Performance art icon Carmelita Tropicana returns to Marlboro with filmmaker Ela Troyano to delve into bio-politics and scientific inquiry with Schwanze-Beast Marlboro, VT— Vermont Performance Lab (VPL) joined forces with Marlboro College to bring writer and performance art icon Alina Troyano (a.k.a. Carmelita Tropicana) to southern Vermont for an in-depth research and development residency to expand her latest work Schwanze-Beast. Last October, Tropicana’s residency began with a planning visit that included Tropicana’s first Vermont appearance as one of three outrageous judges at the Brattleboro Literary Festival’s Literary Death Match event. Since then, Tropicana has visited Vermont for a VPL Lab Talk at Marlboro College with Obie award winning theater director Ain Gordon and to co-teach the “Borders, Boundaries, and Crossings” theater seminar with Marlboro College professor Brenda Foley. This month, Tropicana will return to Vermont for a VPL residency with long-time collaborators filmmaker Ela Troyano, and Berlin actor/director Susanne Sachsse to workshop Schwanze-Beast. In this new work, Tropicana and her collaborators have delved into ethics and scientific inquiry to pose the question: what separates human from beast? Tropicana deftly mixes languages (English, German and Spanish) and form to create a hybrid performance work. In Schwanze-Beast she will meld the scientific lecture with science fiction and performance to address the civil rights of the animal species, delving into biotech and bio-politics in a minimal expressionistic performance style. Tropicana writes, “As an artist I straddle the world of performance art and theater, using humor and fantasy as subversive tools to re-write history from the point of view of woman, man, child and assorted animals and insects. As a bicultural artist, I use spoken language to examine concepts through foreign words.” Her work has been presented nationally and internationally both in Spanish and English, and in 1999 she garnered an Obie award for Sustained Excellence of Performance. On April 1st audiences will get a sneak peek at Schwanze-Beast in this work-in-progress showing at 7pm at The Whittemore Theater, Marlboro College. The showing will be followed by a discussion with the artists and VPL Director Sara Coffey. Read More ➤
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 16:50:18 +0000
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