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Salvage Vanguard Theater Works Progress Austin: Casta by Adrienne Dawes

Presented by Salvage Vanguard Theater at The Hicks House at Austin Seminary, Austin TX

Dec 22 2017
Salvage Vanguard Theater Works Progress Austin: Casta by Adrienne Dawes

Casta is inspired by a series of casta paintings by Miguel Cabrera, a mixed-race painter from Oaxaca. Casta paintings were a unique form of portraiture that organized racial mixtures of the New World according to a hierarchy defined by Spanish elite

The complexities of contemporary racial identity(ies) are echoed in this distant mirror of casta paintings. How do Old World anxieties about ambiguous racial identity reflect contemporary biases?

This is the third WPA workshop for Casta. In this current draft of Casta, the creative team is incorporating puppetry, expanding music by composer Graham Reynolds and exploring bilingual text. After a week of developing these new elements, audiences are invited to witness the piece in its current ... view more »

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The Hicks House at Austin Seminary

100 E 27th St., Austin, TX 78705

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