Saturday, October 01, 2011
Spanish-language theater festival opens Friday
MiamiHerald.com: Last year, Sandra and Ernesto García made another one of their dreams come true, creating TEMFest 2010 to celebrate (and demonstrate) the growth and variety of Miami’s Spanish-language theater. The Teatro en Miami Studio founders, who came to the United States from Cuba in 1995 after winning a visa lottery, pulled off their first festival the way they have done so many things: creating something valuable out of next to nothing through a combination of hard work, vision and partnerships with other talented theater artists.
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I was lucky enough to see a play in spanish for class last weekend (Pig Iron's "Poet in New York") and in my response to that, I mentioned how great it was to use language as another way of exploring culture. Both the school of drama and the modern language department sent students to the show, and perhaps this is an area where more teamwork can come about. Applying what one learns in language class to the arts and vice versa gives an experience one can't get in the classroom, and even non-foreign-language-speakers can stand to learn a lot from seeing theatre written in other languages, and seeing how the conventions of staging tell the story, and how it affects their take on the entire performance.
I think it's a great thing to be able to feature theatre originating from a different culture. To have an entire festival dedicated to theatre in Spanish is a really neat opportunity to broaden one's horizons and see how theatrical work is different in a different language. It's also good to see how well the first festival was received by critics and audiences, and that they will continue on this year. During my time in Mexico, there was a large regional theater built in my city which hosted various performance groups and productions in Spanish, and I think it's neat to see these featured in the US as well.
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