Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics First Annual Seminar Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2000 Hemispheric Institute; Hemispheric Institute encuentro, conference, seminar digital archive art music dance theater photography performance art street performance festival protest activism Americas South America Latin America Brazil English Spanish Portuguese multimedia research teaching tools documentary interview The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics held its first annual seminar in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2-15, 2000. Participants included artists, scholars, graduate students, and activists. This eclectic and culturally diverse group, from countries throughout the Americas, captured the spirit of this year\'s conference: to provide a forum that encourages an interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between performance and politics from diverse cultural perspectives. Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, New York University 2000-07-02 DCMI: Event Hemi: Event text/html http://hemi.es.its.nyu.edu/eng/seminar/brazil/index.shtml en http://hemi.es.its.nyu.edu/eng/seminar/brazil/ http://hemi.nyu.edu/rights.html public