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Anna Jacobs [videorecording] : The story of a boy born a girl.

Anna Jacobs, Gray Wetzler, 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
Anna Jacobs [videorecording] : The story of a boy born a girl.
Author/Creator
Anna Jacobs, Gray Wetzler, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics., Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Hemispheric Institute Encuentro (6th : 2007 : Buenos Aires, Argentina).
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
English
Date
2007 June 11
Description
1 videocassette of 1 (Digital Betacam) (10 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.; 1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) (10 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes

Summary: Video documentation of Anna Jacobs The Story of a Boy Born a Girl, performed 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. Anna Jacobs is an activist, teacher and performer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. Currently Anna is a Masters Candidate at The Gallatin School for Individualized Studies, New York University. The Story of A Boy Born a Girl is an original trapeze piece in which the artist combines movement on trapeze with the telling of her story of surviving sexual abuse and the subsequent development of a transgendered identity.

Credits: Hemispheric Institute, producer ; Centro Cultural Recoleta, producer ; Anna Jacobs, creator ; Gray Wetzler, videographer.

Credits: Anna Jacobs.