Holy Terrors

by Taylor, Diana; Costantino, Roselyn; Damasceno, Leslie (CON); Raznovich, Diana (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822332404
• ISBN10: 082233240X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"We can't have theater if we have nothing to say. I was told that we wouldn't have Coltrane if Miles Davis hadn't let him play at his own gig, and that Miles let him play a long time, because he could see that Coltrane had a lot to say. Traveling with Diana, which I have had the great fortune to do, and being introduced to these extraordinary performers, both on these pages, and live and in person was flat-out a life-altering experience. This book turns us on to our cousin Americans and to their passion, their skill, their intellect, their purpose, their resolve. To go to music again, I think of Thelonius Monk, who said, 'The cats I like are the cats who take chances.' These are chancing cats, and enrapturing ones."--Anna Deavere Smith

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Preface	xiii
Unimagined Communities	1	(24)
Diana Taylor and Roselyn Costantino
DIANA RAZNOVICH (Argentina)	25	(68)
Manifesto 2000 of Feminine Humor	27	(16)
Translated by Marlène Ramirez-Gancio and Sharma Lorenz
From the Waist Down	43	(30)
Translated by Sharma Lorenz
What Is Diana Raznovich Laughing At?	73	(20)
Diana Taylor
GRISELDA GAMBARO (Argentina)	93	(12)
Strip	95	(10)
Translated by Marguerite Feitlowitz
DIAMELA ELTIT (Chile)	105	(30)
Excerpts from Lumpérica (E. Luminata): "From Her Forgetfulness Project" and "Dress Rehearsal"	107	(10)
Translated by Ronald Christ
Diamela Eltit: Performing Action in Dictatorial Chile	117	(18)
Robert Neustadt
DENISE STOKLOS (Brazil)	135	(44)
Selections from Writings on Essential Theatre	137	(3)
Translated by Diana Taylor
Casa	140	(12)
Translated by Denise Stoklos and Diana Taylor
The Gestural Art of Reclaiming Utopia: Denise Stoklos at Play with the Hysterical-Historical	152	(27)
Leslie Damasceno
ASTRID HADAD (Mexico)	179	(30)
Selected Lyrics and Monologue Fragments	181	(6)
Translated by Roselyn Costantino and Lorna Scott
Politics and Culture in a Diva's Diversion: The Body of Astrid Hadad in Performance	187	(22)
Roselyn Costantino
JESUSA RODRiGUEZ (Mexico)	209	(36)
Sor Juana in Prison: A Virtual Pageant Play	211	(16)
Translated by Diana Taylor with Marlène Ramirez-Cancio
Nahuatlismo: The Aztec Acting Method	227	(4)
Translated by Marlène Ramirez-Can cio
The Conquest According to La Malinche	231	(4)
Translated by Marlène Ramirez-Cancio
Excerpts from "Genesis," "Barbie: The Revenge of the Devil," and "Censorship: The Bald Rat in the Garbage"	235	(10)
Translated by Roselyn Costantino
KATJA TIRADO AND EMA VILLANUEVA (Mexico)	245	(30)
Wrestling the Phallus, Resisting Amnesia: The Body Politics of Chilanga Performance Artists	247	(28)
Antonio Prieto Stambaugh
SABINA BERMAN (Mexico)	275	(16)
The Agony of Ecstasy: Four One-Act Plays on a Single Theme	279	(12)
Translated by Adam Versenyi
PETRONA DE LA CRUZ CRUZ (Mexico)	291	(40)
A Desperate Woman: A Play in Two Acts	293	(18)
Translated by Sharma Lorenz
Eso si pasa aqui: Indigenous Women Performing Revolutions in Mayan Chiapas	311	(20)
Teresa Marrero
TEATRO LA MÁSCARA (Colombia)	331	(22)
Teatro la máscara: Twenty-Eight Years of Invisibilized Theatre	333	(20)
Marlène Ramirez-Cancio
TERESA RALLI (Peru)	353	(18)
Fragments of Memory	355	(10)
Translated by Margaret Carson
Excerpts from Antigona	365	(6)
José Watanabe Translated by Margaret Carson
ROSA LUISA MÁRQUEZ (Puerto Rico)	371	(14)
Between Theatre and Performance	373	(12)
Translation and photos by Miguel Villefañe
TERESA HERNÁNDEZ (Puerto Rico)	385	(14)
How Complex Being Is, or, The Complex of Being	387	(7)
Translated by Marlène Ramirez-Cancio
Teresa Hernández vs. the Puerto Rican Complex	394	(5)
Vivian Martinez Tabares
Translated by Margaret Carson
TANIA BRUGUERA (Cuba)	399	(18)
Performing Greater Cuba: Tania Bruguera and the Burden of Guilt	401	(16)
José Muñoz
Selected Bibliography	417	(24)
Contributors	441