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Brazil Participants
2000
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Nara Heemann
Profession/Affiliation:
Director and performer, teaching at the UFPR (Federal University of
Parana, Actorsí course) "Costume" and "Drama-Anaylsis", and at the IBPEX
(Brazilian Institute for Further Education) "Organization of theatrical
events."
Biography: Born 1970 in Brazil.
1988 lived in England. 1989-99 lived in Munich. In Germany, I was research
assistant at the Department of Drama Studies (Theaterwissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximilian
University). Earned Masters degree from same institution. Thesis on
European staging of primitivity specifically the Tupinamba people. (The
"drama" with Indians: on European mise-en-scene of primitivity in 16th
and 17th centuries.) I have been working on developing a
series of performances on "skin" with cross-cultural teams, Brazil and
Germany, since 1998.
Contact:
naraheemann@hotmail.com
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Marcos Antônio Alexandre
Profession/Affiliation:
Professor, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais,
BRAZIL
Biography: Mestre em Teoria da
Literatura pela Faculdade de Letras/UFMG (dissertação:
"A diferença entre o texto dramático e o texto espetacular
em seis obras apresentadas em Belo Horizonte entre os anos 1994 e 1998").
Professor Assistente I (de Línguas e literaturas Espanhola) no
Departamento de Letras Românicas da FALE-UFMG. Professor de História
do Teatro e Literatura Dramática no Curso de Arte Cênicas
da UFMG. Doutorando em Literatura Comparada no Curso de Pós-Graduação
da FALE/UFMG. Projeto de tese: "Plínio Marcos e Juan Radrigán:
contextos e textos dramáticos/espetaculares". Membro do NELAP
(Núcleo de Estudos em Letras e Artes Performáticas. Membro
do Grupo de Teatro Mayombe desde sua criação (1995), como
ator e responsável pelo trabalho de consciência corporal
do grupo.
Paper Presented: Plínio
Marcos e Juan Radrigán: texto dramático e polîtica.
Contact:
Address: Rua Mário de Andrade
Gomes, 119/406, bl. 01 ó
Segrada Famîlia, Belo Horizonte,
Minas Gerais, Brasil ó
Cep. 31030050
Phone: (31) 34662862, 96176105
Email: maal@letras.ufmg.br
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Laura J. Beard
Profession/Affiliation:
Associate Professor of Spanish, Portuguese,
Comparative Literature, Womenís Studies, Latin American & Iberian
Studies
Biography/Professional Interests:
My primary research and teaching interests are women writers of the
Americas, narrative theories and feminist theories. I am currently working
on a book manuscript on issues of identity, authority and sexuality
in the works of Helena Parente Cunha, Nelida Pinon, Luisa Futoransky
and Julieta Campos. I spent the 1999-2000 academic years as a Fulbright
Senior Scholar in Mexico.
Contact:
Address: Department of Classical &
Modern Languages & Literatures
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas 79409-2071
Phone: (806) 742-3145
Email: pvljb@ttacs.ttu.edu
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Alyshia Galvez
Profession/Affiliation:
Student in the PhD program in Anthropology and the Center for Culture,
Media and History at New York University.
Biogrpahy: Born and raised in
California, but living in New York City for more than a decade, I am
a photographer and a student. My dissertation research will look at
the ways that Mexican immigrants in New York City construct community
and engage in political and social projects by means of involvement
with Guadalupan committees.
Contact:
Address: 485 Central Park West, #1D
New York, NY 10025
Telephone: (212) 865-2612
Email: ag465@is9.nyu.edu
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Micol Seigel
Profession/Affiliation:
PhD candidate in American Studies Program, NYU.
Biography/Professional Interests:
Micol is currently completing her dissertation, "Beyond Compare: The
Transnational Construction of Race and Nation in Brazil and the United
States, 1918-1933."
Contact:
Address: 20 Delta Place
Atlanta, GA 30307
Telephone: (404) 688-1371
Email: mss4711@is.nyu.edu
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Nikki Mondschein
Profession/Affiliation:
Playwright. MA candidate in Tisch School of the Arts, Department of
Dramatic Writing, NYU.
Contact:
Address: 412 West End Avenue, #5H
New York, NY 10024
Telephone: (212) 595-0318
Email: natania2@aol.com,
or nlmondschein@amherst.edu
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Myron M. Beasley
Profession/Affiliation:
Professor in the Department
of Communication, Denison University.
Biography: Studied at the University
of Paris, Sorbonne.
Contact:
Telephone: (740) 587-0124
Email: Beasley@Denison.edu
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Christopher Danowski
Profession/Affiliation:
Playwright/Researcher/Conspirator. Theater in My Basement, Minneapolis,
MN.
Biography/Professional Interests:
Iím a playwright (and sometimes director and actor) living and working
in Minneapolis, MN. I have a small theater in my basement. My interests
are in alternative performance, ritual theater, Afro-Brazilian history/culture/art,
and contemporary Mayan theater.
Contact:
Address: 3317 40th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55406
Telephone: (612) 721-8779
Email: oritutu@hotmail.com
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Cristiane M. F. Moura
Profession/Affiliation:
Performer, Atriz, pesquisadora (mestre em teatro), e diretora.
Biografia: Nascida no Rio de Janeiro
no ano de 1962. Gracuação em Educação Física--
UFRJ, especialização em
dança. Atriz profissional desde 1987. Pós graduação
em Teatro UNIRIO dissertação de Mestrado: SOLIDÃO
ANÄRQUICA ó VOCABULÁRIO DA ATITUDE NO TEATRO ESSENCIAL (de
Denise Stoklos). Atividade atual nas artes cênicas e multimídia
e Pesquisa permanente no campo da solo performance arte. Espero ter
fornecido todas as informações pedidas, permanecendo a
disposição para novos contatos.
Contact:
Telephone/Fax: 0215726898
Email: crimafigmou@uol.com.br
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Vivian Martínez Tabares
Profession/Affiliation:
Teatróloga, directora del Departamento de Teatro y de la revista
Conjunto, Casas de las Américas, Habana, Cuba.
Biography: Vivian Martínez
Tabares (La Habana, 1956). Crítica, investigadora y profesora.
Licenciada en Teatrología y Dramaturgia por el Instituto Superior
de Arte, de la Habana, en 1981. Ha publicado Teatro por el Gran Octubre,
José Sanchis Sinisterra: explorar las vías del texto
dramáticoà, y Didascalias urgentes de una espectadora
interesada. Trabajos suyos han sido recopilados en varias antologías
sobre teatro, editadas en Alemania, Colombia, Cuba, España, México,
Perú, Puerto Rico y Suecia, y ha colaborado con publicaciones
teatrales cubanas y de Alemania, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, España,
Estados Unidos, Francia, México y Puerto Rico. Es Profesora Adjunta
del Instituto Superior de Arte y de la Escuela Internacional de Cine
y Televisión, integra el staff del Instituto Dragao do Mar de
Cine e Industria Audiovisual en Fortaleza, Brasil, y ha impartido conferencieas
en universidades de América Latina y Europa.Es miembor de la
Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC) y secretaria general
del Centro Cubano de la Asociación Internacional de Críticos
de Teatro (AICT). Becada del Programa "Caribe 2000" de la Fundacion
Rockefeller en la Universidad de Puerto Rico 91996-97).
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Michelle Evers
Profession/Affiliation:
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of
Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
Contact:
Address: 1012 Emery Rd. C7
Lawrence, KS 66044
Telephone: (785) 841-5361
Email: mevers@falcon.cc.ukans.edu
Papers/Attachments: CV
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Jean Muteba Rahier
Profession/Affiliation:
Associate Professor of Anthropology and African-New World Studies, Florida
International University.
Biography: Jean Muteba Rahier
graduated from the Université de Paris X, at Nanterre, France.
He conducts researc on the African diaspora in Ecuador, Colombia, and
the U.S. Some recent publications include:
Rahier, Jean Muteba (Editor)
1999 Representations of Blackness
and the Performance of Identities, Westport, Ct: Bergin & Garvey
(Greenwood Press).
Rahier, Jean Muteba
1999 " ëMami, ¿qué
será lo que quiere el negro?í: Representaciones racistas
en la revista Vistazo, 1957-1991" in Ecuador racista: Imágenes
e indentidades, Emma Cervone and Fredy Rivera Ed., Quito: FLACSO-Sede
Ecuador: 73-110.
December 1999 "Body Politics in Black
and White: Señoras, Mujeres, Blanqueamiento and Miss Esmeraldas
1997-1998, Ecuador," Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist
Theory, vol. 11:1, issue 21: 103-119.
Rahier, Jean Muteba and Michael Hawkins
1999 " ëGone with the Windí versus
the Holocaust Metaphor: Louisiana Plantation Narratives in Black
and White," in Plantation Society and Race Relations: The Origins
of Inequality, edited by Thomas J. Durant,Jr. andJ. David Knottnerus.
Westport, CT: Praeger: Pp. 205-220.
Rahier, Jean Muteba
1999 "Comments to ëWorking Culture:
Making Cultural Identities in Cali, Colombia,í by Peter Wade" Current
Anthropology, vol.40. no.4, August-October: 464-465.
1999 "Blackness as a Process of Creolization:
the Afro-Esmeraldian Décimas (Ecaudor)," in the African Diaspora:
African Origins and New World Identities, edited by Isidore Okpewho,
Carole Boyce-Davies and Ali Mazrui, Bloomington: Indiana Univeristy
Press: 290-314.
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Camilla Stevens
Profession/Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, Rutgers University.
Biography/Professional Interests:
B.A. Tulane University: M.A. New Mexico; Ph.D., Kansas. Her main teaching
and research interests include twentieth-century Spanish American theater,
literature of the Hispanic Caribbean, literary, cultural, and performance
studies. She has delivered papers on Hispanic drama at several conferences
and has published an article on plays by Paloma Pedrero and Ignacio
de Moral. Her current project addresses family and identity in modern
Puerto Rican and Cuban drama.
Contact:
Address: 105 George St.
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Telephone: (732) 932-9412, ext. 35
Email: camillas@rci.rutgers.edu
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Doris Sommer
Profession/Affiliation:
Professor in the Department of Romance Languages, Harvard University.
Contact:
Address: Romance Languages, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Telephone: (617) 495-5273; (603) 427-0289
Email: dsommer@fas.harvard.edu
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Lucía Frere
Profession/Affiliation:
Activista con el grupo argentino, H.I.J.O.S., y estudiante de cine y
danza.
Biography: En este momento estoy
estudiando Cine y Danza Contemporánea y Aérea. Pero mi
proyecto es ir a España para ingresar a una escuela de cine.
Tengo 19 años, nací y viví 14 años en España,
aunque mis padres son argentinos que se tuvieron que exiliar a España
por la dictadura que había en la Argentina como en tantos países
de Latinoamérica. Hace 5 años que vivo en Bs.As., y casi
un año que estoy en la agrupación de DD.HH, H.I.J.O.S.
Contact:
Address: Juramento 2149 7mo 39
C.P: 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Telephone: 47865099
Email: mitos@cvtci.com.ar
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Diana Raznovich
Profession/Affiliation:
Playwright and cartoonist.
Contact:
Address: República de la India
2739-12A
Buenos Aires, Capital federal
Argentina
Telephone: 48041188
Email: dianaraz@dynamo.com.ar
Web pages: www.dianaraz.com.ar
; www.autores.org.ar/dianaraz
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Alma R. Martinez
Profession/Affiliation:
Ph.D. candidate, Critical Theory and Drama, Stanford University.
Biography: Born in Monclova, Coahuila,
Mexico, my family immigrated to California when I was one year old.
My background prior to my current critical work is in performance. Iíve
worked for over 20 years as a professional actress on film, stage and
TV. My most distinguishable work has been in Zoot Suit (stage
and film), Born in East LA (film), Under Fire (film),
Shadow of a Man (C. Moraga, stage, world premiere), and most
currently Mummified Deer (L.Valdez, stage, world premiere). My
acting and training includes the Centro Universitario de Teatro at UNAM,
La Universidad de Guadalajara as well as MFA in theatre from the University
of Southern California. My dissertation focuses on the ideological links
and ruptures between Teatro Chicano, Mexicano and Latino Americano of
the early 1970ís as exhibited in the performances of their works at
the TENAZ "Quinto Festival de Teatros ChicanosPrimer Encuentro
Latinoamericano" which took place in Mexico in 1974. I focus on three
groups, El Teatro Campesino (US), Los Masacrones (Mexico) and Teatro
Experimental de Cali (Columbia).
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Adriana González Mateos
Profession/Affiliation:
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, NYU
Biography: Born in Mexico City,
Adriana González Mateos is a writer, journalist, and translator.
She received her Masterís at the University of Mexico and is currently
a PhD candidate at New York University. She writes for the weekly la
Jornada Semanal, in Mexico City, and is the author of "Cuentos para
ciclistas y jinetes", which received the National Gilberto Owen Literary
Award in 1995. Her work has appeared in the anthologies "A través
de los ojos de ella" edited by Brianda Domecq, and "Cinco Décadas
de Cuento en México" edited by Héctor Perea (http://www.arts-history.mx/literat/lit.shtml).
Contact:
Address: 1 Prospect Park Southwest, apt
7M
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Telephone: (718) 832-8649
Email: lg212@is5.nyu.edu
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Magaly Muguercia Arias
Profession/Affiliation:
Cubana investigadora de teatro y estudio de
la performance.
Biography/Professional Interests:
Published Book: El Cuerpo y Sus Escenarios
en la Cuba de los 90.
Contact:
Email: maga@opensoft.cl
Web Page: www.magarte.com
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Andrea Mantell-Seidel
Profession/Affiliation:
Associate Professor of Theater and Dance;
Director, Intercultural Dance and Music Institute, Florida International
University.
Contact:
Address: Intercultural Dance and Music
Institute, DM 353
Latin American and Caribbean Center
Florida International University
University Park
Miami, FL 33199
Telephone: (305) 348-2894
Fax: (305) 348-3593
Email: seidela@fiu.edu
Presented Papers: Paper presented
at the "Dancing in the Millenium" Conference, Washington, DC, July 2000.
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André Carreira
Profession/Affiliation:
Director and Theater professor, Universidade de Santa Catarina, Brasil.
Biography: Iím a Brazilian director.
I have directed theater in subways and buses. My PhD is about street
theater and the dictatorships in Brazil and Argentina during the 1980s.
Now I have a group named (E)xperiência Subterrânea. We focus
on the themes of violence and risk in performances for the stage and
the street.
Contact:
Address: Universidade do Estado de Santa
Catarina
Centro de Artes
Av. Madre Benvenutta 499 Itacorubi
CEP 88035-001 Florianópolis,
Brasil
Telephone: 005548 334-0364
Email: carreira@udesc.br
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