DREAMING THE AMERICAS: DIVERSITY AND DIFFERENCE IN PERFORMANCE

Initiated by Caridad Svich

NoPassport presents a two-day conference with the support of The Immigrants’ Theatre Project, Theatre Without Borders, the Translation Think Tank, and in collaboration with the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center.

NoPassport was founded by Caridad Svich as a Pan-American theatre coalition/ collective devoted to action, advocacy, and change toward the fostering of cross-cultural diversity and difference in the arts with an emphasis on the embrace of the hemispheric spirit in US Latina/o and Latin-American theatremaking. www.caridadsvich.com/NoPassport

The conference will focus on a wide range of contemporary works for theatre and performance, viewing the Americas from a variety of formal perspectives. Topics that will be addressed in panels and works-in-progress presentations include: translation as bridge/barrier; migration and exile as they affect content and form; the different languages of the Americas; religion, spirituality and theatrical ecology; readings and mis-readings of stories; the possibilities of liveness; and the inscriptions of the invisible onto visible histories.

Caridad Svich is a playwright-songwriter-translator and editor of Cuban-Spanish, Argentine, and Croatian descent. She is the author of over forty plays and fifteen translations. She is the recipient of a Harvard University Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Bunting fellowship, a TCG/Pew National Theatre Artist Grant and has been twice short-listed for the PEN USA-West Award in Drama. Recent premieres: Thrush at Salvage Vanguard Theatre in Austin, Huddersfield at TUTA Theatre @ Victory Gardens Studio in Chicago, Iphigenia…a rave fable at 7 Stages in Atlanta, Antigone Arkhe at The Women’s Project/NY, her multimedia collaboration (with Todd Cerveris and Nick Philipppou) The Booth Variations at 59 East 59th Street Theatre/NY, and her version of Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba at the Pearl Theatre/NY. She is resident playwright of New Dramatists, founder of NoPassport, on the editorial board of Contemporary Theatre Review (Routledge/UK), and contributing editor of TheatreForum. She has been selected for inclusion in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Latino History. She is editor of Trans-global Readings:Crossing Theatrical Boundaries (Manchester University Press), and Divine Fire: Eight Contemporary Plays Inspired by the Greeks (BackStage Books). Some of her translations are collected in Federico Garcia Lorca: Impossible Theater (Smith & Kraus). She holds an MFA from UCSD. Her catalogue can be found at www.alexanderstreetpress.com. Her website is www.caridadsvich.com

The Women’s Project production* of Antigone Arkhe (from The Antigone Project)
director: Annie Dorsen. photo: T. Charles Erickson. photo courtesy of The Women’s Project.
*produced in association with Crossing Jamaica Avenue.

Friday, February 2

All sessions are in the Segal Theatre unless otherwise noted.

Conference Room 2 will feature DVDs of artists’ works continually throughout the conference.

Saturday, February 3

All sessions are in the Segal Theatre unless otherwise noted.

Conference Room 2 will feature DVDs of artists’ works continually throughout the conference.

Friday, Feb. 2, 07 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. Reservation Code 7184
Saturday, Feb. 3, 07 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. Reservation Code 7185

Martin E. Segal Theatre + Conference Rooms on C-level: C201 + C202. Free.
Reservation required. Remaining seats: First come, first served.
Call 1.212.817.8215 or [email protected].