Marcela Camacho

Born in Medellin Colombia in 1980, Marcela relocated to Ecuador in 1989.  She has studied Acupuncture, Healing Humanism and Healing-Creative Theater in the Neijing School of Quito, Ecuador. Marcela explores techniques like performing physical theater, clown, art comedy, storytelling, stage and theater for the oppressed. She also applies these techniques in different social scenes, developing each project with individual and group exercises. Among the social projects in which she has participated are: “Reading Caravans” - this project seeks to motivate teachers and basic education students to motivate reading through creative play and art fun “Seeds of light, healthy and awake Ecuador” - a project which focuses on the union of women and youth in Las Marias neighborhood where they learn to cook and share stories On the stage of storytelling, she presented “Percucuentos, stories that resonate from the heart” with the Peruvian drummer Alfonso Gamboa. Her individual tales “Los Cuentos de Tató” include stories of authorship, oral tradition, and various national and international writers, filling them with a number of different theater techniques. She has dramatized her own story with the theater group “Clowndestinos” entitled “The terrible problem of the dark lady” and “Conversations with the mirror” with the group “La Luciernaga” Healing-Creative Theater.