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Dissolving Borders

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An encounter with Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes of La Pocha Nostra.

Artist / Author Dorothy Max Prior
Reference A0225
Date 2008
Journal Total Theatre
Journal date Autumn 2008
Type Article

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