The Latino International Theater Festival of New York (LITF/NY) and TeatroStageFest present Amarillo, a breathtaking, cutting-edge multimedia theater production by internationally-acclaimed experimental Mexican theater company Teatro Línea de Sombra October 18–20 at Baruch Performing Arts Center in Manhattan.
In the hard-hitting Amarillo, which director Jorge A. Vargas calls "physical, visual theater," film, dance, narrative, music, and evocative props create a powerful, harrowing multi-layered tale of immigration from Mexico to the United States.
The gripping production embodies the ongoing human drama taking place every day at the U.S. southern border. A man departs for the U.S.-Mexican border and vanishes. Amarillo, Texas, is the destination he never reaches. In the distance, a woman yearns for his return and reconstructs his probable journey. The performance unfolds in a sea of displaced objects – tennis shoes, water jugs, a backpack with clothes - the migrants' survival kit. As the performers travel imagined landscapes of both geography and cultural identity, the absent man comes to symbolize the thousands of disillusioned immigrants who have suffered a similar fate. Amarillo, a provocative and stimulating work, touches on the complex nature of individual and national identity in a time of exodus—both for those who leave, and those who are left behind. The NY performances of Amarillo mark the start of the national tour of Southern Exposure: Performing Arts of Latin America to NY, NJ, DC, and the State of Washington, funded by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and Robert Sterling Clark Foundation.
Jaime Chabaud of Mexico's Milenio said, "Amarillo can't be classified. It is solid as rock, heartrending scenic poetry, brutal and beautiful."
Performed in Spanish with English super-titles. At Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan at 8pm October 18-20. Tickets $30. Students and Seniors $15. Watch the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQngfvy3uow&feature=player_embedded
Teatro Línea de Sombra was founded in 1993 by Jorge A. Vargas, one of Mexico's most prominent contemporary directors. Under his direction, and through a process of collaboration with the actors, Teatro Línea de Sombra has emerged as one of the leading Mexican touring ensembles and has received international acclaim for its distinctive theatrical and visual productions that combine movement, projection, original scores and other forms of mixed media.
Amarillo Performance Schedule and Full Events Listing Information:
October 18th at 8:00pm – Opening Night.
October 19th at 8:00pm – Followed by a TalkBack with the performers and director.
October 20th at 8:00pm – Preceded by The Poetics of the Object from 9:00am – 12:00pm, a theater workshop with Amarillo director Jorge Vargas; and
"TeatroStageFest Encuentro" ("Encounter") an intimate immigration conference from 12:00pm – 6:00pm, an afternoon that will include:
12pm: Registration
1-1:15pm: Welcome address by Jose W. Fernandez, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Energy & Business Affairs in President Obama's Administration, and former Board Chair and Co-Founder of the Latino International Theater Festival of New York.
1:15-3pm: U.S. Latino Artists Reinterpret the Border
A conversation with New York-based film and theater directors who have developed new works with local migrant workers and professional actors. There will be screenings of Alex Rivera's documentary The Sixth Section followed by a Q&A and presentations by Margarita Espada and German Jaramillo, two New York theater directors who developed new stage works on the theme of border crossing in collaboration with professional actors and day laborers living in Long Island and Staten Island.
3-3:30pm: La Patrona
Screening of a five-minute documentary about a group of women in Mexico who cook for the immigrants traveling on "La Bestia," the train that crosses the country and heads for the U.S. border. These women stand on the side of the tracks and fling plastic bags with food to the men and women speeding past them who risk their lives traveling between the train cars. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Leonila Vasquez, one of the members of La Patrona.
4-6pm: At the Crossroads of a Dream:
A panel discussion on the impact of the deferred action status and the Dream Act on a new generation of young Americans with: NYC Commissioner on Immigrant Affairs Fatima Shama; Oscar Chico, a twenty year old "Dreamer" from the New School and activist at Make the Road New York; Allan Wernick, CUNY's Citizenship and Immigration Project Director; and Joel Magallan, Director of the community based grassroots organization Tepeyac.
At Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan 12-6PM October 20. Conference Admission: $25. Students and Seniors: $15. SPECIAL DISCOUNT: Conference Admission + Amarillo closing night performance: $45. Students and Seniors: $25.
October 22: Latin American Cultural Leaders Conference – 7pm
This conference will culminate the second edition of the Latino International Theater Festival of New York's International Cultural Engagement Partnership. The panel discussion will feature a revealing conversation with three of the most visionary cultural leaders in South America: Sandra Meluk, Programming Director of Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Bogota (Colombia); Alberto Ligaluppi, Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires (Argentina); and Danilo Santos de Miranda, SESC Sao Paulo (Brazil), with Margaret Ayers, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation President (USA). The discussion will focus on the missions and visions that guide the curatorial process of each director; inclusion of different artistic points of view in the programming of each organization; audience access policies; and mechanisms for public and private support that allow each institution to carry out their tasks as leaders of cultural and artistic development in the U.S. and Latin America. 7:00PM at the Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue, Manhattan. FREE for Americas Society members, $10 for nonmembers.
About TeatroStageFest
TeatroStageFest is produced by the Latino International Theater Festival of New York, Inc., a not-for-profit organization that promotes Latino Theater in New York year-round and provides a window to Iberian-American and Caribbean Theater. TeatroStageFest is an Official Event of the NYC Latin Media and Entertainment Commission, and receives support from American Airlines, Official Airline, and Principal Media Sponsors NY1, El Diario/La Prensa and Telemundo 47. More info at: http://www.teatrostagefest.org -- Follow at Facebook/TeatroStageFest and Twitter/TeatroStageFest.
Additional TeatroStageFest 2012 Sponsors and Partners:
ICEP Funder (Int women's coats ernational Cultural Engagement Partnership) between LITF/NY and SESC-SP, Teatro Mayor and Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires: Robert Sterling Clark Foundation. Amarillo and TeatroStageFest Encuentro Funders: The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through Southern Exposure: Performing Arts of Latin America in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation; Cultural Sponsors: NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Council Members Rosie Mendez, Ydanis Rodriguez, Joel Rivera and Melissa Mark-Viverito, NYC Council Manhattan Delegation, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires, Consulate General of Spain in New York, Mexican Cultural Institute of New York; Sponsors: The Curtis McGraw Foundation, Con Edison, Shubert Foundation, NY Community Trust, and Gershwin Hotel, Official Hotel; Media Sponsors: NY1 Noticias, V-me, NBC-4, Manhattan Times, Bronx Free Press, Impacto Latin News, La Voz Hispana, Hispanic NY Project, nyremezcla.com; Presenting Partners: Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College, Baruch Performing Arts Center, Americas Society, Instituto Cervantes, Birdland.
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