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Guest Editorial - Take a Friend
to the Theater
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| We all know we have an architectural and acoustic gem in our Angela Peralta Theater. Please note I say “we” and “our.” We who are reading this editorial in English. |
| Yes, we tourists, we part and full-time foreign residents attend with joy and delight performances at the Angela Peralta. However, we see mainly American and Canadian faces. I call upon each reader to bring a Mazatleco with you the next time you come to the theater. Raul Rico (head of Cultura), admits that it is the foreign community which supports our pearl of a theater. |
| Raul knows something that you and I know, too. He knows nationals say they do not attend the theater because they have no education in the performing arts. Did we? I did not. I needed exposure. Repeated exposure. I believe we all need exposure. If one has no experience with travel, different foods, museums, do we know what we are “seeing?” |
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A personal story of which I am not particularly proud: prior to March 26, 2004, I had eschewed contemporary dance. I had thought that classical ballet was “the only way to go.” However, on that date, at the Angela Peralta, I saw a large net on stage as the only prop. Then the spiders/dancers, dressed in black, climbed/danced up, down, sideways on the spider web. They danced incredibly, moved incredibly. But then, totally unexpectedly, came the iguanas. The “spiders” tried to flee for their lives. I do not know if that segment lasted ten minutes or an hour. William Wordsworth defined art as “a momentary suspension of disbelief.” The disbelief of which he wrote was the forgetting where one was, what one was thinking or doing, so momentarily immersed is one in the art. Needless to say, I learned another joy. I was exposed. Again, I call upon you to expose someone. |
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Raul Rico is doing his darnedest. His MAZFEST is
a major outreaching to our Sinaloa friends. All the free events
are exceedingly well attended, and well received. I congratulate
him.
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I also take this opportunity to thank the Friends
of Mexico for creating a scholarship in my late husband’s name at
the Angela Peralta, to thank Ricardo Urquijo for suggesting a contest
among the students of the Center for the Arts and for Stars of Tomorrow,
named by Jackie Peterson.
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| Talk to your national friends and neighbors about the performing arts. Expose them, educate them and then bring them to the Angela Peralta. |
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Katherine Kolyer
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Mazatlán resident and former world traveler
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