Joghis Seudin Arias

Acting was never part of Joghis Arias's plans. When she was eight years old, she and her mother were forced to run away from their hometown in Florida Valle (Colombia) to her maternal grandmother's home in Florencia (Caquetá). Her father and her grandfather died amidst the conflict, which forever shaped her life. When she graduated from school, it was very clear to her that she did not want to have the same fate as most of the girls in her town, pregnant at an early age. She knew that she should find her future in the city where she wanted to study Social Communication. When she was 16, Jorghis tried to enter the Universidad del Valle. Based on recommendations, she enrolled in the Scenic Arts program hoping that would
ensure her acceptance to the University, and later transfer to Social Communication. When audition time arrived, she did not have a monologue nor had she ever seen a theatre performance. But the young prodigy was one of the five selected among 50 candidates. During her first semesters, she questioned the usefulness of acting, but an assignment on autobiographic stories changed her perspective and her professional title changed. Taking ownership of her own grief and life experiences helped Joghis Arias see acting as something more than a mimetic exercise, but rather a perfect communion and connection of the actor with space and the audience. After her classmates' insistence, Jorghis reluctantly decided to try out for the casting of La Sirga. Jorghis always wonders what the director would have thought if he knew that the second time they met at her home, she had asked the doorman to closely watch the suspicious stranger. Her reluctance on that day make her smile, after working with William she is very fond of him, as he used to talk to her about the vicissitudes of a young country-girl seeking to cling to her only lifeline. The dynamic was similar to that of Scheherezade-day after day the young girl's story was enriched, but you could never tell how it would end.

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