Gina Tay Limpus and Rodrigo Calderón are independent theatre-makers with a shared 21 years in The Suzuki Method of Actor Training; a rigorous physical discipline created by Tadashi Suzuki and The Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT) seeking to heighten the actor’s power through mastery of breath, centre and energy. Their collaboration involves 5 years of collective training; participation in SCOT’s 50th Anniversary Training in Japan; teaching physical actor training across Australia and El Salvador; attending international arts markets (PAMS, BPAM, SIPAM, through support of Creative Australia 24/25); and undertaking self-funded conceptual and first-stage development of RED ALMODÓVAR. Unwilling to become artists in theory over artists in practice, they asked themselves ‘how does our actor training translate to performance?’ Since initiating RED ALMODÓVAR, they have begun to understand the distinct aesthetic and technical markers of their practice as artists from distinct cultural backgrounds who share a physical language based in rigour, collaboration and sustainable practice.

​Photos by Gina Tay Limpus / photos by Georgia Haupt