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This video features documentation of an interview with Alina Troyano/Carmelita Tropicana at the Second Hemispheric Institute Encuentro, 'Memory, Atrocity and Resistance', in Monterrey, Mexico from June 14-23, 2001. With a great dose of humor, Carmelita begins the interview by giving a brief introduction of herself and her relationship with the Hemispheric Institute Encuentro. She discusses her roots in Havana, Cuba and her experiences of migrating to the United States. She also remembers the legendary night of performance surrounding identity politics at New Museum, The Studio Museum, and The Museum of Hispanic Arts (performers included Guillermo Gomez-Peña, David Wojnarowicz, and James Luna amongst others). It was this evening of performance as part of âThe Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980sâ that changed Carmelita's writing into a different personal tone and multi-dimensional style, referencing âMilk of Amnesiaâ at PS122 as an example of such writing.
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Where in the Phantasmagoria is Carmelita Tropicana: An Unserious Meditation on the Death/Retirement of New York’s Downtown Theater Scene and the Teachers Who Introduced Us to Those Weird Plays When We Were Students
Often when I attend a play described as “avant-garde,” “experimental,” or “downtown,” unease grips my body as I remember the blank stares I gave my grad school professors as they effortlessly unraveled the layers of plays like Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro or Des McAnuff’s Leave It to Beaver is Dead. Even ten years and two degrees later, these creeping feelings of intellectual inadequacy followed me into Soho Rep’s Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!, a collaboration between Loisaida queen Alina Troyano (a.k.a Carmelita Tropicana) and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. The marketing for the production, Soho Rep’s final in their Walker Street space, described the show as “an intergenerational debate about the ‘legacy’ of downtown New York…” Soho Rep’s imminent move uptown, the recent changes (or end) to decades-long downtown theaters, and aging prominent figures from the heyday of “the scene,” led me to think that what awaited might be a dirge for experimental theater in Lower Manhattan.
Instead, I was treated to slapstick metaphysical hijinks through an