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CAREER PATH

 

 In its three years of experience it has four shows in its repertoire and collaborates with several European projects. All of them deal with social and current issues that especially affect youth and today's world, which need to be addressed from a contemporary and innovative language. Nauta focuses its work on going deeper and discovering new ways of telling; the plastic and visual of its staging, and its commitment to a theater that defends the most ritual form of it as a propelling weapon to combat the dystopian world we face.

Its first creation, Nino&Mambrú, was born with the aim of modernizing the half mask of the Commedia dell'Arte and bringing it to the contemporary street. The work has been performed in countries such as Belgium, France, Switzerland, Spain and Portugal, and today it has more than a hundred performances.

In 2020, still under the name of Moving Compass, they began the creation of their first hall show: GAIA BABA. A work that reformulates the table puppet by adding the dialogue of the puppet with the body of the manipulator. The language of this work is the most universal, music. It is a show without text, for all ages and nationalities since it deals with one of the most current, universal and worrying topics of our times: the environment. On this occasion, like a fantastic story, they portray what a fictional world full of garbage where plastic is omnipresent would be like. GAIA BABA has more than ten representations at the state level, including the International Galicreques Puppet Festival, Titirijai in 2020; Galicia Pro Scene and Redondela Puppet Festival. GAIA BABA will be re-released in 2024 under the title "GAIA BABA, the last meiga" with a new cast and dramaturgy.

The universe of his third show Tacão, an adaptation of the text by Mozambican author Mia Couto, is non-normative genres, and the confrontation that exists between these and the pre-established heteronormative system. This conflict on stage is translated with the confrontation of masks of different textures and formats. This creation has had residencies in the Ártika hall in Vigo, Nave del Duende, and has been represented at the Galicreques International Puppet Festival and the MALUGA Festival (Portugal), in 2021.
 

In 2022 with A BARCA DO INFERNO, and now under the name Nauta, the company consolidates itself as a professional. It is the first co-production together with the Galician Dramatic Center and is the result of a residency in the Ciudad de la Cultura of Santiago de Compostela within the Clásicas Desfeitas project. Premiered at the 45th edition of the Almagro Festival, it embarks on the adventure of adapting a Portuguese classic to the demands of contemporary theater

A BARCA DO INFERNO is a finalist for the nomination for best puppet and animated figure show at the María Casares

 

Awards 2023, and has been represented at the Galicreques Puppet Festival and at the Titirijai Festival in 2024.

In 2022 Nauta premiered his first TREBOADA parade in collaboration with the batucada band Trópico de Grelos. A show made up of a cast of 20 artists, including manipulators and musicians, in which Nauta approaches community theater for the first time. This year, they continue to develop this field through projects such as the carnival in the French city of Vitrolles, in collaboration with the EMAP (Ecole Municipale d'Arts Plastiques) where the company will be in charge of the construction of large-format puppets for the first time (three to four meters).

On the international scene, it is part of the PHONE project, an European network in which more than eight countries generate festivals, shows and activities together with the objective of highlighting different minority languages through theater.

It has co-produced, directed and created the masks for the show Estorias ao Lume, by the Portuguese company Krisalida Teatro, which deals with Gallic-Portuguese folklore, revaluing the tradition of oral storytelling.

 

Together with EFFEA (European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists), the Galicreques International Festival and the Teo council of Santiago de Compostela, they will carry out a community theater research project with participants from the LGBTIQ+ collective, which will try to investigate gender identity from theatrical expression and the use of the mask, also considering within it the Drag genre as a transformative tool. This will be the third community theater project this year that allows the company to continue developing its own pedagogical project.

In 2024, together with the CDG (Galician Dramatic Center), it is co-producing O corazón na boca, one of the plays for the center's 40th anniversary. A show composed of a cast that belongs to the FEGATEA (Galician Amateur Theater Federation).

 

Nauta is an emerging company that develops its plastic facet together with illustrators, sculptors and designers from different artistic fields, which continues to grow and expand creative, community, geographical and collaborative horizons.

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