The Shape: Mountain Theater was established in Bogotá

The daily San Isidro neighborhood, in the foothills of a mountain between Bogota and La Calera, is upset over two decades ago with the arrival of Ligia Cortez and Roberto Antonio Nieto. Husbands-like gypsies, came walking slowly, holding hands, to offer friendship to anyone in need: a lonely old man, a sorry child, a man or a bucolic single mother
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In 1991 they decided to unite their lives. Two years ago they met in the theater Luis Enrique Osorio, where mounting rehearsing a play. They fell in love immediately and began a love story that, 26 years later, remains intact. And since then, the mountain of San Isidro became his home.

One of the reasons that motivated them to stay in this place, besides the humble character of its people, was the need to provide a space for fun and artistic training for neighborhood kids, then devoid of cultural plans to cope with the tedium of order of week. Therefore, every Saturday at three in the afternoon, Ligia Roberto and open the doors of the Teatro de la Montana a hundred guys, without paying a single penny, enjoy theater performances, puppet shows and children's films.

The theater was born just over eight years ago when Ligia and Roberto, extempore, began presenting puppet shows in a pasture. With the passing of time, and for reasons that Ligia attributed to "miracles of the universe," the wasteland became Integral Teatridanza Arts Center (CIAT), a hotel built as a community cultural scene by relatives and neighbors of this couple.

In the beginning it looked like a warehouse. It was thanks to the announcement of the Public Entertainment Act that received funds from the Ministry of Culture, Recreation and Sports to adapt. So they acquired the LED lights with Fresnel reflectors, ellipsoidal Leko and replaced by old jars of milk powder provided with bulbs; They bought microphones, audio consoles, high-powered speakers, a movie screen 7 meters long and 'video-beam'.

They also install a red curtain crimson with dimensions of 8 meters long and 6 meters high, whose assembly was commissioned Don Germán Barbosa, owner of a family business with over 40 years of tradition that has been contracted by venues like the Teatro Amira de la Rosa of Barranquilla, the Pablo Tobon Uribe in Medellin, Cali Jorge Isaacs, the Zulima in Cucuta, the Faenza of Bogota and the new Convention Center San Lazaro, Cartagena.

Another boon for the Theater of the Mountain are the resources received by the District Institute of Arts (Idartes) and the Ministry of Culture, which helps to fund its programming. So you can afford to invite friends puppeteers Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, who visited years ago when they gave vent to his career of street theater people.