Isabel Alvarellos

Bio 

Isabel Alvarellos was born in Córdoba Capital, Argentina (1988). Her professional development takes place at the intersection of literature and the performing arts. Exploring the importance of care, gestures, and bodily disposition in the construction of identity, her work aims to shed light on both material and immaterial spaces, in order to view them from alternative perspectives. She approaches storytelling as a means of constructing new narratives that bring us closer to the stories we’ve been told—both personal and universal.

She is a multidisciplinary artist. A translator by training from the National University of Córdoba, a graduate of the Acting Specialization Program at the Jolie Libois Theatre Seminar (Teatro Real Córdoba), and holds a Master’s in Arts and Artistic Professions from the Universidad Carlos III and the Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain. She is currently pursuing a Specialization in Performance Studies at the Faculty of Arts, National University of Córdoba (UNC), Argentina.

She wrote Cruces, her first published play, in which she also performed and directed. She worked as a performer in La habitación by Gabriela Bondone, with performances at the Reina Sofía Museum and Teatro Pradillo. She also participated as a performer and creator in the collective Babilonia, in residence at the El 5 de Velarde Scenic Creation Space in Madrid.

Since 2008, she has worked with local theatre groups, participating in various festivals and tours: Gloria Genet (actress), La Tropa Teatro (director), Las Hijas de Israel (performer), and as a guest in the Cage Sessions and the Biennial of Contemporary Art.

In film, she acted in Mnemosyne, a film supported by the National Arts Fund and produced by the Holderlin Foundation. She received a Jury Mention for Best Supporting Actress in the short film 2×1 by Delta Films, part of the “48 Hour Film Project”. Her latest audiovisual work was a leading role in the short film Tóxica, premiered at Sala X, Madrid.

She completed three international residencies: with Odin Teatret in Denmark (directed by Eugenio Barba and Julia Varley), with Teatro de los Andes in Bolivia (directed by Alice Guimaraes and Gonzalo Callejas), and with Taanteatro Company in Brazil (directed by Maura Baiocchi and Wolfgang Pannek).

Her most recent artistic residency, focused on writing her next play, took place at Monade Art Residency in Bergerac, France.

She currently lives and works in Córdoba, Argentina.

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Exhibitions

2024- “De cómo una pintura se convierte en un hogar. Magia= capital.  Isabel Alvarellos Collection Exhibition
2022 – “Blow-Lick” Exhibition in the Antonio Palacios room of the Círculo de Bellas Artes. Madrid Spain.
2021 – “Urdimbres” Exhibition in the Antonio Palacios room of the Círculo de Bellas Artes. Madrid Spain.

Academic training
2024-2025 – Specialization in Performance Studies. Faculty of Arts, National University of Córdoba (UNC). Argentina.
2020-2022 – Master in Arts and Artistic Professions. SUR, School of Artistic Professions, Carlos III University of Madrid. Circle of Fine Arts. Madrid Spain.
2013-2015 – Acting Specialization Cycle “Jolie Libois” Theater Seminar- Teatro Real. Córdoba Argentina.
2006-2012 – National Sworn Translator of French. National University of Cordoba, Argentina.

Published work

CROSSES, 2022
Madrid Spain
Texts and Collage: Isabel Alvarellos / Printed at: Torreblanca Impresores

As director
2022 “Crosses” Direction and performance, presented at the Círculo de Bellas Artes. Madrid Spain.
2015 “The inevitable gallop of desire” Direction and Technical of La Tropa Teatro. Municipal Museum of Fine Arts, Dr.Genaro Pérez.
2014 “Le désir trapped by the queue” by Pablo Picaso. Direction, adaptation and staging – Casona cultural Dadá San Vicente.
2013 “Les mamelles de tirésias” by Guillaume Apollinaire. Direction, adaptation and staging – Casona cultural Dadá San Vicente.

Actress/Acting
2021 “Tóxica” – Short film directed by Flavia Yañez. premiered in Sala X, Madrid, Spain.
“The room” – by Gabriela Bondone – Reina Sofía Museum and Pradillo Theatre, Madrid, Spain.
2018/19 “Gloria Genet” Pair of plays on the poetry of Jean Genet – Teatro La Luna. Functions in Buenos Aires and Córdoba.
2016 “Extimidities” The Troop Theater. Casa Laberinto, Cordoba, Argentina.
2015 “Acassuso” by Rafael Spregelburd. Acting and technical. “Jolie Libois” Seminar. Jolie Libois Room, Teatro Real, Córdoba, Argentina.
2014 “300 million” by Roberto Arlt. Actress and technique. “Jolie Libois” Seminar. Jolie Libois Room, Royal Theater, Córdoba, Argentina.

Residences
2023 – Monade Art Residency, Bergerac, France.
2021-2022 – “Babilonia” Performative residence, Theater on 5 de Velarde. Madrid. Spain.
2019 – Teatro de los Andes Physical and Vocal Training, Improvisation and Staging. Yotala, Sucre, Bolivia.
“Learning a body” Workshop-Performance Residence Party by Silvio Lang together with the Queen Cobra collective. Performance Biennial
El Gran Vidrio Gallery, Córdoba, Argentina.
TaanTeatro – Composition and performance with the Company by Maura Baiocchi and Wolfgang Pannek. San Lourenzo da Serra, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2018 – “How to think through actions” Artistic residence by Eugenio Barba and Julia Varley ODIN TEATRET DENMARK. Brasilia, Brazil.

Independent Training
2022 – “Conscious Movement” dance seminar with Gabriela Bondone, Teatro el 5 de Velarde, Madrid, Spain.
2022 – “I am a body” with Marina Otero at Teatro la Abadía. Madrid Spain
2021 – 2022 – – Asymmetrical Motion technique with Lucas Condro in Estudio 3 and in Bambú Danza. Madrid Spain.
2019 – “Eruptions” Open practice of Movement, voice, sound, writing. Coordinated by Silvio Lang, Kinda, Corporal Moore. Inclan Plant, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Intensive Seminar on Theatrical Machines with Pompeyo Audivert – Teatro La Luna. Córdoba Argentina.
2018 – “Let’s be affective athletes” Seminar given by Théophile Choquet and Lucas Duran at Espacio Blick. Córdoba Argentina.