Go

selected filters

Number of results found for Augusto Boal : 30
Alt Title(s): Augusto Boal & Centro de Teatro do Oprimido
Location: Recorded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 4, 2000, as part of the First Annual Hemispheric Institute Seminar and Conference, titled "Performance and Politics in the Americas".
Synopsis: Augusto Boal is an innovative and influential Brazilian theatrical director, writer, pedagogue and politician. He is considered to be on of the most important creators of political theater since Brecht. Boal is the author of Theater of the Oppressed, Games for Actors and Non-Actors, Rainbow of Desire, Legislative Theater, among others. He was a Member of Parliament for Rio de Janeiro from 1993-19...
Alt Title(s): Abrazo
Collection Title(s): Teatro Pregones collection
Location: Performed in New York City in Dec. 1990.
Synopsis: 'The Embrace' deals, in a very different way, with the effects produced by AIDS in the Latino community and focuses on the importance of taking active participation in the presented scenes and suggesting changes through action. The production grew out of Pregones' work with Brazilian Augusto Boal, particularly as an adaptation of his Forum Theater techniques. The production toured over 100 commun...
Alt Title(s): SIDA
Location: Performed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Aug. 21, 1991.
Synopsis: Rosa Luisa Márquez (www.marquezmartorell.org) is a Puerto Rican theater artist and pedagogue; she specializes in contemporary theater. Rosa Luisa started her teaching career at the theater department of the University of Puerto Rico in 1978. She developed the current curriculum of Drama Activities, which she teaches in her workshops at schools, prisons, rehab centers, women's shelters and communi...
Location: Performed in Cayey, Puerto Rico, in 1987.
Synopsis: Rosa Luisa Márquez is a Puerto Rican theatre artist and pedagogue specializing in contemporary theatre. Rosa Luisa started her teaching career at the theatre department of the University of Puerto Rico in 1978. She developed the current curriculum of Drama Activities, which she teaches in her workshops at schools, prisons, rehab centers, shelters and community centers. Her directing projects incl...
Alt Title(s): U don't look like
Collection Title(s): Javier Cardona collection
Location: Performed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 26, 2003.
Synopsis: Javier Cardona is a Puerto Rican dancer/actor and pedagogue. Trained on Puerto Rico within the graphic-dramatic experimental Project Los Teatreros Ambulantes de Cayey of the University of Puerto Rico under the artistic direction of pedagogues/artists Rosa Luisa Márquez and Antonio Martorell, Javier has also worked and trained with renowned international theater artists like Miguel Rubio (Grupo Cu...
Alt Title(s): Interactive altar
Location: Filmed in New York City and Rio de Janeiro as part of the Spectacles of Religiosities Seminar, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York University, July 5-12, 2003.
Synopsis: Zé Pelintra is a multicultural ambivalent figure worshiped in the Umbanda religion as both a street-life spirit and a wise old black ancestor. He is a master who can be simultaneously a trickster and a healer. Zé Pelintra uses the lure of earthly pleasures as a means to attract practitioners to his wise teachings and therapeutic goals. This video was created for the Hemispheric Institute Encuentr...
Alt Title(s): Cena e as tradições Afro-Ameríndias
Location: Filmed in Soure, Pará, Brasil in 2009.
Synopsis: Muiraquitã is a lucky amulet, a frog, representing knowledge and fertility in the Amerindian world. It names this project of artistic investigation on the Afro-Amerindian traditions by artist and researcher Zeca Ligiéro. The Muiraquitã project was awarded the Residência Artística 2009 grant by FUNARTE/MINC for the Ponto de Cultura Reconquering Culture, Art and Citizenship of Marajó. The city of S...
Alt Title(s): Ahmén
Collection Title(s): Javier Cardona collection
Location: Performed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in May 2004.
Synopsis: Javier Cardona is a Puerto Rican dancer/actor and pedagogue. Trained on Puerto Rico within the graphic-dramatic experimental Project Los Teatreros Ambulantes de Cayey of the University of Puerto Rico under the artistic direction of pedagogues/artists Rosa Luisa Márquez and Antonio Martorell, Javier has also worked and trained with renowned international theater artists like Miguel Rubio (Grupo Cu...
Alt Title(s): Rosa Luisa Márquez
Location: Interviewed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Oct. 17, 2006.
Synopsis: Rosa Luisa Márquez (http://www.marquezmartorell.org) is a Puerto Rican theater artist and pedagogue. Founding member of the theater group Anamú in 1971, she holds a masters degree from New York University and a Doctorate from Michigan State University; she specializes in contemporary theater. Rosa Luisa started her teaching career at the Theater department of the University of Puerto Rico in 1978...
Alt Title(s): Martorell-Márquez (2000): el taller como principio y fin, Workshop as process and product
Location: Workshop given at the 1st Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, titled Performance and Politics in the Americas, held in Brazil in July 2000 ; video produced in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 2000.
Synopsis: Video companion to the lecture "El Taller Como Principio y Fin / Workshop as Process and Product" delivered by Rosa Luisa Márquez and Antonio Martorell at the 1st Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, held in Brazil in July 2000 (www.hemisphericinstitute.org/eng/seminar/brazil/index.shtml). As suggested by its title, and illustrated with abundant footage from actual ...
Location: Performed in Cayey, Puerto Rico, in 1987.
Synopsis: Rosa Luisa Márquez (www.marquezmartorell.org) is a Puerto Rican theater artist and pedagogue; she specializes in contemporary theater. Rosa Luisa started her teaching career at the theater department of the University of Puerto Rico in 1978. She developed the current curriculum of Drama Activities, which she teaches in her workshops at schools, prisons, rehab centers, women's shelters and communi...
Location: Performed at the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1989.
Synopsis: Rosa Luisa Márquez (www.marquezmartorell.org) is a Puerto Rican theater artist and pedagogue; she specializes in contemporary theater. Rosa Luisa started her teaching career at the theater department of the University of Puerto Rico in 1978. She developed the current curriculum of Drama Activities, which she teaches in her workshops at schools, prisons, rehab centers, women's shelters and communi...
Location: Performed at the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1986.
Synopsis: Rosa Luisa Márquez (www.marquezmartorell.org) is a Puerto Rican theater artist and pedagogue; she specializes in contemporary theater. Rosa Luisa started her teaching career at the theater department of the University of Puerto Rico in 1978. She developed the current curriculum of Drama Activities, which she teaches in her workshops at schools, prisons, rehab centers, women's shelters and communi...
Location: Occurred in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Jan. 19, 1985.
Synopsis: Rosa Luisa Márquez (www.marquezmartorell.org) is a Puerto Rican theater artist and pedagogue; she specializes in contemporary theater. Rosa Luisa started her teaching career at the theater department of the University of Puerto Rico in 1978. She developed the current curriculum of Drama Activities, which she teaches in her workshops at schools, prisons, rehab centers, women's shelters and communi...
Alt Title(s): Gente o gente [sic]
Location: Performed in Cayey, Puerto Rico, on Jan. 6, 1988.
Synopsis: Rosa Luisa Márquez (www.marquezmartorell.org) is a Puerto Rican theater artist and pedagogue; she specializes in contemporary theater. Rosa Luisa started her teaching career at the theater department of the University of Puerto Rico in 1978. She developed the current curriculum of Drama Activities, which she teaches in her workshops at schools, prisons, rehab centers, women's shelters and communi...
Location: Performed at Colegio Universitario de Cayey, Puerto Rico, on Mar. 8, 1988.
Synopsis: Rosa Luisa Márquez (www.marquezmartorell.org) is a Puerto Rican theater artist and pedagogue; she specializes in contemporary theater. Rosa Luisa started her teaching career at the theater department of the University of Puerto Rico in 1978. She developed the current curriculum of Drama Activities, which she teaches in her workshops at schools, prisons, rehab centers, women's shelters and communi...
Location: Performed at the University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Campus, on Mar. 8, 1987. [Date incorrectly labeled on recording as: March 8, 1989].
Synopsis: Rosa Luisa Márquez (www.marquezmartorell.org) is a Puerto Rican theater artist and pedagogue; she specializes in contemporary theater. Rosa Luisa started her teaching career at the theater department of the University of Puerto Rico in 1978. She developed the current curriculum of Drama Activities, which she teaches in her workshops at schools, prisons, rehab centers, women's shelters and communi...
Alt Title(s): Zeca Ligiéro
Location: Filmed in San José, Costa Rica, on May 29, 2011.
Synopsis: Interview with Zeca Ligiéro, conducted by Diana Taylor, founding director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. This interview is a part of a series curated by the Hemispheric Institute, articulated around the question 'What is Performance Studies?' The series aims to provide a multifaceted approach to the often difficult task of defining the coordinates of both a field of aca...
Location: Recorded at University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, Puerto Rico, in Apr. 2001.
Synopsis: Rosa Luisa Márquez (www.marquezmartorell.org) is a Puerto Rican theater artist and pedagogue. Founding member of the theater group Anamú in 1971, she holds a Master's degree from New York University and a Doctorate from Michigan State University; she specializes in contemporary theater. Rosa Luisa started her teaching career at the Theater department of the University of Puerto Rico in 1978. She ...
Alt Title(s): Re-cuentos y re-visiones en el teatro de Rosa Luisa Márquez
Location: Filmed in Puerto Rico in 1992.
Synopsis: Documentary on the creative methods, pedagogic approaches and experimental performances of Puerto Rican theater director Rosa Luisa Márquez. The video shows a retrospective of theater projects developed by Márquez since 1985 with her university students in her course Drama Activities and her student ensemble 'Teatreros Ambulantes de Cayey', as well as her artistic collaborations with renowned art...
Alt Title(s): If a grain does not die, If a grain does not die (a foodish tail) : Si el grano no muere (o, no coma cuento) ; (a multicultural, multilingual production)
Location: Filmed at the MIT Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1992.
Synopsis: Dress rehearsal for the performance "Si el grano no muere..." directed by Rosa Luisa Márquez and Antonio Martorell in the context of their 10-day residency at MIT in 1992. Involving MIT students, high school students and members of the Latino communities in Boston and Cambridge, and featuring metaphorical references to "grains", with sets made of corn tortilla, bread, pasta, rice, and other dispo...
Alt Title(s): Heartstrung, Son corazón: para Myrna Vázquez, Heartstrung: para MyrnaVázquez
Location: Performed in Boston, Massachusets, in 1995.
Synopsis: Video excerpts of "Son Corazón / Heartstrung", a theatrical tribute to actress and activist Myrna Vázquez, premiered at the Jorge Hernández Cultural Center in Villa Victoria, Boston, in July 1995, and later restaged at the U. of Amherst as a part of the New World Theatre in June 1996. The work, written and directed by former MIT artist-in-residence Rose Luisa Márquez, was researched and conceived...
Location: Performed at Centro de Bellas Artes Luis A. Ferré, San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Apr. 19, 2002.
Synopsis: Rosa Luisa Márquez (www.marquezmartorell.org) is a Puerto Rican theater artist and pedagogue. Founding member of the theater group Anamú in 1971, she holds a Master's degree from New York University and a Doctorate from Michigan State University; she specializes in contemporary theater. Rosa Luisa started her teaching career at the Theater department of the University of Puerto Rico in 1978. She ...
Location: Performed at Jardín Botánico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, on May 1, 2004.
Synopsis: Rosa Luisa Márquez (www.marquezmartorell.org) is a Puerto Rican theater artist and pedagogue. Founding member of the theater group Anamú in 1971, she holds a Master's degree from New York University and a Doctorate from Michigan State University; she specializes in contemporary theater. Rosa Luisa started her teaching career at the Theater department of the University of Puerto Rico in 1978. She ...
Location: Performed at Teatro Yerbabruja, San Juan, Puerto Rico, in Dec. 2006.
Synopsis: Rosa Luisa Márquez (www.marquezmartorell.org) is a Puerto Rican theater artist and pedagogue. Founding member of the theater group Anamú in 1971, she holds a Master's degree from New York University and a Doctorate from Michigan State University; she specializes in contemporary theater. Rosa Luisa started her teaching career at the Theater department of the University of Puerto Rico in 1978. She ...
Alt Title(s): Qué siento volando?, Qué csiento volando?
Location: Performed at Jardín Botánico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1988.
Synopsis: Rosa Luisa Márquez (www.marquezmartorell.org) is a Puerto Rican theater artist and pedagogue. Founding member of the theater group Anamú in 1971, she holds a Master's degree from New York University and a Doctorate from Michigan State University; she specializes in contemporary theater. Rosa Luisa started her teaching career at the Theater department of the University of Puerto Rico in 1978. She ...
Location: Performed at University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, Puerto Rico, on Dec. 2, 1995.
Synopsis: Rosa Luisa Márquez (www.marquezmartorell.org) is a Puerto Rican theater artist and pedagogue. Founding member of the theater group Anamú in 1971, she holds a Master's degree from New York University and a Doctorate from Michigan State University; she specializes in contemporary theater. Rosa Luisa started her teaching career at the Theater department of the University of Puerto Rico in 1978. She ...
Alt Title(s): Esperando a Godó, Waiting for Godot
Location: Performed at University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, Puerto Rico, in 1997.
Synopsis: 'Remark that I might just as well have been in his shoes and he in mine. If chance had not willed otherwise': Pozzo's line from Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot' gives the audience clues through which to decipher the coordinates of Rosa Luisa Márquez rendition of this Theater of the Absurd masterpiece. Adapted to the Puerto Rican reality, this play places the audience onstage, witnessing the g...
Location: Performed in San Juan, Purto Rico, in Apr. 1996.
Synopsis: Adaptation of "Jardín de Pulpos", renowned play by Argentinean writer Arístides Vargas (of the Ecuadorian theater group Malayerba), directed by Rosa Luisa Márquez and collectively created with her students of the "Teatro Rodante" (Traveling Theater) of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. A theater piece on memory, atrocity, affect and resistance, "Pulpos" bridges time (from a mythi...
Alt Title(s): Romeos y Julietas, Romeo y Julieta, Romeo and Juliet
Location: Performed at University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, Puerto Rico, on Mar. 27, 2003.
Synopsis: Rosa Luisa Márquez (www.marquezmartorell.org) is a Puerto Rican theater artist and pedagogue. Founding member of the theater group Anamú in 1971, she holds a Master's degree from New York University and a Doctorate from Michigan State University; she specializes in contemporary theater. Rosa Luisa started her teaching career at the Theater department of the University of Puerto Rico in 1978. She ...