- Jesusa Rodriguez
Jesusa Rodríguez (b.
1955 ,Mexico City, Mexico ) is a Mexican director, actress, playwright, performance artist, and social activist.Her "espectáculos" (as both spectacles and shows) challenge traditional classification, crossing with ease generic boundaries: from elite to popular to mass, from Greek tragedy to cabaret, from pre-Columbian indigenous to opera, from revue, sketch and "carpa", to performative acts within political projects. She and her partner, Argentine singer/actress Liliana Felipe, operated El Habito and Teatro de la Capilla, alternative performances spaces in Mexico City, until 2005.
In the 1980s Rodríguez notably directed an adaption of
Mozart 'sDon Giovanni , featuring an all-female cast, entitled "Donna Giovanni" (1983), andOskar Panizza 's "El Concilio de Amor" ("The Council of Love") in 1988. Rodríguez won an Obie for Best Actor in "Las Horas de Belén, A Book of Hours" (1999) along with Ruth Maleczech and New York-basedMabou Mines .Rodríguez also contributes regularly to Mexico's most important feminist journal, "Debate Feminista".
References
* Costantino, Roselyn, “Visibility as Strategy: Jesusa Rodríguez's Body in Play”, "Corpus Delecti: Performance" (2000)
* "Art of the Americas". Ed. Coco Fusco. London/New York: Routledge: pp. 63 - 77External Links
* [http://elhabito.com.mx/ El Habito's Website]
* [http://hemisphericinstitute.org/eng/seminar/brazil2005/bio_jesusa_liliana.html Hemispheric Institute's Website (1)]
* [http://www.hemi.nyu.edu/cuaderno/holyterrorsweb/jesusa/index.html Hemispheric Institute's Website (2)]
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