Los Detectives are Mariona Naudin, María García Vera and Marina Colomina. The company, established in 2016 in Barcelona, develops projects that investigate the possibilities of the stage; questioning it limits to generate their own language. Each of them comes from fields such as anthropology, film studies and fine arts. They take advantage of their interests to expand their scenic proposals, which are nourished by an exhaustive field work, researching on the gaze and its relationship with body and desire.
We are especially interested in exploring fragility and the ridicule. We are delving into strategies of estrangement, trying to dialogue with the intelligence of the audience, putting into play the abilities of the performers. Our work is fresh and fun and reaches all kinds of people.
So far, we have done three pieces; the first, Kopfkino (Mercat de les Flors, 2016) explores the repercussions of the consumption of audiovisual fictions on bodies and identities from a gender perspective, as a physical collage with a lot of humor. In our second work Pienso casa, digo silla (Festival Grec, 2019), we enter the world of medieval mystics and especially the figure of Hildegard von Bingen to talk about the potentiality of belief and to claim the experiential knowledge that these visionary voices have contributed to history; we build a narrative inspired by them and approach the issue from a contemporary perspective.
We have just premiered Concrete Matter, a work where the referents are on stage with us: our mothers. On this occasion we propose a scenic device that speaks of projection and realization through the bodies, ours and those of our mothers. The piece is a personal version of The Three Sisters in which we play with the inherent codes of theater, performance and choreography to speak and question ourselves from fragility and humor.
Mariona Naudin. Antropology and scene
Performer, creator and stage director. She has been trained in Spain, Argentina and Germany. She currently combines her artistic work with studies in cultural anthropology at the University of Barcelona. She has a degree in Physical Theatre by Institut del Teatre de Barcelona. She has worked for choreographers and directors such as Xavier Le Roy ( Retrospectiva de Xavier Le Roy Fundació Tàpies, 2012), Roger Bernat (Numax-Fagor-Plus, Internationales Bürgerbühnenfestival, Theater Freiburg) or Arantxa Martínez (The Present, Tanz im August, Berlin), among others. She has also developed her own solo work: VIP, a homage to Severiano Naudin (Jury Prize at the 100th Festival 2013, Hebbel am Ufer Theater, Berlin), Una família balla (Festival TNT, 2015). She is the founder Los Detectives, a female company based in Barcelona. She has also been a member of the documentary theatre company Mos Maiorum, with whom she has created the homonymous documentary piece Mos Maiorum, el costum dels avantpassats (TNT 2016), Gentry (Festival Grec 2018) and Turba (Teatre Lliure i Temporada Alta, 2021). She has been a member of the artistic group A.R.T.A.S in la Poderosa and an associated artist during 19/20 in the Centre de Creació i Arts Vives El Graner.
María García Vera. Cinema and scene
Performer, creator and stage director. She has been trained in Paris and Barcelona. She combines work as an actress in film and theater with scenic and audiovisual creation and research. She studied Dramatic Art at the Conservatory of the Ve Arrondissement in Paris and at the Institut del Teatre of Barcelona, Cinema at La Sorbonne and at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. She has participated in films such as Ardara by Raimon Fransoy and Xavier Puig (In-Edit Film Festival, Atlántida Film Fest) Los Campos magnéticos by Lluís de Sola (Festival de Cinema d'Autor de Barcelona,) and Return to the Horizon, and in the pieces Sapucay (Dir. Juan Pablo Miranda, Grec Festival premiere, FIDCU Uruguay Festival), Fiesta de bailes para salvar el mundo (Dir: Miguel Ángel Blanca, premiere at the Vic Live Music Festival, Puig Porret 2015 Award),Contrakant, by Cia Sociedad Doctor Alonso premiered at Mercat de les Flors, 2020, among others. She is a member of two companies, Los Detectives and Vera Miranda together with Juan Miranda, with whom she has so far presented the pieces Micrología primera and Micrología Segunda (La Caldera, Pradillo Theater, a Porta, Ocupaciones, Santa Mónica Contemporary Art Museum) Werner or the blue of the origins (La Pedrera Dansa Ara 2015, Resident at El Graner 2014). In 2019 they started their fourth stage project at Leal Lav de Tenerife and Das Theater Amsterdam (residents La Caldera 2019). As a young creator, she has participated in the International Meeting of young scenic creators organized by the TransAmériques Festival in Montreal, Canada in 2018 and in the 2020 Directors Mediterranean Lab at the Teatre Lliure of Barcelona.
This image belongs to the work of Bea Fernández, Escorzo (a transmission).
Marina Colomina. Choreography, dance and visual arts
Choreographer, visual artist and dancer. After graduating in Fine Arts in Barcelona (UB), she moved to Amsterdam to study Choreography at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO). She works in the performing arts field and teaches visual arts. She has created shows in collaboration such as SURPLUS with Magdalena Ptazsnik, co-produced by Antic Teatre and presented in Catalonia (In Situ Festival at Center of Arts Santa Mònica and Macba es viu Barcelona in 2016) and Poland (Center of Culture of Lublin 2015 and in Studio Teater of Warsaw in 2016). And A.U.R.A. (Ahora Usted Recibirá Algo) in collaboration with Carles Casallachs presented in Catalonia (Fira Tàrrega 2015, Dansa Ara a La Pedrera 2015, Antic Teatre Barcelona 2016), Germany (PAD International Performance Festival of Mainz in 2016) and Portugal (Festival Contradansa, Covilha 2017). She has collaborated with Min Oh on a video creation based on her work Exquisite Corpses presented at Young Korean Artists 2014 and acquired by the National Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art Korea, Gwacheon, Korea. She recently collaborated with the Canadian artist Liz Peterson on the creation of Clouds (2018). By herself she has created Re adjustment s presented in Madrid (Teatro Pradillo 2016), the United States (Movement Research, Memorial Judson Church in 2014) and the Netherlands (Frascati Theater and West Gallery 2013), Camping Glow (La Poderosa, Barcelona 2018), among others . She has collaborated as a performer with Bea Fernández (Ante desde entre hacia sobre durante versus ESCORZO [a transmission]), Quim Bigas (APPRAISERS 2014) and Marta Ziolek (Body Eye, 2013). She has been an Associated Artist of La Poderosa between 2016 and 2018. In 2014 she received the prestigious Danceweb scholarship. She has been part of Los Detectives since 2016.
COLLABORATORS
Laia Cabrera Vicens. Biology and scene
She is a biologist, performer and creator. With a Degree in Biology (UAB, Barcelona 2004), Master in Public Health (UPF, 2005). She specialized in environmental epidemiology and carries out pre-doctoral studies in biomedicine at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health. She began her artistic training in theater in 2000 studying Acting at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona. Later, she graduated from the Postgraduate Degree in Sensory Language and Poetic Game, (UdG, 2010). She complements her theatrical studies by training in the field of dance and object theater and broadens her training in manipulation techniques and puppet construction by collaborating at the Prague Theater Academy.
She currently works as an actress and performer in various companies such as Natxo Montero Danza, Zanguango Teatro and Los Detectives. Lately, her work has focused in investigating the concept of territory through the relationship between the space-inhabitant and the space-memory. For her latest personal project, Mr. Cuculain, she has been working in collaboration with Alex Ardid within the framework of Azala, a space for artistic creation directed by Idoia Zabaleta in the Basque Country where she was working for four years.
Sofía Asencio. Philosophy, dance and choreography
Dancer, choreographer, performer, creator and stage director. Sofía is our advisor. She studied contemporary dance at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona between 1989 and 1993, while taking part in the musical revue with Tania Doris and Lita Claver's companies La Maña; and in the Music Hall La Belle Epoque. Later, she worked with Vicente Sáez, at Lanonima Imperial, Mudances and Cía. ACTA, and in 1998 she joined the collective General Eléctrica. In 2000, together with Tomàs Aragay, she created Societat Doctor Alonso, a scenic company and a platform for investigation and production of performances in complicity with other artists and researchers. During the last twenty years, their company has created performances such as Santa Sofía, el solo de una ignorante, Sobre la Muerte, Introducción a la Introducción, Club Fernando Pessoa, Estudio para pandereta, La naturaleza y su temblor, Y los huesos hablaron, Anarchy , Sobre la Belleza, Andrei Rubleiv, una panicografía, Contrakant touring them internationally. Also they created research projects along theirs creations such as El Desenterrador, Contrakant laboratorio, Glorieta y Retratos ( si yo fuera…) amongst others. From 2003 to 2011, together with Ernesto Collado and Tomàs Aragay, she directed the Cèl-lula collective, responsible for the MAPA festival, the Contraban cycle at the Teatre Jardí in Figueres and the curatorial work for Escena Plural at the Teatre la Mercè in Girona. In 2020 she joined the curatorial team for the Salmon 2021 Festival with Ariadna Rodríguez, Bea Fernandez, Iñaki Alvarez and Dianelis Dieguez. www.sociedadoctoralonso.org
