Musical theatre event celebrates Latinas
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This year's Convocation series includes an evening of music, dance, and poetry celebrating the lives of three prominent Latinas in the performance of the play, "Tres Vidas," by an ensemble of musicians and an actress, the Core Ensemble. The event is Monday, March 10, at 7 p.m. in Juliet J. Rosch Recital. Admission is free and open to the public.
"Tres Vidas" celebrates the life, times and work of three significant Latin and South American Women: painter Frida Kahlo of Mexico, peasant activist Rufina Amaya of El Salvador and poet Alfonsina Storni of Argentina.
With storylines including Frida Kahlo’s dramatic and passionate relationship with painter Diego Rivera, Rufina Amaya’s astounding singular survival of the massacre at El Mozote and Alfonsina Storni’ life long challenges as Argentina’s first great feminist poet, "Tres Vidas" presents dramatic situations timeless in their emotional appeal and connection to audiences across all gender and ethnic spectrums.
From a script written by Chilean poet/writer Marjorie Agosin, actress Georgina Corbo offers powerful portrayals of each woman and includes the singing of traditional Mexican folk songs as well as Argentinean popular and tango songs made famous by Mercedes Sosa and Carlos Gardel. Additional music by Astor Piazzolla, Orlando Garcia, Pablo Ortiz, Alice Gomez, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Michael DeMurga and Osvaldo Golijov round out the musical score.
Since its inception in 1993, the Core Ensemble has toured nationally to every region of the United States and internationally to England, Russia, the Ukraine, Australia and the British Virgin Islands. The Ensemble was the recipient of the 2000 Eugene McDermott Award for Excellence in the Arts awarded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has received support from the State of Florida Department of Cultural Affairs, New England Foundation for the Arts, Palm Beach County Cultural Council, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music and the Virgil Thomson Foundation.
A native of Cuba, actress Georgina Corbo is a graduate of the acting program at SUNY Purchase. Her television appearances include: Law & Order and New York Undercover. Her film work includes: It’s Always Something. She has appeared onstage in several on/off Broadway productions as well as at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C and at the Russian International Theatre Festival in St. Petersburg.
