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Carmelita Tropicana at Encuentro Trasnocheo

Tropicana, Carmelita, creator, performer, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, producer, Hemispheric Institute Encuentro (8th : 2013 : São Paulo, Brazil)
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Title
Carmelita Tropicana at Encuentro Trasnocheo
Other title
Carmelita Tropicana's Cabaret à la Hemi
Author/Creator
Tropicana, Carmelita, creator, performer, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, producer, Hemispheric Institute Encuentro (8th : 2013 : São Paulo, Brazil)
Restrictions/Permissions
Copyright holder: Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Contact information: 20 Cooper Square, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10003, U.S.A., +1-212-998-1631 (business), +1-212-995-4423 (fax), hemi@nyu.edu, http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org
Language
Includes English, Spanish and German.
Date
2013 Jan.18
Filming or performance location
Recorded in São Paulo, Brazil on January 18, 2013 as part of the 8th annual Hemispheric Institute Encuentro entitled CITIES
Format
1 online resource (video file (7 min., 46 sec.)) : sound, color.
Credits
Alina Troyano (a.k.a. Carmelita Tropicana), performer. Victor Bautista, video editor.
Notes

The 8th Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute sought to examine the broad intersections between urban space, performance and political/artistic action in the Americas. From the critical poetics of body art to the occupation of public space by social movements, the event invited participants to explore the borders, identities and practices through which subjectivities, hegemonies and counter-hegemonies are constructed in the spaces of the city and beyond. Carmelita Tropicana's trasnocheo cabaret performance is a retelling of Memorias de la Revolucion, with Sor Juana poems and a German/English/Spanish song medley.

Alina Troyano (a.k.a.Carmelita Tropicana) is a Cuban-born performance artist, playwright, and actor who has presented work internationally, from el Museo del Barrio in NYC to Hebbel am Ufer in Berlinches Her book I, Carmelita Tropicana: Performing Between Cultures includes plays, monologues, performance art pieces, and short stories.