1. Career

2. Style

3. Works directed

4. Awards

5. References

6. External links

• {{ill|Florencio Award|es|Premio Florencio}}
• Silver {{ill|Morosoli Award|es|Premio Morosoli}}

Career

In her childhood, Percovich already liked the theater through the influence of her parents, who helped her to be a "conscious spectator", although she had decided not to be an actress. Before starting her theatrical career, she worked as a {{ill|Cultural journalism|es|Periodismo cultural|lt=cultural journalist}} in different media, such as at the weekly magazine Búsqueda, where she held the post of editor of the culture section, and also as a literature teacher at different theater schools.

Her first contact with theater direction was due to the support of director Carlos Aguilera, who allowed her to be his assistant on all the rehearsals of his play Ya nadie recuerda a Frederick Chopin in 1982, when she was 19 years old.^[4]

Due to the lack of training offers for theater directors, Percovich worked under the tutelage of Carlos Aguilera, as well as directors Héctor Manuel Vidal, Jorge Curi, and {{ill|Eduardo Schinca|es}}, and also her father, who "made us look at architecture. From a very young age, he {{em|obligated}} me to be very observant of my city."^[4]

She continued her training in Europe when she received a scholarship to the Royal Court Theatre in London, where she had as tutors Steven Berkoff and Stephen Daldry, among others. She was also at the {{ill|Théâtre Ouvert|fr}} in Paris, where she was a resident.^[4]

In 2004 she began her first term as director of the Municipal School of Dramatic Arts (EMAD), which lasted until 2007, when she resigned her position due to professional differences with teachers of the school.^[4] Later she was Coordinator of Performing Arts of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay, where she worked under the direction of the poet and essayist Hugo Achugar, National Director of Culture.^[3]

In 2007 Percovich joined the company Complot with playwright and theater director Gabriel Calderón, choreographer Martín Inthamoussú, and actor and theater director Ramiro Perdomo.^[1][6] Her first production with the new company was Una lluvia irlandesa, by the Majorcan author Josep Pere-Peyró.^[7]

In 2012 she again took up management of EMAD,^[2][3] where her new project was the reformation of the school's curriculum to raise its degrees to the level of licentiate.^[4] She remained in the position until 2014.^[8]

Since July 2015, she has been the Director of Culture of the {{ill|Departmental Intendency of Montevideo|es|Intendencia Departamental de Montevideo}}.^[8][9]

Style

Percovich's direction style has been highlighted by "a scenic investigation of the relationship between the viewer and the space", which has led her to mount her works both in conventional halls and in unusual places, such as public or historical buildings, bars, stables, and train stations.^[5]

She expressed this style from her first work, 1995's Te casarás en América, which was presented at the Hungarian Synagogue in Montevideo.^[4] Her intention since then has been the search for new languages generated by "the aura and the symbols that emerge from those places" to interact with their infrastructure and give them a new meaning that serves as a challenge for the viewer.^[4]

In 1990s, her style was influenced by a play by Antonio Araujo, who was followed by the public while he performed his work in the corridors and stairs of the abandoned hospital "Umberto Primo" in São Paulo, Brazil.^[4] This form of representation was subsequently used in her works Destino de dos cosas o de tres, Juego de damas crueles, El errante de Nod, and Pentesilea.^[4]

Percovich was inspired by her colleague Roberto Bartís to define her way of seeing the acting work and thus transmit it to the actors who work with her:

Works directed

• Te casarás en América, 1995
• Destino de dos cosas o de tres, 1996
• Juego de damas crueles, 1997
• Extraviada, 1998
• Alicia underground, 1998
• Cenizas en mi corazón, 1999
• Proyecto feria, 2001
• El errante de Nod, 2002
• Yocasta - Una Tragedia, 2003
• Playa desierta, 2007
• For Export del Uruguay, 2008
• Medea del Olimar, 2009
• Chaika, 2009
• Cuartito Azul. Melodrama caleidoscópico y tanguero, 2010
• Pentesilea, 2011
• Clitemnestra, 2012
• Las Descentradas, 2013
• Proyecto Felisberto, 2013
• Algo de Ricardo, 2014
• Mucho de Ofelia, 2015^[1][4]

Proyecto Feria was a street theatre project created by Percovich in response to an invitation from the Mercosur International Festival of Córdoba, Argentina, which was carried out at the different fairs of the city. For its execution, Percovich chose two models of fair: one of freaks and one conventional. The project represented for her the culmination of a six-year search for the integration of art with the national identity. After its presentation in Córdoba, the project was carried out in Montevideo a year later.^[10]

In addition to Percovich's presentations in Montevideo, her plays have also been shown in Santiago, Buenos Aires, Córdoba, São Paulo, Curitiba, Barcelona, Madrid, London, and Nuevo León (Mexico), among other cities.^[7] As a teacher, she has developed a national and international career in direction and acting.

Awards

In addition to the Florencio Award, Percovich has won the International Theatre Institute (ITI) Award for Te casarás en América, the Silver {{ill|Morosoli Award|es|Premio Morosoli}} for Extraviada, as well as the Iris, Molière, MEC, and Gralha Azul awards.^[9][7]

References

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