Leo Castro. Over half way

“I always carry memory with me for a long time, in body and in thought, in any process of constructing a poetics or a fiction, which then end up being shared with lots of other strangers . . . Imagined landscapes, decisive conversations, those that are left halfway or unfinished because the thread leads somewhere else, the visual or drawn elements, I sketch them out. I talk about what’s left out but shapes the journey, which is no less beautiful than all that is finally validated.”

Revisiting thoughts and the body, with the space as a landscape, to recall the half of the way travelled so far.

Activity within the framework of the second edition of the action cycle The Chairs of Tàpies, led by Judith Barnés, head of public programs at the Tàpies Museum.

Leo Castro is an artist, performer and graduate in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona (1996). She trained as an actress from 1992 to 1996 at the Estudi Nancy Tuñón (Stanivslaski/Strasberg), and in dance in 1996, coming into contact with a range of contemporary techniques and creative talents: Benoît Lachambre, Ruth Zaporah, Mark Tompkins, Lisa Nelson, María Muñoz, Andrés Corchero, DD Dovilier and Julyen Hamilton, among others. In 1999 she founded Col·lectiu SIAMB, devoted to Improvisation and Contact Improvisation. She acts in productions by TVE, TV3, TVC and the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, as well as with the companies Senza Tempo, Sol Picó and Konic Thtr, and intermittently with the LaViuda company since 2002.

She began her partnership with the Mal Pelo company in 2004, and since then has worked with them as an actor and assistant director, as well as on audiovisual directing and creativity for the company’s stage and exhibition projects. She embarked on her own creative exploration in presenting the stage productions Amadou (2009) and Olivia (2012). In 2010 she started working with creative centre L’animal a l’esquena as head of videographic documentation of residency projects and the centre’s different artistic activities. From 2008 to 2016, together with Hermann Bonnin, she worked on productions for Teatro Español in Madrid, Teatre Nacional de Catalunya and La Seca / Espai Brossa, as movement director, stage director and acting coach. She worked as assistant director with the loscorderos.sc company on its pieces El mal menor, El cielo de los tristes and Ultrainocencia. Since 2013 she has worked as an audiovisual editor with film producer and distributor Fromzero. In 2015 she started teaching Performance Technique in Dance and Composition on the postgraduate course in Performing Arts at ERAM, University of Girona.