Sites of Rehearsal

Amant and the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) invite visitors to a walk-through, screening, and conversation on the occasion of Natalia Lassalle-Morillo exhibition En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy. A film and theater commission that reimagines the tragedy of Antigone with a cast of Puerto Ricans based in Puerto Rico and its New York City diaspora, this first chapter of En Parábola is a work of collaboration between Natalia and New York-based collaborators, who are co-writers and performers of this film. This event will offer visitors a glimpse into the process with which it is created.

After a special screening of En Parábola at 3 pm, Natalia and the New York-based cast, Emma Suárez Báez, Raquel Aurelia Rodríguez, Erica Ballester and Nina Lucia Rodriguez, will be joined by Natalia Viera Salgado, the Associate Curator at the National Academy of Design who organized this presentation of En Parábola at Amant. Together, they will discuss the collaborative process of re-assembling the myth of Antigone and how it intersects with their personal histories of migration.

This event is co-organized with CENTRO and is free and open to the public. RSVPs are encouraged and drop-ins welcome.