This course explores the theories and current practices of Latin American theatre and performance. Particularly how Latin American theatre and performance has developed within, against and after contexts of dictatorships and neocolonialism. We will analyze how Latino/a American theorists/practitioners use the scripted and the performative to intervene in social spaces. We will explore how they construct counter-public spheres, and how their performances create aesthetics of resistance. The first half of the course focuses on Latin America and the second half examines if these aesthetics of resistance are performed by Latino/as in the context of the United States. Format: seminar. Requirements: class participation and presentations, one short essay (5-7 pages) and two longer essays (7-10 pages). Students are expected to visit the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics website (http//hemi. ps.tsoa.nyu.edu). No prerequisites. No enrollment limit.