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We are happy to invite you to a talk and a book presentation by playwright and theater director Miguel Rubio from Lima, Perú. His presentation will reflect upon the decolonizing power of theater, establishing a dynamic dialogue with ancestral forms of celebration in the Andean world that offer us new ways of thinking about indigenous traditions in tension with colonial impositions. Drawing upon Andean traditions and his theater practice Miguel Rubio explores new ways of giving a presence to indigenous cultures on stage avoiding colonial cultural appropriations and instead transforming theater into a site for cultural negotiations. For Rubio, his challenge as a director "is investigating routes of creation that allow us to reconcile with the origin".

Miguel Rubio will also present his new book Sin título, técnica mixta (2024).

 

 

He is a renowned playwright and director from Lima, Peru, has played a key role in advancing Peruvian theater since 1971 as a founding member and director of the cultural collective Yuyachkani. His work is deeply rooted in exploring Peruvian culture, society, and politics, earning him numerous awards, including the prestigious National Culture Award. He is the author of El cuerpo ausente (2006), Raíces y semillas: maestros y caminos del teatro en América Latina (2011) and Sin título, técnica mixta (2024) among others.

 

 

Peru's leading theater collective, known for its groundbreaking work in theatrical experimentation, political performance, and collective creation. The group's name, meaning "I am thinking, I am remembering" in Quechua, reflects its commitment to exploring embodied social memory, particularly related to ethnicity, violence, and memory in Peru. Comprising seven actors, a technical designer, and an artistic director, Yuyachkani is dedicated to collective creation as a mode of theatrical production and group theater as a lifestyle. The collective's work has been influential in Latin America's "New Popular Theater," emphasizing grassroots community issues, mobilization, and advocacy. Yuyachkani was honored with Peru's National Human Rights Award in 2000 for its creative integration of indigenous and cosmopolitan performance forms, providing valuable insights into Peruvian and Latin American theater, as well as broader postcolonial social aesthetics.

This event is co-sponsor by organized by Latin American Studies and Co-Sponsored by Chicano and Latino Studies, Comparative World Lit., Geography, Human Development, International Studies, Latin American Studies, Journalism, RGRLL, Sociology, ES&P, SGSA, LSB Financial, 75th Anniversary, LFSA and OTP.

 

Please RVSP by April 21 

Light refreshments will be served

Talk will be in Spanish with English translation