Company

Performing
arts company

El Perro Azul is a performing arts project created and directed by Fernando Moreno. It was founded in 2010, in Logroño, La Rioja, from a personal, daring artistic stance, with the intention of creating shows and spaces for staged performances, capable of moving audiences of any age.
Beyond mere entertainment, the company’s work seeks to engage the spectator in an evocative encounter on stage as a common space in which to inhabit our questions and dreams. We create through gestural language, where the actor’s body speaks, while their words can fly.

Nuestra compañía de artes escénicas El Perro Azul ha participado en importantes ferias y festivales nacionales: FETEN (Gijón), MADferia (Madrid), Teatralia (Madrid), Umore Azoka Leioa, Mostra Igualada, FIET (Islas Baleares), el Circuito ASSITEJ o en el Programa PLATEA, entre otros.

It has also been included in the programmes of important international festivals, including the Festival Off Avignon (France), CINARS Biennale (Canada), International NAJ NAJ NAJ Festival (Croatia), Luaga & Losna (Austria), Komidi Festival (Reunion Island, France), Scènes & Cinés (France) and the AECID Programme (Macedonia and Slovenia).

In parallel to staging projects, El Perro Azul also creates theatrical exhibition spaces.

In 2010, it took its first leap forward with Teatrea, Festival de Teatro para niños y niñas, which quickly became a theatrical reference in La Rioja. More than 300 companies have taken part in the festival that will turn 15 in 2025.

In 2024, El Perro Azul ventures into the creation of Mute, Festival de Teatro Gestual de La Rioja, which takes place at the Museo Würth La Rioja. It is a festival that is committed to becoming an international stage reference, specialising in gestural theatre for all audiences.

Mission

Create cultural projects with a clear commitment to social and human change though a poetic encounter with all sorts of audiences.

Vision

Becoming a sustainable theatre company serving as an international referent.

Values

Quality

We are committed to always find the best version of each project investing as long as required in investigating, reflecting, constructing, be wrong, try, try again, quit, redo and in a nutshell create carefree.

Constancy

Our work dynamics leads us to a coherent, agile, contributory, flexible, sustainable, diverse, planned, delegated, transversal way of working, a way of doing things that is always quality based.

Commitment

We create stage projects which speak to audiences on a constant bet on the human being, offering a poetic and hopeful life.

Collaboration

We create links with both agents and social collectives who generate projects aimed at the creation of a more humaine and just society.

Sustainability

We are committed to a sustainable culture as the back bone of transformation for the company.

Training

We are in a constant recycling stage, sucking in knowledge and experience from the great masters.

Sensitivity

We bring to the stage personal projects, universal and poetic. Piercing for the spectator, agitating and moving. These events make them doubt and wonder.

Resilience

We opt for the capacity of overcoming difficulties involved in the managing of a theatre company.

Artist, creator and multitask performer in ongoing learning process

Fernando
Moreno

He started his formal training in the Superior Performing Arts School of Torrelodones in 1998. Right after he became part of TAT. A training project led by Jorge Padín taking place in Logroño over the course of ten years. He has nourished from different performing techniques such as Lecoq, Chejov and Meisner hand I hand with great masters the likes of Vicente León, Jorge Padin, Javier Galitó-Cava, Sonia Espinosa, Neus Suñé, Isabel Bres and Anna Sabaté. He has taken part in workshops by Claudio Tolcachir, Will Keen, Luca Condró, Karol Wisniewski, Laila Ripoll, Alyssa Cicarello, Marcelo Katz, Merche Ochoa, Maite Guevara, Ramón Albistur and Virginia Imaz.

His creative project is devoted to the performing arts company El Teatro Azul, where he researches different stage languages such as object theatre, masks, gestural theatre, text-based theatre and new technologies. His projects arise from pure necessity, opting for a groundbreaking theatre which moves audiences through body poetry.

His career has been recognised with different awards such as FETEN 2025 to creation of characters combing masks and body language, best actor at Festival Noctivagos in Oropesa 2015 (Toledo) and same category at NAJ, NAJ, NAJ 2017 in Croatia and recognition by the Twon Hall of Logroño 2023 (artistic trajectory). He was also named president of the Professional Theatre Companies Association of La Rioja.

His evolution and commitment are translated in walking out of his comfort zone in order to expand his creative potential.