Canción Cannibal Cabaret (Official Music Video)

Based on the book by lead singer Amalia Ortiz, Canción Cannibal Cabaret focuses on the theme of revolution and inspired by current issues of social injustice. After an environmental apocalypse, a refugee raised under an oppressive State, "La Madre Valiente" studies secretly to become the leader of a feminist revolution. In performance, The Canción Cannibal Cabaret, is a punk rock musical--part concept album, part live theatre. This music video shows a selection from Ortiz's revolutionary performance poetry.

AMALIA ORTIZ'S BIO

Tejana poet and playwright Amalia Ortiz appeared on three seasons of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry on HBO. NBC Latino named her book, Rant. Chant. Chisme. one of “10 Great Latino Books of 2015.” It won the 2015 Writers' League of Texas Poetry Discovery Prize. Amalia was chosen to speak at TEDx McAllen 2015. She was awarded an Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Grant and a writing residency at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. She is a CantoMundo Fellow, a Hedgebrook writer-in-residence alumna, and she was the inaugural performing-artist-in-residence at ArtPace in 2018. She was awarded a NALAC Fund for the Arts Grant to film music videos for her latest book The Cancion Cannibal Cabaret (Aztlan Libre Press). Most recently, she was awarded an American Book Award for Oral Literature from the Before Columbus Foundation. Amalia received her MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She is the director of theatre arts for SAY Sí’s ALAS (Activating Leadership, Art, and Service) Youth Theatre Company.