Artist Helen Ceballos to Perform in the Bentley Theater

El cuerpo y la ruina/Body and Ruins 

The 19th Annual Stonewall Performance and Artist Conversation

Wednesday, April 10, 2019
5:00pm-6:30pm
Bentley Theater

Sponsored by the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 
and the Department of Theater

Helen Ceballos, a multidisciplinary artist based in San Juan, Puerto Rico will be performing her piece "El cuerpo y la ruina/Body and Ruins" followed by and artist talk and question-and-answer session. Ceballos is the Department of Women's Gender, & Sexuality Studies's Nineteenth Annual Stonewall Speaker.

Students are encouraged to attend a workshop with Helen Ceballos at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, April 8, in 105 Dartmouth Hall. Please contact Prof. Analola Santana to sign up! This workshop is connected to Prof. Santana's Spring Term class THEA 10.65: Performeras on the Latin American Stage.

Ceballos uses her body to explore images of herself in relation with sounds, videos and space. Her work explores the relationship between diaspora and the erotic, props and technological tools as affective mediations between herself and her community. With her images she creates auto fictional narratives that involve aspects of her personal history tracing diasporic relations with Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba and Puerto Rico. Her work has been shown in several countries: Dominican Republic, Argentina, United States, Mexico, Spain, Catalonia, Germany and Puerto Rico. She has presented her performance work in the KM0 International Performance Festival in the Dominican Republic (2017), in ORG gallery in Barcelona (2018), the International Performance Festival La Muga Caula, Girona (2018), the OKK Gallery in Berlin and the alternative space Cómplices in Madrid. As a producer, in 2013, she created Mezcolanza in Buenos Aires, a performance alternative festival where she invited different artists tp present their works in different spaces in Latin America, the United States, Europe and the Caribbean. In Puerto Rico she directed in 2016, La Casa de Cultura Ruth Hernández Torres, a cultural center where she coordinated community workshops, exhibitions, talks, concerts and other artistic activities until its closure after Hurricane Maria. After the hurricane, Ceballos created in 2017 a community-based project called Ráfaga Solidaria offering artistic workshops to the elderly communities throughout the island. She is currently working in the Queer Innovation and Resilience Circuit organization (C.I.R.Q) as a director of artistic and cultural programs for the LGBTTQI community.