Revolutions 2019. Why does it matter?
Like most working people, I think often about my job and its function. I am an artist. What do we artists do? What is our responsibility? Are we doing enough with our work? How and what are we contributing to the world? I tap back into those questions when I’m curating the festival. I go back to the Revolutions mission: to bring work from around the world to New Mexico, to provide and create opportunities to experience other cultures and countries through theatre, to create a platform for all voices so that we may listen and learn from each other. Artists reflect the human condition. Artists open space and teach empathy. Artists are truth tellers. We all need to be paying attention to artists. We should listen not only to what artists are saying but how , where, and why they are saying it. We learn about each other through these performances, but then what do we do with that knowledge? We can expand our understanding of the world, make choices, create change. When an a...