Inhabiting the Impossible

Name: Inhabiting the Impossible | Dance and Experimentation in Puerto Rico
Brand: The University of Michigan Press
Price: 45.75 EUR
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Dance and Experimentation in Puerto Rico

Susan Homar nibia pastrana santiago(Editor)

The University of Michigan Press

Published on 14. December 2023

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Paperback/Softback

330 pages

978-0-472-05654-5 (ISBN)

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This first-of-its-kind book brings together writing by artists and scholars to survey the lively field of Puerto Rican experimental dance across four decades. Originally published as Habitar lo Imposible, the translation in English features essays, artist statements, and interviews plus more than 100 photos of productions, programs, posters, and scores. Throughout, Inhabiting the Impossible provides fresh, invaluable perspectives on experimentation in dance as a sustained practice that has from the start deeply engaged issues of race, gender, sexuality, and politics. The book is also enhanced by a bibliographic section with detailed resources for further study.

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"Enters into current conversations about the connections between corporealities, choreography, dance, geopolitics, identity construction and ideas of nation, race, gender, class and sexuality, political agency and artistic practices--and the circulation of these concepts in the Americas. The book will interest scholars, students, practitioners and those interested in Latin American cultural theory, aesthetics, political studies, anthropology, or gender and sexuality studies." -- Anamaria Tamayo-Duque, Universidad de Antioquia "This history of experimental dance in Puerto Rico also serves as a model for understanding the aesthetic impacts of dance within particular cultural and political contexts. Further, it foregrounds the voices of artists as it narrates the importance of dance as a mode of cultural manifestation, whether on the street, in living rooms and kitchens, within ritual sites, in abandoned, repurposed spaces, or on concert stages." -- Jennifer Monson, University of Illinois "Inhabiting the Impossible is a critical addition to the canon of Puerto Rican studies, expanding both how and what we understand as comprising its terrain. It insistently and artfully introduces readers to Puerto Ricans who have given their lives to making the archipelago through dance, demonstrating how dance itself is a powerful register for historical accounting." -- Jade Power-Sotomayor * Centro Journal *

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