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Anna Jacobs : the story of a boy born a girl.

Jacobs, Anna, Wetzler, Gray, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Hemispheric Institute Encuentro (6th : 2007 : Buenos Aires, Argentina)
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https://hdl.handle.net/2333.1/pnvx0kjp
Title
Anna Jacobs : the story of a boy born a girl.
Other title
Story of a boy born a girl
Author/Creator
Jacobs, Anna, Wetzler, Gray, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Hemispheric Institute Encuentro (6th : 2007 : Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Restrictions/Permissions
Access is open to all web users, 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
Format
1 online resource (1 video file of 1 (digital Betacam) (10 min.)) : sound, color.
Credits
Anna Jacobs. Hemispheric Institute, producer ; Centro Cultural Recoleta, producer ; Anna Jacobs, creator ; Gray Wetzler, videographer.
Notes

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. Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics