Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Indigurrito

I just wanted to throw out there that, in reading Arrizon's piece on Laura Esparza and Nao Bustamante, I got a sense that "Indigurrito" was a TON more aggressive than it actually was (or at least seemed from the filmed version we watched in class). I felt immensely alienated by what I imagined the performance to be upon reading what Arrizon had to say. But upon watching Bustamante, I had none of those strong feelings I expected to feel. I had imagined her yelling militantly to the white men in the audience to come up, rather than asking humorously and in a soft, sensual tone. I just wondered if anybody else was expecting something different from what we saw in the video.

1 comment:

  1. Thank you, Christine, for this post. I think that the difference between the performance itself - which pivots on a certain use of humor, along with a more burlesque/camp aesthetic - and Arrizón's interpretation of it is vast. What a difference the visual/embodied can make! This is a lesson to all scholars of theatre and performance...thank you for voicing this opinion.

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