Brincos y saltos.

This documentary features the work that Professor Rosa Luisa Márquez has developed in the University of Puerto Rico with students from different artistic disciplines. Professor Márquez has taught her Creative Dramatics class, 'Leaps and Bounds' (Brincos y Saltos), since 1979, collecting techniques by fellow Latin American theatre artists. Inspired by Augusto Boal's words, 'Being human is being an artist,' Professor Márquez places playing and games at the center of a theatrical discipline based on trust, sharing, and enjoyment. 'Brincos y Saltos' offers 10 sessions and a bonus round as a 'model kit' for artists and educators who want to learn games, warm-up exercises, and theatrical techniques that explore the sensoriality of the body, its relationship with the power of words, and the path from rehearsals to performing on stage. Professor Márquez explains the meaning of each session, and shares testimonies and interviews with theatre artists and educators from different parts of the world, including Augusto Boal, Julian Boal, Javier Cardona, Antonio Martorell, Vivian Martínez Tabares, Teresa Ralli, Miguel Rubio Zapata, Charo Francés, and Arístides Vargas, among others. Conceived as a pedagogical resource, 'Brincos y Saltos' also includes some excerpts of her plays, as well as some vignettes and choreographies by representative Latin American theatre artists.

Rosa Luisa Márquez is a Puerto Rican theater artist and pedagogue; she specializes in contemporary theater. Rosa Luisa started her teaching career at the theater department of the University of Puerto Rico in 1978. She developed the current curriculum of Drama Activities, which she teaches in her workshops at schools, prisons, rehab centers, women's shelters and community centers. Her directing projects include 'Romeo(s) y Julieta(s),' 'Historias para ser Contadas,' 'La Leyenda del Cemí,' 'Procesión,' 'Waiting for Godot,' 'Jardín de Pulpos,' 'Absurdos en Soledad,' 'El León y la Joya,' among others. Published books include 'Brincos y saltos: el juego como disciplina teatral' and 'Historias para ser contadas, montaje de Rosa Luisa Márquez.' She is a member of the board of directors and pedagogical team for the EITALC´s International School of Latin American and Caribbean Theater. Ongoing artistic collaborators include Gilda Navarra and Antonio Martorell (Puerto Rico), Grupo Malayerba (Ecuador), Grupo Yuyachkani (Peru), and directors Peter Schumann (Bread and Puppet Theater, U.S.A.) and Augusto Boal (Theater of the Oppressed, Brazil).