Performances
David Pleasant will begin a national tour this fall with Patrick Brennan's "Muhheankuntuck" (from the CD of the same name). The recording will be released in January 2007 and contains two works composed by Pleasant. His other performances include:
December 30th at the American Museum of Natural History Kwanzaa featuring Wyclef Jean, Lillias White, and David Pleasant/Now Griot;
February 25th: Catherine Dunham Dedication featuring Carmen de Lavellade, Forces of Nature and David Pleasant/DRUMFOLK!
For additional details see: www.davidpleasant1.com
Contact: NowGriot1@aol.com
En lo que va del 2006 se han realizado 3 rallys: "Cuenca del Matanzas", "Furor y decadencia" y "Microsociedades utópicas sobre rieles".
Para más información acerca del grupo:
www.rallyconurbano.com.ar
www.rally-conurbano.blogspot.com
rallyconurbano@yahoo.com
Eliott: A Soldiers Fugue
by Quiara Alegria Hudes
directed by Lisa Portes
produced by Teatro Vista in conjunction with Rivendell Theatre and Steppenwolf Theatre
Previews: 11/3/06 - 11/9/06
Opening: 11/10/06
Runs thru: 12/10/06
Steppenwolf Garage Theatre
1624 N. Halsted
Chicago, IL
http://www.steppenwolf.org/boxoffice/productions/index.aspx?id=389
Books/ Libros/ Livros
David Pleasant
The percussionist, composer, and independent scholar has published the new percussion/movement book African American Root Rhythms: A Gullah/Geechee Inspired Riddimic Exercise Book. The book is the manual for Pleasant's ongoing clinic and lecture series at Saint Peter's Jazz Church in midtown Manhattan. The original manuscript was used for the Penn Center/University of South Carolina Gullah Institute 2006. Pleasant also has an article in the D.C. Journal of Dance that will coincide with his December 6th presentation on Gullah/Geechee history, culture, and aesthetics at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Film Education series featuring "Daughters of the Dust".
For additional details see: www.davidpleasant1.com
Contact: NowGriot1@aol.com
La desplaza. Biogeografía del Parque Rivadavia
Ante el cambio de paisaje que sufrió el Parque Rivadavia por el implante de las rejas que lo rodean, el autor se encargó de investigar la historia de este emblema del barrio de Caballito de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.
La narración de la investigación urbanística intercala presente y pasado, rescata la historia de la quinta rica y fantasmal devenida espacio público, aunque no menos espectral. La implantación municipal de monumentos y luego, la transformación de estos espacios en estación obligada de los coleccionistas de lo obsoleto.
Acompañan esta fascinante historia, cargada de humor y de giros inesperados, fotos y artículos de época, dibujos y fotografías tomadas por el autor en su intención de dejar registro de este cambio. El cercamiento y encierro de los espacios 'vacíos' esconde consecuencias que este libro ayuda a develar para entender las divergencias territoriales de la ciudad.
Contacto: ladesplaza@elnuevomunicipio.com.ar
www.elnuevomunicipio.com.ar
www.asuntoimpreso.com
Coming out this November!
Performing Religion in the Americas: Media, Politics, and Devotional Practices of the 21st Century. Edited by Alyshia Gálvez. Published by Seagull Books London Ltd.
Synopsis:
Religious practice and belief remain astoundingly diverse across North and South America. At a time when globalization is taken to mean the ever greater homogenization of cultures, Performing Religion in the Americas reveals how individual cultures are more resilient than ever and that religion is a particularly rich area of diversity. Religion is an especially rich arena for the analysis of political and cultural performance because the complexity of devotional practice and the intensity of faith can permeate all other parts of social life. Presenting detailed ethnographies from Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Canada, and the United States and drawing on a wide range of approaches—from Theater, Comparative Literature, Sociology, Anthropology, History, English, and Performance Studies—Performing Religion in the Americas reveals the breadth of faith-based cultural practice in the 21st Century.
(www.amazon.co.uk)
Florencia Garramuño
Coming out in February 2007:
Modernidades Primitivas: Tango, samba, y nación.
Publicado por el Fondo de Cultura Económica, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Awards/ Premios/ Prêmios
Ana Bernstein
A Crítica Cúmplice—Décio de Almeida Prado e a formação do teatro brasileiro moderno (An Engaged Criticism—Décio de Almeida Prado and the Formation of Modern Brazilian Theatre), published by Instituto Moreira Salles in 2005, was nominated for the 2006 Prêmio Jabuti (Jabuti Award), Brazil's most prestigious book award.
Events/ Eventos
The Graduate Center, The City University of New York (CUNY)
NoPe - NoPassport Conference
Dreaming the Americas/Diversity and Difference in Performance
NoPassport presents a two-day conference with the support of the Immigrants'
Theatre Project, Theatre Without Borders, the Translation Think Tank, and in collaboration with the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center.
Initiated by Caridad Svich: www.caridadsvich.com/NoPassport
The conference will focus on a wide range of contemporary works for theatre and performance, viewing the Americas from a variety of formal perspectives. Topics that will be addressed in panels and works-in-progress presentations include: translation as bridge/barrier; migration and exile as they affect content and form; the different languages of the Americas; religion, spirituality and theatrical ecology; readings and mis-readings of stories; the possibilities of liveness; and the inscriptions of the invisible onto visible histories.
NoPassport was founded by Caridad Svich as a Pan-American theatre coalition/collective devoted to action, advocacy, and change toward the fostering of cross-cultural diversity and difference in the arts with an emphasis on the embrace of the hemispheric spirit in U.S. Latina/o and Latin-American theatremaking.
For detailed information and final schedule please check our website:
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/mestc
News/ Noticias/ Notícias
From La Pocha Nostra:
The situation in Oaxaca, Mexico has become extremely dangerous. The paramilitary assassinations have escalated to the point that the city is now being occupied by federal troops who are rounding up innocent people and disappearing them. It's urgent that the international community takes action to let the Mexican government know that their actions are not going unnoticed. What follows is a list of simple things you can undertake to help by internationalizing the situation:
To let Mexican officials know that the international community is watching:
PLEASE, it's urgent that you send emails to the list of addresses below. Your message can be this simple (you can cut & paste or make your own):
*The world is watching your actions in Oaxaca. Withdraw the federal police & the army, control the paramilitary forces & negotiate a non-violent solution immediately!
*El mundo entero está vigilando las acciones gubernamentales en Oaxaca. Retiren al ejército y a la policía federal y controlen a los paramilitares de Ulises. ¡Queremos una solución no-violenta!
Send your message to the following addresses:
PRESIDENT OF MEXICO
Presidente Vicente Fox Quesada
Fax: Fax: 011 52 (55) 5516 9537 / 5573 2126
E-mail: webadmon@appresidencia.gob.mx
NATIONAL SECRETARY OF GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Licenciado Carlos Abascal Carranza, Secretario de Gobernación
Bucareli 99, 1er. piso, Col. Juárez, Delegación Cuauhtémoc, México D.F.,
C.P. 06600, México
Fax: 011 52 (55) 509- 3 3414
GOVERNOR OF OAXACA
Lic. Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, Gobernador Constitucional del Estado de Oaxaca
Fax. 01 (951) 51 6-59-66,516-06-77
fax: 516-37-37/ cel: 0449515470377
gobernador@oaxaca.gob.mx
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF OAXACA
Procuradora General de Justicia del Estado de Oaxaca
Tel. 011 52 (951) 511-51-74, 511-51-21, 511-51-20, 511-50-20
fax 011 52 951 511-52-19
EMAIL: procuraduria7@oaxaca.gob.mx
In addition to contacting the Mexican government, we encourage you to contact your own elected representatives and heads of state and demand that they put pressure on the Mexican government to stop the violence immediately.
To keep informed:
*IF YOU SPEAK/READ SPANISH, you can keep up to date at:
www.jornada.unam.mx
www.asamblea.popular.oaxaca.com (listen to the popular radio broadcast)
www.noticias-oax.com.mx
*FOR COVERAGE IN ENGLISH:
www.narconews.com (look especially for articles by Nancy Davies)
*A CONTINUOUS LISTSERVE ON OAXACA AT:
www.yahoogroups.com/oaxacastudyactiongroup
