PROXIMITIES/DISTANCES was a two-day event, exploring ideas and practices of proximity and distance in contemporary Spanish and Latin American theatre, performance and dance through the talks with creators and performers. Drawing on the current interest in relational strategies and investigating the connections between art and audiences, the aesthetic and the socio-political, it examined a diverse range of dramaturgies that bring these different media into contact.

Conference 1: Presentación Proximidades/Distancias: Prácticas Escénicas Contemporáneas

Cristina Colmena (NYU, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, PhD Program)

Ana Sánchez Acevedo (CUNY, The Graduate Center, HLBLL, PhD Program)

Conference 2: Haciendo zoom: distancias variables entre lo personal y lo político

Claudio Tolcachir (Argentina), Pablo Remón (España), Alejandro Moreno Jashés (Chile)

Modera Cristina Colmena (PhD Candidate, NYU)

~With the support of the King Juan Carlos Center (KJCC), the generous support of the Chair of NYU Department of Spanish and Portuguese, NYU Center for the Humanities, NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), NYU Department of Spanish and Portuguese, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and NYU Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics.~