RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The president of Sodre, Martín Inthamoussú, resigned from his position at the institution that houses the Uruguayan national ballet and choirs to take up a position at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The former dancer will assume a position in the Creativity and Culture Unit of the Washington-based institution.
Inthamoussú has held the presidency of Sodre since 2020, coinciding with the mandate of Luis Lacalle Pou (2020-2025), although he had previously been linked to the main public cultural institution of the South American country, in which he also held the position of director of Artistic Training Schools since 2013.
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The last work of the Ballet Nacional del Sodre (BNS), directed by former prima ballerina María Noel Riccetto, which the director presented at the head of the organization, was “Firebird”, by Igor Stravinski.
Under Inthamoussú’s mandate, the “Festival Sin Limites” was organized, an innovative experience in Uruguay with audio description for the blind or individual wireless sound for deaf people in an initiative that sought to bring the discourse of inclusion to action with art as a vehicle.
In 2019 he directed the first Uruguayan production in which the girl with telekinetic powers created by English author Roald Dahl in 1988, Matilda, sang in Spanish and read Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez.
On that occasion, the director told the EFE agency that the idea of making a version of this work arose from fanaticism for the book by one of the producers of the Montevideo promoter Red Button.
In 2017 he was in charge of the first show designed for children that fused dance, music and literature through the representation of “Cuentos de la selva”, by one of the most recognized authors in the country, Horacio Quiroga.
In that same year, Inthamoussú was the architect of “Montevideo Besieged”, in which places such as theater doors, squares, parks or streets became stages to bring the population closer to dance within the framework of the II Cervantino Festival.
Inthamoussú has a degree in Theater Studies from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and also has a postgraduate diploma in International Cultural Relations from the University of Girona (Spain).
In addition, he was an international fellow at the International Society of Performing Arts in 2018 and 2019 and as a teacher he has taught regular classes at universities in Venezuela, Mexico, Spain, Canada, Colombia, Brazil, Chile and Germany, as well as in private institutes in Latin America and Europe.
(With information from EFE)