{"id":28,"date":"2025-03-25T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T07:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carlotaberzal.es\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2026-02-18T19:09:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:09:36","slug":"biografia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carlotaberzal.es\/en\/biografia\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"
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La Turba has carried out residencies at the Universidad Internacional de Andaluc\u00eda (Spain, 2024), Subscena Team (Croatia, 2023) or Brote (Argentina, 2016), among others, and co-produced IMAGINARIO CORPORAL: EFECTO MIGRATORIO (Madrid, 2023) with Teatros del Canal, directed by choreographer Poliana Lima. The piece has been presented at Teatro Central in Seville, selected for the 2025 season at Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral (GAM) in Santiago de Chile, included in the catalogues of the Andalusian Theatre Network and the Madrid Theatre Network, and presented at TANZMESSE 2024 with the support of SGAE and the Andalusian Agency for Cultural Institutions.<\/p>

Within the company she also develops mediation projects such as LO QUIERO TO, presented at Teatro Pradillo (Madrid), in residence with Subscena Team (Zagreb) and at Festival Bucles Valencia 2025.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Carlota Berzal<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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She is a performing artist trained in Dramatic Arts, specializing in Textual Interpretation.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Her work explores the fusion of dance, theatre and performance, developing an evolving physical language that investigates the body, the limits between reality and fiction, and satire. In recent years she has incorporated artistic mediation, memory and archive as central lines within her creative processes.<\/p>


In 2014 she founded La Turba Company, where she has created and directed works that have toured national and international festivals in countries such as Chile, Argentina, Romania, Bangladesh, Egypt, Croatia, Mongolia and Sri Lanka, often with the support of the Spanish Embassies and Instituto Cervantes.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Carlota Berzal<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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A creative space that fuses dance, theatre, and performance.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Es una artista esc\u00e9nica formada en Arte Dram\u00e1tico, con especializaci\u00f3n en Interpretaci\u00f3n Textual. Su trabajo explora la fusi\u00f3n de danza, teatro y performance. Su trabajo se centra en un lenguaje f\u00edsico en evoluci\u00f3n, explorando el cuerpo, los l\u00edmites entre realidad y ficci\u00f3n y la s\u00e1tira.<\/p>

En 2014 fund\u00f3 la Compa\u00f1\u00eda La Turba, donde ha creado y dirigido obras que han recorrido festivales nacionales e internacionales en pa\u00edses como Chile, Argentina, Ruman\u00eda,
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La Turba has carried out residencies at the Universidad Internacional de Andaluc\u00eda (Spain, 2024), Subscena Team (Croatia, 2023), and Brote (Argentina, 2016), and co-produced the piece IMAGINARIO CORPORAL: EFECTO MIGRATORIO (Madrid, 2023) with Teatros del Canal. This piece was selected to promote Andalusian culture at TANZMESSE 2024 thanks to SGAE and the Andalusian Agency for Cultural Institutions.<\/p>

Berzal has received awards such as Best Actress at the Alexandria Theatre Festival (Egypt, 2022) for Ofelia Vegetariana and the Grand Prix of Performing Arts from ARS Mediterr\u00e1nea International (2021) for Mi Bandera.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Berzal has received recognitions such as the Best Actress Award at the Alexandria International Theatre Festival (Egypt, 2022) for Ofelia Vegetariana and the Grand Prize of Spain for Performing Arts at ARS Mediterr\u00e1nea International (2021) for Mi Bandera.<\/p>

As a playwright she won the 17th Crea Sevilla Joven Award with El Nunca Acabar (2020), published in Teatro para una crisis by the Andalusian Agency for Cultural Institutions (2021). In 2025 she published Filipo in the \u201cTextos Dram\u00e1ticos\u201d collection of the same agency. She was finalist of the 2025 European Dramatic Residency at the Centro Dram\u00e1tico Nacional and participated in the New Playwriting Laboratory at Donostia Kultura (2021). She is currently developing Caniche con Bozal: Manual de Instrucciones para Bailar, a research and mediation project supported by the Ministry of Equality.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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In her collaborative work, she acts as co-director and dramaturgical collaborator with the company Fix+Foxy (Denmark), as assistant director and production collaborator with choreographer Rhea Volij (Argentina), as a dancer in the ERASMUS+ project in Austria and Poland, and as an actress with La Biche Volante (France), among other international contexts.<\/span><\/p>

She is co-founder of La Decadensia together with Mar\u00eda Cazenave, with the support of PASO AL SUR and in collaboration with FIT C\u00e1diz, FITA Alentejo, Feria de Palma del R\u00edo and the Andalusian Agency for Cultural Institutions, and part of the 2025 Circuit of the Spanish Alternative Theatre Network. With this company she premiered Las Desqueridas, nominated for Best Breakthrough Production at the 2023 Lorca Awards, and Las Propietarias, with four nominations at the 2025 PAD Awards. In 2025 they premiered the short film Las Desqueridas, presented at the Seville European Film Festival, where it received the Rosario Valpuesta Special Award and the First Prize at the Diputaci\u00f3n de Sevilla Short Film Competition. She co-directs the stage and musical project COREA with Montse Rueda, supported by the Magallanes_ICC Project Bank of the Seville City Council, and produces together with Wura Moraes the project Sounding Bodies in Nature, supported by IBERESCENA and Culture Mobilities.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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She was a finalist in the 2025 European Playwriting Residency at the Spanish National Drama Centre. She is currently working on Caniche con Vozal: Manual de Instrucciones para Bailar, a research project supported by a grant from the Universidad Internacional de Andaluc\u00eda.<\/p>

In her collaborative work, she serves as co-director with the company Fix+Foxy (Denmark), assistant director and producer with choreographer Rhea Volij (Argentina), dancer in the ERASMUS+ project in Austria and Poland, and actress with the French company La Biche Volante, among others.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Como autora gana el Premio 17\u00ba Crea Sevilla Joven con El Nunca Acabar (2020) texto Publicado en Teatro para una crisis editado por Agencia Andaluza de Instituciones Culturales (2021). En 2025 se publicar\u00e1 Filipo dentro de la colecci\u00f3n \u201cTextos Dram\u00e1ticos\u201d editado por Agencia Andaluza de Instituciones Culturales. Ha sido finalista de la Residencia Dram\u00e1tica Europea 2025 del Centro Dram\u00e1tico Nacional. En la actualidad, trabaja en Caniche con Vozal: Manual de Instrucciones para Bailar, una investigaci\u00f3n respaldada por una beca de la Universidad Internacional de Andaluc\u00eda.<\/p>

In her collaborative work, she serves as co-director with the company Fix+Foxy (Denmark), assistant director and producer with choreographer Rhea Volij (Argentina), dancer in the ERASMUS+ project in Austria and Poland, and actress with the French company La Biche Volante, among others.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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In addition to her creative work, she is a teacher and seminar coordinator at institutions such as Instituto Cervantes in Alexandria, the Higher School of Dramatic Art of Seville, and international festivals such as Nandimukh (Bangladesh), Parade of Winners (Mongolia), Colombo International Theatre Festival (Sri Lanka), or GAM (Chile) as well as training spaces such as La Visiva (Barcelona), Galp\u00f3n FACE (Buenos Aires) and 180\u00ba Madrid. She has been invited as a speaker at CREATIVE-2025 organized by Rabindra Bharati University (India).<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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La Turba ha realizado residencias en la Universidad Internacional de Andaluc\u00eda (Espa\u00f1a, 2024), Subscena Team (Croacia, 2023) o Brote (Argentina, 2016), entre otras, y ha coproducido con Teatros del Canal la obra IMAGINARIO CORPORAL: EFECTO MIGRATORIO (Madrid, 2023), dirigida por la core\u00f3grafa Poliana Lima. La pieza ha sido programada en el Teatro Central de Sevilla, […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":841,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlotaberzal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlotaberzal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlotaberzal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlotaberzal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlotaberzal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":115,"href":"https:\/\/carlotaberzal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"https:\/\/carlotaberzal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlotaberzal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlotaberzal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}