Lorenzo Torres

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Lorenzo Torres aka Mr. Lo (* 1958 in California ) is an American paper manipulator and dancer of Mexican descent. He has lived in Germany since 1983, where he settled in Munich .

Life

Torres began dance training in his home country at the age of 14 in classical ballet , jazz dance and flamenco , which he was able to expand in Canada and England on a scholarship .

Dance and choreography

As a dancer and choreographer, he belonged to well-known dance ensembles and ballet companies , for example the Mosaico Music & Dance Company , the Los Angeles Ballet , the Minnesota Dance Theater and the Mexican national ballet , the Compañía Nacional de Danza , which is based in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico -City has.

In Germany he was employed at the Saarland State Theater and the Hessian State Theater Wiesbaden , taught ballet and jazz dance in Florence , Salzburg and Munich and worked as a choreographer, among other things, at the Berlin Friedrichstadt-Palast and the Deutsches Theater in Munich , in the Berlin bar of every reason , in the Unterhaus - Mainzer Forum-Theater and in the Cologne mustard pot . As a dancer and contortionist ( contortionist ) he appeared in numerous variety programs from 1986 to 1998 .

Paper art

Since 1995 he has been working as a paper artist. The Swiss artist Macao ( le roi du papier ) gave him the idea in André Heller's TV show Salut for Olga . Since he did not pass his knowledge on to him at a meeting at a gala event, Torres self-taught himself the art of handling paper by studying the pieces of paper he collected and the video recording of Macao's TV appearance over a period of five years. Since then, he had a paper manipulator nationally and internationally numerous variety - and circus exposures may in Europe including in the Circus Roncalli , 2006 at the Moscow State Circus Great , 2010/2011 in Rotterdam Kerstcircus Ahoy , 2004/2005/2007 in the mirror tents of Eckart Witzigmann “Witzigmann Palazzo” or in 2009 at the 50-year-old stars in the Manege anniversary event. His list of references also shows a large number of so-called “paper customers”, including paper mills, press publishers, napkin and corrugated cardboard manufacturers and printing companies. Torres appeared on television several times with his tricks, including 2011 in André Heller's show Magnifico .

“I just collected the paper that he left on the stage after his performance. That was put together like a puzzle, carefully studied and rehearsed over and over again. I must have watched the video a few hundred times for that - until I got the number on it. "

- Lorenzo Torres

music

In 2006 Torres supported the production of the concept - audio book nach | t | set to music by the poet Stefan Brinkmann on two tracks , which was created in cooperation with Phase III .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The clothes ripped off , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , May 31, 2009.
  2. ↑ a b c Lorenzo Torres , after (t) set to music, 2006.
  3. ^ A b Mr. Lo's Paper Show , Eventpeppers.
  4. ↑ a b Lorenzo Torres: Paper, Paper ... Art , Maple Events, August 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Torres, Lorenzo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mr. Lo (artist pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paper manipulator and dancer
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH California