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2008 Oval House production of Ionesco's 'The Bald Soprano'
Directors: Jorge Balça & Nicholai Labarrie
Designer: Charlie Cridlan
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- What I do... (Actor, director, designer, teacher etc?)
- Theatre and Opera Director.
- My Quick CV
- Since first working professionally as an Actor in 1995, Jorge Balça has performed in Portugal, Spain, France, Netherlands and the UK. A classically trained Counter-Tenor having studied both at the Porto and Algarve Conservatoires and an ex-trampoline gymnast, Jorge is particularly interested in multi-disciplinary performance and cross-culturalism in the Performing Arts.
With a passion for 20th Century European classics, Jorge is proud of his understanding of other theatrical genres such as ‘Commedia dell’Arte’, Puppetry, Physical Theatre and Opera.
Jorge is fluent in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish with basic conversational Italian.
Jorge is member of the Young Vic Directors’ Network and of the Directors’ Guild of Great Britain.
With video artist Sónia Rodrigues, Jorge co-founded the multimedia performance partnership +logo, and is currently the Chairman of this UK Registered Charity.
In the last couple of years, Jorge has rekindled his love affair with classical music and began focusing on Opera.
As a Director, Jorge has studied with names such as John Russell Brown, Leon Rubin, David Peacock, Signy Henderson, Derek Proctor, Lydia Ziemke, Joe Hill-Gibbins, William Harris and Paola Cavallin among others. Jorge studied Meyerhold and Biomechanics at GITIS (Moscow, Russia) with Nicholai Karpov, Oleg Kudrishov, Anna Trifonova and Oleg Glushkov.
Jorge will start his PhD exploring the application of movement theatre techniques to opera training and production at the University of Leeds in October 2009.
- My website
- http://www.myspace.com/jorgelondon
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The Forecast at Greenwich Playhouse
January 19, 2010 at 7:30pm to February 7, 2010 at 7:30pm
In association with Match Company, Marvin and the Cats is proud to present its first production The Forecast, from 19 January to 7 February at the Greenwich Playhouse, London.
Using climate change as a starting point, the play hilariously explores…
We offer opportunities in all aspects of theatre, so whether you want to be involved on stage or behind the scenes this is the place to be. We run productions, rehearsed readings and much,much more. Please drop us a line for further details.
A new theatre group based in Islington. You can catch our first play, No One Sees the Video by Martin Crimp at the Rosemary Branch Theatre from the 21st May to the 31st.
We are a new production company based in Birmingham. In 2010 we are staging a Shakespeare play and require an exciting director.
It is essential that you have a passion for Shakespeare and and are familiar with his works.
Please contact castings@f…
Variety Night 17th December 2009 7pm The Usher Theatre
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