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Transnationalizing the National and the International: Buenos Aires' First International Festival of Theatre, Music, and Dance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2002

Jean Graham-Jones
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Abstract

In October 1997 the City of Buenos Aires hosted its first International Festival of theatre, music, dance, and the visual arts with performances by groups from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Latin American theorists, among them Fernando Ortiz and Angel Rama, who have long considered such a transcultural event not as culturally transcendent but, rather, as culturally transformative, provide a frame for reading the Buenos Aires Festival as a site of transnational and transcultural operations. Particular focus is placed on the Festival's geopolitico-cultural project, constructed out of the complex relations of local, national, regional, and international politics and performance.

Type
Research Article
Information
Theatre Research International , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , March 2002 , pp. 58 - 67
Copyright
© 2002 International Federation for Theatre Research

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