Llontop

Poetry and Performance by Irma Alvarez-Ccoscco
Directed by Ashley Tata
Lighting Design by Lucrecia Briceño
Video Design by Eamonn Farrell
Paul Pinto – Musician
Liz Davito – Musician
Jessica Weinstein – Performer
Adrian Cameron – Digital Systems
Eliana Yost – Stage Manager
Eduardo Reséndiz – Sound Engineer

Production photos by Bob MacDonald

Llontop was made possible with funding by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Theater Project, with lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and additional support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, by Net/TEN, and by the A.R.T./New York Small Theatres Fund with Production design support provided by the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Fund, a program of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York). The production has been developed through generous residencies at Royal Family Theater, Coffey Studios, Mayday Space, Eastern Mennonite University, The Princeton Quechua Workshop, The Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology at Connecticut College, and two ASAP Artist Space at Pregones Residencies at Pregones/PRTT.

Anonymous Ensemble was founded in 2001 and has created new work every year since. We have presented work throughout New York City and the United States, as well as in Greece, England, Scotland, Norway, Germany, and Australia. We value creating community wherever we are and we ask how the audience can be co-creators of each performance event. Prior works include Flight, Songs from a Tall Room, LIEBE LOVE AMOUR!, Turing, Ship of Fools, Braid, I Land, The Return, Troop Troupe, a Wonderland, Wanderlust, and The Best. Learn more at www.anonymousensemble.org.

Irma Álvarez-Ccoscco is a Quechua poet from Apurímac Perú. She is also a song-poem (taki) performer, a language activist supporting the use of indigenous languages in software environments (L1), as well as a translator, educator, and an interpreter of visual art to written forms. Selections of her poetic work can be read in both print and digital magazines from the United States and Perú, such as Ínsula Barataria, Atuqpa Chupan, and And Then 21. Álvarez-Ccoscco has participated in projects focused on the localization of various software programs, including: educational games for children Tux for Kids and the Chamilo e-learning environment. She also participated in the implementation of the first offline dictionary for indigenous languages, Simidicand has worked on podcast projects such as Llaqtaypa Rimaynin, and together with the Kichwa community of NYC, she has recently contributed to Amaru Taytakunapak. On social media she manages @hablemosquechua, a bot that shares tweets in Quechua. Álvarez-Ccoscco was a fellow of the Smithsonian Artist Leadership Program and undertook research at the Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC within the Quechua community archives. Under the auspices of the Campesino Animation program (Animación Campesina) at the Centro Bartolomé de las Casas in Cusco, she led Quechua community workshops such as L1 “Runasimipi Qillqaspa”. In her career as a poet-performer, she writes in Quechua without translation or generates bilingual and multilingual creations, including: “Kawsaq” and “Abyayala”.

This program is also made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the Governor’s Office and the New York State Legislature. For a full list of our funders, visit www.pregonesprtt.org.

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