Lorena Alvarado
National Sentiment, Global Stage
April 26, 2011
12pm Kaufman room 160
Sentimiento demands attention. Look at me! Listen! Sentimiento, the embodiment of heartache, solitude, love and longing in the Mexican canción ranchera-- is at the heart of this presentation. In this talk, I analyze how sentimiento's aesthetic of emotional excess is re-signified when performed in a cross-border context, particularly in the work of Oaxacan singer-songwriter Lila Downs. She claims the ranchera, and thus its methods of fervent emotional expression, as a musical influence in her oft-labeled world music. Drawing from performances of songs from her albums La Cantina (2006) and Border: La Linea (2001), I explore how Downs' renditions of rancheras and sentimiento (from her gut) grants her repertoire an aura of "authenticity" and enhances the discourse of mestizaje and borderlands often generated around her persona. Moreover, I examine the problematic effects and affects of sentimiento as embodied by Downs: as both "innate" and performative, as an exoticized expression of Mexican feeling and a form of cultural discipline and vocal technique that affirms and challenges national identity.
Lorena Alvarado earned her B.A. from UC Santa Cruz in Modern Literature and Latin@ Studies and her M.A. from UCLA in Culture and Performance. She looks forward to completing her manuscript, Corporealities of Feeling, this Spring.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Sunday, April 17, 2011
4.19 : Jenna Delgado
Please join us for our next Chew on This.
Jenna Delgado
The STAHR! Project: Community-Based Arts and Pedagogy for Adolescent Behavior Change
April 19, 2011
12pm Kaufman room 160
Jenna Delgado will discuss a community-based arts process she led in 2003. Funded through a social service organization and stretching across a 6-month period, STAHR! (Somebody's Talking About HIV Risk!) culminated in the production of an original short film. Consisting of several phases, each level of the program was built upon two program goals: strengthening decision-making skills and lowering HIV risk among youth participants. At the nexus of art-making, social service, and community, STAHR! presented unique challenges to conventions in HIV prevention programming, film production, and collaborative process. This presentation will focus on the special considerations to curriculum development, artist training, and assessment methods required for the success of such a project.
Jenna M. Delgado is an actor, writer, and facilitator. She has been a specialist in the design and implementation of youth development programs for 20 years. For much of that time at both the local and the national level she trained art educators, youth workers, and social service providers on issues of sexual health risk, cross cultural dialogue, youth development, and art based curriculum development. In that capacity, Jenna has presented at several local and national conferences speaking on adolescent issues and on the use of theatre arts for behavior change. In non-profit and grass roots sectors, she collaborates in designing long-term art based youth development programs using theories of behavior change and dialogue facilitation to explore notions of community, activism, and youth development. As a graduate student in the Department of World and Cultures, Jenna?s research interests include exploring the function of art making in relationship to adolescent identity construction and community, the critical analysis of negotiations of power in collaborative art process and theorizing the efficacy of process methodologies in relationship to subjective transformation.
Jenna Delgado
The STAHR! Project: Community-Based Arts and Pedagogy for Adolescent Behavior Change
April 19, 2011
12pm Kaufman room 160
Jenna Delgado will discuss a community-based arts process she led in 2003. Funded through a social service organization and stretching across a 6-month period, STAHR! (Somebody's Talking About HIV Risk!) culminated in the production of an original short film. Consisting of several phases, each level of the program was built upon two program goals: strengthening decision-making skills and lowering HIV risk among youth participants. At the nexus of art-making, social service, and community, STAHR! presented unique challenges to conventions in HIV prevention programming, film production, and collaborative process. This presentation will focus on the special considerations to curriculum development, artist training, and assessment methods required for the success of such a project.
Jenna M. Delgado is an actor, writer, and facilitator. She has been a specialist in the design and implementation of youth development programs for 20 years. For much of that time at both the local and the national level she trained art educators, youth workers, and social service providers on issues of sexual health risk, cross cultural dialogue, youth development, and art based curriculum development. In that capacity, Jenna has presented at several local and national conferences speaking on adolescent issues and on the use of theatre arts for behavior change. In non-profit and grass roots sectors, she collaborates in designing long-term art based youth development programs using theories of behavior change and dialogue facilitation to explore notions of community, activism, and youth development. As a graduate student in the Department of World and Cultures, Jenna?s research interests include exploring the function of art making in relationship to adolescent identity construction and community, the critical analysis of negotiations of power in collaborative art process and theorizing the efficacy of process methodologies in relationship to subjective transformation.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
4.12 : Alissa Cardone / Kinodance Company
Alissa Cardone | Kinodance Company
Choreography of Elements: An Artist Presentation
April 12, 2011 @ 12pm Kaufman room 160
Alissa Cardone, choreographer and co-founder of the intermedia performance collaborative, Kinodance, will give an overview of her MFA portfolio projects, sharing footage from recent touring engagements, and inviting feedback and discussion about the work.
Alissa Cardone, interdisciplinary choreographer, improviser, curator, her work has been supported by Baryshnikov Arts Center/Summer Stages Dance Residency Program, Asian Cultural Council, Massachusetts Cultural Council, LEF Foundation, Trust for Mutual Understanding (Armenia), Open Society Institute (S. Caucasus), CEC Artslink, Boston Cyberarts, VT Performance Labs and New England Foundation for the Arts. Co-artistic director of internationally acclaimed intermedia performance collaborative Kinodance Company, she's toured nationally and abroad in Japan, Peru, Russia, France, Belgium, Monaco and Armenia and has been presented as a solo artist by Maison Moet Dance Festival/Spiral Hall (Japan), Soundscape (N. Carolina), Gloucester New Arts, DancenowNYC, Soundfield and Bowerbird (Philadelphia). Influenced by trainings in Japan with Min Tanaka (Body Weather Farm) and intensive study and performance engagements with butoh master Akira Kasai, she has collaborated and performed with choreographers such as Xavier Le Roy, Ann Carlson, Paula Josa-Jones, Nora Chipaumire and musicians such as Roger Miller, Masakatsu Takagi, guitarist Chris Brokaw, Tatsuya Nakatani, Mike Bullock, Gene Coleman/Ensemble N_JP and noise artist Jessica Rylan. Alissa is founding director of Critical Moves Contemporary Dance Series (Boston) and co-founder and curator of Boston Cyberarts' Ideas in Motion: Innovations in Dance, Movement and Technology.
Kinodance Company, selected by Dance Magazine's "25-to-watch" in 2008
is an artist collaborative founded in Boston by choreographer Alissa Cardone, filmmaker Alla Kovgan and visual artist Dedalus Wainwright out of passion for the kinetic arts, experimentation and a strong belief in the power of interdisciplinary collaborations.
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