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The
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics is
a consortium of institutions, artists, scholars, and activists dedicated
to exploring the relationship between expressive behavior (broadly construed
as performance) and social and political life in the Americas. By 'performance',
we refer to the many practices and events, dance, theatre, ritual and
religious practice, political rallies, funerals, all that involve theatrical,
rehearsed, or conventional/event-appropriate behavior. In addition to
textual archives, the Institute draws from 'live' practices and visual
media (e.g., video, photographs) to explore the ways in which embodied
behaviors participate in the transmission of cultural knowledge and social
memory.
The program draws
on the emerging discipline of Performance Studies to foster intellectual
and artistic relationships across boundaries of geography, institutions,
languages, and academic disciplines.
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Hemispheric View
The Hemispheric Institute
aims to provide a model for academic study that is specially suited to
embodied performance practices in the Americas. The interdisciplinary
focus on performance avoids some of the ethnocentric limitations inherent
in traditional theatre and dance studies, enabling students to focus on
expressive forms that fall outside the bounds of European performance
genres. The Institute hopes not only to look beyond these disciplinary
limits which a long colonial history has imposed, but to illuminate the
ways in which much theatre, dance, and music in the Americas has been
tied from the outset to the history of colonialism itself. Studying cultural
and political performances across the Americas offers scholars and artists
a better understanding of the many shared histories and practices in the
Americas that defy national borders.
The Hemispheric Institute
is funded by generous grants from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations,
and receives administrative and physical support from the Department
of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts and the Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences at New York University in New York City. The
Institute is also involved in active partnerships with the Office of the
Dean of Libraries, the Office of the Chief Technology Officer of Information
Technology Services, and the Office of the Vice Provost for Global Activities
at New York University.
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Membership
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Research
and Development
Areas of research can be categorized in a historical context
as well as a thematic context. The project began its focus, in terms of
a historical trajectory, with the Conquest, specifically the history of
the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries. As a second stage, the project
examined Colonization, from the 17th and 18th century experiences in the
Americas. A third phase examined experiences of Nationalisms in the Americas,
generally of the 19th century. The fourth phase of research focused on
issues of the 20th and 21st centuries, specifically the effects of Globalization
and Migration in the Public Sphere. In thematic contexts, areas of research
can be described by the following topics of the annual Encuentros: "Performance
and Politics in the Americas"; "Memory, Atrocity and Resistance";
"Globalization, Migration, and the Public Sphere"; and "Spectacles
of Religiosities".
The development of
each of these areas of research is organized around the following:
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