La Pocha Nostra’s Pedagogy
by Guillermo Gómez-Peña & Roberto Sifuentes [MEX/USA]
Devised by Pedro Antunes & a group of 24 amazing performers
Presented in Escrita na Paisagem, Évora
This performance was created during the La Pocha Nostra Summer School (Escrita na Paisagem, Evora, 2008) by a collective of 25 international ‘rebel artists thinking together, exchanging ideas, fears and aspirations and jumping into “the abyss” together’ (La Pocha Manifesto)
‘La Pocha practices collaboration across national borders, race, gender and generations as an act of citizen diplomacy and as a means to create “ephemeral communities” of like-minded rebels. The basic premise of these collaborations is founded on the idea that if we can negotiate difference on stage or around a table, we can certainly do it in the social sphere. If we learn to cross borders on stage, we may learn how to do so in the world. And, we hope others will be challenged to do the same.’ (La Pocha Manifesto)
La Pocha Nostra is neither an ensemble, nor a troupe. We are more of a conceptual “laboratory”, for the want of a better term; a loose association of rebel artists thinking together, exchanging ideas, fears and aspirations and jumping into “the abyss” together. (La Pocha Manifesto).
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