Valeria Alonso(I)

Valeria Alonso (Argentina-Spanish) Multidisciplinary artist, born in Buenos Aires, she began her artistic studies at age 12 through acting and dancing, and later, writing and directing. She has worked in film as an actress with Alberto Rodriguez, Jonás Trueba, Javier Rebollo, Matteo Minetto, Félix Viscarret, Nicanor Loreti, Lucas Figueroa, Nerea Castro, and in television for Television Española, Cuatro, Telefe, Paramount Comedy, RAI, among others. She worked as an actress with the companies De la Guarda company and La Fura dels Baus company, in several shows and she collaborates with different directors, companies and projects. Artistic director of La Cabra company, she currently combines diverse disciplines like video, dance and theater in her works. Valeria directed her first project when he was 20 years old, creating the show The egg (El huevo), which was developed in an experimental work of 6 intensive months with a group of 10 artists, with whom she set up a theater space in the theater circuit of Buenos Aires. In 2002, Valeria moved to Paris where she deepened her search to link theater, dance and video, and in 2005, while residing in Madrid, she named her company "La Cabra". Its intention is to generate scenic and visual projects, as well as artistic exchange events, involving a reflection on different social issues as well as alternative and poetic looks in the conception of the world and of life. In the different projects and according to the requirements, Valeria calls upon diverse artists to collaborate with in putting shows together. In 2006 she won the First Prize in the XX Choreographic Competition of Madrid with her dance-video piece "Osario". The First Prize Paris Young Talents 2003 "awarded by the French Government in 2004 with" Mamó ", an honorary prize for play-writing by the National Fund of the Arts of Buenos Aires and obtained a scholarship from the Government of Switzerland in 2013 for the creation of the dance video «Viento Mucho Viento» (premiered in Geneva). She has created and directed 10 shows, performances and various videos, and worked in Spain, France, Belgium, USA, England, Switzerland, Italy, Argentina, Japan and China, with her own creations, as well as being an actress in other companies. Between 2001 and 2011, she made short films, and the 40 minutes film "La Queja", (Section "Femmes realisatrices" of the XIV Latin American Film Festival of Toulouse, France, 2002 / Festival Sueños Cortos, Buenos Aires , 2001 / FIAES, Argentina, 2003.).