Mexican teacher and actress Shady Larios visits Matanzas during the International Open Altar Event (EIRA). Radio 26 surprised her this morning in the lounge of the Cuban Association of Craft Artists in the middle of a conference with Matanzas actors about the theater of documentary objects. Sitting on a small step in the room she offered her statements to our station.
“I am in Cuba to give a documentary theater theater, I did the international curatorship and I invited some projects from different countries. We are in dialogues with dramatists from countries such as Spain, Ecuador and Mexico, enriching this idea of Rubén Darío Salazar.
“Until today we are very surprised of how we work here with the theater of documentary objects, we are discussing how this technique of theater that for our countries is so different, in Cuba is already considered a habitual way of doing theater.”
On the potentialities of Cuban theater in the rescue of documentary objects to mount sets, the actress felt conquered with the purity of our customs:
“Here the Cubans have customs that in our countries do not exist, customs damaged by the voracious consumerism that exists and because of this, objects are not rescued in expressions of art. It is impressive to appreciate objects from the Republic, soviets, plastics, recyclable objects in the work of dramaturgy, because in addition to saving nature, saves the scenic memory and how all these objects can be scenic material to provide our art.
“I believe that the objects, from all parts of the world and these laboratories that are being carried out give us a multifaceted perspective of the world, and that says a lot about the economic precariousness of Cuba as opposed to its spiritual wealth, that it can be done more with less. ”
This week during the EIRA, Dr. Shady Larios was able to offer her knowledge through the laboratories and conferences, and she was able to touch with the human warmth of the Cuban and Matanzas theater players:
“I see a lot of virtuosity at an interpretive level, a lot of concentration …, in the countries I live in (Mexico and Spain) new technologies generate too much alienation and minimize concentration. I can appreciate that this does not happen in Cuba, at least for now those values remain intact in the construction of the scenic spaces, in the construction of historical processes, of criticism in the discourse and the use of language and the word, to me It seems enviable, really. ”
Regarding the value of the theater of documentary objects, Shady said:
“Documentary theater seems to me to enable alternative policies of memory, it is a collectivist act, even for many people where there are places where state authorities do not comply with their Paper and artists complement these public functions with work in communities and the rescue of memory. It does not mean that art should save the world, but it does promote spaces of consolation and accompaniment, to tell silenced truths, to reflect reality and to discuss issues that are not talked about. ”
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