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Director, artistic/general director, light designer, set designer, sound/soundtrack designer, choreographer, costume designer, producer, author / playwright, adapter Nelda Castillo has had an intense career as actress, director and teacher since 1984. She has incorporated and pursued a rigorous investigation that deals with the modes of expression of the actor. Her work marks a milestone in contemporary Cuban theatre. She has developed a poetics that employs a stage language capable of integrating and renovating several performance traditions. Starting from her investigations with respect to training, and the notion of trance as a psycho-physical state, favorable for the act of creating, Castillo has had an intense pedagogic career in the Instituto Superior de Arte in Cuba. She has also led many workshops based on the training she utilizes in her group's performances. These workshops have taken place in England, Russia, México, Colombia, Ecuador, among others. "El Ciervo Encantado," a theatre group which she founded and has directed since 1996, came out of her Havana's "pedagogical laboratory", as she likes to refer to it. (Quelle: cubantheatre.org) csm