El Ciervo Encantado on "Arrivals"
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About this event
EL CIERVO ENCANTADO ON “ARRIVALS”
An Artist Talk with Performance Fragments
Monday, October 21st, 2019
7–9 pm
Department of Performance Studies
721 Broadway, PS Studio, Room 612
This event will take place in Spanish.
The Hemispheric Institute, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Department of Performance Studies, the King Juan Carlos Center, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University are pleased to invite you to a conversation with El Ciervo Encantado about ARRIVALS, a solo performance that completes the group’s diptych on the theme of Cuban migration, which the artists began with their play DEPARTURES in 2017. El Ciervo Encantado’s Nelda Castillo and Mariela Brito will present excerpts from ARRIVALS, pondering a central question: What is the identitarian element that unites us as Cubans when we come back to the island, regardless of the country we migrated to, our age, our political beliefs, or the reasons for our return? ARRIVALS is a polyphonic exercise in shared memory, in which a number of friends participated by contributing their writings and voices, each one with its own tone, forming a collective voice that enters into dialogue with the spectator—who is also the protagonist of their own arrivals. Rooted in the Cuban experience, El Ciervo Encantado proposes the DEPARTURES-ARRIVALS diptych as a way to focus on an urgent global issue: the migration crises and their human and social consequences.
El Ciervo Encantado was founded by Nelda Castillo in Havana in 1996 as a space of experimentation and exchange that fosters innovative connections between theater, visual arts, music, literature, dance, and theoretical research. Thanks to this interplay of knowledge, El Ciervo Encantado connects with different spaces of artistic and cultural production, escaping any attempt at categorization.
Organizer Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics at NYU
Organizer of El Ciervo Encantado on "Arrivals"
The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics is a collaborative, multilingual and interdisciplinary network of institutions, artists, scholars, and activists throughout the Americas. Working at the intersection of scholarship, artistic expression and politics, the organization explores embodied practice—performance—as a vehicle for the creation of new meaning and the transmission of cultural values, memory and identity. Anchored in its geographical focus on the Americas (thus “hemispheric”) and in three working languages (English, Spanish and Portuguese), the Institute's goal is to promote vibrant interactions and collaborations at the level of scholarship, art practice and pedagogy among practitioners interested in the relationship between performance and politics in the hemisphere. For more information contact us: hemi.event
