Ricardo Gaete

Chile

Actor, director, contemporary mime and teacher. Graduate of the International School of Dramatic Corporeal Mime. London. Ángel Elizondo’s Argentinean School of Mime, Buenos Aires. Argentina. PhD student in Theatre Studies, Complutense University of Madrid. Spain. Master in Theatre Creation, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.

Since 2016 he has been invited to teach seminars on Corporeal Performance in the Official Master’s Degree in Live Performance Arts at the University of Seville, Spain. He studied with masters such as Marcel Marceau, Ángel Elizondo, Yves Lebreton, Corinne Soum, Steven Wasson and Ramón Núñez Villarroel (National Art Prize in Chile).

His career has led him to be invited as an actor, director and teacher in various Latin American and European countries. In 2011 he founded ESCENAFÍSICA Escuela y Compañía Internacional de Teatro Corporal in Santiago de Chile, together with the master Ángel Elizondo (1932-2022).
In 2018 he started the re-foundation of the Escuela Argentina de Mimo y ESCENAFÍSICA with the master Ángel Elizondo.

His stage creations and methodology called “The Dramatic Body” have earned him recognition in several countries, leaving a trace of a scenic language fusing corporeality, plastic visuality, musicality and a poetics from the Latin American Magic Realism and expressionism from where his last trilogy inspired by Franz Kafka, “The Metamorphosis” “Primate…Report for an Academy” and soon “The Process” arise.

He is currently continuing his stage and training work in Chile, Argentina and Spain, among other countries in Latin America and Europe.