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Cara
Mía Theatre Co. (Dallas) & Laboratorio de la
Máscara (Mexico City) Directed by Alicia
Mártinez Álvarez July 2011 Latino Cultural
Center Cara Mía Theatre Co.
and the Laboratorio de la Máscara (Mask
Laboratory) from Mexico City continue with the
second year of a three-year collaboration,
training in the performance of traditional Mexican
folk masks, led by Director Alicia Martínez
Álvarez. The two companies will also investigate
themes, people and events in Mexico-Texas history,
the infamous Mexican general Santa Anna, and the
rarely-discussed US-Mexican War. The bi-national
collaboration will culminate in a workshop
performance utilizing traditional festival masks
to represent African-American, North American,
Irish, and Mexican characters from the two
countries’ histories. A final workshop performance
will take place at the Latino Cultural Center in
Dallas.
In 2012, the two companies will
premiere a new play based on the US-Texas-Mexican
history in Dallas and Mexico City.
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About el Laboratorio de la
Máscara (Mask Laboratory)
Based in Mexico City, el Laboratorio de la
Máscara is a repertory company formed by
professionals from many disciplines, researching
the technical and artistic possibilities of the
mask. The company proposes theatrical works that
bind cultural roots with social reality. El
Laboratorio de la Máscara explores and reinvents
the creative possibilities of a lucid, popular and
contemporary theater.
El Laboratorio de la
Máscara has also developed a rigorous pedagogical
approach to the actor's training and professional
development around the theatrical mask's universe,
leading to a vast educational offer.
www.laboratoriodelamascara.org.mx
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About Alicia Martínez
Álvarez
Alicia Martínez Álvarez is
the General Director for Laboratorio de la Máscara. Her
work has been called “stunningly pure theater” by the
Dallas Morning News and she has led residencies and
presented plays throughout the world, including for US
theater companies Teatro Dallas and Dell’Arte
International in California. Ms. Martínez is a member of
the National System of Arts Creators (SNCA), a federal
program in Mexico that sponsors nationally and
internationally renowned artists. Her background
includes studying plastic arts at the National Institute
of Fine Arts (INBA) and later graduating from the
University Theater Center of the National Autonomous
University of Mexico (UNAM). She has also studied in
France, where she specialized in mask construction and
mask acting. One of her teachers was mask maker and
performer Jean-Marie Binoche. Alicia Martinez Alvarez
has been teaching for 16 years, working with actors and
musicians, teaching and designing scenic elements,
building and working with masks, and creating plays
using the language of the theatrical mask. www.laboratoriodelamascara.org.mx
For more information, contact Cara Mía Theatre Co.
at 214-717-5297 or info@caramiatheatre.com
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