ACTOS ALUSIVOS IS A PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY BASED IN PATAGONIA ARGENTINA THAT HAS PRESENTED ITS WORK IN COMODORO RIVADAVIA, RADA TILLY, BUENOS AIRES CITY, MEXICO AND CUBA.

DIRECTED BY EZEQUIEL STEINMAN AND VALERIA JUNQUERA, VASTLY EXPERIENCED IN BOTH OFFICIAL AND INDEPENDENT THEATRE IN ARGENTINA. THEIR LINE OF WORK COMBINES CONTEMPORARY THEATER, DANCE, VISUAL ARTS. HIGHLY TRAINED PERFORMERS USUALLY BLEND IN WITH NON EXPERIENCED ACTORS.

EVERY PROJECT INVOLVES A RESEARCH STAGE IN WHICH THEY LATER BASE THE PERFORMANCE. IN THIS RESEARCH THEY RESOURCE FOR SUBJECT, DYNAMICS, CHARACTERS AND THE RESULTING COMBINATION OF MEDIA.

THE KIND OF PERFORMANCE THE AUDIENCE ATTENDS LOWERS THE FRONTIERS BETWEEN WHAT’S PART OF THE SHOW AND WHAT BELONGS TO DAY-TO-DAY TIMING AND ACTIVITIES. TRACES OF THE MAKING PROCESS ARE TO BE INCLUDED ONSTAGE, ATTEMPTING TO LET THE AUDIENCE SENSE THE PERFORMANCE AS A LIVING CREATURE, A PERMANENT WORK-IN-PROGRESS CHANGING CREATION.

ACTOS ALUSIVOS IS AN INDEPENDENT COMPANY NOT GRANTED BY ANY INSTITUTION NEITHER STATE NOR PRIVATE AND HAS MANAGED TO GET FINNANCIAL SUPPORT FOR EACH SPECIFIC PROJECT ATTEMPTING TO KEEP A CONCEPTUAL CRITERIA WHEN ASSOCIATING WITH A SPONSORING PARTY.

psicofonías performance series / session # 3: the house's spectrum

november - december 2006
psicofonías performance series / sesión#3: el espectro de la casa

session#3: THE HOUSE'S SPECTRUM

1er. Festival Internacional de Teatro Frente al Mar - Puerto Morelos - Riviera Maya - México

Images from the making process: http://www.sesion3psicofonias.blogspot.com/

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A not so crowdy beach next to the commercial harbor, 5 min south from Puerto Morelos' center. Sun sets at 4pm in december, sky's colors turn minute after minute. Two women (local actresses Lupita Alvarez and Natalia Ayala) wandering about some ruins left by hurricane Wilma; one of them stands by a supposed door by the ruins and -eyes closed- describes her access and walkabout a house she is visualizing; her partner scans the area for objects trying to contrast the found items to the first's description. Lorelei (patagonian actress Lorena Farina) guide of the 1st "psicofonías" irrupts in the girls "playground" choosing a spot in the imagined hoouse to capture floating sounds in the air. Later she lets the audience hear the recordings.

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After 3 attempts around the ruins, from the dune where she led the audience, discovers three shacks -one made of wood, second of leaves and third of stones- and strange sounds and lights. She leads us there, where we find some interns of the secondary school that stands by the beach. They have built and been living several experiences in those shacks for the past two weeks. Each group, employing the theatrical form they developped, recreate events from those real experiences. The last group take out life vests and decide to abbandon their precarious shelter before it ruins and depart to a boat nearby; they accept Lorelei in the group, allow her to wear the last orange vest and take her with them towards their unforecasted future.

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This work was specially prepared for this Festival by the sea. It was based on the "psicofonías" sessions structure and an intense on-location working plan that involved casting, location scouting, rehearsals and staging. A workshop was also imparted by AA directors.

september 2006
25M 221 2006 - proyecto de puesta en escena de un edificio público

(a public building staging project)

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Location: former Palace Hotel, former Banco Hipotecario Nacional, former shooting alley (underground), former presidencial offices, currently Buenos Aires University Philosophy Dept.- Buenos Aires.

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Buenos Aires' finnancial district. Saturday midnight. A guided visit inside century old Palace Hotel building, one of the most exclusive and aristocratic hotel of its time, now almost a ruin in wood, bronze and marble.

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Pavel -a 12 year old russian immigrant- guided us along the corridors and rooms of the extinct hotel while performing his bell boy tasks. The building, after a long series of re-encarnations, passed on to state university's hands where Argentina's most recognized academic researchers in humanities area work. Pavel's bell boy tasks from year 1906 begin to mix with others corresponding to all the other uses that the building hosted from those days on. Starting from the top floors and walking down a huge stairway, the visit ended on the main hall puntuated by huge columns where Pavel confronts armed shadows and projections.

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Work resulted out of 3 years of research on the building's history, original plans and century old advertisement for foreign visitors to Buenos Aires. Present employment, people's movement around the house, also were determinant for the final staging.

july 2006
from "psicofonías" performance series / session #2: chalet huergo /

location: chalet huergo, petrol history and memorabilia museum, comodoro rivadavia
see / listen: www.galeriadeartenomade.com.ar/espanol/proyectos/psicofonias

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July 2006 - sheer patagonian winter. Session #2 of the "Psicofonías Series" performs in Chalet Huergo Petrol Museum. The location, a century old mansion surrounded by gardens, on a cliff by the atlantic ocean. Settled on the biggest regional petrol area; in past decades served for accommodating YPF (national petrol company)executives and visited by international personalities such as Persian Shah and wife Farha Diba.

Audience attended the performance sitting inside their parked cars in front of the Mansion. A guide entered and walked around the house looking for the propper spot to place the tape recorder to capture the "psicofonía" para-normal voices. The guide narrated his progress live through FM radio for order the audience to syntonize it with their car radios and follow his action seen through the Mansion's windows.

september 2005
program "una linea un cielo nada"

3 open-air stage projects ("KM5" · "Jardín de las flores" · "313 viviendas")

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program featured documentary video of the making process
shown at "Patagoniaotra 2006"· (International Architecture and Landscape Showcase)
Comodoro Rivadavia · Chubut

december 2004
psicofonías: experiencia para-navideña

(session1 of "psicofonías" series) december 24th begins 11.15pm. - ends 12.08am.
location: punta piedras hills, rada tilly, chubut, patagonia argentina

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Christmas Eve 2004. 11.15pm starts the first session of the "psicofonías" series. Location: an abbandoned petrol camp overlooking Rada Tilly, a seaside patagonian town. Fiction swallows christmas' significant cosmic timing and floating atmosphere over the town.