"Nightwind" - in a harrowing solo performance, Hector Aristizabal reenacts his arrest and torture by the US-supported military in Colombia and explores possible outcomes. Violent rage? Or a channeling of the impulse and energy into the peace movement?
After the 30-minute performance, Hector will lead a participatory workshop where he invites the audience to express their reactions to the images of torture from the play by creating their own images in response. Working with these images often leads to an exploration of ideas on how to break cycles of violence at a personal and cultural level. Hector Aristizábal is a native from Medellin Colombia and currently lives in Pasadena CA. Hector's commitment to human rights work forced him to leave his country in 1989 due to death threats. Founder of ImaginAction, he is a theater director, actor, and a practitioner of the techniques known as Theater of the Oppressed, developed by Brazilian Augusto Boal. During the last 15 years Hector's main work and interest has been on the use of these techniques, along with traditional myths and story telling as a way to combine theater, drumming, and dance with psychotherapy in the creation of "modern rituals" as a way to address the healing needs of many of our communities.
ImaginAction is a traveling theatre arts company that dazzles the heart and awakens the spirit through the performance of ancient folk tales and original works. We offer storytelling, full length plays, theatre of the oppressed workshops and intercultural ceremonies that are based in respect for personal stories and traditional ways. We delight in cultivating empathy among youth and elders, the human family of cultures, nations and religions by forging a dynamic arena where people listen to and tell stories that can transform fear into friendship, despair into hope, doubt into understanding.
"Nightwind" Sunday, April 24th 7pm Sandglass Theater Tickets $13
To make Reservations Contact: Cara Trezise <mailto:caramiamusic@gmail.com> @gmail.com 315-694-8072
