About Us Hemispheric Institute; Hemispheric Institute, Instituto Hemisférico, Instituto Hemisférico journal, revista ENG: The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics is a consortium of institutions, artists, scholars, and activists dedicated to exploring the relationship between expressive behavior (broadly construed as performance) and social and political life in the Americas. By \'performance,\' we refer to the many practices and events—dance, theatre, ritual and religious practice, political rallies, funerals—that involve theatrical, rehearsed, or conventional/event-appropriate behavior. Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, New York University 2005-05-01 DCMI: Text Hemi: Text text/html http://hemi.es.its.nyu.edu/journal/2_1/aboutus_eng.html eng http://hemi.nyu.edu/rights.html public