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GREAT LEAP : ARTISTS : PAULINA SAHAGUN
Sahagun’s co-authored play in the style of clowning, “4 Clowns in Search of a Circus” was produced by the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio, Texas. Her visual arts credits include “The Blind Owl” written and directed by Reza Abdoh, along with video and photographic works by Harry Gamboa. She collaborated and performed with Guillermo Gomez-Pena in “Borderama” for the Virtual Theater series produced by the Mark Taper Forum. Her solo performance piece “Nahuatl-Now What?” has been seen at the 1995 and 1997 Women’s Theater Festival, Highways Performance Space and the Mexican Fine Arts Museum Center in Chicago. Her involvement within the arts has included both teaching and festival programming. She has toured her children's show "Two Channels" with the Music Center on Tour for the last five years. Sahagun's newest work, "Local Loca" was performed at UCLA and the Women's Theater Festival in 2001 and at Highways Performance Space in 2002.
Sahagun has worked with Tenaz (Teatro Nacional de Aztlan), The Inner City Cultural Center, Plaza de La Raza, UCLA Mexican Art Series, the 1990 Los Angeles Theater Festival and the UCLA Chicano Art Resistance and Affirmation Exhibition at the Wight Art Gallery. She co-directed the Young Conservatory, a training program for young actors and was a Drama Instructor at Inner City Arts. Sahagun is a graduate of the Dell Arte School of Physical Theater and recently completed her master's in the World Arts and Cultures program at UCLA. She is currently teaching at UCLA. Sahagun is a featured performer with Great Leap’s touring production of “A Slice of Rice, Frijoles & Greens" and served as CoDirector of "To All Relations 2000" in Phoenix. To email the artist directly: Paulina |
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Paulina Sahagun has performed on both sides of the Mexico/U.S. Border. She began her theatrical career as a member of the Mexican Theater Company Los Mascarones and was a founding member of Grupo Cultural Zero. With these companies she toured extensively throughout Mexico and the U.S. performing original theatrical works. Her credits with El Teatro Campesino and Luis Valdez include the play “La Pastorela” and the PBS Special “El Popol Vuh.”