Robert Cohen - Theatre, Brief Version-McGraw-Hill Education (2016)

282 Chapter 10 Global Theatre Today
The Argentine movement art company De La Guarda was founded in 1993 by a group of theatre students who, unable
to find acting jobs upon graduation, created their own, highly original form of expression in interactive aerial ballet.
Company performers mostly fly over and into their standing, swaying audience—which is simultaneously assaulted
by rain, smoke, and wind and blasted by pummeling music and sound. The company’s most recent production,
Fuertzabruta (Brute Force)—seen here in its run at the Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland—has elements of
circus, rave, rock concert, striptease, and fraternity party and has been performed around the world. © Geraint Lewis
John Leguizamo, shown here in
New York’s Central Park in 2014,
presents his solo performance of
his fifth one-man show, Ghetto
Klown, free of charge to all
comers. In his show he reflects
on—and performs—everything
from his Latino upbringing in
Queens to his twenty-year career
interactions with Al Pacino, Sean
Penn, and his late acting teacher,
Lee Strasberg. “The beautiful thing
I’ve learned about being an artist,”
he says, is seeing “beauty in the
darkest parts of human nature.”
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