Apocalypce Mañana

Continually expanding the boundaries of Chicano/Mexicano art and culture, pioneer performance Guillermo Gómez-Peña team with Silvana Straw and Juan Ybarra to delve into the depths of the human condition in the millennium in the work cultural borders borders are moved to the center, the alleged main stream is pushed to the margins, and audience members are positioned as "foreigners" or "minorities" Specially comissioned for Out North Contemporary Art House Apocalypce Mañana interwines several pieces of multi-lingual spoken word poetry with a complex sound-scape. Shifting between languages.

 

 

 

 

 

Guillermo Gómez-Peña

For 20 years, performance artist and writer Guillermo Gómez-Peña has been exploring intercultural issues with the use of mixed genres and experimental languages. Continually developing multi-centric narratives from a border perspective, Gómez-Peña creates what critics have termed "Chicano cyber-punk performances," and "ethno techno art." In his work, cultural borders have moved to the center while wile the alleged mainstream is pushed to the margins and treated as exotic and unfamiliar, placing The audience members in the position of "foreiners" or "minorities." He mixes English and Spanish, fact and fiction, social reality and pop culture, chicano humor and activist politics to create a "total esperience" for the viewer/reader/audience member. These estrategies can be found in his live performance work. his commentaries for All thing Considered (NPR), his award-winning video video art pieces and his five published books.

Juan Ybarra

Actor, dancer, and choreographer whose work combines diverse styles including Decroux mime, Butoh, contact improvisation, and martial arts. Ybarra has taught at Univercity Centre of Theatre, the National Institute of Fine Arts Montreal, and La Casa del Teatro (Mexico City). He has performed with Pocha nostra in the Indian Queen (1998), BORDERscape (2000), Jurasic Aztlán (2000) and The Museum of Fetish-ized identities (2002/2001)

 

 

 

 

Silvana Straw

She is a solo performer, poet and cultural organizer from Washington, D.C. Her most recent solo performanca Sacred of Myself: The return of Uncle Silvana, comisioned by the Washington Performing Arts Society, premiered in D.C. in 2000 to sould-out audiences. Other solo performances include: Teratophobia: an abnormal fear to monsters of giving birth to one and the Uncle Silvana Show. As Washington's first poetry Slam Champion, She represented D.C. at the national Slam in 1993-1994.he colaborated with Guillermo Gómez-Peña in 1998 Guadalupe-Hidalgo Performance Dinner and The Dangerous Border Game. She is the recipient of the Outstanding Women Poets Award, Larry Neal Writers Award and fellowships from the D.C. Commision on the Arts. Recent Publications include: The Indiana The indiana Review and Gargoyle and on CD, Meow: Spoken Word from The Black Cat. She currently volunteers as a workshop leader for young Poets through DC WritersCorp and is working on a new manuscript.