Urban Stages: La Organización Negra and its Centripetal Trajectory

Abstract

In this article, we intend to address some aspects of the centripetal trajectory of the theatre group La Organización Negra (1984-1992), which began in the margins of the theatrical field and culminated with the group’s admission into a space belonging to the official theatrical circuit. We intend to investigate the different modes of production, circulation and consumption of their practices. In other words, we observe the procedural aspects that—in pursuit of strengthening and generating their own poetics—were kept (or not) even when the spaces of action have been modified; and we analyze the intersections between art, politics, and the city. Thus, this study aims to record La Organización Negra’s theatrical work, but also to establish its connections with contemporary poetics.