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FOMMA : la voz de FOMMA.

Isabel Juárez Espinosa 1958-, María Francisca Oseguera Cruz, Doris Difarnecio, Dexter Miranda, Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya (Organization), Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics., Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Hemispheric Institute Encuentro (6th : 2007 : Buenos Aires, Argentina).
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Title
FOMMA : la voz de FOMMA.
Author/Creator
Isabel Juárez Espinosa 1958-, María Francisca Oseguera Cruz, Doris Difarnecio, Dexter Miranda, Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya (Organization), Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics., Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Hemispheric Institute Encuentro (6th : 2007 : Buenos Aires, Argentina).
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Language
Spanish
Date
©2007
Description
1 online resource (1 video file of 1 (digital Betacam) (23 min.)) : sound, color.; 1 online resource (1 video file of 1 (video file) (23 min.)) : sound, color.
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Summary: Video documentation of FOMMAs performance La Voz de FOMMA (The Voice of FOMMA), presented as a part of the 6th Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, celebrated in June of 2007 in Buenos Aires, Argentina under the title CORPOLÍTICAS en las Américas: Formaciones de Raza, Clase y Género / Body Politics in the Americas: Formations of Race, Class and Gender. The performance, comprised of 5 skits, functions as a sampling of FOMMAs theater work: Space for Venting/ Drunkards at a Bar, Sebastiana Puts her Husbands Boots on Him, Sebastiana Waits for the Doctor, ' Drunken Doctor, and a brief introduction to the work of FOMMA by performers Isabel Juárez Espinosa and María Francisca Oseguera Cruz. Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya (FOMMA) is a Mexican NGO in Chiapas whose mission is to empower Mayan women through bilingual literacy courses (in Tzotzil and Tzeltal), workshops in productive skills, health education and theater.

Credits: Hemispheric Institute, producer ; Centro Cultural Recoleta, producer ; Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya (FOMMA), creator ; Doris Difarnecio, director ; Dexter Miranda, videographer.

Credits: Isabel Juárez Espinosa, María Francisca Oseguera Cruz.