No Pleasure, No Clown

by Fernando Cordova Hernandez January 4, 2012 Global Connections
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(Photo: By Seth Bockley. Pictured: Madeleine Sierra Carrascal, Artús Chávez, Fernando Córdova Hernández) Since I was a child I remember doing shows for my family in the December vacation with all my brothers and my cousins. I remember the pleasure, the fantasy, the characters, the family laughing about our funny mistakes and accidents. And here I [...]

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Casting Our Nets

by Denise Maroney January 3, 2012 Global Connections
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(Old Christian Harbor in Tyre, Lebanon. Photo: Denise Maroney). Our 4-month research, development and workshop period has come to a close. It’s been a series of challenging, exciting journeys where we explored our central themes of the polluted Lebanese coastline and the Lebanese fishing culture. We’ve traveled along the Mediterranean coast, exploring Tyre, Saida, Beirut, [...]

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State Department Launches Online Portal

by Laurie Baskin December 29, 2011 Advocacy
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The State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) has launched Cultural Crossroads, an online network that will provide arts practitioners and managers a venue for sharing information about international cultural exchange. Through this discussion forum, ECA hopes to improve support for arts-based exchange programs and grow an international network of artists. ECA invites [...]

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Mixing my Metamediums, Part 1: An Apple in Time

by Carmen C. Wong December 28, 2011 Global Connections
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(Picture: Carmen C. Wong. This Experimance Exercise aimed to fuse both roles of performer/spectator in a single experiential performance. I created a set of instructions within a food framework and Saara  Hannula was my performer/spectator. After picking out items from the pantry, Saara’s first instruction pertained to “Creation”.) Helsinki, true to form, delivered a jolty [...]

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Call and Response: Torange Yeghiazarian

by Marcy Arlin December 28, 2011 I AM THEATRE
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“Watching that performance [the immigrant children’s performance of their family stories] I realized how important it is for the kids to really claim their identity and be proud of it and be able to speak about it…The act of telling these stories actually gives value to the kids’ identity. Theatre gives us permission to talk [...]

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Congo Project: The Play in Indo

by Kate Sutton-Johnson December 27, 2011 Global Connections
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(Photo by Kate Sutton-Johnson | A Market in Pointe Noire, Congo) We left Pointe Noire in heavy traffic, anxious to get beyond an imagined threshold where the choking smell of garbage, burning tires, and car exhaust would cease to exist.  Traveling with Alain, Jean Leopold, and Raoul (all three men, Bantu and physically disabled) and [...]

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