Inhabiting the impossible : dance and experimentation in Puerto Rico / edited by Susan Homar and nibia pastrana santiago.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Homar, Susan, editor.

pastrana santiago, nibia, editor.

Series:

Studies in dance (Dance Studies Association)

Studies in dance: Theories and practices

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postmodern dance--Puerto Rico--History.

Postmodern dance.

Postmodern dance--Political aspects--Puerto Rico.

Performance art--Puerto Rico--History.

Performance art.

Choreography--Puerto Rico--History.

Choreography.

Arts--Puerto Rico--Experimental methods.

Arts.

Decolonization in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 pages)

Edition:

English edition.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2023.

Summary:

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 by BL Editorial in San Juan, the translation 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 detailed bibliographic section with resources for further study.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface to the English Edition

Introduction: Inhabiting Dance in Puerto Rico | Susan Homar and nibia pastrana santiago

Part I. Histories, Bodies, and Alterities

Clear the Way, We're Coming Through! Forging a New Dance Field in Puerto Rico | Susan Homar

Insurrectionary Bodies: Performance at the Borderlands of Governability and Regeneration | Adriana Garriga-López

against erasure, in favor of strangeness, and remember: this choreography is not a Caribbean myth, others came before it | nibia pastrana santiago

Part II. Considerations About, from, and with Dance

The Legacy of Gilda Navarra and the Taller de Histriones | Alma Concepción

Transforming the Gaze: Moving Beyond Boundaries with Poetry, Testimony, and Dance | Teresa Peña Jordán

Puerto Rico: Four Encounters Linking Dance, Music, and the Visual Arts | Nelson Rivera

Part III. Decolonial Tasks: Improvisations, Performances, and Events

The Possible from the Unknown: Transformations in the Present-Present of Improvisation | Lydia Platón Lázaro

Curating the Foro Permanente de Performance | Arnaldo Rodríguez Bagué

Moving Queer Feminist Movements in the Commons... or How Puerto Rico Dances Its Decolonial Desires | Ramón H. Rivera-Servera

Part IV. To Inhabit, to Write, to Move

Alicia Díaz

Oscar Mestey Villamil

Ñequi González Martínez

teresa hernández

Jesús Miranda Santiago (Pito)

Awilda Rodríguez Lora

Jeanne d'Arc Casas Panouze

Javier Cardona Otero

Noemí Segarra Ramírez

Karen Langevin

Pepe Álvarez Colón

Part V. Mapa: Originary Cartographies

Mapping Puerto Rico: Coordinates of Five Explorers of Dance as Performance | Alejandra Martorell

Interviews with:

Petra Bravo (Hernández)

Merián Soto

Myrna Renaud

Awilda Sterling-Duprey

Viveca Vázquez

Part VI. Approaches to Documentation.

Guide to Informational and Bibliographic Resources on Experimental Dance in Puerto Rico | Sonia Daubón Aquino

Bibliographic Resources

Informational Resources

Collaborators.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-306).

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472221400

047222140X