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Seminar
2000 Events
The
first annual seminar was a two-week event that featured daily workshops,
mini-seminars, mini-panels, performances and video screenings. A
mid-seminar interdisciplinary conference highlighted scholarly
work on related topics.
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Conference/Painéis/Conferencia
The
three day conference included presentations by scholars and graduate
students on topics such as: "performance, politics, and globalization;"
"performance and social space;" and "performance
and pedagogy."
Hemispheric
Institute directors: Zeca Ligiéro, Diana Taylor, Javier Serna,
y Luiz Peirano (not shown)
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| Workshops/Oficinas/Talleres
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Various
workshops were offered each morning featuring Afro-Brazilian dance, Centro
de Teatro do Oprimido com Augusto Boal, Grupo Arte Callejero, and performance
workshops with Richard Schechner and the Peruvian theater group, Yuyachkani.
Candomble
workshop
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Performances
y Video
Screenings
Each night
a selection of performances were presented in coherence with the themes
discussed throughout the seminar. Performers included
Gomez-Peña
e Sifuentes (Mexterminator), Denise Stoklos (Vozes
Dissonantes),
Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani (Antigona), among many other Brazilian
and international artists.
Video
screenings also provided a rich look at various American cultural phenomena.
Most screenings were of shorts and documentaries with a lecture provided
by noted Brazilian film scholar, Robert Stam (NYU).
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| Mini-Panels/Mini-Panéis/Mini-Paneles
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Palestras/Lecturas/Lectures |
Mini-Panels
and lectures were given during the two-week seminar. They were informal
presentations and discussions on topics related to performance and
politics.
Such topics included, "gender, sexuality and performance," "theater
and community," and "race and popular performance."
Yuyachkani
Director: Miguel Rubio Zapata
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Mini-Seminars/Mini-Seminários/Mini-Seminarios
| Mini-seminars
were opportunities for participants to informally discuss topics of
related interest that they were working on as scholars, artists, or
activists. Some seminar themes were, "performance and memory,"
"study of gay performance," "political theater"
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Grupo
Arte Callejero
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