Rodrigo Rodrigues
Rodrigo Rodrigues | |
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Rodrigues receiving the Irish Times Theatre Award | |
Born |
São Paulo, Brazil | 13 December 1976
Residence | London, United Kingdom |
Nationality | Brazilian |
Occupation | Actor, director, producer, set designer, costume designer, acting theorist, theatre theorist, playwright, screenwriter |
Years active | 1993 – present |
Known for | Ko Method, The Dublin Core, Facial expression for actors |
Website |
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Rodrigo Rodrigues is a Brazilian actor, director, producer, set and costume designer, and author based in London, United Kingdom.[1] Rodrigues developed a facial expression technique for actors that was taught in workshops at the Gaiety School of Acting and was the basis for his book Facial Expression for the Actor.[2] He created the Irish theater group The Dublin Core and won the Irish Times Theatre Awards for best costume designer for the play The Trojan Women, which used costumes made from recycled materials.[1][3][4]
Early life and education
Rodrigues was born in São Paulo, Brazil, to an Afro-French father and Brazilian mother with Spanish, Portuguese and Italian origins. He was introduced to the performing arts by his mother, Terezinha Benatti, at age seven and began to regularly perform in plays at the school theatre by eleven years old. In 1993, he attended drama school Escola de Arte Dramatica de Jundiai and graduated two years later having performed a total of 400 hours of theater presentations.
Rodrigues completed acting courses at Teatro Escola Claudio Melo from 1997 to 1998.[5] In 1999, Rodrigues closed his Art Espace to continue studies in the arts including enrollment into Escola de Teatro Ewerton de Castro and Indac Escola de Artes with Flavia Pucci, a Japanese dance theatre, founded by Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, where he participated in the studies of Butoh technique. Rodrigues studied filmmaking at the Irish Film Academy. He also studied at the Kazuo Ohno dance studio, Hodogaya in Yokohama, Japan, to develop his studies of Butoh.[6]
Career
Acting
Theatre
Rodrigues has performed and produced more than 50 plays in his career since the age of 7, including The Bacchae, which was directed by José Celso Martinez Corrêa, a Brazilian actor, playwright and director. He also starred in the pilot multimedia play Action Movie alongside Laurence Kinlan.
Rodrigues toured with the Big Telly Theatre Company, a professional theatre company in Northern Ireland, and played the role of Sinbad at the Water Show as well as in the musical, directed by Zoe Seaton and Paul Boyd.[7] During that time he was invited to act in the film The Looking Glass.[7] Rodrigues performed in the play The Indian Wants The Coombe, an adaptation of The Indian Wants the Bronx by Israel Horovitz at the Dublin Fringe Festival. Rodrigues has also performed in A Queda Para O Alto, Oscar Wilde's Salome, Molière's The Miser and The Tempest, by William Shakespeare. He also has credits in The Hostage by Brendan Behan and The Plague by Albert Camus.
Film & TV
Rodrigues has been an actor, director, script writer and costume designer in the film and television industry. Rodrigues appeared in the film Fair City and Flight of the Earls with Academy Award nominee Stephen Rea.[8] He also developed the concept and directed the music video for DJ Tocadisco and co-produced and starred in a Felix da Housecat music video. [9]
In 2005, Rodrigues starred in the film Paranoia, which was screened at Cork Film Festival and won Best Photography at Portobello Film Festival.[10][11][12] In 2007, Rodrigues starred alongside Rachel Rath, Tatiana Fellipo, Michael Parle and Cristopher Kavanagh in Waterfall, which went to the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.
In 2011, Rodrigues portrayed the character Max in The Looking Glass, a film by Colin Downey, alongside Natalia Kostrzewa, Patrick O`Donell, Michael Parle and Eddie Webber. In 2014, he was in the cast of Londinium alongside Brian Croucher. In 2015, Rodrigues appeared in the films 1603 and The Levellers starring Shane Hart, Jadey Duffield and Brian Croucher. He also contributed as a costume designer to Londinium, 1603, and The Levellers.
In 2016, Rodrigues was announced to play the role of The Magnus in Roth, alongside BAFTA winner Patrick Bergin. His next film will be Goitaca, released in 2017, with City of God`s Leandro Firmino, Lady Francisco, Mario Babic, Luciano Szafir and Christianne Oliveira.
Teaching
In 1997, Rodrigues opened Espaco Cultural Porao, a cultural college of art space containing four floors with available rooms to create and experiment with various art forms.[13] In 2002, Rodrigues taught one of his own acting techniques, Facial Expressions For Actors, to the students at the Gaiety School of Acting, which included Aidan Turner from The Hobbit.[14] Rodrigues created, managed and taught the theatre group The Dublin Core, an Irish Times Theatre Awards winning Theatre Group.[1]
Ko Method
The Science of Acting
Rodrigues developed the Ko Method, a technique that gives actors understanding of constructing a range of diverse characters. The technique is based on a scientific approach towards the study of universal understanding. It also focuses on human body mechanisms and the experimentation partial movements to find understanding and connectivity within the totality of life's mechanism.
Facial expressions for actors
The objective of this technique is for an individual to learn how to control their reality in relation to movement, explanation, wording and speech.
Rodrigues`s book Facial Expressions for Actors provides analysis of different points of view and perspective from around the world in search of something hidden that requires investigation and reasoning. The book explains that through the development of facial muscles, individuals reach understanding of the universe and learn to access a state of equilibrium within one's own interpretation.[4]
Rodrigues observed that the understanding of an individual's expression required a hidden knowledge which inspired him to search for the development of concrete points in association with the understanding of human nature. Approaching art from a scientific point of view, he began with an objective idea that there are important understandings that have been excluded and should be included to the infinitive art of representation. He found that his research was related to science as he studied anatomy, dramaturgy and occasional points of life. Rodrigues initially, self-experimented his findings and techniques and expanded the study to volunteers.
Paratay Studios
In 2010, Rodrigues founded with the help of Fergal Fitzgerald, an art space called Paraty Studios located in the middle of the Atlantic forest in Brazil. The studio was a small community of Indigenous peoples in Brazil, who were actively involved in the process of acting, costume and set making for Rodrigues's film pilot project Currupira. [15]
Rodrigues used recycled and organic materials to build characters for a pilot film project. Currupira, which starred Brazilian actress Lisa Negri, had been approved for funding by the Ministry of Culture in Brazil and registered at the National Library of Brazil.[16][17] During his three years in the jungle, Rodrigues worked on set and costume making and dedicated time to writing, experimenting, and building characters. Rodrigues ecological approach to costuming technique was mentioned in Brazilian media, including Veja and ISTOÉ.[1]
Awards
In 1993, Rodrigues received the award for best actor at the Monologue Festival at the Escola de Artes Dramáticas Jundiaí for his performance in Fafa Volte Para Seu Chico.[5][18]
In 1998, Rodrigues received the Best Theatre Production award from the Cultural Map Awards of the government of São Paulo State for his play Mitos e Lendas, which he wrote, directed, produced and performed.[18][19][20]
The DENETRAN Brazilian National Awards awarded Rose Cereser the Best Project Award in 2001 for Amigos do transito, which Rodrigo directed, acted and presented.[18]
Rose Cereser received the National Volvo Award for Best Education Traffic Program in 2002 for Amigos do transito Group Work for Theatre, TV Program, and Advertising where Rodrigo was a director, actor and presenter.[18]
In 2010, Rodrigues received the Irish Times Theatre Awards at the Smock Alley Theatre for Best Costume Designer for The Trojan Women, which was directed by Rodrigues and co-directed by Alan King.[4][16][21][22]
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2005 | Fair City | Salsa Instructor | |
2005 | Paranoia[23] | Kim | |
2006 | Fair City | Phelipe /Choreographer | |
2007 | Waterfall | Luis | |
2007 | W.C. | Gentleman | |
2007 | Imeacht Na N`Iarlai | Ambassadoir Na Spainne | (TV-Mini-Series Documentary) |
2011 | The Looking Glass | Max | |
2014 | Sri-Lanka The Unforgivable Land | Director | (Documentary) |
2015 | World Most Talented | Judge | Channel Watch / BBC |
2016 | 1603[23] | Brian | |
2016 | Londinium[23] | Frank | |
2016 | The Levellers | Manga | Filming |
2016 | A Fistful Of Bullets | Pre-Production | |
2016 | Hush Hush | Luco | Filming |
2017 | Odio | Young Luis | Filming |
2017 | Roth | The Magnus | Filming |
2017 | Goitaca | Shaman Bacuara / Jurma | Filming |
Discography
Year | Artist | Single | Role | Notes |
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2006 | Harlot | Felix da Housecat | Principal | |
2007 | DJ Tocadisco | Music Loud | (Director) | |
2007 | LadyVeda | Daddy | (Director) | |
2013 | Guto e Gabriel | Ingrata | (Director) | [24] |
Awards and nominations
Year | Award | Category | Result | Work |
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1993 | Jundiai Monologue Festival | Best Actor | Won | Fafa Volte Para Seu Chico |
1998 | Cultural Map Awards | Best Production | Won | Mitos e Lendas |
2001 | DENETRAN National Awards | Best Production | Won | Amigos do transito |
2010 | Irish Theatre Awards | Best Costume Designer | Won | The Trojan Women |
References
- 1 2 3 4 Igor Giannasi (6 May 2010). "Brazil is successful in Ireland with green costume". Veja. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- ↑ Journal Earth Lea (7 November 2013). "Culture performs Cinema Course". Folha da Terra. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- ↑ Igor Giannasi (5 June 2010). "Brazil is successful in Ireland with green costume". Último Segundo. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- 1 2 3 Igor Giannasi (5 June 2010). "Brazil is successful in Ireland with green costume". Último Segundo. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- 1 2 "Rodrigo Rodrigues". Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- ↑ "Cineasta jundiaiense tem como destino a cidade de Cannes". Jornal de Jundiaí. 26 September 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- 1 2 "Sinbad". Big Telly Theatre Company. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- ↑ "Flight of the Earls". Hollywood Movie Money. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- ↑ "Rodrigo Rodrigues com o DJ Tocadisco e as bailarinas do clip "Loud Music"". Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- ↑ "Portobello Film Festival to celebrate Irish film". IFTN. 2 August 2005. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- ↑ "Paranoia". Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- ↑ "Paranoia". Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- ↑ "Espaco cultural Porao lanca revista". Jornal de Jundiaí. 23 February 2000. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- ↑ "New Acting Workshop - Next Week". Filmmakers Network. August 2007. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- ↑ "Ppo Um Palco Mais Ecologico". O Artigo. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- 1 2 Mariana Carvalho (2 June 2010). "Brazil stands out in Ireland with costumes made from recyclable material". Jornalismodigital2010's Blog. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- ↑ "Currupira". Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 "Rodrigo Rodrigues awards". Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- ↑ "Teatro em Itupeva: "Mitos e Lendas"". Geral. 19 March 1998. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- ↑ "Mapa Cultural do Estado". Pressao. 1997. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- ↑ Marketadee (1 March 2010). "Irish Theatre Awards". Bohemian Connection. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- ↑ Igor Giannasi (10 July 2006). "Brasileiro faz sucesso na Irlanda com ecologico". ISTOÉ Independente. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
- 1 2 3 "Rodrigo Rodrigues Biography". TalentNews. March 2015.
- ↑ Jasmin, Becher (March 2013). "IngVid". YtNews.