06 Ana Martínez PhD, Urban performance / San Marcos
A conversation with assistant professor Ana Martínez, Ph.D, exploring dynamics of contested spaces, the power of collective memory in urban performance and the significance of the Zócalo, the central square in Mexico City.
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06 Ana Martínez PhD, Urban performance / San Marcos
Bio: Ana Martínez, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Texas State University. Her book Performance in the Zócalo: Constructing History, Race, and Identity in Mexico's Central Square from the Colonial Era to the Present (University of Michigan Press, 2020) was selected as one out of six finalists for the Theatre Library Association's 2020 George Freedley Memorial Award. Performance in the Zócalo addresses the ways in which Mexico City's central square, the Zócalo, manifests and contests its symbolic power through performance practices. Her chapter on the 2001 march by the Zapatistas to the Zócalo is included in Performance and the Global City. As a scholar, she integrates a knowledge of performance and spatial practices with socially grounded research. Her current research focuses on Latinx performance, migration, and environmentalism.
Education: PhD in Theatre Studies from the City University of New York Graduate Center; MA in Scenography from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London; Architecture degree from Universidad Anahuac in Mexico City.
Workplace: Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance, Texas State University
Current city: San Marcos, Texas (between Austin and San Antonio)
Buy the book: Performance in the Zócalo: Constructing History, Race, and Identity in México's Central Square from the Colonial Era to the Present (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020).
Save 30% at press.umich.edu with promotion code UMZOCALO
https://www.press.umich.edu/10160893/performance_in_the_zocalo
Websites of interest:
https://faculty.txstate.edu/profile/2164184
http://www.tla-online.org/awards/bookawards/freedley-award-finalists/
https://anamartinezscenography.carbonmade.com/
Publications:
Performance in the Zócalo: Constructing History, Race, and Identity in México's Central Square from the Colonial Era to the Present (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020). https://www.press.umich.edu/10160893/performance_in_the_zocalo
"Teatro Línea de Sombra durante la pandemia: Entrevista con Alicia Laguna y Jorge A. Vargas,"
Latin American Theatre Review 55, no. 1 (2021): 169¬–178.
https://doi.org/10.1353/ltr.2021.0022
"Distrito Federal: 'Global City, Ha, Ha, Ha!'" in Hopkins, D.J. and Kim Solga, eds. Performance and the Global City (New York: Palgrave, 2013).
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137367853_10
"Scenographies behind the Scenes: Mapping, Classifying, and Interpreting John Rich's 1744 Inventory of Covent Garden," in Barlow, Jeremy and Berta Joncus, eds. The Stage's Glory: John Rich (1642–1761) (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2011).
"Urban Scenographies: The Revolt of the Mannequins Visits Berlin," Western European Stages 21, no.2 (2009): 5–8.
"The 2007 Prague Quadrennial: 11th International Exhibition of Scenography and Theatre Architecture," Slavic and East European Performance 28, no.3 (2008): 61–72.
Johannes Dokchtor Faust by The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre," Slavic and East European Performance 28, no.1 (2008): 87–93.
"La Piel at Foro Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexico City," Theatre Journal 59, no.2 (2007): 302– 303.
http://libproxy.txstate.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25070021
"Interview: Entrevista con Agustín Meza," Latin American Theatre Review 40, no. 2 (2007): 135–139.
Audio / Video:
Special recognition to the video and songs authors and performers:
“Canción sin miedo” resuena en el Zócalo. La Jornada, March 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If84x4J41N8
Sights & Sounds of Mexico City
Sonidos del Distrito by Nanda Fernandez, Random Acts 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK9NT8KYHVs
Vivir Quintana - Canción sin miedo ft. El Palomar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLLyzqkH6cs
Key words:
Urban performance, contested spaces, collective memory, Zócalo, Mexico City, performance in the Zócalo, history, race, identity
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