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TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) archives from March 1997
Readers' forum.(politics and the arts)(TDR Comment)(Editorial)
March 22, 1997... Here it is, a couple of days after William Jefferson Clinton was reelected President of the United States and Newt Gingrich and a Republican party majority were reaffirmed as controllers of both the House of Representatives and the Senate....
Origins in absence: performing birth stories.
March 22, 1997... For the past five years, I have been more and less intentionally listening to birth stories. In line, in the hall, over coffee, at the park, and in informal interview settings, I have participated in the ritual process of recounting birth...
Fluxus femininus.(art history)
March 22, 1997... There's no denying it: Fluxus was an inclusive operation. The 1993 retrospective exhibition "In the Spirit of Fluxus," brilliantly organized by Elizabeth Armstrong and Joan Rothfuss of the Walker Art Center, confirmed that there were...
Pieter-Dirk Uys: crossing apartheid lines.(actor, talk-show host)(Interview)
March 22, 1997... Pieter-Dirk Uys, South Africa's premier political satirist, was born in Cape Town in 1945 to an Afrikaner father and a German-Jewish mother. From 1965 to 1972 he studied drama at the University of Cape Town and film at the London Film...
'Febrile Fiber Phantoms' - Ken Jacobs at the C.I.A.(Cleveland Institute of Art Performance Art Festival, 1995)(includes related article)
March 22, 1997... 1.
Raised bleachers have been built in the small room and they are already packed, shortly before the midnight showtime. A man (Ken Jacobs) bounds around the front of the space, handing out small dark photographic filters, which he...
Que linda es Cuba! Issues of gender, color, and nationalism in Cuba's Tropicana Nightclub performance.
March 22, 1997... The Tropicana Nightclub was a youngster of twenty in 1959 when Fidel Castro rolled into Havana with his triumphant army and turned the Batista dictatorship on its head. Already well established as one of the premier nightspots in the...
The return of Moctezuma: Oaxaca's 'Danza de la Pluma' and New Mexico's 'Danza de los Matachines.(folk drama)
March 22, 1997... The most common theme of traditional folk performances in Mesoamerica is that of conquest and reconquest. Given the history of the region, this is hardly surprising. As Nathan Wachtel has aptly observed:
The trauma of the Conquest still...
Mexican beasts and living santos.(performance art/installation, 'The Temple of Confessions', Scottsdale Center for the Arts, AZ)
March 22, 1997... I
In early 1994, Roberto Sifuentes and I premiered in Arizona our most ambitious collaborative art project to date, a performance/installation titled The Temple of Confessions. We combined the format of the pseudo-ethnographic...
The Cruci-Fiction Project.(Marin Headlands Park, CA)
March 22, 1997... I
On the evening of 10 April 1994, one week after Easter Sunday, an unusual "end-of-the-century performance ritual" took place at Rodeo Beach in the Marin Headlands Park across from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. My collaborator...
Gendering Bodies/Performing Art: Dance and Literature in Early Twentieth Century British Culture.
March 22, 1997... Amy Koritz's Genderinq Bodies/Performing Art: Dance and Literature in Early Twentieth Century British Culture takes as its starting point the premise that "no discussion of the dance in nineteenth and twentieth century Western culture can...
Negotiating Performance: Gender, Sexuality, and Theatricality in Latin/o America.
March 22, 1997... Latin America and Latino America are terms of connivance. They hold together disparate identity shards -- national, racial, ethnic, class, and gender components -- that refuse to cohere in any "organic" fashion. The terms Latin America,...
El Teatro Campesino: Theater in the Chicano Movement.
March 22, 1997... Latin America and Latino America are terms of connivance. They hold together disparate identity shards -- national, racial, ethnic, class, and gender components -- that refuse to cohere in any "organic" fashion. The terms Latin America,...
Theatre in Latin America: Religion, Politics, and Culture from Cortes to the 1980s.
March 22, 1997... Latin America and Latino America are terms of connivance. They hold together disparate identity shards -- national, racial, ethnic, class, and gender components -- that refuse to cohere in any "organic" fashion. The terms Latin America,...
