ANIMA COMPANY
Ánima is a company founded in 2010 by Lucila Manso and Sol Lavítola, united by their passion for animated theatre and the creation of poetic worlds through puppetry. Since the beginning, they have maintained a marionette research laboratory, where they design and build their own characters, mechanisms, and stage elements, and where they also welcome students from around the world.
Over the years, they have developed a distinct artistic language that combines the plasticity of the object, the precision of movement, and the subtlety of gesture.
Their marionette performances are the result of this ongoing exploration, achieving a unique balance between theatre, visual arts, and music, and offering sensitive, contemporary, and accessible experiences for audiences of all ages and cultures.
The company has been recognized with several awards for its trajectory and has participated in more than thirty international festivals, proudly representing their country on stages around the world.
Lucas Manso
Actor-puppeteer-scenoplastic artist
As an autodidact, he has been experimenting for more than 18 years and has been trained as a scenoplastic and manipulative producer of puppets and puppets in different shows.
He has taught puppet and puppet building courses and taken custom-made, special and customized works, carrying more than 100 scenoplastic realizations.
His training in puppet theater had as teachers to:
Guillermo "Toto" Castiñeiras (Clown), Ana Alvarado (Theater of Objects), Luciano Brindisi (Mime gestual), Diego Gilardi (Mechanics of dolls), Miguel Oyarzun Pérez (Cia. El Chonchon), Paula Vidal, Gabriel Von Fernandez (Theater of shadows), Jorge Rivera Woolands.
Since 2008 he has been part of the company "Marionetas Anima" together with Sol Lavitola performing shows and giving workshops in his own space.
At the moment it also forms part of the Cía de Circo-Teatro "Barlovento".
Sol Lavítola
She is a puppeteer, filmmaker and illustrator.
His research in the puppet theater began in 2002, when he was eighteen years old, when he met Pepe García, who would be his teacher. Together with him and the Company "The Four Cats" he took the first steps in the manipulation of glove puppets and bocones, and made innumerable presentations in Argentina.
He then continued his training with different puppeteers such as Miguel Oyarzum (Guignol), Camilo De La Spriella (string puppets), Pierrik Malebranche (Physical and objects theater), Rafael Curci (Theater of objects and shadows), Daniel Di Lorenzo (Guignol) among others, with whom he explored various construction and handling techniques.
He trained as a plastic artist, illustrator and music.
In 2008, together with Lucas Manso, he formed his own workshop called "Ánima", where they investigate in depth the technique of string puppets and develop a fine work in the construction of dolls and scenoplastic realizations.
Currently working on new creations for future shows.