Performing Latinidad In Los Angeles
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Performing Latinidad In Los Angeles
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Author : Chantal Rodríguez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Performing Latinidad In Los Angeles written by Chantal Rodríguez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with American drama categories.
Salsa Crossings
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Author : Cindy García
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2013-06-18
Salsa Crossings written by Cindy García and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-18 with Social Science categories.
In Los Angeles, night after night, the city's salsa clubs become social arenas where hierarchies of gender, race, and class, and of nationality, citizenship, and belonging are enacted on and off the dance floor. In an ethnography filled with dramatic narratives, Cindy García describes how local salseras/os gain social status by performing an exoticized L.A.–style salsa that distances them from club practices associated with Mexicanness. Many Latinos in Los Angeles try to avoid "dancing like a Mexican," attempting to rid their dancing of techniques that might suggest that they are migrants, poor, working-class, Mexican, or undocumented. In L.A. salsa clubs, social belonging and mobility depend on subtleties of technique and movement. With a well-timed dance-floor exit or the lift of a properly tweezed eyebrow, a dancer signals affiliation not only with a distinctive salsa style but also with a particular conceptualization of latinidad.
Performing Eastside Latinidad
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Author : Trevor Boffone
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Performing Eastside Latinidad written by Trevor Boffone and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Mexican American theater categories.
This dissertation analyzes the impact of theater in Boyle Heights and how the individuals involved, most notably Josefina López, have forged positive expressions of Latin@ identity. This project identifies and analyzes what I call “Eastside Latinidad,” constructions of Latin@ identity that are unique to Los Angeles’s Eastside and are performed through the arts. In this regard, this work explores contemporary moments when a diverse group of Eastside Latin@s come together to express pan-ethnic identity and community-building that is inextricably linked to the sociocultural and physical geography of Boyle Heights and the surrounding areas of Los Angeles. It pays close attention to López’s role as a community leader at CASA 0101 Theater, the company she founded in 2000, and the various acting, directing, mentoring, and playwriting programs that López facilitates in the space. I am invested in documenting the rise of performing arts and cultural activity of Latin@s in Boyle Heights from 1990-2015, made possible through Josefina López’s efforts, as well as arguing for the critical role this work plays in constructing cultural, political, sexual, and social identity in the barrio. Each chapter explores how Eastside Latinidad is constructed, performed, and theorized in Boyle Heights. This project is divided into two parts. Part one centers on Josefina López’s role as a community leader in Boyle Heights and how this enables her to use theater as a tool of social change. Chapter 1 charts a genealogy of CASA 0101 Theater and, in doing so, argues that Josefina López and CASA 0101 are able to engage with the local community by creating theater that induces critical witnessing from its spectators. In Chapter 2, I argue that Josefina López uses mentorship as the primary tool to empower and engage the community. Part two focuses on López’s role as a playwright and how she stages Chicana feminist thought to create a critical dialogue among theatergoers. In Chapter 3, I analyze three plays by López—Boyle Heights, Detained in the Desert, and Hungry Woman—to explore how these works theorize the intersections between Chicana identity and space with particular attention to each protagonist’s spirit connection to Boyle Heights and the Southwest. Chapter 4 uses two plays by López—Confessions of Women from East L.A. and Unconquered Spirits—to examine how the playwright re-writes and restages Chican@ cultural paradigms to present Eastside audiences with alternative portrayals of Chicana womanhood. Ultimately, this dissertation explores the textual and performative strategies of contemporary Latin@ theatermakers based in Boyle Heights that use performance as a tool to expand notions of Latinidad and (re)build a community that reflects this diverse and fluid identity. Therefore, this study, although localized in Los Angeles’s Eastside, comprises a model for exploring issues of community, identity, and artistic expression of the United States Latin@ population, well on its way to becoming the country’s largest demographic, yet one that remains marginalized and underrepresented in the literary and performing arts.
Dancing Transnational Feminisms
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Author : Ananya Chatterjea
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2022-01-27
Dancing Transnational Feminisms written by Ananya Chatterjea and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-27 with Social Science categories.
Through empowered movement that centers the lives, stories, and dreams of marginalized women, Ananya Dance Theatre has revealed how the practice of and commitment to artistic excellence can catalyze social justice. With each performance, this professional dance company of Black, Brown, and Indigenous gender non-conforming women and femmes of color challenges heteronormative patriarchies, white supremacist paradigms, and predatory global capitalism. Their creative artistic processes and vital interventions have transformed the spaces of contemporary concert dance into sites of empowerment, resistance, and knowledge production. Drawing from more than fifteen years of collaborative dance-making and sustained dialogues based on deep alliances across communities of color, Dancing Transnational Feminisms offers a multigenre exploration of how dance can be intersectionally reimagined as practice, methodology, and metaphor for feminist solidarity. Blending essays with stories, interviews, and poems, this collection explores timely questions surrounding race and performance, gender and sexuality, art and politics, global and local inequities, and the responsibilities of artists toward their communities.
Dancing Mestizo Modernisms
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Author : Jose Luis Reynoso
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-11-21
Dancing Mestizo Modernisms written by Jose Luis Reynoso and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-21 with History categories.
This book analyzes how national and international dancers contributed to developing Mexico's cultural politics and notions of the nation at different historical moments. It emphasizes how dancers and other moving bodies resisted and reproduced racial and social hierarchies stemming from colonial Mexico (1521-1821). Relying on extensive archival research, choreography as an analytical methodology, and theories of race, dance, and performance studies, author Jose Reynoso examines how dance and other forms of embodiment participated in Mexico's formation after the Mexican War of Independence (1821-1876), the Porfirian dictatorship (1876-1911), and postrevolutionary Mexico (1919-1940). In so doing, the book analyzes how underlying colonial logics continued to influence relationships amongst dancers, other artists, government officials, critics, and audiences of different backgrounds as they refashioned their racial, social, cultural, and national identities. The book proposes and develops two main concepts that explore these mutually formative interactions among such diverse people: embodied mestizo modernisms and transnational nationalisms. 'Embodied mestizo modernisms' refers to combinations of indigenous, folkloric, ballet, and modern dance practices in works choreographed by national and international dancers with different racial and social backgrounds. The book contends that these mestizo modernist dance practices challenged assumptions about racial neutrality with which whiteness historically established its ostensible supremacy in constructing Mexico's 'transnational nationalisms'. This argument holds that notions of the nation-state and national identities are not produced exclusively by a nation's natives but also by historical transnational forces and (dancing) bodies whose influences shape local politics, economic interests, and artistic practices.
Nuyorican Feminist Performance
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Author : Patricia Herrera
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2020-05-12
Nuyorican Feminist Performance written by Patricia Herrera and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-12 with Performing Arts categories.
The Nuyorican Poets Café has for the past forty years provided a space for multicultural artistic expression and a platform for the articulation of Puerto Rican and black cultural politics. The Café’s performances—poetry, music, hip hop, comedy, and drama—have been studied in detail, but until now, little attention has been paid to the voices of its women artists. Through archival research and interview, Nuyorican Feminist Performance examines the contributions of 1970s and ’80s performeras and how they challenged the Café’s gender politics. It also looks at recent artists who have built on that foundation with hip hop performances that speak to contemporary audiences. The book spotlights the work of foundational artists such as Sandra María Esteves, Martita Morales, Luz Rodríguez, and Amina Muñoz, before turning to contemporary artists La Bruja, Mariposa, Aya de León, and Nilaja Sun, who infuse their poetry and solo pieces with both Nuyorican and hip hop aesthetics.
Performing Tsarist Russia In New York
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Author : Natalie K. Zelensky
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-24
Performing Tsarist Russia In New York written by Natalie K. Zelensky and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-24 with Music categories.
An examination of the popular music culture of the post-Bolshevik Russian emigration and the impact made by this group on American culture and politics. Performing Tsarist Russia in New York begins with a rich account of the musical evenings that took place in the Russian émigré enclave of Harlem in the 1920s and weaves through the world of Manhattan’s Russian restaurants, Tin Pan Alley industry, Broadway productions, 1939 World’s Fair, Soviet music distributors, postwar Russian parish musical life, and Cold War radio programming to close with today’s Russian ball scene, exploring how the idea of Russia Abroad has taken shape through various spheres of music production in New York over the course of a century. Engaging in an analysis of musical styles, performance practice, sheet music cover art, the discourses surrounding this music, and the sonic, somatic, and social realms of dance, author Natalie K. Zelensky demonstrates the central role played by music in shaping and maintaining the Russian émigré diaspora over multiple generations as well as the fundamental paradox underlying this process: that music’s sustaining power in this case rests on its proclivity to foster collective narratives of an idealized prerevolutionary Russia while often evolving stylistically to remain relevant to its makers, listeners, and dancers. By combining archival research with fieldwork and interviews with Russian émigrés of various generations and emigration waves, Zelensky presents a close historical and ethnographic examination of music’s potential as an aesthetic, discursive, and social space through which diasporans can engage with an idea of a mythologized homeland, and, in turn, the vital role played by music in the organization, development, and reception of Russia Abroad.
The Routledge Companion To Latine Theatre And Performance
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Author : Noe Montez
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-02-29
The Routledge Companion To Latine Theatre And Performance written by Noe Montez and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-29 with Performing Arts categories.
The Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance traces how manifestations of Latine self-determination in contemporary US theatre and performance practices affirm the value of Latine life in a theatrical culture that has a legacy of misrepresentation and erasure. This collection draws on fifty interdisciplinary contributions written by some of the leading Latine theatre and performance scholars and practitioners in the United States to highlight evolving and recurring strategies of world making, activism, and resistance taken by Latine culture makers to gain political agency on and off the stage. The project reveals the continued growth of Latine theatre and performance through chapters covering but not limited to playwriting, casting practices, representation, training, wrestling with anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity, theatre for young audiences, community empowerment, and the market forces that govern the US theatre industry. This book enters conversations in performance studies, ethnic studies, American studies, and Latina/e/o/x studies by taking up performance scholar Diana Taylor’s call to consider the ways that “embodied and performed acts generate, record, and transmit knowledge.” This collection is an essential resource for students, scholars, and theatremakers seeking to explore, understand, and advance the huge range and significance of Latine performance.
The Latino Theatre Initiative Center Theatre Group Papers 1980 2005
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Author : Chantal Rodriguez
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2011
The Latino Theatre Initiative Center Theatre Group Papers 1980 2005 written by Chantal Rodriguez and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Established in 1992 by Los Angeles's Center Theatre Group, the Latino Theatre Initiative sought to diversify audiences by diversifying theatrical programming. Until 2005, when it was suspended, the program resulted in the production of eleven new main-stage plays at the Mark Taper Forum. It was also key in the development of new and emerging Latino artists, the production of second-stage works, and the incorporation of community-based events into theater programming. Chantal Rodriguez draws on the extensive Latino Theatre Initiative/Center Theatre Group Papers, 1980-2005, housed at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, in this first extended historical account of the program. Rodriguez evaluates the initiative's successes and shortcomings and examines the roles played by its leaders and its significant roster of artists. A finding aid for the collection and a selected bibliography round out the volume.
Dancing Jewish
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Author : Rebecca Rossen
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2014
Dancing Jewish written by Rebecca Rossen and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
Jewish choreographers have not only been vital contributors to American modern and postmodern dance, but they have also played a critical and unacknowledged role in American Jewish culture. This book delineates this rich history, demonstrating how, over the twentieth century, dance enabled American Jews to grapple with identity, difference, cultural belonging, and pride.