact Zollverein Essen
Produced and exhibited inside Feldstärke Pact Zollverein
Photo Credits: Dirk Rose
CRICKET SOUND
Movement solo that explores the dynamics and forms of thinking, using the imagination of the body.
Creation and performance: Nicoletta Cappello
Outside eye: Mu-yi Kuo
Production: Folkwang Universität der Künste
Selected for Feldstärke im Pact Zollverein Essen, Short Cut Festival at the Pina Bausch Theater of the FdK Essen, Physical Theater Festival in Maschinenhaus Essen
PALIQUES FEMENINOS +more
Paliques femeninos is a performance exploring the gestures which traditionally "define" woman gender and femininity.
Concept, devising and performance: Mar Balaguer, Nicoletta Cappello, Karla Meneses, Aura Lobera, Livia Ramos
Costumes: Mar Balaguer
Atrezzo: Aura Lobera
Lights: Alfonso Rodríguez González
Photo: Alfonso Rodríguez González
Video: Indi Costa
Production: Amedias Teatro
Premiered the 9th of December 2015 at Matadero Madrid
Winner of Galerías Award by LaCárcel Segovia,
Selected in Russafa Escénica Valencia
Premio Carabanchel en Escena
Selected at the Exposition Ni Arte ni Educación, Matadero Madrid