Magical Realism with Felipe Ortiz
Magical Realism with Felipe Ortiz
19 MAR 2023
with Felipe Ortiz
ONE DAY CLASS
An introduction to the wonderful and complex world of Magical Realism!
Sunday 19 March
11.00-17.00
Rue de la Tulipe 54, 1050 Brussels
€75
This workshop is an introduction to the wonderful and complex world of Magical Realism. We will explore the roots, the basic elements and some tools we can use to be able to improvise in this genre or discover some from it to apply to our daily life improvisation. Discover the way to tell stories, the typical characters, situation, the use of time and space.
This masterclass is aimed at improvisers of an intermediate level and above.
About Felipe Ortiz
Performer, director and teacher interested in exchanging, interacting, playing and sharing experiences with different artists around the world. He´s passionate about the body in movement and its possibilities, that´s why he explores it through acrobatics, improvisation, clowning, physical theater and object manipulation to create new forms of expression in performing arts.
As a performer he´s been touring around the world since 2003, with different projects in festivals, companies, and collaborating with artists in these areas. He´s a well known in the international scene as an impro, physical theater and clown teacher. Currently working as a clown, acrobatics and impro teacher at the Javeriana University in Bogota.
He´s being the artistic director of La Gata Cirko (new circus) for 19 years and has directed and codirected shows in different formats like: the opening ceremony of the world games in Cali and the closing ceremony of the Football FIFA world cup sub-20 in Bogota, and all the shows from the company. Recently he became a pilates instructor with the ¨ Physical Mind Institute ¨ and has been studying the last months with the Ido Portal´s online movement training program.