Actions of Transfer: Women's Performance in the Americas Presented by The UCLA Center for Performance Studies |
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November 20-23, 2008
University of California, Los Angeles |
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This four-day event, co-sponsored by the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, will include performances and invited speakers along with round table discussions and workshops. It brings together women performers/activists from throughout the Americas and scholars who think about performance as a mode of embodied transmission and social intervention. The event will explore issues of indigeneity, gender and sexuality, transnational/global encounters, labor, domestic violence and access to material resources. Actions of Transfer is being held as a sister event with the inauguration of Centro Hemisférico/FOMMA, a joint research/cultural center and performance space in Chiapas, Mexico, which will take place in San Cristóbal de las Casas on August 28-29, 2008. Featured participants and performers, among others, include: Jesusa Rodriguez and Liliana Felipe, performers from Mexico City
Featured Events: Lessons in Mayan technology/VR-Sit Code and performance of an Electronic Civil Disobedience Action (ECD) Open_borders: Improvisation Across Networks, Distance, Timezones Concluding Celebration: "El Maíz" performed by Jesusa Rodriguez and Liliana Felipe
El Maíz (Corn), is a theatrical ritual based on a pre-Hispanic, Mesoamerican aesthetic that unfolds through 8 songs played by Liliana Felipe. The performance follows a sole character (played by Jesusa Rodríguez) who travels from the earth's surface to the underworld where she reactivates an ancient myth about the origins of the corn people, only to re-emerge to the surface of a world now ruled by danger and death. This is a song to the genetic diversity of our corn, both the product and sustainance of our cultural diversity. Featured speakers and scholars include: Diana Taylor, Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at NYU; Founding director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and PoliticsJill Lane, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at NYU; Deputy director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics; Editor of e-misférica Sue-Ellen Case, Professor and Chair Theater Critical Studies, UCLA; Director of the UCLA Center for Performance Studies Janelle Reinelt, Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, University of Warwick Alicia Arrizón, Professor and Chair of Women's Studies, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at UC Riverside Leo Cabranes-Grant , Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American drama and theater at UC Santa Barbara Susan Leigh-Foster, Professor of Choreography, History and Theories of the body, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures Chon Noriega, Director of UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center; Professor in UCLA's Department of Film, Television and Digital Media Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Chair and Professor, UCLA Chicano Studies Jon Rossini, Assistant Professor of Theater at UC Davis David Román, Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at USC Karen Tongson, Assistant Professor of English and Gender Studies at USC Carla Melo, Assistant Professor at Herberger College of the Arts, Arizona State University; Co-founder of Corpus Delecti Conference Planning Committee: Sue-Ellen Case, Director, UCLA Center for Performance Studies; Professor and Chair, Theater Critical Studies, UCLA Co-sponsors of the events include UC MEXUS, The UCLA International Institute, The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, The Center for the Study of Women at UCLA, The UCLA Latin American Institute, University of California International Performance and Culture Multi-Campus Research Group, UCLA Chicano Studies and Research Center, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures, UCLA Department of Theater, the Mellon initiative for Media, Technology, and Culture,and Art + Activism.
Design: Harmony Bench and Chantal Rodríguez |
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