Jesusa Rodriguez

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Jesusa Rodríguez (Mexico City, 1955) is a Mexican director, actress, playwright, performance artist, scenographer, entrepreneur and social activist. Her "espectáculos" (as both spectacles and shows) challenge traditional classification, crossing with ease generic boundaries: from elite to popular to mass, from Greek tragedy to cabaret, from pre-Columbian indigenous to opera, from revue, sketch and "carpa," to performative acts within political projects. She and her partner, Argentine singer/actor Liliana Felipe, operated El Habito and Teatro de la Capilla, alternative performances spaces in Mexico City, until 2005. In the 1980's Rodríguez gained popularity when she directed an adaption of Mozart's Don Giovanni, featuring and all-female cast and entitled Donna Giovanni (1983), and Oskar Panizza's El Concilio de Amor (The Council of Love) in 1988. They have won an Obie for Best Actor in Las Horas de Belén, A Book of Hours (1999) with Ruth Maleczech and New York-based Mabou Mines. Rodríguez contributes regularly to Mexico's most important feminist journal, Debate Feminista.

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Costantino, Roselyn. 2000. “Visibility as Strategy: Jesusa Rodríguez’s Body in Play.” Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas. Ed. Coco Fusco. London and New York: Routledge: 63-77.