2024-02-18 06:16:18
Martín Ezequiel Sipicki – born in Buenos Aires, but adopted by Córdoba, Argentine, but established in Miami – might have savored the honey of that dazzling and unreliable success that the world of entertainment offers for longer.
Back in 2013, when his career as an actor and dancer took off noticeably (“the outings were endless… I started to be recognized and suddenly we woke up in nightclubs, what do I know (…) but I never felt like that was really me”) he reflects. while we had lunch at Peppo, an Argentine restaurant located in Aventura, north of Miami.
In that odd year, Sipicki won the Estrella de Mar award as a male actor in the Newcomer category, for his work in Escandalosas, the magazine starring Carmen Barbieri and Moria Casán in which he shined with his own painting.
But her path had been on the rise since she started dancing, at the age of six.
Having moved to Córdoba for his father’s job, little Martín found himself in a new school, with no family other than his mother, father and two sisters, and they immediately located the Jewish club in the area.
“The club was always very important to us, it was a meeting place. We did a lot of activities with my sisters and it was essential especially because it gave us ties with the community.” Generating a sense of belonging was something that Martín soon assimilated, and his inclination for creating links, as we will see, distinguishes him to this day.
The thing is that the boy of Polish descent became interested in choreographic Jewish dance (not the Orthodox or more traditional one, which is practiced in a circle, with the participants holding hands) and the family loved the idea.
Time was passing and the boy demonstrated histrionic skills; He was confident and a perfectionist. He danced well to all the rhythms of the matinee, he was enthusiastic regarding musical instruments, he dabbled in comedy, but there was nothing on the horizon that presaged the artistic future of the blonde boy, grandson of immigrants, until he set foot in Europe at seventeen.
He remembers it like this: “I got a scholarship to go dance at a Jewish dance festival in London. While there we went with the group to see The Lion King, and he blew my mind! I realized immediately that I wanted to do that. When I returned to Córdoba I had to take a class for my degree, I failed it. I was in my fourth year of systems engineering and I threw everything away.”
Of course, Martín understood that his middle-class identity indicated a path to university and a stable future, but the British experience had left him so crazy that he stood up to his parents. They accepted, and the boy returned to Buenos Aires to live with his grandparents and dedicate himself to acting.
He worked teaching Jewish dance classes in Villa Crespo, while studying singing, dance, clown techniques, mime, body rhythm, and ballet.
At the same time, he was updating a DVD –(N of R): for centennials, a compact disc in which information was stored– whose copies he gave to every artistic and/or television producer he came across.
Then, came the first serious experience in theater: “With the group Zapping we did Corrientes Street. There I learned to put on makeup, work on costumes, set design, and throw flyers. It was a recognized company within the underground, let’s say. And the truth is that we made a lot of noise.”
In 2008 the press began to highlight Sipicki’s performance in the play Zapping Zinema, and Martín understood that his best version was comedy. She participated in commercials, did a thousand castings, continued teaching Jewish dance classes and distributing his DVD.
Until one day he was selected to work on a series of four television advertisements together with Marcelo Tinelli.
“I played a beach attendant at a service station and Tinelli appeared. As a result of that commercial, my partner and I were selected to go to the VideoMatch floor and advertise the same brand live, on the program, every night. The key is that you had to be ready to improvise whatever Marcelo came up with, and I might play basketball as well as sing, dance, or invent a comedy step.”
Suddenly, the life of this young man with a tremendous Cordoba accent, but unmistakable Eastern European traits, accelerated. He walked quickly through the hallways of the production company of the most successful television host in Argentina, he introduced himself and made himself loved by everyone.
Now he remembers it in the silence of his office, located on the first floor of the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center club, one of the largest clubs and cultural centers in Miami, and he does not lose his smile.
“Obviously what was happening to me was great… in fact, at that time I met Carmen Barbieri, who was like an artistic godmother to me. But I knew how unstable the profession was, and also some of that shine didn’t feel like it was for me.”
However, this series was missing a few chapters to turn the corner. The career of young Sipicki, who was now part of “Carmen’s talented people,” as the diva called them, continued to rise sharply and he was summoned to work on Escandalosas.
From Tuesday to Sunday, two full shows in Mar del Plata and a number in which he performed alone, playing games with the audience, earned him the aforementioned award. Martin mightn’t believe it.
Brillantísimas was the second magazine in which he performed, and from that arose that Enrique Pinti saw him and chose him to accompany him in Salsa Criolla, 2015 edition. Goals and more goals.
As in a waterfall, more commercials, soap operas, and Gran Cuñado, in 2016, came, playing Diego Santilli, vice head of the Buenos Aires Government at that time.
Martin floated.
At forty years old and in his role as director of the theater that became a reference for the Latin works that arrive in the City of the Sun, he leans back in his seat and seems as if he were watching it pass once more, everything, before his eyes celestial
“At that moment I met Denise, my wife. She is a choreographer of Jewish dances too, and we cross paths at events. I came to Miami, I presented a one-man show, and she worked on the promotion. She has lived here, in Aventura, since she was a girl. We fell in love. I was always very family-oriented, so I loved meeting her daughters, Tali and Noa, who were very little and had lost their father. And we jumped into the pool.”
In full flight, as if gliding on a hang glider, Martín Ezequiel Sipicki made a heroic turn at the age of Christ, and gambled for a love that was hinted at in the distance. At the beginning of 2017 he landed, and put on the suit of husband and father of two beautiful girls, who even look like him.
Two years later they brought Ellie into the world, who is now three and appears in many of the Instagram videos that dad Martín successfully spreads. In them he displays all of her artistic gifts, and little Sipicki is not far behind.
“I came for Denise, we were both at risk. Today I run a theater with two hundred and twenty-one seats, I continue teaching because I love it, and this is my home.”
Walking the halls of the club and cultural center that brings together a good part of the Argentine Jewish community in the south of the State of Florida, it is clear that Sipicki enjoys being a host and a reference.
At the speed of football reporters, he tells the history of the institution as we walk. But upon entering the theater, silence invades us.
Martín describes every detail, explains the origin of each thing.
Then, go on stage and pose for photos. She opens her arms, plays with the camera.
Somehow, even though we haven’t turned on the stage lighting yet, an incandescent ring surrounds it.
*From Miami.
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