Friday, March 06, 2009
"Tres Vidas" tells stories of Kahlo, Amaya, and Storni through music, theatre
 The Core Ensemble, featuring Tahirah Whittington, cello, Hugh Hinton, piano, and Michael Parola, percussion, along with actress Georgina Corbo, will perform the chamber music theatre work “Tres Vidas” at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 21, in Mitchell Auditorium in the Health Professions Center at the University of Southern Indiana. The event is free and open to the public.“Tres Vidas” celebrates the life, times, and work of three significant Latin American women: painter Frida Kahlo of Mexico, peasant activist Rufina Amaya of El Salvador, and poet Alfonsina Storni of Argentina. With storylines including Kahlo’s dramatic and passionate relationship with painter Diego Rivera, Amaya’s astounding singular survival of the massacre at El Mozote, and Storni’s life-long challenges as Argentina’s first great feminist poet, “Tres Vidas” “presents dramatic situations timeless in their emotional appeal and connection to audiences across all gender and ethnic spectrums.” The Boston Globe said “Tres Vidas" is “a dazzling command of music vernacular, here the Latin America kind…if the chance arises to see ‘Tres Vidas,’ seize it.” From a script written by Chilean poet and writer Marjorie Agosin, Corbo offers powerful portrayals of each woman and sings traditional Mexican folk songs as well as Argentinean popular and tango songs made famous by Mercedes Sosa and Carlos Gardel. Additional music by Astor Piazzolla, Orlando Garcia, Pablo Ortiz, Alice Gomez, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Michael DeMurga and Osvaldo Golijov round out the musical score. A native of Cuba, Corbo is a graduate of the acting program at SUNY Purchase. Her television appearances include “Law & Order” and “New York Undercover.” She has appeared onstage in several on- and off-Broadway productions as well as at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C and at the Russian International Theatre Festival in St. Petersburg. Since its inception in 1993, The Core Ensemble has toured nationally to every region of the United States and internationally to England, Russia, Ukraine, Australia, and the British Virgin Islands. The Ensemble was the recipient of the 2000 Eugene McDermott Award for Excellence in the Arts awarded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has received support from the State of Florida Department of Cultural Affairs, New England Foundation for the Arts, Palm Beach County Cultural Council, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and Virgil Thomson Foundation. The event is sponsored by the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Educational and Cultural Advancement for Latinos, Inc., USI International Programs and Services, and the University Core Curriculum. Wendy Knipe Bredhold News & Information Services 812/461-5259 or wkbredhold@usi.edu |
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