Stephany Orúe defends her love for pole dance: “There are very schematized thoughts”

Stephany Orúe talks about her new facet as a pole dancer. (instagram)

Stephany Orúe is one of the actresses with a long career in the performing arts. The 36-year-old artist never tires of learning and she continues to explore her talent to bring out the best in herself and show how chameleon-like she can be.

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The film, theater and television figure gave an interview to Infobae, where he talked about his current work in the theater, his constant preparation and his new passion, pole dance; sport that she came to out of pure curiosity and continues to work to improve more and more.

Stephany, today you are focused on ‘The Coleman Family Omission’, how do you feel about the reception from the public?

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It is being a very nutritious trip in every way. As a process, as an artist, because it is a very complex work and the journey of each character. We have been very well accompanied by the people, I think that word of mouth has done us very well. The public has been super friendly, always sharing their experience, because it is a work that also touches on a subject that is actually something that we should maybe talk about a little more.

Mental health…

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Yes, the issue of mental health, family ties, is a tragicomedy. In addition to laughing, it invites you to reflect on what is funny when in reality they are very extreme and dramatic situations, not tragic, but laughter is an ingredient that somehow helps you get through this journey, not being so dense, because it is a crude work

How have you worked on your character?

It’s been quite a challenge, really. In the first place, from the rehearsals, because there were many situations and many decisions that Verónica makes in the play, which I, Stephanie, would not necessarily make, so in the process I have been trying to understand the reason for her decisions, where she comes from. She also deals with emotions that are very messed up, because she is between the shame that she feels for this family, to which she does not belong, but the one she comes from, because they are her roots, and she blames herself precisely for feeling that shame. . As an actress, each trip is a challenge, each night is a challenge, reaching the peaks, inhabiting the character and truly living everything that Verónica lives through empathy.

Do you consider that it has been the most complex character you have done?

Yes, exactly. Verónica is teaching me a lot, I learn in each staging. I must defend the purpose of the character that ends up becoming mine.

Stephany Orúe in ‘The Coleman Family Omission’

It also helps a lot to bring these issues to the fore through art, as well as mental health…

Yes of course. Well, this mental health issue has already been put more on the table as a result of the pandemic. People have already begun to face themselves, with their fears, their fears, their frustrations, their ghosts and that work of oneself that no one else can do.

Today you stand out in acting, but there was a time when you wanted to be a star, what made you change your mind?

I used to say as a child that I wanted to be a star because what I really wanted to say was that I wanted to be on stage singing, dancing and acting. At that time when I was little, the vedettes sang, danced and acted. She was a complete artist. It’s just that as time went by, that term vedette began to blur a bit because you already said vedette and you automatically thought of cheerleaders or dancers suddenly only from night clubs.

You were referring to the purely artistic profession…

Yes, I was referring to the term vedette, the traditional one, the one that unifies all the languages ​​of art, which is what I am achieving right now. For example, making a musical, in some way you amalgamate that, all the languages, because you dance, sing and act.

Are you fulfilling that dream in your own way?

Of course, I would tell you that now, at that moment in my life, I am fulfilling my dream. It is not a dream come true, I am fulfilling it and I fulfill it every time I go on stage and that through any language of art I can tell a story or I can interpret a character. Now that I’ve been doing more musicals for a few years, I reaffirm that what I’m doing right now is what I always wanted to do as a child: sing, dance and act. All together.

You also practice pole dancing, how did you cheer up?

Yes. The physical issue for me is very important. I have been an athlete for more than 15 years. This has been an exploratory process, because first I started with the fitness culture of the gym, everything that had to do with bodybuilding, but also cardio, step, dance, everything. Then I started doing martial art, I got to know Muay Thai, I got to know boxing and I’ve been doing martial art for years. In this desire to want to continue exploring physically, first as an athlete, but also thinking of being able to give myself more resources for my work. I wanted to dance, in fact, I went to a salsa academy to see if I could suddenly dance salsa. But I always got pole dance in advertisements until one day I said, I’m going to try pole dance, I don’t know, something was calling me.

Stephany Orúe practicing Pole Dance. (Instagram)

Out of curiosity…

Yes, curiosity. I started going because I wanted to dance, so I started with sexy dance, with heels, dancing around the pole. But that led me to want much more and then I wanted to do stunts. I mixed up the sexy dance a bit, which is with the high heels around the tube, but now I do more acrobatics. About a year ago I realized that I get along well with this sport, that I communicate well. I consider myself a pole dancer in training.

Is it an art, a discipline, a sport?

It is a discipline. I see it as a sport too, because it requires a lot of concentration, a lot of strength, a lot of coordination, elasticity, a lot of courage. You have to be brave, the challenge is to control the anxiety of wanting to get to do what you have to do and be calm so you don’t sweat too much, because if you sweat too much, you can slip. So it’s much more difficult to be able to stay in the tube doing the choreography and doing a clean sequence. It is mastery and concentration.

This discipline continues to be stereotyped and criticized, how do you deal with it?

Clear. The good thing is that, in these times, I feel that this pole dance culture is much more exposed. I see many friends who didn’t do anything before and who are suddenly trying pole dancing and I really like that, because being inspired by other people is great, finally I am inspired by other people. A very beautiful chain of empowerment is generated.

Have you had to deal with unfortunate comments?

Yes, they tell me: “Oh, let’s see if it’s better to come out calata”, but I always try to share a little to get people out of ignorance. There are people who don’t know, they don’t even imagine all that you have to train to be able to climb the tube or do some figure. It takes hard work. They don’t even know and they will surely wonder, but why bother? What happens is that you can’t do pole dance with clothes. There has to be friction and direct skin contact with the tube. And that means doing this sport in pain, with bruises. If you see the body of a pole dancer, anyway, you’re going to see it with bruises, little dents. Because it is what one has to face in order to achieve the sequences or the figures.

Would you like more respect for pole dancing?

Yes, because it is like any discipline, you have to become professional, there is a lot of rehearsal and previous work for you to get on stage to tell a story. Or if you are doing fiction, there is a whole preparation. Art people know it, there is more seriousness in the way of thinking, there are so many ways to communicate through art, and pole dancing is one of them. Personally, I don’t like to be pigeonholed, I like to do what I want and I like it. I am an actress, dancer, singer, I write, I compose, I can do whatever I want, whatever provokes me, today it provokes me to do this, I do it, tomorrow it provokes me to do something else, I do it, why not? If it’s my life, I own it, that’s what makes me happy. But sometimes there are very schematized thoughts that want to pigeonhole you into one thing and if you are an actress you cannot do this, that seems to me the most absurd, the most limiting. I do not think so.

Stephany Orue. (Instagram)

You are also making music, is it difficult to develop this art in our country?

Yes actually. My partner is a musician and he tells me that it is definitely very difficult. The fact that I started my acting career first, in any case, helps me a lot, because it is thanks to my profession as an actress that I am solving my musical project. No one knows me as a singer, I have started to write my music, but my music is super explorative, it is very theatrical, I am beginning to be faithful to this first desire to tell these stories that are not commercial at all, later on I don’t know what will come out I don’t earn a single sol for what I have invested in my singles, in my photos, in some videos that I have made, in paying my producer, that is an investment. It’s still not giving me an income, but what I’m earning as a human being and as an artist is undervalued.

It’s a long run…

It is a long-term race. I consider that I am crawling, that I am in diapers, I know that it is a door that I have opened and I am just at the entrance, and I have to continue inquiring and exploring until they bear fruit.

What genre are you specializing in?

different. I have an Andean song that has a bit of Quechua with Aymara, but I also have one that is a bit carnivalesque, I also have a ballad, I have a hip hop ballad somewhere. I would like to make a salsa, I also want to make cumbia. I am thus super open to what provokes me.

Regarding acting, you are focused on the theater, do you miss television?

I miss all the platforms, I couldn’t just stay doing movies, television or theater. The codes of TV are not the same as those of the theater, nor are those of the cinema. However, they all serve to complement you.

Given:

‘The Coleman Family Omission’ is presented from Thursday to Tuesday at 8:00 pm and Sundays at 7:00 pm at the Teatro La Plaza (CC Larcomar, Av. Malecón de la Reserva 610, Miraflores). Miguel Alvarez, Gerald Espinoza, Miguel Murray, Pilar Nuñez, Stephanie Orúe, Yolanda Rojas, Angelita Velásquez Campos and Martín Velásquez act.

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