2024-01-07 05:41:15
She debuted in December, Villa Carlos Paz, and Anita Martínez assures that her one-woman show titled “Humor for the Whole Family” follows this premise. It performs from Wednesday to Sunday at the Teatro del Sol I. Martinéz: “It is a variety of everything I have been doing – he emphasizes – a compilation, but I added choreographies thinking regarding the little ones, because a lot of family comes to Córdoba.”
—Figures such as author, director, choreographer, lighting designer and performer…
—I’m used to working like this, comprehensively. I have that conception. I do a lot of tours, I always travel alone, I put on lights and sound. Anyway, it’s my mistake, there is always a huge team of people behind it. When I arrived at the theater in Carlos Paz I found that I have a sound engineer and lighting technician. There is a large production and I am not used to it. I am very artisanal, I like to make everything for myself, I even sew my own costumes and make the puppets that you see.
—Were you a dancer first?
—Yes, I started when I was five years old. I tried to enter the Colón Theater three times, at a time when only two of a thousand applicants entered. As they saw my condition, the teachers gave me a scholarship. I was able to make a career out of classical dancing, but then I needed to work and I started on television. I started out as a dancer and in fact I dance every time I can, because it fascinates me. I feel that dance is transformative and has a level of aesthetic superiority.
—Do we have to add that you are also a maquiladora and puppeteer?
—I’m very organic. I love this, I have a passion for being on stage and everything seems to me that you can enrich it. I think that doing so has a lot to add, learning helps you a lot to value the work of the different areas of theater. When you put the body into it you understand more what it is regarding. I like to work with few things on stage, but that are illustrative and illuminate us. There is a whole world of puppets, sometimes it is believed that they are only for children, but the universe for adults is very large. I love to learn. I am a serial entrepreneur.
—You did several shows with texts by María Elena Walsh: why?
—I am passionate regarding María Elena. It is very difficult for me to make shows for children that are not themed around her. She is perfect, her songs and that poetry she had. She totally goes through me. She was a woman, a thinker who we need today. I really miss those reflections and also that way of seeing childhood.
I always try to pay tribute to him in my shows. His world is inspiring and we must always keep it alive. We are all kids trying to get back.
—Do you think it’s more difficult to make humor today?
—I think humor exorcises everything. They should think regarding what the viewer needs. The truth is that I would like to turn on the television and laugh a little. Today you sit down and they are all programs with panelists talking regarding how bad we are. It seems to me that there must be a rope that brings us to a better world, that is also what art is for. Both theater, cinema, platforms, but television almost have the obligation to demonstrate that there can be a fantasy universe, where there is laughter and not everything is a crisis.
— You were in “Skating for a Dream,” four “Bailando” and “Cut and Confection.” What is your relationship with reality shows like?
—It seems to me that we have been mutating for a long time towards semi-reality television. In 2014 when we won “Bailando” it helped me a lot. We were able to fulfill the dogs’ dream, we met a lot of rescuers and protectionists from all over the country. They worked to pass the law that protects greyhounds and put an end to racing. There was a lot of positive. It was shown that there is another way to do a reality show: without getting naked or starting fights.
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Since 1998 with the play Pijamas, Anita Martínez’s appearance on stage has been frequent. The most recent was Mothers for two seasons. When she is asked regarding the exposure that television gives her and how she deals with the feedback from the different juries, she states: “The real one, the grand jury of everything, is the public. Beyond the fact that I am super respectful and I never get hooked on returns. Obviously if they say nice things, I appreciate them, like any narcissist. But it is proven that the best jury is the people, even if they give you the highest scores and you have the best words, but if the public did not choose you, it does not go. I think that is the most difficult of all the tests. I always think regarding the ultimate goal, which is the audience: if they laughed and had a good time.”
Remember: “We went to Carlos Paz one year with Bicho Gómez because we make a very good couple, but in 2024 he is making a hit Tom, Dick and Harry, on Multiteatro and obviously he didn’t want to get off. I feel that the duo we do with him is not common, there are not many male/female couples doing humor and dancing, in the country, or the world. Not listed.”
“I was like so many, almost three years almost without work. Today for me everything is a miracle. The pandemic punished me a lot psychologically, but it helped me realize what I want for myself. I want to work and move forward. I love life and I am grateful. I learned that you have to live in the now and push hard to do well,” she concludes.
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