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Mapping the Rio
Melissa Melpignano and Aliah J. Candia
Mapping the Rio is a multi-disciplinary performance that, through dance, sound, poetry, spoken word, body painting, origami art, and movement honors and revives the presence of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo in its present life and ancestral history by reactivating it in our collective space-time. The performance took place on April 27, 2023, in Downtown El Paso, where the Rio Grande once moved before its geological and human-induced shifts. The performance was developed by the UTEP Performances Studies Collective 2023, a group of 25 undergraduate and graduate students at UTEP from Theatre and Dance, Creative Writing, Chicano Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies, led by Dance and Performance Studies scholar-artist Dr. Melissa Melpignano, with the dramaturgical advice of Civil Engineer Dr. Alex Mayer.
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