Desde Granada - EP 4

De todos los maratones poeticos del circo granadino, rescato al poeta Nuyoricano Edwin Torrez. Su presentación en Granada se alejo del micrófono para mostrar un poco de movimiento a un evento que nos mantuvo mucho tiempo sentados. Él se presento en el recital del Atrio de La Merced durante la noche del 8 de febrero.

Sobre este poeta Wikipedia dice:

Edwin Torres (born 1965 in New York City) is a "Nuyorican" (New York-Puerto Rican) poet.

Torres's parents emigrated from Puerto Rico and settled in The Bronx. His father died when he was young and he was then raised by his mother and her brother Martin. Martin provided comfort and family support. His uncle's sense of humor was a motivational inspiration for young Torres. He received his primary and secondary education in New York.

In 1989 Torres began working as a graphic designer and a year later he discovered the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, which inspired his creative instincts. Torres created a movement which he called "Interactive Eclectrcism", which combines movement, audience participation, music and songs. The Nuyorican Poets Cafe not only opened its door for his creation but it also opened the doors to a new world of reading poetry. Torres also created the "Poets Neurotica", where dancers and musicians performed alongside two to four poets. He was a member of "Real Live Poetry" from 1993 - 99, performing and conducting workshops across the US and overseas.

Torres has represented New York in the National Poetry Slam, celebrated in Boston, and he has won the Nuyorican Poets Cafe First Annual Prize for Poetry with his poem "Po-Mo Griot". He has also appeared on MTV's Spoken Word Unplugged and the Charlie Rose Show and been featured on Newsweek, in Rolling Stone Magazine and in New York Magazine.

Besides performing at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Torres has performed at the Guggenheim Museum, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the Museum of Modern Art, amongst others.

Esa misma noche el concierto de cierre (antes de las copas de vino en la casa de la nieta de PAC) lo hizo la artista senegalesa Sara Carrera.

Sarah Carrère M'BODJ es la única artista femenina que ha llevado más allá de las fronteras de África, el arte de Kora que toca, una tradición hasta ahora exclusiva de los hombres. Sarah, es autora-compositora-intérprete, gracias a su manejo en idiomas extranjeros, (francés, Español e inglés) tiene facilidad para interpretar poetas famosos como Wole Soyinka (el ganador del premio Nobel de la poesía de Nigeria), Pablo Neruda, Otavio Paz, Jorge Louis Borges, Arturo Haulot etc.... Ella canta principalmente composiciones en ouoloff (su lengua materna), Fulani y mandingo, junto con el repertorio tradicional del Kora que incluye canciones épicas, baladas y canciones del amor transportadas a través de los siglos por el "Griots". Ella ha adaptado a su instrumento, poemas y textos de autores africanos tales como Sakhir Thiam, Cheich Aliou Ndao, Peter Lenries, BA etc de Amadou Hampaté... (Sénégal, Gambia, Malí).

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