Ana Inés Jabares-Pita

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Ana Inés Jabares-Pita at the Hechos de Talento award ceremony in Madrid (2015)

Ana Inés Jabares-Pita (born January 21, 1987 ) is a Spanish stage designer . It is active in the fields of opera , ballet , theater , film , concerts and exhibitions .

education

Jabares-Pita was born in A Coruña , Galicia , Spain. As a teenager she joined the choir of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia as a soprano and has performed in several performances. At the age of 18, she moved to southern Spain to study fine arts at the University of Seville while continuing her studies in music . As part of her bachelor's degree in fine arts, she spent a year at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo in Italy , where classical music and opera sparked her interest in stage design . She continued her studies in London at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama , where she obtained a Master of Arts in scenography .

Career

Jabares pita at work in the studio

In 2013 Jabares-Pita was for their design proposal of The Driver's Seat , a stage adaptation of Muriel Spark novel from 1971, the "overall winner" (overall winner) of the Linbury Prize for Stage Design explained. Thanks to this award, she worked with Laurie Sansom, Director of the National Theater of Scotland, on this production at the Tramway Arts Center in Glasgow in 2015 .

In 2015 she designed The Echo Chamber for the Young Vic in London, followed by Lela & Co (2015) for the Royal Court Upstairs , and Wish List (2016) for the Royal Exchange (Manchester) .

She continued her work in Scotland, e.g. B. In Fidelity (2016) for the Traverse Theater in Edinburgh and the design of Daphne Oram and the Wonderful World of Sound (Blood of the Young) (2017) at the Tron Theater in Glasgow.

In 2018 she worked on several productions across the UK such as B. The Lovely Bones (2018) directed by Melly Still and adapted by Bryony Lavery after Alice Sebold (a co-production by the Birmingham Repertory Theater, Royal & Derngate, Northampton and Northern Stage with the Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse); the world premiere of the opera To See the Invisible ( Aldeburgh Festival 2018); Twelfth Night (Royal Lyceum Theater, Edinburgh, and Bristol Old Vic 2018) and Pride and Prejudice (* sort of) (2018) at the Tron Theater.

Jabares-Pita has also worked as a designer in art galleries such as the Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum , where her work on What Girls Are Made Of was selected for the archive.

She was one of the first Spanish set designers to work for the Royal Shakespeare Company , where she created sets and costumes for Europeana (2020; part of the Project Europe season, currently suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic ) based on a novel by Patrik Ouředník designed under the direction of Maria Aberg. Her recent works include Blond Eckbert (2020; currently suspended due to COVID-19) for the English National Opera and Faustus: That Damned Woman (2020) by Chris Bush, directed by Caroline Byrne (coproduction Headlong , Lyric Hammersmith and Birmingham Repertory Theater ).

Exhibitions

  • 2015 Linbury Prize representation ( The Driver's Seat ) at the Make / Believe exhibition at the V&A Museum in London 2015
  • 2015 Representation of Spanish scenography at the Prague Quadrennial.
  • 2017 World Stage Design Exhibition (Taipei) - The Driver's Seat

Awards and grants

Hechos de talento (The Spanish are Made of Talent) in Picadilly Circus

The work of Jabares-Pita has received the following awards and nominations.

Prices

  • 2013 overall winner of the Linbury Prize for The Driver's Seat for the National Theater of Scotland.
  • 2013 Best Design Award at the Ottawa Fringe Festival for Sappho ... in 9 fragments
  • 2015 winner in the design category of the Hechos de talento initiative . Jabares-Pita became a "Spanish Design Ambassador" and represented Spanish design in some of the most iconic places in the world, such as Piccadilly Circus (London) and Times Square ( New York City ).
  • 2016 Winner of the Spirit of Dundee Award in Wearable Art for her Ignis costume design .
  • 2016 Third Prize at the European Opera Prize. La Traviata proposal , in collaboration with Max Hoehn.
  • 2017 Winner Best Studio Production , presented by the Manchester Theater Awards for Wish List .

Nominations

  • 2015 finalist of the James Menzies-Kitchin Trust Award (JMK Trust Award) with director Ben Hadley
  • 2015 finalist for the Independent Opera Director Fellowship with Rafael R. Villalobos

Scholarships

  • 2012–2014 artist residency at the Sleepwalk Collective at the Barbican Theater London, Espazio Eszena, Bilbao and Vitoria
  • 2014 Selected at the IV Encontro Artistas Novos-EAN 2014, Cidade da Cultura
  • 2019 artist residency in Florida by E 2 C (Escape to Create) to explore the use of augmented reality in video games and new technologies in painting, inspired by her previous experience in creating sets and costumes for the Inchcolm project.
  • 2019 artist residency in New York City, sponsored by the Spanish cultural action program 12 Miradas :: Riverside and developed by the artistic director Carlos Quintáns with the Laboratorio Creativo Vilaseco.

reception

Jabares-Pita’s work has received media coverage in the UK. The Guardian was one of Lela & Co among the ten best theater productions of the year, 2015.

Idomeneus (2014) made her a member of The Gate Theater's Jerwood Young Designers. The same design was selected by the V&A in London to be included in their archives.

Web links

Commons : Ana Jabares-Pita  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Gary McNair: Letters to Morrissey . Oberon Books, September 28, 2017, ISBN 978-1-78682-299-4 , p. 6.
  2. ↑ Clara Figueroa: Entrevistamos a Ana Inés Jabares Pita , Brit Es Magazine, May 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ Sandra Penelas: Ana Inés Jabares Pita: "La crítica es lo que te ayuda a crecer constantemente" , Faro de Vigo, March 15, 2015.
  4. ↑ Clare Brennan: The Driver's Seat review - sharp, stylish and edgy , The Guardian, June 28, 2015.
  5. ^ Royal Court Theater, London: Ana Inés Jabares Pita
  6. ↑ Claire Wrathall: The patrons engaging their artistic passions on a deeper level , Financial Times , May 6, 2017.
  7. ↑ Rita Á. Tudela: Ana Inés Jabares: “Moverse tiene su fruto” , La Voz de Galicia, January 17, 2017.
  8. ^ Rob Drummond: In Fidelity . Bloomsbury Publishing, October 14, 2016, ISBN 978-1-350-01965-2 , p. 4.
  9. ↑ Alice Sebold: The Lovely Bones . Oberon Books, November 17, 2018, ISBN 978-1-78682-670-1 , p. 1.
  10. ↑ Jane Austen, Isobel McArthur: Pride and Prejudice * (* sort Of) . Nick Hern Books, London 2020, ISBN 978-1-84842-909-3 (English). Pride and Prejudice (* sort of) on Google Books.
  11. ^ Announcement of Tron Theater
  12. ^ Cora Bissett: What Girls Are Made Of . Oberon Books, August 3, 2018, ISBN 978-1-78682-550-6 .
  13. ↑ Gladys Vázquez: El arte en Reino Unido tiene acento gallego , La Voz de Galicia, February 16, 2020.
  14. ↑ Arifa Akbar: Faustus: That Damned Woman review - devilish drama is far from divine , The Guardian, January 29, 2020.
  15. ↑ Linbury Prize for Stage Design Winners 2013 - in Pictures , The Guardian , November 25, 2013.
  16. ↑ Diez españoles con talento reciben un reconocimiento de Marca España , Lavanguardia, October 9, 2015.
  17. ^ Creative Dundee: Spirit of Dundee at Dundee Wearable Art Show
  18. ↑ E 2 C alumni by year
  19. ↑ Lyn Gardner: Lyn Gardner's top 10 theater of 2015 , The Guardian, December 17, 2015.
  20. ^ Ronald Schimmelpfennig: Idomeneus . Oberon Books, June 25, 2014, ISBN 978-1-78319-648-7 , p. 14 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Jabares-Pita, Ana Inés
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish designer in the fields of opera, ballet, theater, film, concert and exhibition
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1987