Holding up the sky [excerpts] (2006) Photo/Foto: HIDVL
  • Título: Holding up the sky [excerpts]
  • Alternate Title: Indian Summer 2006
  • Holdings: video (HIDVL)
  • Duração: 00:34:07
  • Idioma: English, Spanish, Spanglish
  • Data da performance: 2006 April 29
  • Lugar: Performed as part of Indian Summer 2006 at The Circle at AICH, New York City, on April 29, 2006
  • Type/Format: performance
  • Cast/Performers: Elvira Colorado, Hortencia Colorado.
  • Credits: American Indian Community House, producer ; Rosemary Richmond, executive director ; Karen Oughtred, production manager ; Jim Cyrus, Performing Arts Dept. ; Coatlicue Theater Company, creator ; Federico Restrepo, light designer ; Carla Bosnjak, light technician ; Joseph Jeffers, sound technician ; Muriel Miguel, introducer.

Holding up the sky [excerpts] (2006)

Holding Up the Sky is a series of theater skits addressing issues of borders and immigration at work in indigenous communities, ranging from the grotesque to the poignant, from the deeply personal to global issues devastating their communities. Distinctive elements of this performance are the use of humor in storytelling and the participation of audience members to 'hold up the sky' as inspired by Mayan mythology. Muriel Miguel (Spiderwoman Theater) contextualizes this event by talking about Coatlicue's long relationship with the American Indian Community House (www.aich.org), and the fact that this Indian Summer is the last series of performances at The Circle in the AICH's current location.


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