Mila Aponte-González HIDVL Project Manager

Mila Aponte-González is a curator/archivist for the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, and a researcher with the Escuela Internacional de Teatro de América Latina y el Caribe (EITALC). Mila is also a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at NYU. She received her B.A. with honors in both Theater and Comparative Literature from the University of Puerto Rico (2002) and her M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU (2004). Her research interests include Latin American experimental theater, collaborative creation, performing objects, the performance of translation, embodied activism, dramaturgy, and the interplay between memory and performance. She is currently working on a dissertation that looks at the collaborative theater projects of Puerto Rican artists Rosa Luisa Márquez and Antonio Martorell and Ecuadorian Grupo de Teatro Malayerba, in order to develop a methodology for the dramaturgical analysis of process-based collaborative performance. She is also a performer in her own terms, linking theater, music, dance, video, masks and objects in her pieces, which have been recently seen in San Juan, New York and Barcelona.