About the show

At the beginning of 2020, Argentinian director and playwright Pablo Messiez was already talking about the idea of ​​a show that had dance at its center. During this period of reflection upon his work, Messiez has shaped and built Cuerpo de baile, premiere in Festival de Otoño, to which he has contributed in in previous editions as director and actor. In Cuerpo de baile, dance is part of the same body together with theatre and music. Thinking beyond the repetitive in theater, Messiez, who has worked with his own texts as well as others over the more than ten years he has been living in Spain, conceives once more a dramaturgy that seeks, through the body, precisely not to repeat the theatrical conventions or, in the authors’ own words “not to do what we already did”.

About the Company

Pablo Messiez trained in acting with renowned masters such as Ricardo Bartís, Juan Carlos Gené and Rubén Szuchmacher, and he has acted for Argentinian stage directors like Leonor Manso, Cristián Drut and Daniel Suárez Marsal, among others. From 2005 to 2008, he worked with Daniel Veronese in various shows and, in 2007, he made his debut as playwright and director. He moved to Spain then and premiered Muda in 2010 in Madrid, written and directed by him. After this piece followed several stagings presented at the Fernán Gómez Cultural Center of the Villa, National Dramatic Center, Teatre Lliure, Teatro del Barrio, Teatro de la Abadía, Teatro Pradillo, Matadero Madrid, Nave 73 or Teatro Pavón Kamikaze. In 2016, he won the MAX Award for Best Stage Direction for La Piedra Oscura, based on a text by Alberto Conejero, a work recognized with other four awards in that edition, including the Best Theater Show. Messiez has also made versions of classics likeLas Criadas of Jean Genet or Samuel Beckett´s Rumbo a peor.