Samuel Núñez

Samuel Núñez starts playing theatre at the age of 15. At 17, he develops first ideas about emotions in acting and writes his first play. At the age of 18 he becomes a member of a professional theatre company. From 1995 - 1999 he studies theatre in Santiago de Chile. 

During his work as a teacher, actor, director, writer, dramatic adviser and choreographer of different laboratories and companies he explores transgressive theatre as suggested by Antonin Artaud and Jerzy Grotowski. He focusses especially on body language and emotion and their use in theatre while also studying intensively the methods of Konstantin Stanislavski, Peter Brook, Vsévolod Meyerhold, Eugenio Barba y Alejandro Jodorowsky. Samuel learns the technique "Alba Emoting", which had been developed by neurologist Dr. Susana Bloch as a therapy for emotional blockages and other psychological problems. Alba Emoting uses respiratory and muscular parameters to reach real emotions. Experiencing the potential of authentic emotions in the Performing Arts, he designes techniques that serve the authentic embodiment of emotions and psychological states on stage and in front of the camera. 

Samuel also immerses himself into disciplines of different cultures that deal with the human body and mind, such as anthropology, noh theatre, butoh, yoga, taoism, aikido-zen, mindfulness and western psychology. Samuel merges his insights with more known and own techniques from dance, theatre and visual arts. Transdisiplinarity becomes the framework of his methodology, its central aim being to help artists at becoming very familiar with their main instrument, the body and to free themselves from that which obstructs their natural ability of expression. In addition to the techniques of authentic interpretation, over the years he collects, develops and systematizes many tools for text analysis, role work and the precise preparation of the interpretation of text in front of the camera or on stage.