CARLOS GARCIA ESTEVEZ

Carlos García Estévez (Spain) is the founder and artistic director of the International Laboratory for Theatre Research, Manifesto Poetico. He is an actor, pedagogue, stage director, and researcher with a professional trajectory of more than 25 years, which has taken him across Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

Over the years, he has developed a distinctive theatrical language that integrates visual, physical, and spatial expression. He is an international reference in Contemporary Commedia dell’Arte, Theatre of Gesture, spatial composition, and the creation of new theatrical languages.

His work moves along the boundaries between the visible and the invisible, the rational and the intuitive, the individual and the collective. Among his research and pedagogical laboratories are: Spatial Dramaturgy: Theatrical Language; MaskPoetica: Contemporary Commedia dell’Arte; Architecture of Gestures; Bouffon: At the Threshold of Consciousness; Contemporary Tragedy: In Search of Balance – In Search of Unity; and The Space of Comedy, among others.

For nearly two decades, he has toured internationally with his solo mask performance Solo dell’Arte. Carlos performed with Simon McBurney – Complicite in A Dog’s Heart and The Magic Flute and with Peter Sellars in Girls of the Golden West. He participates as a movement director for opera at DNO (Dutch National Opera Academy) and Hollands Diep Muziektheater.

Through an artistic-anthropological approach, he explores the symbolic, the oneiric, and the unconscious, creating works—productions known as TransPoetico Productions—that operate beyond the literal or conventional. His creations not only reflect the present but also open pathways to new ways of thinking, experiencing, responding and relating, while engaging in a constant dialogue with the artistic communities he encounters wherever he is invited. He co-creates scenic languages with and for the artistic community and its audiences.

He trained with Jacques Lecoq at his school in Paris and was, for over a decade, an associate artist at the Laboratory for the Study of Movement (LEM) at the Jacques Lecoq School, where he contributed to the unique research conducted there—primarily through his spatial research The Elastics: An Ecosystem of Structures.

His creative process is rooted in an introspective research with a critical, sensitive and human approach. His work aims to move, challenge, and invite reflection—encouraging both audiences and collaborators to see from new perspectives and engage with what often escapes conscious understanding.

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ARTISTIC TEAM & ADVISORY BOARD

Manifesto Poetico has the support of an ARTISTIC TEAM AND AN advisory board that helps to give continuity to their artistic research.

PAULO SERANTES (SP)

Light Designer, STAGE DIRECTOR, ACTOR, MUSICIAN, TRAINER & THEATRE RESEARCHER

artistic team

TONI GONZALEZ (SP)

Consultant for the mobility in arts and internationalization of culture - Escena Internacional

Advisory Board