@skenepub.bsky.socialHow do you build a career when nobody knows your name? No reputation, no network, no one to vouch for you, and a field that feels like everyone already knows each other. I know that feeling exactly, because I've started from zero not once, but twice.
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@skenepub.bsky.socialItzhel Razo turns the personal into material for the stage. Bali taught her how sacred the stage can be. Her own journey taught her how difficult it can be to make space for an artistic voice.
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@skenepub.bsky.socialFor Itzhel Razo, theatre is a space for purging, unconcealment, and transformation. Her work begins with the personal to confront the collective, bringing taboo subjects, social monsters, and cultural demons into the light.
@skenepub.bsky.socialLately I keep seeing the same argument online: theatre is just too expensive now. Tickets are out of control. And I get it, they are high. But here's what almost no one in that audience knows: the ticket price isn't the problem. The ticket barely covers anything.
@skenepub.bsky.socialThis Hispanic Heritage Month, meet five Latinx artists who command the stage, each in a completely different language. An aerialist suspended in air. A singer. An actor. A dancer. Every one of them holds a room the way only they can.
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@skenepub.bsky.socialFor scenic designer Hernán Peñuela, theatre has always been magic.
He was five when his parents first took him to a performance. Surrounded by music, light, actors, and scenery, he felt as if he were traveling through imagination.
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@skenepub.bsky.socialWhat if beauty could actually save us?
For scenic designer Hernán Peñuela, theatre began as a spaceship traveling through his imagination. That sense of wonder never left. Beauty, intuition, and the magic of making something.
Tomorrow on SKENE.
@skenepub.bsky.socialFor years, being a Latinx designer in US theatre could feel solitary and invisible, too often the only Latinx voice on an entire production team. Then, in the summer of 2020, a Facebook group and a single Zoom party became something bigger: La Gente.
@skenepub.bsky.socialHow do you land your first design gig? Everybody thinks the answer is a great portfolio and a lot of applications. That's part of it. But here's what nobody tells you: your first design job almost never comes from a stranger reading your resume.
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🌼 Sol Kellan: The Savage Poetry of Flowers.
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🧳 El Viaje del Ermitaño: Génesis.
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🎉 Ana Daniela Pérez Davis: Something I Celebrate.
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@skenepub.bsky.socialHace un año, Roberto Mosqueda terminó una gira por Latinoamérica, Estados Unidos y Europa con Mon Laferte. Después vino el vacío.
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@skenepub.bsky.socialRoberto Mosqueda estrenó La Leyenda del Ermitaño hace un año, como regalo para su cumpleaños número 40. Se convirtió en una obra que ha girado por México y Latinoamérica, sostenida por los espacios independientes y autogestivos que la recibieron.
@skenepub.bsky.socialThis Hispanic Heritage Month, meet five Latina artists who shape how a character looks. From Brazil to Mexico to the United States, they decide what you see the moment a character steps into the light.
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@skenepub.bsky.socialAna Daniela Pérez Davis has been dancing since she was three. Growing up in Panamá, she learned early how art brings people together, but it was seeing Aladdin on Broadway at ten that made her think, I want to do that.
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@skenepub.bsky.socialHere's something I give my first-year grad students before any design exercise. It's called The Artist Date, from Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way.
We tend to think of creativity as a faucet. Turn it on, it flows, you make the work. But it's not a faucet. It's a well.
@skenepub.bsky.socialMartín Acuña launched Backstage Talk two and a half weeks before Broadway went dark. Six years later it is the only Latin American musical theatre podcast bridging New York and Latin America.
New OFFSTAGE drops this Friday.