ABSTRACT
Introduction As in our “Crossing Borders” learning framework addressing agricultural challenges, in this chapter we continue our story of encounters and needed solutions from another perspective. We explained in Chapter 3 that Cornell University has led a wide range of student and faculty from around the world on a multidisciplinary, intergenerational examination of rural and urban development in tropical Latin America for many years.* In 2008-09, Experience Latin America, and Hispanic Theater Production courses were linked through the felicitous circumstance of a substantial core of students taking both courses. This resulted in a mutual collaboration fueling an integrative process building awareness, knowledge, and culture transmitted through performance. Best known by the troupe name, Teatrotaller exists both as a course and as a student organization with the mission of promoting Hispanic culture through the production of high-quality theater
Contents Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 83 The Experience .......................................................................................................................... 84 Conclusion ................................................................................................................................ 88 Acknowledgments ..................................................................................................................... 88 References ................................................................................................................................. 89 Appendix: Images from Southern Mexico .................................................................................. 89
in Spanish. Student-founded in 1993, and primarily attracting undergraduate students with a steady sprinkling of graduate students, staff, and community members, Teatrotaller has directed, staged, and performed over 60 Spanish, Latin American, and U.S. Latino plays, which have been performed in festivals over the years in the United States and elsewhere.
