Ana Mirtha Sariego

Ana MirthaSariego

Alchemising through art.

Physical theatre · Devising · Direction · Mentorship

International theatre maker, actress and teacher. Artistic director of Sariego Theatre, working between London and the world. She understands the poetics of movement and art as an alchemical tool for the transformation of the collective and the individual.

She mentors individual artists and theatre companies through the devising of their own projects.

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I am not afraid of pushing my physical or emotional boundaries. Actually, just the idea of it makes me extremely excited.
Ana Mirtha Sariego
She kneels behind a battered suitcase marked E.W.G., arms folded on it, smiling out at the audience. Tan coat, red hair.

Performer · director

Ana Mirtha Sariego

Devised and physical theatre, performed internationally with many different companies for more than eighteen years.

Rehearsal room: she is on the floor, a performer standing over her holding a pair of giant scissors — the Scissor-Man.

2020–2021

JORCAM

Struwwelpeter

Cuentos crueles al oído

Deviser · performer

Devised with Cristina Cubells and Malvin Montero, directed by Cristina Cubells.

Teatros del Canal, Madrid · Palau de les Arts, Valencia

A park audience sitting on the grass; three performers in green full-body suits flank a man in a shirt beside a tower of cases.

2013–2018

Wet Picnic

Suitcases

Deviser · performer

Devised by the company, directed by Matt Feerick.

Hat Fair, Winchester · Bournemouth Arts by the Sea · touring

Black-and-white: a chequerboard dance floor in a town square at night, a dozen dancers in white tie mid-step, globe lamps overhead.

2016–2017

Wet Picnic

The Ball

Deviser · performer

Devised by the company, directed by Matt Feerick.

Bournemouth Arts by the Sea · Stockton International Riverside Festival

These three are a selection.

Her interests as a theatre maker go beyond the theatre of mere entertainment. She focuses on creating a theatre that grows from the honesty of the actor’s body and its capacity to make visible the invisible, with the intention of provoking in the audience new questions about existence and theatre itself.

Trained in

  • Physical theatre (Lecoq)
  • Devising
  • Butoh
  • Clown
  • Puppetry
  • Suzuki technique
  • Laban
  • Contemporary dance
  • Noh theatre
  • Flying trapeze
  • Chinese pole
  • Tightwire