Run-time (hh:mm:ss): 00:42:47
Language:
In Spanish.
Synopsis: Video documentation of Marianela Boáns solo dance performance Blanche Dubois presented as part of the 3rd Encuentro of the
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, celebrated in July of 2002 in Lima, Peru under the title Globalization,
Migration and the Public Sphere. Blanche is based on Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire. For many years Marianela
Boán admired the character of Blanche DuBois and identified with her from the perspective of a Cuban woman. This Cuban Blanche,
who stays on the island while her sister emigrates, holds onto her revolutionary dreams, just as the original Blanche never
loses her aristocratic spirit. Marianela Boán graduated from the National School of Dance in 1971 and received a degree in
Hispanic Literature and Language from Havana University in 1981. For 15 years she worked as a dancer and choreographer for
the dance company, Contemporary Dance of Cuba, which toured internationally. In 1988, she founded DanzAbierta where she has
created a signature style mixing visual arts, theater, singing and music with dance to work through harsh contemporary conflicts.
She calls her style polluted dance. Her other choreography works have included the Cuban National Ballet, Venezia Balleto,
and film works in Cuba, Canada, and Spain.
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