Andrés Waksman (Uruguay, 1968) is an actor, creator and stage director. He trained as an actor and dancer in Uruguay, Spain and France. He has worked with a number of choreographers and directors, among them Graciela Figueroa (Montevideo), Wim Vandekeybus (Belgium), Régine Chopinot - Ballet Atlantique, Veronique Ros de la Grange and Dominique Boivin (France) and Tomàs Aragay (Spain).
He has created and performed various solos and in 1997 he staged his first work in Montevideo, Persona, a piece about poems by Fernando Pessoa.
He moved to Barcelona in 1999 and is a member of the General Elèctrica collective, where he works with Tomàs Aragay. It was with General Elèctrica that he developed the Laboratorio de Solos project between 2000 and 2008, consisting of 22 solos created with different performers (among them Sofia Asencio, Sònia Gómez, Tomàs Aragay and Bebeto Cidra) that have been shown in Spain, France, Italy, Croatia and the United States and which culminated in El perro alado, a solo of his performed at the Mercat de les Flors.
Between 2008 and 2012, he worked on the Azul petróleo project, a Barcelona-Montevideo coproduction awarded a prize by Iberescena and performed in Montevideo and at the Antic Teatre and La Caldera in Barcelona.
In 2013, he began to develop the Laboratorio de Creación project, a space where arts professionals and non-professionals alike could embark on a process of artistic research and creation. Since then, he has created Manada (2014), Desde el fuego (2015), Que corra el aire (2016) and Mar de fondo (2017).
In 2015 and 2016, he directed Criatura, a piece first performed at the Antic Teatre in Barcelona and Nave 73 in Madrid, which was awarded the Godoff Lemon Press Prize for the Best Performance Dance Work. In addition, Consuelo Trujillo, who performed in it, won the Unión de Actores Prize for the Best Leading Actress.
Since 2001, he has taught theatre dance and authentic movement workshops in various cities and in a range of artistic and therapeutic ambits in Europe, notably his collaboration since 2003 with Dr. Claudio Naranjo as part of the SAT Integrative Psychotherapy programme.
That same year, he began to direct his own space in Barcelona, Alas, artes en movimento.
Biography made in 2018