Mapping the Rio
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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.
Publication Date
2024
City
El Paso
Keywords
Rio Grande, Performance, River, El Paso, Water, Memory
Disciplines
Dance | Fine Arts | Performance Studies
Recommended Citation
Melpignano, Melissa and Candia, Aliah J., "Mapping the Rio" (2024). Mapping the Rio. 1.
https://scholarworks.utep.edu/map_rio/1