The feeling underneath conversations about Teatro is a disarming civility, like a difficult divorce in which all sides have decided to be pleasant for the sake of the children. They don't want to believe there could be conflict. Possibly, the community benefits from this fragmentation. Reyes and his wife, Jo Ann, have a new company, Teatro Vivo. Garcia Crow has just co-founded another new company, PrismWorks, with Melba Martinez and Linda Crockett.
Nobody says that about Mexican food restaurants.
It is extremely important for me to be respectful of that fact. There are a couple of ways of thinking about organizations. One is driven, like Frontera, by a founder or founding collective with a very strong vision for the work and the future. This company knows what it is, and its artists seek a board specifically attracted to that identity. As a company member, I attended meetings when Frontera struggled over what a board would mean to the company's artistic control, identity, future.