Opis: Holy Terrors - Roselyn Constantino, Diana Taylor, D Taylor

"Holy Terrors" presents exemplary original work by fourteen of Latin America's foremost contemporary women performance artists. Many of the pieces - excerpts from plays, one-acts, manifestos, and lyrics - appear in English for the first time. From "Griselda Gambaro", Argentina's most widely recognized playwright to renowned performers including Brazil's "Denise Stoklos" and Mexico's "Jesusa Rodriguez", these women are involved in some of Latin America's most important aesthetic and political movements. Of varied racial and ethnic backgrounds, they come from across Latin America - not only from Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, but also from Chile, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Peru, and Cuba.This volume is generously illustrated with over seventy images. A number of the performance pieces are complemented by essays providing context and analysis. The performance pieces in "Holy Terrors" are powerful testimonies to the artists' political and personal struggles. These women confront patriarchy, racism, and repressive government regimes and challenge brutality and corruption through a variety of artistic genres. Several have formed theater collectives - among them FOMMA and El Teatro de la Capilla in Mexico and El teatro de la mascara in Colombia.In addition to citing some of the great women performers of the mid-twentieth century, the more recent performers whose work is represented here draw liberally from popular theater styles of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century known as teatro frivolo or frivolous theatre. They combine the various styles of teatro frivolo such as cabaret, sketches, teatro de revista (revue), teatro de carpa (itinerant theatre), and street theatre. "Holy Terrors" is a unique English-language presentation of some of Latin America's fiercest, most provocative art. "We can't have theater if we have nothing to say. I was told that we wouldn't have Coltrane if Miles Davis hadn't let him play at his own gig, and that Miles let him play a long time, because he could see that Coltrane had a lot to say. Traveling with Diana, which I have had the great fortune to do, and being introduced to these extraordinary performers both on these pages and live and in person was flat-out a life-altering experience. This book turns us on to our cousin Americans and to their passion, their skill, their intellect, their purpose, their resolve. To go to music again, I think of Thelonius Monk, who said, 'The cats I like are the cats who take chances.' These are chancing cats, and enrapturing ones."--Anna Deavere Smith "The editors have done a remarkable job in assembling an important group of women playwrights and performers whose work remains terribly under publicized. The work included in this volume provides an excellent introduction to the diverse ways Latin American women have used the performing arts to engage the particular political and cultural conditions under which they live."--David Roman, author of Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, and AIDS "a crazy quilt account of women performing theater in Latin America... Holy Terrors is a work rich in ideas, history and personalities, and an important source book for learning, not only about theater in these eight Latin American countries, but also about key political issues, the risks of free expression, and the health and nearly unchartable diversity of the women's movement." The Women's Review of Books.Contributors: Sabina Berman; Tania Bruguera; Roselyn Costantino; Petrona de la Cruz Cruz; Diamela Eltit; Griselda Gambaro; Astrid Hadad; Teresa Hernandez; Rosa Luisa Marquez; Teresa Ralli; Marlene Ramirez-Cancio; Diana Raznovich; Jesusa Rodriguez; Denise Stoklos; Diana Taylor; Katia Tirado; Ema Villanueva

Szczegóły: Holy Terrors - Roselyn Constantino, Diana Taylor, D Taylor

Tytuł: Holy Terrors
Autor: Roselyn Constantino, Diana Taylor, D Taylor
Producent: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822332404
Rok produkcji: 2004
Ilość stron: 416
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.66 kg

Recenzje: Holy Terrors - Roselyn Constantino, Diana Taylor, D Taylor