Por Leonora Gabucio Vivir de gira en el circo y vivir en ciudad son dos cosas muy, pero muy diferentes. La diferencia que para mí es la más grande y difícil es no siempre poder ver a mis amigos y familia. Muchas veces te pierdes de eventos importantes como bodas, graduaciones o cumpleaños, pues en [...]
By Leonora Gabucio There are many differences between living on the road and living in a town or city. The biggest one for me is not always being able to see friends and family, being in a different town every day (on the US tour), or every month (on Mexican tours). During tours, you miss [...]
By Fredric Dannen In 1945, the director Frank Capra read a short story by Philip Van Doren Stern entitled The Greatest Gift and immediately saw its potential as a movie. The story concerned a suicidal man named George Pratt, who one Christmas Eve is granted a wish to have never been born. Pratt returns to [...]
By Leonora Gabucio The circus world is a rich one. You get to know many different personalities, cultures, traditions, and languages. You may see the same discipline—such as trapeze—but you will never ever see the same performance twice, even if done by the same person. All artists bring their own personality, looks, tricks, even beliefs [...]
By Alan Jordan San Miguel de Allende’s Caja Negra has quickly developed a reputation for presenting provocative literature from the world stage. Its productions have included House, Diary Of A Madman, I Am My Own Wife, By The Waters Of Babylon, The Tricky Part, Building The Wall, An Act Of God, Wiesenthal, and now Kiss [...]
By Eréndira Gordillo GravityWorks School of the New Circus Arts, with its group GravityKids, will present for the third time its aerial adaptation of The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky, with a cast of 20 acrobats aged eight and up. GravityKids have performed in different events and venues throughout San Miguel de Allende, including for Desarollo Integral [...]
By Alan Jordan When I start to do research on a play that I am considering for production, I usually start by listening to music of the period and location. With Kiss of the Spider Woman, the music of Argentina was inspirational, and while working at home, I always had incredible tango music playing in [...]
Por Eréndira Gordillo Una vez más El Teatro Ángela Peralta se engalana con “El Cascanueces” de Tchaikovsky con una adaptación aérea de Ana Cecilia Corona. GravityWorks Escuela de las Nuevas Artes Circenses, con su grupo de GravityKids presenta por 3ª ocasión su adaptación aérea de la obra maestra “El Cascanueces” los días 7 y 8 [...]
By Alan Jordan On this fortieth anniversary of the award-winning novel, El beso de la mujer araña by renowned Argentinean writer Manuel Puig, Caja Negra has the honor of presenting the original play Kiss of the Spider Woman, in English. The intensely compelling novel was written in 1979, and then came the groundbreaking dramatic play, the award-winning film, and then the [...]
Por Ya Ya Silva Sexy, circo, teatro son tres palabras que podrían describir la premier de Tuxen, el show que se presenta por únicas dos funciones en San Miguel Allende este 21 y 22 de Noviembre en el Teatro Ángela Peralta, 7 pm. “Tuxen: Vivir al límite” es la creación original de Christian Baumgartner, [...]
The City’s Pre-Christmas Festivities Begin
Company’s Aerial Tours over San Miguel Grounded
Artist Mai Onno Donates Painting to Biblioteca’s Permanent Art Collection
Private Transport Service Wants More Police Patrols on San Miguel Roads
A Community Day to Brighten Casa Hogar Mexiquito
Gypsy Blues Comes to Shelter Theater
