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Shaday Larios

Director of Microscopía Teatro

Larios has a degree in Literature from the University of Guanajuato and a PhD in Performing Arts from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, ​​where she focused her studies on creative processes based on everyday objects.  She is the Director of Microscopía Teatro, a theatre group that utilises small-scale documentary objects, shadows and toys.  With associates Los Hermanos Oligor, Microscopía Teatro has been touring for many years with the show 'La máquina de la soledad'.  Together with Jomi Oligor and Xavier Bobés, Larios founded the company El Solar. Agencia de detectives de objetos, with which she has explored the interrelationships between objects, memory and community on the stage in various countries.  Larios was research adviser for the online Masters course of CENIDI DANZA/Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico.  She won the International Prize for the CITRU-Paso de Gato-ARTEZ Theatrical Essay, 2010, and has recently published 'Los objetos vivos. Escenarios de la materia indócil’ with Paso de Gato.  Larios has also written various texts for the magazines Conjunto (Cuba), Tierra Adentro and La Tempestad (Mexico) and Double Magazine (published by the Schaubude Theatre, Germany).