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Carmelita Tropicana and Ela Troyano: Monday, July 8, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. CT
SAIC Ballroom
Carmelita Tropicana (aka Alina Troyano) is a writer and performer who straddles the worlds of performance art and theater. She uses irreverent humor and fantasy as subversive tools to challenge cultural stereotypes and rewrite history from multiple perspectives. She began devising work with her long-time collaborators Ela Troyano and Uzi Parnes. Select venues where her work has been produced/presented include: Institute of Contemporary Art (London), the Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Intar Theater (N.Y.) and PS 122 (NY). Select awards/fellowships include: US Latin X, United States Artists, Guggenheim Fellowship, Creative Capital, Anonymous Was a Woman, and an Obie award. Her book I, Carmelita Tropicana, Performing Between Cultures was published by Beacon Press and she was co- editor of Memories of the Revolution: the First Ten Years of the Wow Café Theater. She serves on the Board of Directors of the New York Foundation for the Arts and Soho Rep Theater.
Ela Troyano is an interdisciplinary artist, born in Cuba and based in New York City. Her projects bring together different aesthetic histories and genres: downtown New York avant-garde film and performance, queer cinema, Cuban-American cinema-in-exile and Latine film and video. Troyano's work explores connections between performance and film through the lens of guerrilla practice: camouflage and insurrection conceptually shape both the form and content of her work. Troyano attended the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study program, Sundance Institute’s screenwriting workshop with Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and received awards from Creative Capital, the Ford Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Latino Public Broadcasting, Independent Television Service, New York State Council on the Arts, Rockefeller Media, Theo Westenberger and a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship. She co-founded and curated the New York Film Festival Downtown, La Misma Onda, and Club Chandalier, and has been a part of such storied performance spaces as The Pyramid and the Stone.
Photo Credit: Carlos David
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Alina Troyano's one-woman shows, plays, and essays have astonished audiences and readers with their creativity, humor, and crackling political energy. I, Carmelita Tropicana offers the first comprehensive collection of her work, from "Memorias de la Revoluci n" (with Uzi Parnes) to "Your Kunst is Your Waffen" (with Ela Troyano).
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