[CW-Grad] Performance of IRSE in Riverside Nov. 3: Irse Hacia el Norte (Going Northbound) is a theater investigation project about immigration.

[Robin Russin]

FYI

From: Rachel Carrico [rcarr009 at ucr.edu]
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 10:21 PM
To: stuart.krieger at ucr.edu
Subject: Please share with your students/faculty: Performance of IRSE in Riverside Nov. 3

Hello Mr. Krieger,

Below (and in the attached flier) please find information on an upcoming performance in Riverside that may be of great interest to students and faculty in the Theatre Department. We'd greatly appreciate it if you could share this information with your listserv. Thanks so much!

sincerely,
Rachel Carrico

Rachel Carrico

PhD Student, Critical Dance Studies
University of California, Riverside
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M.A., Performance Studies
NYU/Tisch School of the Arts
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Founding Member, Goat in the Road Productions
goatintheroadproductions.org



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Irse Hacia el Norte (Going Northbound)
Live Migrating Theatre from Guatemala to New Orleans 
Performance of Irse in Riverside: Saturday, November 3, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Tikal Bakery, 3975 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside CA

Tickets: $5 at the door. Seating is limited

**flier attached**
 
Irse Hacia el Norte (Going Northbound) is a theater investigation project about immigration. Theatre artists are traveling from Guatemala, through Mexico, and into the U.S., offering theatre workshops with migrants along the route and performing a play about the experience—often with newly recruited migrants in the cast for each performance. The artists, Bonifaz Diaz from Guatemala and Jordi Möllering from Holland, form the Guatemala-based theatre ensemble, Grupo de Teatro Artzénico (www.artzenico.org). They will visit Riverside from November 2—5, 2012 as a stop on the Irse itinerary. After Riverside, they head to the last stop: to perform Irse at the New Orleans Fringe Festival in mid-November. In the future, the play will be toured through Guatemala and the Netherlands.
 
While in Riverside, Artzénico will present the play and conduct a bilingual theatre workshop with youth and their parents at the Youth Opportunity Center (Friday, November 2, 4:00-6:00 PM) and teach as guest artists in the Dance Department at the University of California, Riverside. They will offer a public performance of Irse at Tikal Bakery (3975 Mission Inn Ave.) on Saturday, November 3, at 7:00 PM. Tickets are $5 at the door but donations are also accepted; seating is limited.
 
Artzénico’s Riverside residency is hosted by Rachel Carrico, a Ph.D. student in Critical Dance Studies at UC Riverside and co-founder of the New Orleans-based theatre ensemble, Goat in the Road Productions (GRP) (www.goatintheroadproductions.org). Irse marks the third collaboration between GRP and Artzénico, following two creative exchange residencies, one in Guatemala and one in New Orleans, funded by the National Performance Network’s Performing Americas Project. After their brief stop in Riverside, Diaz and Möllering will reconvene with GRP in New Orleans to perform as selected artists in the New Orleans Fringe Festival (www.nofringe.org). Riverside collaborators include the Youth Opportunity Center and Art of the P.O.O.R.
 
Since leaving Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, in late September, the group has offered workshops and performed the play in various locations in Mexico: the migrant shelters of Tapachula, Ixitepec, and Tecún Umán; under a bridge in Coatzacoalcos; and in the luxurious theater of Universidad Iberoamericana’s Laboratoria Sensorial in Mexico City. For the Mexico City production, the artists were joined by six new actors on stage: four migrants passing through Mexico and two residents of Coatzacoalcos.
 
The purpose of Irse is to share the real life migrant experience with non-migrants in communities that are affected by the migration issue, and thus bring locals and migrants, who are physically in the same spot, together through theater. The group also uses theater to connect with the migrants along their way, offering hope and perspective through theater and passing on their story to worldwide audiences to raise awareness and contribute to the migration dialogue. Artzénico shares the belief that theater brings content and humanity together; “we try to reunite the global issue with human emotion.”
 
For more information about the project:http://irsehaciaelnorte.wordpress.com/
For more information about Riverside activities, contact Rachel Carrico at rcarr009 at ucr.edu.


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Rachel Carrico

PhD Student, Critical Dance Studies
University of California, Riverside
--------------------------------------------
M.A., Performance Studies
NYU/Tisch School of the Arts
--------------------------------------------
Founding Member, Goat in the Road Productions
goatintheroadproductions.org



-- 
Rachel Carrico

PhD Student, Critical Dance Studies
University of California, Riverside
--------------------------------------------
M.A., Performance Studies
NYU/Tisch School of the Arts
--------------------------------------------
Founding Member, Goat in the Road Productions
goatintheroadproductions.org

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