ORACLES THEATRE/STUDIO
We are a cultural space dedicated to the performing arts, with weekly programming in theatre, music, poetry, dance and exhibitions. The programming of shows in butoh dance, flamenco and dream theatre is one of the specializations of this mysterious space located in the heart of Barcelona, in Poble Sec, next to the Church of Santa Madrona.
MUSIC - THEATRE - DANCE - POETRY
Contemporary, traditional & avant-garde
MUSIC - THEATRE - DANCE - POETRY
Contemporary, traditional & avant-garde
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ORACLES
The Theatre Church benches, fairground theatre chairs, Japanese tatami mats, a dramatic piano, masks everywhere, dancing shadows, textures that envelop the senses... the unmistakable symbolic language of Tarot and dreams permeating the walls and tables of the rich scenery. We are inside the ORACLE. We return to the ritual origin of the Theatre! Sacred and sacrilegious, art runs through the veins of this original place of worship, creating a bridge between Western tradition and the Far East. A place to live unique experiences. We are the Artistic Oracle of Barcelona! An independent, intimate and magical theatre where you can dream awakened. Come and see! ORLAND VERDÚ ORACLES
The Story Founded and directed by Orland Verdú in 2017, ORACLES Theatre / Studio is, without a doubt, the artistic oracle of the most mythical and bohemian Barcelona. Artistic headquarters of the ORACLES Theatre company and its creator, our space is also a dramatic centre with regular training and intensive courses in performing arts, with a special focus on moving arts, physical theatre and Butoh dance. Inspired by the theatres in New York in the late '90s, ORACLES Theatre takes a step into the unknown to make us daydream. We go beyond the circle, where the Void takes Shape in the Scene through the Dream. We are in front of the Oneiric Theatre of Orland Verdú and its factory of dreams. |
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The Company
ORACLES Theatre Company was founded in 2013 by Orland Verdú. The first staging of the company was the work Diàlegs de Dalt i de Baix (Ed. Onada), with which it won the VIII Premi de Teatre Ciutat de Sagunt 2011. Works from this early period are Madame Ho Lee, Truc or tracte? and Hyde Cabaret.
The first major mutation of ORACLES Theatre Company was Orland Verdú's decision to investigate butoh dance and physical theatre. Thus, the text was relegated in pursuit of intense and transformative physical work until progressively becoming a soloist with specific collaborations with other artists, mainly musicians. Among them, the Japanese composer Keiko Fujiie for the production NAGASAKI - Wilderness Mute (Natura Morta) and the adaptation of QUASIMODO for butoh dance.
From its beginnings, the artistic direction of Orland Verdú made ORACLES Theatre Company assert the epithet of symbolic and dreamlike. Under this definition, the artist coined this aesthetic vision to his personal contribution to the Butoh Dance and the Physical Theatre, creating the term Mitoh Theatre or Oneiric Theatre to respond to his artistic philosophy and his interest in myths.
Works from this era include PANDORA, DUNSINANE, ICARUS: The Last Flight, HAMELIN: The Pied Piper and the Rats, PINOCCHIO: The Birth of the Actor and MORPHEUS: Sandman & The Seven Sins.
As a company, the work with symbols, images and dreams is highly revealing in the creative process, generating a great impact in the awakening of the collective unconscious in the work with the actor. The state of mind to which the public is induced is a kind of hypnotic trance or lucid dream. This technique is the synthesis of Orland Verdú's research into numerous artistic fields.
The Company
ORACLES Theatre Company was founded in 2013 by Orland Verdú. The first staging of the company was the work Diàlegs de Dalt i de Baix (Ed. Onada), with which it won the VIII Premi de Teatre Ciutat de Sagunt 2011. Works from this early period are Madame Ho Lee, Truc or tracte? and Hyde Cabaret.
The first major mutation of ORACLES Theatre Company was Orland Verdú's decision to investigate butoh dance and physical theatre. Thus, the text was relegated in pursuit of intense and transformative physical work until progressively becoming a soloist with specific collaborations with other artists, mainly musicians. Among them, the Japanese composer Keiko Fujiie for the production NAGASAKI - Wilderness Mute (Natura Morta) and the adaptation of QUASIMODO for butoh dance.
From its beginnings, the artistic direction of Orland Verdú made ORACLES Theatre Company assert the epithet of symbolic and dreamlike. Under this definition, the artist coined this aesthetic vision to his personal contribution to the Butoh Dance and the Physical Theatre, creating the term Mitoh Theatre or Oneiric Theatre to respond to his artistic philosophy and his interest in myths.
Works from this era include PANDORA, DUNSINANE, ICARUS: The Last Flight, HAMELIN: The Pied Piper and the Rats, PINOCCHIO: The Birth of the Actor and MORPHEUS: Sandman & The Seven Sins.
As a company, the work with symbols, images and dreams is highly revealing in the creative process, generating a great impact in the awakening of the collective unconscious in the work with the actor. The state of mind to which the public is induced is a kind of hypnotic trance or lucid dream. This technique is the synthesis of Orland Verdú's research into numerous artistic fields.
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ORACLES
The Creator Orland Verdú (Alicante, 1982) is the creative heart of ORACLES Theatre, both in the company and the physical space. Writer, director, actor and dancer ... His work has innumerable interests and facets. As a child he already dreamed of being a magician and wrote stories and plays with magical and strange creatures. As a teenager he insisted on being a writer of horror novels and flirted with joining the legion of cursed artists. Then he mutated into an actor, understanding the trade as the virtue of the magicians when it comes to taking any form. A sleepwalking medium! At last, he found the butoh dance and found the interpreter's elixir of life: the movement and metamorphosis of the living body in continuous dance with the spirit. His creations demand physical technique and a passionate presence from him and his actors. The hidden and asleep, the depth of myths and the human drama against the divine are some of his favorite themes to awaken us from social lethargy. As a playwright, he has received the VIII Premi de Teatre Ciutat de Sagunt for Diàlegs de Dalt i de Baix (Ed. Onada) and the Evarist García Premi for Truc o tracte? (2016). He often talks about ORACLES Theatre as a son. Crazy stuff! You can check his artistic website at www.orlandverdu.com and his blog www.psicotarot.es, one of his best kept secrets. |
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The Crew
ORACLES is abuzz with artists. The ewoks of the dream tribe are beings who work in community and who understand the ancient value of having a word: something enormously revolutionary in the 21st century. We build without competing and give our best to create as a TEAM. Because great works need a thousand invisible hands ... And a lot, a lot of Love. Does that sound familiar to you?
The Crew
ORACLES is abuzz with artists. The ewoks of the dream tribe are beings who work in community and who understand the ancient value of having a word: something enormously revolutionary in the 21st century. We build without competing and give our best to create as a TEAM. Because great works need a thousand invisible hands ... And a lot, a lot of Love. Does that sound familiar to you?
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Júlia Arroyo
I’m Júlia and I’m 24 years old. In 2015, I arrived in Barcelona to study protocol and event management. In my first year I discovered the management of cultural events, and I fell in love. This discovery encouraged me to continue training, so I graduated in Communication and Cultural Industries. When I was a child, I felt lucky to have the opportunity to go to the theatre, concerts or museums. Nowadays, I really enjoy when I assist to any artistic representation. I join the Oracles Teatre team to help in management tasks such as the organization of the Oracles song festival, the coordination of different educative projects, and the creation of the annual program for the teatre. I hope I can make you live and feel like me everything happening inside Oracles. |
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Miriam Bartés
My name is Miriam Bartés, I'm 23 years old and I'm an actress. I finished my studies at Eòlia (ESAD) and currently studying my theatre and social action postgraduate at Institut del teatre. I came to Barcelona when I was 17 years old to study Theatre and since then, I haven't stoped moving; I've had Theatrical social projects in Athenes, Mexico and Barcelona. Nowadays I combine my life as an actres with being an acting teacher in different schools, uniting all the disciplines I've been trained in. What fulfills me the most in life is going on stages with a powerful speech that don't leave people indifferent. Theater is life, hope and continuous learning. |
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Justin P Brown
Freelance photographer, musician, singer, writer and creator. Official photographer, technician and lighting operator at ORACLES Theatre. Web presence. |
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Michela Kaufmann
Actress and performer - originally from Italy currently living and working in Barcelona. She has been studying art since the age of 15, and started her acting career at 21. Dynamic and passionate, she graduated at age 24 and started working as a performer and teacher in Barcelona. Her first endeavour with masks was in 2018 working on Jacques Lecoq's pedagogy, which led her to approach Comedy of Art and mask crafting in the summer of 2019 in Versailles, France. Michela believes that the actor is a full and complete artist, who should aspire to master their expressive talent in all areas of art and life - body, mind, music, crafting, writing, painting, manual work and more. "My mission is to inspire people by proffering, via art, the opportunity to expand our daily reality, through building a multi-level construct that can allow us to go beyond what is considered to be socially acceptable, beautiful, or useful. The form we choose, of our identity, is connected to the service we choose to provide for our collective wellbeing. So choose as many masks as you want, and take good care of them.” In 2020 she started her project of crafting and pedagogy - MATERIA (www.materiamask.com) Beauty and Art should be available to everyone on a daily basis, as a way of healing that can be integrated every day in our urban environment. MATERIA - 2021 |
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Sara Quiñonero
I am a Physical Theatre student at Institut del Teatre and Direction and Dramaturgy at Eòlia school in Barcelona. As an actress I have participated in several youth festivals in the city and as a director I've done a couple of short productions that I'm in the process of presenting it at various civic centres and festivities. Collaborating with Oracles Theatre makes me see with more urgency that art is necessary and that has inifite possibilities. The onyric and poetic world of Oracles is very useful and intersting for me to add to my studies and professional career as it is slowly but surely taking shape. |
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Jordi Reñé
In 2017 I studied Design at the Fine Arts Faculty, where I found my artistic and creative side. Thanks to that, and to have been fed theatre since I was a kid, in 2019 I found my passion and decided to change my studies and study Theatre; first at the school Memory and currently at Eòlia. As an actor I have participated in small projects in different venues in Barcelona (such as Oracles Theatre) and some festivals. Right now I am creating a new company with colleagues I've met during my training. The best thing about colaborating with Oracles Theatre is to mix my two passions: design with theatre. Being able to create images and content while at the same time being able to live and create theatre first hand. |
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Refo Szeinfeld
Actor, born and raised in the city of La Plata, Argentina. He has atended many acting courses since 2012, among which the Febe Chabes' school and the Taller de Artes Escénicas (TAE) del Teatro Argentino. As of 2018 he began his training at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts of the National Art University (UNA). His main works in Argentine arise from having been part of the independent artistic companies of Teatre del Vómito, directed by Carlos Hilbk and Coven Group, among which theatrical productions of classical texts stands out ("The Maids", "Macbeth", "Blood Wedding") as well as audiovisual productions ("Errática", "Moscú"). Nowadays he lives in Barcelona and is a member of the theatre company of Live Culture Venue ORACLES Theatre/Studio. |
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