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HIDVL: Additional Performances (in alphabetical order)

2boys.tv: Phobophilia, Arousal from Fear

Photo/Foto: Julio Pantoja Phobophilia, Arousal from Fear A small number of spectators (20 maximum) are blindfolded and led to a secret location to witness a peculiar interrogation. Phobophilia poses the question: What is the role of the poet in an age characterized by fear? The performance is inspired by the life and art of Jean Cocteau. Biography 2boys.tv is a transdisciplinary duo from Montreal composed by Stephen Lawson and Aaron Pollard (also notoriously known in some circles as alter egos Gigi L’Amour and Pipi Douleur). They have created a wide repertoire of epic multimedia cabaret works, performances, videos, and installations.…

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2boys.tv: Showbusiness

Photo/Foto: Paula Kupfer Show Business With this lip-synch performance, 2boys.tv splice together iconic American popular cultural motifs with images generated by the western world’s first great propoganda machine: The Vatican. Show Business “celebrates” and “commemorates” the rise of Cardinal Joseph Alois Ratzinger after the passing of Pope John Paul II in 2005. This collision of Broadway, Hollywood, and Catholicism reveals both the funny and frightening correlations between the church and show business. Biography 2boys.tv is a transdisciplinary duo from Montreal composed by Stephen Lawson and Aaron Pollard (also notoriously known in some circles as alter egos Gigi L’Amour and Pipi…

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2boys.tv: Zona Pellucida

Zona Pellucida Within the folds of the zona pellucida, rapt in a somnambulous state, the “accused” begins to believe she is capable of the crimes with which she has been charged, and that perhaps, somehow, she has indeed carried out the horrific transgressions. Biography 2Boys.tv (Stephen Lawson and Aaron Pollard) is a duo based in Montréal, Canada. Their multimedia performance pieces often incorporate video projections, soundscapes, found and original music scores, transgendered apparitions, outrageous costume, props, vocal/textual works, and the art of lip-sync.

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Andrés Sebastián Murillo

photo/foto: Julio Pantoja Monosabio This site-specific project took place at the Santamaría bullring in downtown Bogotá. A bull was drawn on the sand, and then set on fire after nightfall; the silhouette was then erased, but as more attempts were made to erase it, the more visible it became. This performance exposed the vicious circle of the bullfighter assistant, the ‘monosabio,’ which is born and dies in an eternal return. This performance explores the notions of life and death, both contradictory and complementary – the ‘monosabio’ tries to clean the trace of the death, just to set up the stage…

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Anna Deavere Smith: Crossing the Lines

Photo/ Foto: Marlène Ramírez Cancio Crossing the Lines A performance about race and identity in the Americas, Anna Deavere Smith experiments with a translated performance, moving between English and Spanish to convey a series of portraits of representing identities in crisis. In this performance, Smith draws from her well-known works, such as Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities, while also conjuring other personalities both known and unknown. Beginning the performence in the role of the author Studs Terkel, Smith goes on to explain that it was a quote from Walt Whitman, about wanting to be absorbed…

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Anna Jacobs: The Story of a Boy Born a Girl

The Story of a Boy Born a Girl Original trapeze piece in which the artist combines movement on trapeze with the telling of her story of surviving sexual abuse and the subsequent development of a transgendered identity. Biography Anna Jacobs is an activist, teacher and performer. Currently Anna is a Master’s Candidate at The Gallatin School for Individualized Studies, New York University. Her work at Gallatin is focused on developing tools for combining anti-oppression work with the creative arts in education. Anna’s work is informed by her ongoing commitment to social, political and economic justice, as well…

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Anti-War, Anti-Empire Cabaret

The Anti-Empire, Anti-War Cabaret, part of the Hemispheric Institute's 2003 Spectacles of Religiosities Encuentro was envisioned as a unified hemispheric scream, bringing together activists, artists and academics against the Bush Administration's war plans and empire building. The result was a nearly four-hour event with more than 20 artists performing.

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Arthur Aviles: Algo en la cocina

Photo/Foto: Fran PoLLITT Biography Arthur Aviles was born in Queens and grew up in Long Island and the Bronx. received a B/A in Theatre/Dance from BARD college. He was a member of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company from '87 to '95 and received a New York Dance and performance award (Bessie) in 1989. He founded his dance company Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre in '96. In '98, he along with Charles Rice-Gonzalez inaugurated a new performance space in the South Bronx. BAAD! - The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance.

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Charles Rice González: Chulito

The 8th Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute sought to examine the broad intersections between urban space, performance and political/artistic action in the Americas. From the critical poetics of body art to the occupation of public space by social movements, the event invited participants to explore the borders, identities and practices through which subjectivities, hegemonies and counter-hegemonies are constructed in the spaces of the city and beyond. Charles Rice González reads from his novel Chulito: the story of a tough, hip-hop loving young man coming out in the South Bronx and the impact that it has on his neighborhood. It is…

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Cia Mungunzá: Luis Antonio - Gabriela

Photo/Foto: Fran Pollitt Luis Antonio - Gabriela O documentário cênico Luis Antonio – Gabriela tem início no ano de 1953, com o nascimento de Luis Antonio, que passou infância, adolescência e parte da juventude em Santos até ir embora para Espanha. O espetáculo foi construído a partir dos depoimentos do ator e diretor Nelson Baskerville, de sua irmã Maria Cristina, de Doracy, sua madrasta e de Serginho, cabelereiro em Santos e amigo de Luis Antonio, e narra sua história até o ano de 2006, data de sua morte em Bilbao onde vivera até então como Gabriela. Biography Companhia Mungunzá de…

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Cirque Chétif - Gigi L'Amour & Pipi Douleur, Guizo La Nuit

Photo/Foto: julio Pantoja Guizo La Nuit at Trasnocheo: Mila Baci Guizo La Nuit performs an impromptu musical-cabaret number for Trasnocheo! Gigi L'Amour at Encuentro Trasnocheo: Lollipop A darling of the Montréal cult cabaret scene, Gigi L’Amour descends upon Trasnocheo to pump up the party with this recounting of the infamous 'Lollipop Experiment'. Biography Cirque Chétif: Gigi L’Amour & Pipi Douleur create trans-media political cabaret pieces that conjure up phantasmagoric ghosts from the vaults of gothic and film noir popular culture. Ex-international playboy. Airport lounge singer. Vodka drinker. Guizo La Nuit seduces with his subversive mélange of multilingual electropop poetry.

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Coletivo Teatro da Margem & ÁQIS: Potestad

Photo/Foto: Fran Pollitt Potestad (by Eduoardo Pavolvsky) Potestad came out of the post-graduate research work of two professors (an actor and a director) around the exploration of psychic states and the question of political identities during the time of Argentina’s dictatorship. We seek to provoke memories in a country that has few memories. Biography Narciso Telles is director of the Colectivo da Margem, Professor at the Graduate Program in Arts at the UFU and researcher at CNPq.

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Comadre Araña: Live in Concert

Photo/foto: Julio Pantoja Comadre Araña in Concert In Comadre Araña, the traditional music of Colombia's Pacific region meets jazz, rock, pop and electronic music. Three female voices intermingle with the rhythm of the bombo, marimba, cununo and guasá, along with electronic instruments, the Indian sitar, the tiple guitar of the Colombian Andes, loops, samplers and all the resources of live electronic music. Members: Juan Sebastián Monsalve (Director and bass player) Juanita Delgado (voice) Verónica Atehortúa (voice) Urpi Barco Quintana (voice) Andrés Felipe Salazas (drums and percussion) Rocío Medina (marimba de chonta and percussion) Edwin Ospina (electric guitar, percussion) Camilo Velásquez…

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Dan Fishback: On a Queer Day You Can See Forever

Photo/Foto: FRAN POLLITT On A Queer Day You Can See Forever Dan Fishback will sing songs from his past decade in the NYC antifolk and queer performance art scenes, including songs from his musical “The Material World” which Time Out NY called “the best downtown musical in years.” Biography Dan Fishback has been writing and performing in New York City since 2003. His new pop musical, The Material World, was commissioned by Dixon Place for production in 2012. Also a performing songwriter, Fishback has developed a music career in the East Village’s anti-folk scene. He is a 2012 Artist in…

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David Lozano: Brand and Ego, Rites for the Body

Photo/Foto: Paula Kupfer Brand and Ego, Rites for the Body Lozano’s work investigates how the body is constructed and conceptualized within institutions of state control. The alternate title for this performance, '12 Physical-Rhythmical Exercises of the Americas, without Weapons,' proposes compelling questions about the construction of the physical and the political body, always fluctuating between the individualistic and the social, and resisting or assimilating institutional conventions. The fact that performance was presented at the entrance of the Universidad Nacional de Bogotá also implies a reflection about the autonomy of this institution in relation to other organisms of control. Biography David…

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David Pleasant: Mélange of contemporary American performance

Photo/ Foto: Julio Pantoja The Language of the Soul Biography David Pleasant: President and Founder of RiddimAthon!, Inc., David Pleasant is a musical stylist who was raised in the Gullah/Geechee culture of Georgia, namely Sapelo Island, Darien/McIntosh County and Savannah. His work is driven by the wealth of African retention in the mentioned region, as well as the synthesis of that material into a peculiar resource for American culture. As a Fulbright Senior Specialist, he presents international programs on the subject. His work has been featured in theatre, dance and television. Most recently, he was featured in the award…

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Desvio Coletivo & Coletivo Pi: Blind

Photo/Foto: Alexei Taylor Blind Dozens of male and female executives, dressed in business attire, carrying suitcases, bags, cell phones and documents, covered in mud, blindfolded, walk very slowly, blending in with passers-by, destabilizing the daily flow of the city’s financial and political center. The performance is by Desvio Coletivo and Coletivo Pi, based in São Paulo. Blind seeks to politically intervene in the city and provoke different readings. Biographies O Desvio Coletivo é uma rede de criadores em cena performativa que atua na zona de fronteira entre o teatro, a performance, a dança e as artes visuais e tecnológicas. O…

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Diamela Eltit: Zona de dolor

In 'Zona de dolor' (Zone of Pain), Eltit places the body – her body – at the center of this political and social re-signification: she cuts and burns herself and then goes to a brothel, where she reads part of her novel 'Lumpérica.' Her mortified body mirrors the wounded national body, and establishes a connection between the individual and the collective, and the private and the public, exposing her physicality, her words, and her voice in communion with a space that exists at the edge of social structures. In the latter part of this video Diamela Eltit's voice accompanies her…

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EDEMA: El silencio es cómplice de la ausencia

This is a video documentation of a performance by EDEMA incollaboration with Carlos Ezequiel Monteros (H.I.J.O.S.) and Pilar Medina (group Contraseña, Monterrey), presented at the second Hemispheric Institute Encuentro in Monterrey, Mexico, in 2001. They got together to expand alliances with groups that work on similar topics: the disappeared people during dictatorships, and the necessity to denounce impunity. EDEMA unveils the traumaof disappeared bodies through the striking the materiality of a body on stage. Sensorial stimuli accompany the bodily presence: sound, noise, percussion,fire, dance are mingled with pictures, videos, and pictures of the disappeared. With this performance, EDEMA points out…

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Eleonora Fabião: Giro Piece

Photo/ Foto: Marlène Ramírez Cancio Giro Piece Eleonora Fabião's "Giro Piece" is a dance performance, an installation, a scream claiming attention to the body immersed in present times. An awakening call to the body led by, and oppressed by, globalization. Fabião explains, "The experience of being a "world citizen" in the era of globalization produces on me, among many advantages and benefits, a disturbing vertigo, a certain existential dizziness. I am permanently experiencing a tension provoked by the expansion of my body through all communication and transportation systems, and the dispersion of my self while perceiving the vast-virtual world's web.…

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El gran teatro del mundo, de Pedro Calderón de la Barca

‘El gran teatro del mundo’ is an ‘auto sacramental’ written by Spanish playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca in the 17th century to allegorically convey catholic values. In dialogue with the Shakespearian notion that 'all the world is a stage,' the play states that human beings have to play a role and make decisions with virtue and wisdom, because rewards or punishment will come in the after life. Luis Peirano rescued the powerful spectacularity of this play to offer an eclectic reading of it according with the complex Peruvian context at the beginning of the 21st century. The display of…

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Erro Grupo: Ways to Play

Photo/Foto: Julio Pantoja Ways to Play Ways to Play considers the aesthetic and disciplinary objectification of the human body by exploring the street as a field for an old popular game in Brazil, the Cinco Marias. In contemporary society, we succumb to the seduction of borrowed attitudes, in a kind of non-authenticity, in fragments of attitudes chosen, almost unconsciously, from a range of dominant stereotypes. Biography Erro Grupo is well-known in Brazil for the multidisciplinary urban interventionism that they have developed since 2001. The group develops street theater and urban interventions that deal with risk, violence, and peripheral performance, inserting…

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Frantz Jerome & Tommy Shepherd

Photo/Foto: FRAN POLLITT Biographies Frantz is a lyricist and poet with extensive experience in arts education and workshop and program development. He served as head counselor for Project 2050's Summer Retreats. He has been working with youth for over ten years and practicing his art as an MC and poet with The Peace Poets. Frantz studies writing at The New School University in New York City. He aspires to create proper opportunities for youth in the arts while practicing his arts as a skilled wordsmith. Tommy Shepherd a.k.a. Emcee Soulati is a veteran of the Bay Area creative scene and…

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Gina Athena Ulysse: Voodoo doll, or What if Haiti were a woman

Photo/Foto: FRAN POLLITT Voodoo Doll Or What If Haiti Were A Woman: On Ti Travay Soi 21 Pwen Or An Alter(ed)native In Something Other Than Fiction An avant-garde meditation on coercion and consent inspired by Gédé – the Haitian Vodou spirit of life and death - that weaves moments in Haiti’s geopolitical history with responses to my retelling of that history. Biography Gina Athena Ulysse was trained as a cultural anthropologist, and she is also a poet/ performer and multi-media artist. She deploys spoken word to both explore and push the blurred border zones between ethnography and performance. Ulysse weaves…

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Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa: Cosmic Blood

Photo/ Foto: Marlène Ramírez Cancio Cosmic Blood 'Cosmic Blood' explores the concept of mestizaje, a Spanish word used to describe the race mixture of Spanish and indigenous blood as a result of colonialism, from a perspective informed by history, contemporary culture and racial formation and creative, spiritual speculation about the future. The performance aims to illustrate the contradictory aspects of mestizaje in which the genocide and rape of one race led to the creation of a new race. Furthermore, it looks to redefine mestizaje to incorporate mixed race and queer identities, portraying subversive yet fluid identities to dismantle the binaries…

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Giuseppe Campuzano: Transvestite Museum

Photo/Foto: Marlène Ramírez-Cancio Transvestite Museum Since 2003, Campuzano has been working on the 'Transvestite Museum' project, an exploration of the realities of transvestism, a staging of its aesthetics, and a confrontation between its forms of knowledge and official discourses. This performance explored a transvestite body that performs in order to persist in the face of a denied discourse: ritual turned into spectacle, a queer body whose performance deconstructs and assembles its topics and differences as strategy. The 'Transvestite Museum' appeared at the National University within a geneology of Peruvian ritual dance, always from the body: the bodies of the Chicas…

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Gonzalo Rabanal: A Being Said, To Be A Name

Photo/Foto: Julio Pantoja A Being Said, To Be A Name This work puts word and writing in relationship to each other as a violent act, by a man who never learned to read and write. The story tells of his desire to understand the spoken word. The son writes in the voice of his father and the father does the same, but on the body of the son, simultaneously: “The body, the father, and the son, like the stigma of not knowing”. Biography Gonzalo Rabanal studied Audio Visual Communication at the ARCOS Institute, where he began to develop a way…

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Grupo de Teatro de Bonecos Giramundo: Cobra Norato

Photo/ Foto: Julio Pantoja Cobra Norato Biography Grupo de Teatro de Bonecos Giramundo: The artist members of this group – who have been performing through its existence awarded shows such as Cobra Norato – are able to provide their puppets with the ability to interpret complex texts. "Each puppet has a different type of information". The process of creating a play demands hard work on researching. "The manipulation techniques and the material that we use to make the puppets depend on the how the text, the soundtrack and the scenery will be", explains Beatriz Apocalypse, that after her parents' death…

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Grupo Galpão: Imaginary Molière

Photo/ Foto: Julio Pantoja An Imaginary Molière Biography Galpão was founded in 1982 and is the most important drama group from Minas Gerais and one of the best-considered groups in Brazil and abroad. Some of its performances, such as Romeu e Julieta (staged in "The Globe", in London and in several countries) have made the group internationally known. The most recent repertoire of the group includes: Eduardo Garrido's A Rua da Amargura, Molière's Um Molière Imaginário, Ítalo Calvino's Partido and Gogol's O Inspetor Geral.

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Honor Ford-Smith: Letters from the Dead

Photo/Foto: Marlène Ramírez-Cancio Letters from the Dead Letters from the Dead began as a collectively-created image event commemorating the murder of thousands of youth killed in inner city violence in Toronto's Caribbean diaspora. The event comprises a silent funeral procession in the street. Bringing together the messages from the dead and media reports on violence, and the losses of living, the performance traces one woman’s attempt to bury her grandson and convey his demands for justice in the present. Biography Honor Ford-Smith is Assistant Professor in Community and Environmental Arts, at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. She is…

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Jim Calder & Sigfrido Aguilar: The Alamo Piece

Video documentation of Jim Calder and Sigfrido Aguilars performance The Alamo Piece presented as part of the 2nd Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, celebrated in June of 2001 in Monterrey, Mexico under the title Memory, Atrocity and Resistance. The Alamo Piece is a story of hope, history, NAFTA and the transformation of the US-Mexico border. The piece is an energized trip of the imaginary about the poetry and the people of the borderlands. Performance artist, Jim Calder, has toured both solo and company productions throughout the United States and Europe. In New York City his work…

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Josh Kun: Border Sound Files

Border Sound Files v. 1: An Audio Essay Border Sound Files is an hour long solo performance-lecture that mixes spoken narrative, spoken, history, and spoken critique, with a collage of sound, noise, and music. The piece focuses on the border between Southern California and Northern Mexico and explores it as a transnational field of sound, "an aural border." The piece explores the relationship between sound/music and the following principal areas of investigation: migration (documented and undocumented movement back and forth across the border by migrants, border patrol agents, drugs, and capital); tourism (how US tourism shapes Mexican border realities); and…

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Kris Grey: Homage

photo/foto: Julio Pantoja Homage Homage is an act of gender queer corporeal agency. It is an offering of vulnerability. Homage opens wounds that have healed on my body to reactivate the psychic energy stored there and to invite the audience to eradicate the boundaries between us. Biography Kris Grey/Justin Credible is a New York City based artist whose practice interrogates systems of power through the lens of gender. Their work exists at the intersection of communication, activism, community building, storytelling, lecture, and studio production in mediums two dimensional, three dimensional, and time based.

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Larry Yazzie: Mélange of contemporary American performance

Photo/ Foto: Julio Pantoja Fancy Dancing Biography Larry Yazzie: (Meskwaki/Dine) is a World Champion Fancy Dancer who consistently takes top honors at American Indian powwows in the United States and Canada. In 1995, he won the World Championship for the Northern Style Fancy Dance. Larry was raised at the Meskwaki Nation’s homeland in Tama, Iowa (USA). At the age of seven he took up Fancy Dancing. The Fancy Dance is beloved for its flamboyant and colorful regalia, as well as for the physical challenge it poses for powwow competition dancers. Creativity and endurance are tested by song after song at…

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L.M. Bogad: Economusic: Keeping Score

Photo/Foto: FRAN POLLITT Economusic: Keeping Score Live performance in which economic data from our everyday lives and ongoing global crisis are converted into absurd neoDadaist music. Economusic is a darkly playful and highly audience-participatory event that takes note of, and makes notes from, falling wages, rising sea levels, and other indicators of our suffering and success. Biography L. M. Bogad writes, performs, and strategizes with mischievous artists such as the Agit-Pop, Yes Men, and La Pocha Nostra. He is co-founder of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army. His performances have dealt with topics such as the Egyptian revolution, the Haymarket…

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Luisa Calcumil: It’s Good to See Ourselves in Our Own Shadow

Photo/ Foto: Marlène Ramírez Cancio It’s Good to See Ourselves in Our Own Shadow Biography Luisa Calcumil has worked in theatre since 1975. She started as an actress, presenting twenty theatre performances and acting in five films of international importance and in various television programmes. Luisa says that Aimé Painé, the first renown Mapuche singer, has had a great influence over her life. Luisa always remembers Aimé saying: "El saber quien es uno es el principio de ser culto" (knowing who you are is the first step of learning). After several years of performing without finding plays where she felt…

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María José Contreras Lorenzini: Santiasco

Photo/Foto: Lori Novak Santiasco: Urban Memory Graft Performative dialogue between fragments of testimony made by migrant women in Santiago and the body of the performer in order to create a “corporamic” view of immigration in Santiago. Biography María José Contreras Lorenzini is performer and Doctor of Body Language and Psychology. Her work is comprised of creation and theoretical research on the expressive possibilities of the performative body. She is a member of La Diferencia, a collective that has created a series of performances in response to the Daniel Zamudio controversy. She is also teaches at the Drama School at the…

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Marc Bamuthi Joseph: The Spoken World

Photo/Foto: Julio Pantoja The Spoken World The Spoken World is a full evening of performance with United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow and 2011 Alpert Award winner Marc Bamuthi Joseph. Through choreopoem, Joseph articulates the story of achieving manhood in the United States through the lens of hip hop, global travel, and urban environmental health. Biography Marc Bamuthi Joseph is one of America’s most vital voices in performance, arts education, and artistic curation. Joseph developed several poetry-based works for the stage including Word Becomes Flesh and Scourge. Joseph has appeared as a commentator on NPR, and carried adjunct professorships at Stanford…

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Mapuche Theater Project: Pewma

Pewma The play is based on a particular type of dream, the pewma, which has the power of transmitting messages to its dreamer. The memory of the Mapuche people, heavy with the traumatic experience of genocide, is performed in the present through this dream. Biography The Mapuche Theater Project (led by Miriam Álvarez, Lorena Cañuqueo and Carolina Sorín) is a political theater project founded in 2001, framed within the general contemporary indigenous Mapuche movement in Bariloche, Río Negro province, Argentina.

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Michelle Matlock: The Mammy Project

The Mammy Project Original solo work by Michelle Matlock, made up of a series of monologues which explores the influence that the icon, stereotype and myth of “Mammy” has had on contemporary American culture. Biography A native of Washington State, United States, Michelle Matlock graduated from the National Shakespeare Conservatory in New York City. She began developing her debut solo show The Mammy Project in 2001.

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Monica Cabrera: The Victim's System

The Victim’s System We want to laugh at a problem that afflicts the population: the feeling of being a victim, of not being able to deal with circumstances or with a secret nature that forces us to complain. Performer and Wardrobe: Mónica Cabrera, Music and Graphic Design: Claudio Martini, Set: Bonet - Cabrera – Martini, Assistant Director: Ana Bonet, General Production: The Cabrera's Company, Executive Production: La Mosca Blanca. Biography Mónica Cabrera is an Argentinean director, actress and writer whose trajectory has included classical theater, popular theater and children’s theater. As an actress, she works in theater, film, television and…

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Nadia Granados/La Fulminante: Encuentro Trasnocheo

Photo/Foto: FRAN POLLITT La Fulminante Nadia Granados performs live re-creations of audiovisual materials, playing with obscene language, sexual material, and emancipatory content. She touches on themes related to globalization, the anti-imperialist struggle, and against the model of power relations imposed by the machismo that is so ingrained in Latin America. Biography Nadia Granados, La Fulminante, is a Colombian artist interested in the arts of space, movement, and the body such as video, pornography, magic, installation, and performance. Her work is characterized by the resignification of content extracted from mass media, mixed with themes related to the antiglobalization struggle.

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Navarrete X Kajiyama Dance Theater/ José Navarrete & Debby Kajiyama: The Revenge of Huitlacoche

The Revenge of Huitlacoche Huitlacoche is a swollen black fungus that grows on ears of corn. A culinary delicacy in Mexico, it is considered a pest in the United States. This will be a multi-media performance about revolutionary acts, faith and survival, food sovereignty and dangerous border crossings. Biography José Navarrete & Debby Kajiyama are dancers based in Oakland, California (US). Their contemporary dance theater vocabulary has been enriched by their studies of Japanese percussion, Latin American social dances, and the cultural significance of the practice of these community-building art forms.

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Nirvana Marinho: Body in Another Body

Body in Another Body This choreography project arises from the need to question the ways dance is learned: imitation, copy, innovation, reproduction, creation. Biography Nirvana Marinho is a dancer and dance theorist. She is a member of the Dance Research, Education and Aesthetics Group at the UNESP, and of the Arts Creation Group at the PUC, Brazil.

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Núcleo Bartolomeu: Mestizo Orpheus

Photo/Foto: Julio Pantoja Mestizo Orpheus: A Brazilian Hip-Hopera Mestizo Orpheus tells of the return of a politician to his past and his connection to military dictatorship. A phone call about the disinterment of the body of his companion, Eurydice, puts Orpheus in contact with a past that he has tried for years to forget. As a result of this conflict, the text inspired by the Orphic myths brings characters from throughout time onstage to guide Orpheus in his descent into hell. Biography Núcleo Bartolomeu de Depoimentos works with language at the union of hip hop and epic theatre to create…

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Pamela Sneed's 'America Ain't Ready'

This is a video documentation of Pamela Sneed’s reading/spoken word ‘America Ain’t Ready,’ presented in the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Sneed delivers scathing and raucously humorous commentary on some of the key issues of our time, taking her audience on a journey through popular culture, American politics, and the New York City underground scene of the '80s and '90s that insists on naming the unnamed and telling the untold. Pamela Sneed is a New York-based poet, performer, writer and actress. She is the author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery, published by Henry Holt (1998)…

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Pamyua: Live in Concert

Photo/ Foto: Marlène Ramírez Cancio Biography Arctic's (from Alaska and Greenland) performance group Pamyua reinterprets modern traditions of the Inuit and Yup'ik Eskimo through storytelling, music and dance. Pamyua performs Yup'ik danced stories that portray the traditions of the Yup'ik culture in Southwestern Alaska. The quartet also harmonizes ancient and original music that redefine the boundaries of Inuit expression. Pamyua's mixes R&B, jazz, funk, and world music to create a unique new native style. The performances are very dynamic, ranging from traditional dances to Tribalfunk dances – worldmusic.

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Patricia Ariza: Where are they? Living Memory. Women in the Public Square

Photo/Foto: Mateo Rudas Where are they? Living Memory. Women in the Public Square This action will include 300 women, the majority of whom are victims and survivors of violence. Together with theatre and dance artists, they will create a living, active and poetic presence, staging an aesthetics of resistance. This event will help make visible to Colombia and to the world the disappearances and forced displacements, the systematic assassinations of political leaders in the country, and the youth who are presented as "false positives." Those who are missing will be remembered by walking through a series of panels which will…

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Quetzal Guerrero: Mélange of contemporary American performance

Photo/ Foto: Julio Pantoja Biography Quetzal Guerrero carries the name "precious feather" in the Aztec-Nahuatl language. As a Suzuki trained violinist, he has studied and performed internationally since the age of 5, playing with legends such as Tito Puente, Lalo Guerrero and Jorge Santana. He is an accomplished visual artist and actor who trains with Axe Capoeira. As a champion street dancer with Sourpatch, he has appeared with H.T.Chen and Company of New York and was invited to perform with Mikhail Baryshnikov. He is also a founding dancer at the Earth Dance Theater and awarded in The Naming Ceremony…

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Raúl Zurita: La vida nueva

This is a video documentation of the writing of the poem 'La Vida Nueva' in New York City's sky. For this 'performance-acción' or ‘poesía-acción’ (‘poetry-action’), five planes drew white smoke letters silhouetted over the blue sky. The poem was written in Spanish as form of recognition for all the minority groups all over the world. The photographs of this ‘poesía-acción’ are included in the book ‘Anteparaíso’ (‘Anteparadise,’ a bilingual edition, University of California Press, 1986). Raúl Zurita (Santiago de Chile, 1950) is a poet who, along with other artists, created the group CADA, Colectivo de Acciones de Arte, in 1979.…

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Reverend Billy: Reverend Billy Preaches

Reverend Billy Preaches Reverend Billy speaks to people about shopping, sin and salvation. Biography Reverend Billy is a performer based in New York, United States. Director of the Church of Stop Shopping, a radical performance community that uses the styles of fundamentalist televangelism and works within the tradition of The Civil Rights Movement, The Liberation priesthood of Latin America and ACT-UP.

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Rocío Boliver: Between Menopause and Old Age, Alternative Beauty

photo/foto: Dexter Miranda Between Menopause and Old Age, Alternative Beauty My proposal aims to demystify the horror of old age in an ironical way, inventing my own deranged aesthetic and moral solutions for the "problem of age." I hope my mockery of this absurd contemporary reality exposes a broken society based on looks and how old age became synonymous with insult. Biography Rocio Boliver (La Congelada de Uva) has been active in the actual international art circuit for the last 20 years. In 1991 she started her performance career with the reading of her porno-erotic texts, concentrating her proposals in…

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Rocío Boliver, La Congelada de Uva and Ana de Alba: Sonata for Pussyphone and Voice, opus 140

Photo/Foto: Frances Pollitt Sonata for Pussyphone and Voice, opus 140 A concert in four movements performed by a woman who uses a musical instrument called pussyphone (pepáfono)which is played with the vagina. This performance offers a reflection on cultural rights for all audiences. Biographies Rocío Boliver, La Congelada de Uva, has been active in the art world since 1992. She began her career as a performer in 1992 with a reading of her porno-erotic texts, focusing her critique on the repression of women. Ana de Alba is an opera singer, actress and musician who specializes in jazz.

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Secos y Mojados: Buried in the Body of Remembrance

Buried in the Body of Remembrance The immigrant is a divided being. A being marked by having crossed to the other side, always conscious of “here” and “there,” “before” and “after.” After the moment of crossing, the immigrant is never the same. Biography Secos y Mojados is a Latino performance collective co-founded by Violeta Luna (Mexico), Víctor Cartagena (El Salvador), David Molina (Argelia/El Salvador) and its director, Roberto G. Varea (Argentina). Based in San Francisco, California (USA). Roberto Varea (director) was born in Argentina and lives in San Francisco, California, United States, since 1992.…

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Silvio de Gracia: Tortured Body / Recovered Body

Tortured Body / Recovered Body This performance is based on the destructive actions that verge on self-agression to allude to the political violence and the flagellation of the Chilean social body under Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship. Biography Silvio De Gracia is an interdisciplinary Argentinean artist. He is the director of HOTEL DaDA, a journal of mail art and visual poetry, and also organizes a video-art festival in Junín, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Susana Baca: Live in Concert

Susana Baca: Live in Concert-2003 With Juan Mediano Cotito, Hugo Bravo Sanchez, David Pinto Pinedo, Serio Valdeos Bensa, and Fernando Hoyle de los Rios Biography Susana Baca is the foremost singer of Afro-Peruvian music. Her music, on Luaka Bop lable, has promoted an awareness of the many cultural contributions of African-Peruvians. Also to this aim, she and her husband Ricardo Pereira are the founders and co-directors of the Instituto Negrocontinuo in Lima.

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Susana Baca: Live in Concert

Photo/ Foto: Julio Pantoja Susana Baca: Live in Concert-2005 Biography Susana Baca, the Peruvian vocalist who became internationally renowned with "Maria Lando," a track in the 1995 David-Byrne-produced CD The Soul of Black Peru, has often been compared to Cesaria Evora, from Cabo Verde. It's not surprising; both women have found rich material in folk traditions of their countries, and both sing songs that are rooted in gloomy emotions: pain, nostalgia, longing. Susana Baca is not only one of the greatest divas in South America, she is a tireless researcher, and is largely responsible for the…

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Tania Bruguera: Untitled

Photo/Foto: Paula Kupfer Untitled (Bogotá, 2009) During the Encuentro Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Tania Bruguera presented 'Two Simultaneous Performances.' Although their projects emerged from different geographical contexts and different performance languages, Bruguera and Gómez-Peña engaged in a 'performatic conversation' whose goal was to 'coexist and co-create a parallel, temporary universe' as 'an act of international reconciliation.' This is a video documentation of Tania Bruguera’s contribution to the conversation, 'Untitled (Bogotá, 2009),' presented as part of the artist's series around political stereotypes of specific countries. In this controversial piece, Bruguera brought together a panel of Colombian people who had been directly affected…

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Teatro Esquina Latina: Cuentos Eróticos Africanos

Photo/ Foto: Marlène Ramírez Cancio Cuentos Eróticos Africanos: El Decamerón Negro Cuentos Eróticos Africanos is based on The Black Decameron, a compilation of African folk stories by anthropologist Leo Frobenius. This is a shortened piece of the original production of Teatro Esquina Latina, with two actresses instead of the original four. The play is a spectacle of storytelling that creates the scene, for young people and adults, of the daily life, humor, and the game of love in the land that is Africa. Biography Teatro Esquina Latina is a cooperative student theatre group founded in 1973 at the Universidad del…

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Tito Vasconcelos: Martita, Primera Dama and others

Video documentation of Tito Vasconcelos' solo performance presented during the 2nd Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, celebrated in June of 2001 in Monterrey, Mexico under the title 'Memory, Atrocity and Resistance'. A parody of Mexican politics and a queering of the Mexican political landscape, in this performance, Vasconcelos is in 'drag' as Martita, President Vicente Fox's then partner, on her way to become First Lady of Mexico. Tito Vasconcelos is Professor of Theatre at the National University of Mexico (UNAM). His film credits include María Novaro's 'Danzón', and Jaime Humberto Hermosillo's 'Esmeralda Comes at Night' (English)…

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Trasnocheo for José

The Hemispheric Institute's 9th Encuentro, held at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada, sought to explore the multiple valences of the term MANIFEST! How are performances mobilized and syncretized in civic, community, and cultural contexts to create manifold forms of political expression? How do public, theatrical events produce ‘evidence’ that manifests ideas otherwise invisible, hidden, or unspeakable? What new manifestations, manifestos, festivals, and manifs emerge via our changing visions of political spaces, intellectual arenas, and the everyday street? The 2014 Encuentro invited artists, activists, and scholars to engage with and investigate the aesthetic, social, and choreographic techniques that transform political ideas…

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Vicky Holt Takamine, ‘Îlio‘ulaokalani Coalition: Hula as Resistance

Photo/Foto: Paula Kupfer Hula as Resistance The chants and dances that are used in this performance praise and honor native Hawaiians' gods and chiefs. They celebrate their beloved lands, and call for unity and solidarity. Biographies Vicky Holt Takamine is the founder and kumu hula (master teacher) of Pua Ali'i 'Ilima, a school of traditional Hawaiian dance. In addition, she teaches hula at UH Manoa and Leeward Community College. She graduated through the 'uniki rituals of hula from Maiki Aiu Lake. Vicky received her BA and MA in Dance Ethnology from the University of Hawai'i. Since 1997, she has coordinated…

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Violeta Luna: NK 603: Action for Performer & e-Corn

Photo/Foto: Julio Pantoja NK 603: Action for Performer & e-Corn This is a reflection on genetically-modified corn and its disastrous consequences for life—for the original natural species as well as for the communities that have cultivated corn since ancient times, developing entire cultures around it. Biography Violeta Luna is an actress and a performance artist. She obtained her graduate degree in Acting from the Centro Universitario de Teatro in Mexico City. Since 1998 she has been an associate artist of La Pocha Nostra under the direction of Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Her current work explores the relationship between theater, performance, and community…

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Violeta Luna: Requiem for a Lost Land

Photo/Foto: Julio Pantoja Requiem for a Lost Land Requiem is a performative intervention, by way of ritual, to remember the murders committed during the “war on drugs” initiative implemented by Mexico’s central government. Requiem is an attempt, from the realm of performance art, to open with a coroner’s knife the discourse of death put forth by those in power under the guise of “national security.” Biography Violeta Luna is a performance artist and activist whose work explores the relationship between theatre, performance art and community engagement, using her body as a territory to question and comment on social and political…

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Welcome Ritual

Photo/ Foto: Marlène Ramírez Cancio At the opening ceremony of the Encuentro in Belo Horizonte, led by the the Maxacalí (photo above) and the Kaiapó/Mebengokré from Brazil, representatives from indigenous groups from throughout the Americas exchanged dances, songs and words to welcome all the participants to the 10-day event.

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You Don't Look Like... (1996, 2003)

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