PRESENTATION
PROA21 | Pablito No Clavó Nada in the Annual Residency Program
En voz alta. Intentos de una compañía sobre la lectura en escena
June - July, 2026
Organized by: PROA21
Supported by: Tenaris – Ternium
As part of its annual residency program, PROA21 welcomes Pablito No Clavó Nada, an independent theater company founded in Buenos Aires in 2013, arriving to develop a research project around reading on stage: that intermediate territory where the written text and the body that voices it meet in real time, in front of others.
The residency builds on a series of previous experiences developed by the company, including Cosas que escriben actores — a project in which performers read their own texts aloud for the first time — and De armas tomar, a staged-reading format where actors confront unknown texts without rehearsal or prior preparation.
The focus of the research is the event of someone encountering a text in real time. Rather than representing or interpreting, the proposal seeks to remain in that unstable moment of testing, drifting, and emergence where reading is still taking place.
For centuries, reading aloud was a public and collective act before becoming silent and private. Recovering that shared dimension today — in a context where spaces for encounter, solidarity, and listening seem increasingly fragile — appears for the company as a form of resistance.
The materials accompanying the research will be connected especially to texts censored or silenced during the last Argentine military dictatorship: writings marked by the memory of what could not be said and that today once again require a voice.
Over six weeks, the residency will unfold collectively and simultaneously. The company will work through creative cells dedicated to different materials and languages: oral storytelling, sound, textile archives, audiovisual documentation, and spatial work. The materials produced by one group will become input for the others, generating a system of permanent circulation and transformation.
Rather than producing a finished work, the residency proposes an open space for experimentation around reading, performance, and collective encounter.
The residency can be visited Wednesday through Sunday, from 12 pm to 7 pm.
Credits
Organized by
PROA21
Artistic Direction
Lucie Haguenauer
General Coordination
Renzo Longobucco
Pilar Victorio
Supported by
Tenaris – Ternium