Teatro Punto presents this Spring from the 24 April until 1 May 2010, modern Commedia dell' Arte workshop in TP's residency in Spain. For more information: Modern Commedia dell’Arte workshop and also for the summer 2009 the international
Theatre Master Classes Festival
Teatro Punto is a theatre company under the artistic leadership of Katrien van Beurden and Carlos García Estévez. It is a theatre company which develops performances and workshops, based on modern Commedia dell' Arte. With an international team of actors, Teatro Punto is active in countries such as the Netherlands, America, France and Spain. Its workshops are designed for professional actors and for theatre academies like the Arnhem acting school and the Wagner University in New York.
Teatro Punto makes theatre where the actor is the author of the story. As the actor on stage is stripped of supports, such as extended settings and a fixed script, he can become the author of a tragicomic show. He does this through movement, text, techniques, imagination and the drift to perform. Teatro Punto’s main source of inspiration is Commedia dell'Arte. With its famous masks and archetypes, Commedia dell'Arte is the first professional actors' theatre in history. Some such better known archetypes are Pantalone, an old man that holds on to anything, because death is calling, and Il Capitano, the one who pretends to be everything he's not. Hatred, fear and desire are significant emotions brought forward by these characters. The most important motives are survival, love and money. In the words of Jacques Lecoq: "One moment a character is capable of shedding tears about his father's death, the next he is deliriously happy because his soup is ready." Teatro Punto occupies itself with the archetypes of today while developing a very characteristic and contemporary actors' theatre. Full of acting possibilities it is precise and vulnerable, yet above all else it is alive.