About Caborca
Mission
Caborca is a bilingual theatre ensemble under the auteurship of Javier Antonio González.
For over a decade, we have occupied a unique space in New York at the intersection of the Latinx and experimental arts communities, building an expansive body of politically and aesthetically charged work that confronts entrenched colonial power dynamics.
A laboratory for dramatic and performative forms, we create original and adapted works by engaging an ever-expanding range of tools such as multimedia, physical and dance theatre, nonlinearity, fluidity of character and language, and choral storytelling.
We take our name from Roberto Bolaño’s novel The Savage Detectives, where Caborca is not only a town in the desert but an ephemeral poetry magazine turned cryptic manifesto.
Manifoldly Multilingual:
THE THEATRE AND FILM OF CABORCA
By Jessica Rizzo, Theatre Forum
“In all of Caborca's work, reality is at once a visceral and a fragile thing. The company's root in besieged, but ever-defiant Puerto Rico have given them an acute awareness of the fiction of sovereignty, and this imbues their work with an unrelenting skepticism regarding dominant political and aesthetic paradigms. Power, language, and even time and space are subject to continuous interrogation and radical reassessment in Caborca's dramatic cosmos.”