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The Cancion Cannibal Cabaret & Other Songs (2019) is a hybrid manuscript experimenting with poetry at the intersection of performance. As a text, it is a collection of post-apocalyptic prose poems and poem songs “cannibalizing” knowledge from before the fall of civilization. Focused on the theme of revolution and inspired by contemporary issues of social justice, the manuscript is set in a not-so-distant dystopian future. After an environmental apocalypse, a refugee raised under the oppressive State, "La Madre Valiente," studies secretly to become the leader of a feminist revolution. While the revolutionary figure remains in hiding, her emissaries Las Hijas de la Madre roam the land telling her story, educating others, and enlisting allies in revolution. The show the audience witnesses is staged as one of these traveling propaganda rallies aimed at galvanizing supporters to joining the Mujerista Resistance against the State. In performance, The Canción Cannibal Cabaret is a Xicana punk rock musical—part concept album, part radio play. Following a successful Texas tour, this show has now been performed in San Antonio, Austin, Houston, Dallas, San Marcos, McAllen, Harlingen, Edinburg, and Victoria, Texas. Coming to Barcelona in June 2022!
With financial support from a Fund for the Arts San Antonio Artist Grant by the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, Amalia Ortiz produced three music videos for poem-songs from her book. Directed by Pepe García Gilling:
Released nationally in 2019. Order your copy now from Aztlan Libre Press.
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