Maria Victoria Di Pace was born in Buenos Aires from an Italian family. She trained as actress in the Strasberg technique from the early age of 11 in Buenos Aires and Madrid. Her professional career started at the age of 14 when she played the main role in Filtraciones and Bocca Chiusa by Jorge Incorvaia. She graduated at the Paolo Grassi Drama School in Milan where she was tutored in the alternative techniques such as Grotowski, Lecoq, Laban and Vasiliev. Maria Victoria was taught by theatre practitioners including Peter Brook, L'Odin Theatre and Anton Milenin. After graduation she has worked as actress, singer and tango dancer in Argentina, Spain, Italy and UK and US.
Theatre includes "La Sciantosa" in Tonight we Improvise by Pirandello, Italian National Tour, "Aniuska" in The Small Hour’s Tango by Puig, Italian National Tour, "Carmen" in Carmen de los Corrales by Bizet, Teatro dal Verme, "Father Laurence" in Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, "Cesonia" in Caligula by Camus, "Miss Julie" in Miss Julie by Strindberg, Teatro Paolo Grassi, "Eva" in The Human Tragedy by Madach in the italian Mittelfest festival, in Cividale, "Marta" in The Women at the Tomb by Ghelderode, CRT Theatre , among others.
In 2005 she began working as a Movement Director for the play Hortencia and the Museum of Dreams at the Finbotough Theatre and Mariana Pineda at the Arcola Theatre.
Maria Victoria has created her own company theatreunO in theatrical experimentation based on the Grotowski and Vasiliev techniques. She also directed the play nO-bOdy nOse at The Space and sOmething sweet at the Festival "La Città Ideale del Teatro Urbano" in Abbiategrasso, Milano.
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