The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics

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.

Read about CAI's roundtable at the Performing Heritage: Contemporary Indigenous and Community Based Practices HEMI's "encuentro"in Brazil 2005.

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The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics

Performing Heritage: Contemporary Indigenous and Community Based Practices