Moving Otherwise
Dance, Violence, and Memory in Buenos Aires
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 3 January 2019
- ISBN 9780190627010
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages276 pages
- Size 160x239x22 mm
- Weight 596 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 26 images 0
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Short description:
Moving Otherwise offers a fascinating look at how contemporary dance practices in Buenos Aires enacted politics within political and economic violence from the mid-1960s to the mid-2010s. It is the
first book on Argentine contemporary dance and it introduces a breadth of choreographers and practices to an English speaking audience.
Long description:
Moving Otherwise examines how contemporary dance practices in Buenos Aires, Argentina enacted politics within climates of political and economic violence from the mid-1960s to the mid-2010s. From the repression of military dictatorships to the precarity of economic crises, contemporary dancers and audiences consistently responded to and reimagined the everyday choreographies that have accompanied Argentina's volatile political history. The titular concept, "moving otherwise" names how both concert dance and its off-stage practice and consumption offer alternatives to and modes to critique the patterns of movement and bodily comportment that shape everyday life in contexts marked by violence.
Drawing on archival research based in institutional and private collections, over fifty interviews with dancers and choreographers, and the author's embodied experiences as a collaborator and performer with active groups, the book analyzes how a wide range of practices moved otherwise, including concert works, community dance initiatives, and the everyday labor that animates dance. It demonstrates how these diverse practices represent, resist, and remember violence and engender new forms of social mobilization on and off the theatrical stage. As the first book length critical study of Argentine contemporary dance, it introduces a breadth of choreographers to an English speaking audience, including Ana Kamien, Susana Zimmermann, Estela Maris, Alejandro Cervera, Renate Schottelius, Susana Tambutti, Silvia Hodgers, and Silvia Vladimivsky. It also considers previously undocumented aspects of Argentine dance history, including crossings between contemporary dancers and 1970s leftist political militancy, Argentine dance labor movements, political protest, and the prominence of tango themes in contemporary dance works that address the memory of political violence. Contemporary dance, the book demonstrates, has a rich and diverse history of political engagement in Argentina.
Her study intervenes in a large literature on politics in authoritarian Argentina by bringing in dance protagonists who were previously overlooked and by shedding light on their bold political moves ... This exciting scholarship provides a jumping-off place for future efforts to continue rewriting a global history of modern and contemporary dance.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Preface
The Dancing Body on the Line: An Introduction
1. Mobile Bodies
2. The Revolution Was Danced
3. Dance as the Art of Survival
4. Moving Trauma
5. Common Goods
Epilogue: The History of Memory
Notes
Bibliography
Index
