Enrique Espitia León

Espitia León is a theater teacher, who has developed his career from community theater and street theater as well as unconventional spaces, with training and experience for more than forty years that have allowed him to act as an educator, manager, playwright and theater director. In his extensive theatrical experience, Enrique has directed more than forty plays of various genres, styles, and groups that have taken him from festive troupes to staging for open space theater, where he has developed and tested various techniques for street theater. These have earned him recognition with various grants for the creation and circulation of the proposed works. For several years he developed a community proposal with the Kerigma Foundation starting in 1978, which allowed him to become a mentor for art and social transformation at the district and national levels, working on the relationship between art and community social development. This extensive experience has allowed him, with his current organization, Corporación Escénica DC ARTE, to participate in various meetings and theater festivals in Bogotá and in many other municipalities in the country, as well as attend street theater festivals in Brazil, Slovenia and Portugal. His theatrical experience has also allowed him to be a public policy advisor for the arts and to be an evaluator of various announcements with cultural organizations in the country. Currently his dramaturgy is focused on creating works with historical references, with special emphasis on the period of violence in the country since the middle of the last century and its repercussions on national life. He has published the book “Bandoleros y otras obras teatrales” in association with the Ministry of Culture and the teaching faculty publishing house, as well as articles in newspapers and magazines on the craft of theater. Finally, he is a believer that art must interpret the moment in which artists live and have a critical position on national events, expressed in the staging of the works created.