Jesusa Rodríguez, Pedagogy of Stones

Jesusa Rodriguez, a major performer, director, activist, and political figure from Mexico, will be offering a workshop, Pedagogy of Stones, that helps us understand group process. Can participants in any undertaking devise a clear goal and a workable method for working together to assure that they reach their goal? Rodríguez's practice based workshop is fun, illuminating, and deeply revealing. It makes evident something that all creators need to know: can this particular group of individuals work together to accomplish their collective goal?

Participants are asked to bring a stone, and wear comfortable clothes. This workshop is only open to current NYU students. Reservations are required to attend this event. Reservations will open up to students in mid September. 

This event is consponsored by the Center for Research & Study and the Department of Performance Studies. 

BIO:

Jesusa Rodríguez is a mexican director, actress, playwright, performance artist, scenographer, entrepreneur, and social activist Jesusa Rodríguez has been called the most important woman of Mexico. Often referred to as a "chameleon," Rodríguez moves seemingly effortlessly and with vigor across the spectrum of cultural forms, styles, and tones. Her "espectáculos" (as both spectacles and shows) challenge traditional classification, crossing with ease generic boundaries: from elite to popular to mass, from Greek tragedy to cabaret, from pre-Columbian indigenous to opera, from revue, sketch and "carpa," to performative acts within political projects. Humor, satire, linguistic play, and the body are constants in her productions. She ran the famous El Hábito Cabaret Bar in Mexico City with her wife, Liliana Felipe, where they staged hundreds of shows over the course of fifteen years. As an activist, she led the Resistencia Creativa movement in Mexico, whose key strategy is using "massive cabaret" as a tool for political action. She was a national Senator and now serves as Advisor to the President of Mexico on Indigenous affairs.