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
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
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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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Justin P Brown
Freelance photographer, musician, singer, writer and creator. Official photographer, technician and lighting operator at ORACLES Theatre. www.justinpbrown.com |
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Benjamin Coelho
Theatre and film actor. Resident artist at ORACLES Theatre. Protagonist of Mal de Amor by Laura Federico. Nominated for the Estrella de Mar Award as a revelation actor for El Sotano, se busca empleado (2015). |
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Víctor Jordà
Designer of unusual lighting solutions, music lover, hypersensitive and devourer of small format theatre. An architect by training, Víctor departed from the world of traditional architecture to pursue his artistic concerns, finally answering an internal call. A new era of experimentation opens ... He landed by chance at the Oracles Theatre in October 2019 and there he discovered the close, spiritual family, and at the same time nonconformist and transgressor that he was looking for. For this reason, he did not hesitate to accept the proposal to join the team. Sometimes you will see him as technician at the lighting console or behind the designs of most of the theatre's posters. www.instagram.com/3or.photography |
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Michela Kaufmann
Film and theatre actress. Currently a student of physical theatre. Born in Italy, she currently lives in Barcelona. "Theatre is the game of life. And life is polluted and colored by all of us. I always like to experiment and unify distant worlds. We are all guardians of a story that wants to be told. That is the greatest gift we can offer to others. How to do it? That's what I'm most passionate about! Searching for an original way to tell a unique story." |
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Tommaso Morroni
He made his first steps in the audiovisual world upon finishing his degree in Contemporary History, seeking to leave academic objectivism. He loves history and stories, both non-fiction and fiction; researching and recounting them. Through analog and digital photography techniques, he approached photojournalism and from there documentary. He has made a documentary about a social project in Senegal, & currently collaborates in various audiovisual projects between the cities of Barcelona and Pisa. |
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Enric-Ernest Munt
Barcelonese. Catalan family environment and passionate about Jewish culture. Professionally, he is an administrator at the service of the libraries of Catalonia, although he studied Agricultural Technical Engineering. Enric-Ernest learns from the diverse cultural expressions that the city has. He works as a volunteer, altruistically, at Oracles Theatre and other cultural spaces in Barcelona. He likes to contribute knowledge, time and effort, so that the community in our environment can be of more free and conscious of thought. |
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Kaue Oliveira
Experienced painter and freelance illustrator, with experience in graphic design. www.oliveirakaue.com |
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Míriam Ruíz
Barcelona. Graduated in Audiovisual Communication. She discovered the theatre when she was very young and soon fell in love with it. Since then, she has trained in various schools of drama, going through different interpretive methods. Following her artistic streak, she also became interested in other disciplines, making small corporal, musical and dance formations. |
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The Artists
ORACLES is made up of a living and mutanting community of artists with an incredible variety of profiles, keen to learn from each other. Nationalities, cultures, genders and ages mix and feed each other. Each one contributes their grain of sand. The projects are born and develop in our community in a natural and spontaneous way. How intrepid our artists? Live and create with genius, power and magic. Art is their life. And life, their art.
The Artists
ORACLES is made up of a living and mutanting community of artists with an incredible variety of profiles, keen to learn from each other. Nationalities, cultures, genders and ages mix and feed each other. Each one contributes their grain of sand. The projects are born and develop in our community in a natural and spontaneous way. How intrepid our artists? Live and create with genius, power and magic. Art is their life. And life, their art.
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Jorge Aquista
Jorge Aquista has been working in Europe since 1980 as director of stage experiences outside and inside the theatre. Since 1986 he has been creator of the conferences and workshops 'Teatro Tango®' in Germany. These Workshops have resulted in various publications as well as a book about his work as a teacher. 'Teatro Tango®' is a source of pedagogical inspiration for many artists. He currently teaches at the Friedrichshafen 'Theatertage Festival' theatrical workshops, also at the Regensburg city university at the 'Traumfabrik' workshops, both in Germany. Since 2012 professor at the University of Stuttgart. Since 2017 he lives in Barcelona and Berlin where he offers Touch & Flow open intuitive dance sessions in both cities; also in the following cultural centers, Casa Simoncelli in Umbria-Italy & El Molino in Andalusia. He is part of the ORACLES Theatre / Studio team in Barcelona as a teacher and artist. |
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Cecilia Bellorín
Cecilia Bellorín is a Venezuelan singer and actress. She belonged to the cast of the group Rajatabla during the 1980s. She has performed in many venues in various styles: Venezuelan folklore, boleros, salsa, jazz, funk ... She debuted in Catalan theatre with the company Avinyó Teatre with the staging 'La Nit de Valognes, or the Procés de Don Joan ', by Eric Emmanuel Schmit, at the Adrià Gual theater, under the direction of Pere Sagristà. |
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Gisele Cornejo
Researcher in ritual and performance art, between the Evolutionary Tarot, to which she has been professionally dedicated for more than 15 years, and the performing arts, as an actress and singer. Daughter of an astrologer and a Vedanta teacher, she has been interested in esotericism from a young age and in parallel trains as an actress. In Buenos Aires she created a theatre group of political and social humor with which she worked for almost 10 years, making presentations in different places in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. In 2013 she settled in Barcelona, where she continued to deepen her training with her godmother, Marianne Costa. She also began working as a Tango singer. She collaborates and studies with Maria Stoyanova, who directs two personal shows: El lugar donde crecen los diamantes and Mujer de hierro, both based on the symbols of the Tarot. She has collaborated with Michael Gadish in the 12-year performance based on the Mahabharata and continues investigating the arcana of the Tarot with theater and performance tools until developing the shows of Arkana, which functions as a live oracle, and Arrabalera, a Tango show and Tarot, recently released. She is also part of the Psychopoetic Laboratory, an artists' collective that works together with Mariane Costa to investigate the bridge between tarot, sacred symbolism and contemporary artistic creation. She makes presentations of her shows in Argentina, France and Spain. Gisele Cornejo - Obra |
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Esperanza Cortes
Born in Cádiz, she began to study flamenco dance at the early age of 5 years. She has been trained with professional teachers in various styles such as flamenco, Spanish classical, jazz, contemporary, etc ... She is dedicated to flamenco, both dance and music and works with a multitude of great musicians. She composes her own songs. Esperanza Cortes on YouTube |
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Teresa Estévez Rodríguez
Cultural shaker. Chain reader. Facilitator of the tantric world. Enjoying the word, the experiences and the people, she decides to stop doing sofa activism and nourish herself in the role of manager and cultural agitator. In the world of the arts these elements must come together to enjoy what is stirring. They say of her that she keeps her good education and loses her critical thinking. She does not tolerate a lack of honesty and bad manners. They liken her to a bird that carries seeds from one place to another. She firmly believes in the responsible consumption of base culture and works hard for it. She is not a sweetheart but she knows how to pamper those who accompany her on the journey of life because she is a direct disciple of the ethics of care. I found myself in not finding myself, because I am a seeker of emotions. |
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Marta Fiol
Mezzo-soprano, actress, vocal coach, Associate Professor of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, Accredited Professor of the Feldenkrais Method, Music Therapist, Pedagogue Willems Marta Fiol emphasises in her work not only the search for her own sound and the connections between body, breath, voice, emotions and text, but also the development of creativity, pleasure in the expression of singing and vocal improvisation, stage presence and communication with the public. Interpreter of contemporary music, she has released countless works by different composers and has collaborated with numerous record labels. Her comic side has led her to train in clowning and create stage recitals involved in the diffusion of vocal repertoire in a humorous key. And she's also a vocal coach! Her voice work is holistic and inclusive. An excellent personal development tool. You can check her artistic website at www.martafiol.com |
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Horacio Ladrón de Guevara
Actor. Singer. Playwright. Poet. Showman. He trained with teachers such as Jacques Lecoq in clown, Ricardo Bartís in theatre, Ana Itelman in dance and Carmela Giuliano in singing. He has received, as author and director, 1st Prize at the Buenos Aires 1996 Metropolitan Festival and 2nd Prize 'VISIONAT' Festival in Girona. His poem Nada es lo que parece, posted on YouTube, has attracted more than a million visits. He is considered by the press as one of the 'ONE MAN SHOW's in Barcelona, along with Pepe Rubianes and Leo Bassi. Currently he forms a creative duo with Luca Lamorte, audiovisual creator. |
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Diego Mora
(Venezuela, 1987). Graduated in Theatre with a mention in Performance from the National Experimental University of the Arts of Venezuela and Master in Estudis Teatrals from the UAB and Institut del Teatre. He has worked as an actor, dancer, oral narrator, director, choreographer, puppeteer and prop in various companies and theatre groups in Venezuela. Now he lives in Barcelona where he directs several related theatre projects with his company MoraRoja Teatro. |
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Carol Ross
Bachelor of Philosophy and Letters. She is passionate about poetry, art and music. She is a presenter and organiser of events, open mics, as well as monologue contests at various venues in Barcelona. She has collaborated with various radio programs in Mexico and Colombia. She currently presents open mics in theatres and venues in Barcelona, including the Open Mic at Oracles Theatre. |
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Marion Tamme de Aquista
Multidisciplinary artist. Coming from dance and performance, from physical theatre, theatre-tango ... Life led her to fusion with the plastic arts. Her passion is to connect and combine. Textures, materials, styles, disciplines, people and worlds. She is a real spider! Her art lies with the state of being open. Observe, let it grow allowing the natural movement of the works to be expressed through her hands, body and voice. She is artist-resident of NauART, Community of Artists and director of “DialogARTE. Space for artistic fusion” at ORACLES Theatre. She is fascinated by artistic fusion and opening portals between disciplines. |
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Vicenç Vernet Pons
He has followed the acting training courses and the master's degree of Víctor Ormazábal, director of the “Olifanttakeover Theatre” in Amsterdam: acting technique of the 'grotesque' in the experience of the character, cabaret as theatrical expression and choreography of space. For two years he has presented his small format artistic works (poetic recital, theatrical monologue of a single character, cabaret performance) in different venues in Barcelona: Sinestesia, Oracles Theatre, Atelier Güell, Inusual Project, Mostra de Teatre del Center Cívic Drassanes i Ateneu l'Harmonia. He has created his own theatre company KABARET SAIGON. He considers the genre of Cabaret as his own personal theatrical expression. He follows the masters Lindsay Kemp, Leo Bassi, Copy, Mary Santpere, Paulovski, among others. He shares the idea of the popular variety show as it had been done at the Paral·lel in Barcelona in 'El Molino', where the audience was key, with star actors such as Madame Arthur, Johnson, Lita Claver 'La Maña' or Merche Marde. "When I go up on stage to do anything and interact receptively with the audience, magic occurs. I look for that dialogue, that provocation and feedback. And that's what I offer as an actor." |
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