Projects tagged
Performance
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Training in Dance and movement Psychotherapy as a tool for reconciliation
Read more: Training in Dance and movement Psychotherapy as a tool for reconciliationFor over 60 years, Colombia has been facing war between guerrilla groups, the State, paramilitary groups and drug dealers. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, raped, displaced and threaten by this armed conflict. The common trait of this…
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Aftermath
Read more: AftermathThe snapshots are thrust at us urgently, as if they were passports being shown at a border crossing, official proofs of national identity. Mostly, they are prosaic pictures of family members or houses. Sometimes a diploma will be offered up…
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Eco-Music Big Band
Read more: Eco-Music Big Band“Writing Political Music in Today’s World” I began studying composition with Fred Ho without knowing quite what I was getting myself into. I was 25 with a fresh graduate degree in composition under my belt, lost in that special way…
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Rubble Bucket Challenge aims to raise awareness about Gaza
Read more: Rubble Bucket Challenge aims to raise awareness about GazaAs the rest of the world continues to dump buckets of cold water over their heads in support of ALS research, some Palestinians have created their own version of the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness about the ongoing crisis…
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The Quenelle
Read more: The QuenelleThe quenelle (French pronunciation: [kə.nɛl]) is a gesture created and popularized by French political activist and comedian Dieudonné. He first used it in 2005 in his sketch entitled “1905” about French secularism, and has used it since in a wide…
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And Counting…
Read more: And Counting…Wafaa Bilal’s brother, Haji, was killed by a missile at a checkpoint in their hometown of Kufa, Iraq in 2004. Bilal feels the pain of both American and Iraqi families who have lost loved ones in the war, but the…
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Inmates Perform Valmiki Pratibha
Read more: Inmates Perform Valmiki PratibhaAlokananda Roy walked into Calcutta’s Presidency Jail on International Women’s Day, 2007. The Indian classical dancer had been invited to watch female inmates perform, but it was the men who caught her eye. “They shook me,” she says. “Their body…
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Contra-Tiempo Urban Latin Dance Theater in “Full Still Hungry”
Read more: Contra-Tiempo Urban Latin Dance Theater in “Full Still Hungry”Contra-Tiempo’s first Miami dance performance will bring Ana Maria Alvarez back to her roots. Her father’s family settled in Miami after leaving Cuba in the early ’60s. Most of them, including his four siblings and their spouses and children, still…
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Women In War – Oropéndola
Read more: Women In War – OropéndolaWomen in war is a theater play written by Colombian authors Carlota Llano and Fernando Montes. It is based on 4 stories of women that participated and were victims of Colombian armed Conflict: Dora Margarita, a guerrilla women from the…
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Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical
Read more: Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock MusicalHair: The history of the first rock musical by Eric Andrews-Katz – SGN Contributing Writer From its very first moment, the musical Hair was a thing of controversy. From its conception as a staged musical protest to the show’s eventual…