Who is a person on your field that you admire?

I admire the work of the stage arts designer Leticia Skrycky, I knew her work very recently and I really liked her, she comes to work at NAVE at times and soon she will work in a workshop in that place.

Leticia is a 33 years old, designer, studied at the Municipal School of Dramatic Art in Montevideo, Uruguay, specializing in lighting and space design. Since 2011 she participates in different international festivals showing her work as a designer in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, Portugal, Serbia, Kenya and more. Currently working in the Technical Direction of the International Dance Festival of Uruguay.

She also works with numerous choreographers and Uruguayan and foreign companies, which has brought her several times to Chile.

What attracts me to his work is that I develop it specifically in dance, something that in Chile does not usually happen and that seems very interesting, I also like that sometimes works from restrictions and discomforts to the body, because from that exploration emerge different ways to build a show.

The photographs are of the work Resist, what I like is the exposure of the bodies in front of the woods that are coming out of the floor.

A year-round trip

I have thought a lot about what I would do if I had a year to travel, I always thought that I would go to Latin America, I would work as a volunteer in different cities and I would go to small towns, I would like to introduce myself to the Amazons and to know the indigenous peoples and learn from them as much as you can, learn how they live, how they relate and how they connect with nature.

I would also take advantage of knowing the Sacred Valley in Cusco, I have traveled twice to that city and I think I have not known anything since it has millions of places to discover, it is a  magical place and that excites me.

I would also take advantage of staying in Puno, Peru for a while, as a family on my last trip opened the doors of their house and welcomed me for almost two weeks, so I would enjoy sharing with them a while knowing even more the city and its surroundings.

I'm thinking about this trip a long time ago, so I hope I can realize my dream soon, because I really wish I could get to know this continent in depth, I like its charm and it captivates me a lot.

These pictures I took in the jungle, on the Tambopata River, in Peru.

Final semester

This semester has been very intense, I had the opportunity to work with very interesting people in theater and I have started to work in contemporary dance in lighting and scenic design, this has been exhausting because it means working with different people in different contexts, the last work was in Copiapó with a contemporary dancers from all over the country and it was a interesting experience for me.

 Also I had make compatible my work with my last year of career, and this is very difficult for me, because I like make all things of the world but this is impossible. In the university the most difficult is my little interest, because I like it much more the work that I can develop outside the  university space that is more restricted for me, the courses are very interesting but the system of being in a chair in front of a blackboard bores me.

I have to work in my studies for the next semester, I hope this year is the last one at the university, I hope my sacrifice is rewarded.

I wish I could follow working in lighting and scenic design because I like this, I choose this career without thinking that I would really like and I was impressed.

Favourite subject

The subject I choose was a course called “Indigenous People today (Pueblos Indígenas hoy)” by Claudio Millacura. Millacura is an anthropologist of the La Frontera university and PhD of the university of Chile, also he is mapuche and consent of his native condition.

In the class he talked about different topics, about rights, reparation for the victims, native life and justice, in a begging he talked about the arrived to the Spanish people to America and the colonial period, he explained the mistreated and abuses who suffered the native people.

I like the course because I learned about the life of the indigenous in current times, this is important because the indigenous people are constantly mistreated in Chile for the 

State, and is important understand this to generate a change in the society. The indigenous has been constantly looked down upon throughout history, the general people believe in the idea that the native people are poor, lazy and drunk.

Is for this that I like this type of classes, because it seeks to question the society and our human construction.