Venue: Aftonstjärnan
Time: 18.00 16 september
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A 40 year adventure of exploring silence.

For his 40th anniversary as a performing artist Carlos Martínez offers a gift to the
lovers of the art of mime around the world who have come to see him all these years, and to the fortunate first timers: VITAMIMO!

Since 1982 he has engaged in a journey: keeping alive, refining and redefining the
art of mime with his striking stage language. Over the past 4 decades he has ventured into new territories of silence, with the skill of an artisan and the wisdom of an artist. As a young actor he accepted the challenge of performing in whiteface alone on an empty stage without props, wardrobe changes, words or voice and then went on to forge an original world of theatre that transforms ordinary events of our lives into extraordinary performances. After a 40 year tour to more than 40 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America, Carlos Martínez continues to expand the frontiers of our imagination and stir our capacity to laugh and cry at the human condition.

SVENSKA:
40 år av att utforska tystnaden.

För att fira sina 40 år som artist, ger Carlos Martinez denna föreställning till alla de mimälskare som har sett honom genom åren (men även till den lyckligt lottade förstagångsbesökaren).

Med sitt träffsäkra sceniska uttryck, har Carlos Martinez arbetat för att bevara, förbättra och omdefiniera mimkonsten sedan 1982. Under 4 årtionden har han vågat sig in på helt nya nivåer av tystnad med en hantverkares skicklighet och en konstnärs kännedom. Redan som ung antog han utmaningen att uppträda med vitmålat ansikte, ensam, på en tom scen, utan rekvistita, kostymombyten eller ord för att istället skapa en alldeles egen värld där vardagliga händelser blir något extraordinärt. Efter 40 år av att ha turnerat i mer än 40 länder världen över, fortsätter Carlos Martinez att tänja på fantasins gränser och får oss att skratta och gråta åt vad det innebär att vara människa.

Carlos Martínez was born in 1955 as the eldest of four siblings in Asturias (Spain). At the age of 12 he moves –together with his family– to Barcelona, the vibrant capital of Catalonia, where his father found work. Still nowadays Barcelona is the hometown of the actor.

Carlos Martínez discovers his love for acting as an adolescent in his neighbourhood theatre group. After leaving school, he first pursues a job career as a mechanic, but at the same time dedicates all his free time to the theatre, taking acting lessons and registering for a correspondence course in theology. In 1980 he joins the mime school Taller de Mimo y Teatro Contemporáneo and one year later he switches to the theatre school El Timbal. After his first solo performances, the positive response confirms to him that mime has an inexhaustible potential in itself as a mirror of the human soul that touches very deeply the heart of the viewer. Therefore, in 1982 he decides to live from the theatre in the future. At the same time Manuel Carlos Lillo and Jorge Vera help him to perfect his acting skills and he further deepens his storytelling quest under the Shakespeare specialist Christine Adaire. He is continually fascinated by the woodcarving expressiveness of mime and its plain reduction to the essential. Completely without words, without props or ornamentation, he wants to capture the attention of his public in order for them to experience –feel, smell, see, touch and hear– the entire story in their minds. Not with spectacle but with an irresistible power of persuasion he walks a tightrope of emotion, facing the silence in the hall, until the first redemptive laughs are heard from the seats of the viewers. It is this challenge that intrigues Carlos Martínez anew with each of his performances in the silence that he pushes to the limits.

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SVENSKA
Carlos Martinez föddes 1955 i Asturien (Spanien) men flyttade senare till Barcelona. Han har varit verksam inom teater sedan 1982 och studerat både vid mimskolan Taller de Mimo y Teatro Contemporáneo, teaterskolan El Timbal samt för flera framträdande artister inom skådespeleri och berättarteknik. Redan vid sitt första soloframträdande insåg han mimens ändlösa förmåga att beröra och fånga in sin publik, samtidigt som han fortsätter att fascineras av dess skulpterande expressivitet och avskalade uttryck. Helt utan ord, utan rekvisita eller utsmyckning, vill han låta åskådarna uppleva berättelsen med alla sina sinnen