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“Shifting Apollo’s Frame: Challenging the Body Aesthetic in Theatre Dance” by Owen Smith
Smith, Owen. “Shifting Apollo’s Frame: Challenging the Body Aesthetic in Theatre Dance.” Bodies in Commotion: Disability & Performance. Eds. Carrie Sandahl and Philip Auslander. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. 73-85. Summary/Analysis: Owen Smith uses the British dance company, CandoCo, … Continue reading
“Lupe Vélez: Queen of the B’s” by Rosa Linda Fregoso
Fregoso, Rosa Linda. “Lupe Vélez: Queen of the B’s.” From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture. Ed. Myra Mendible. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. 51-68. Summary/Analysis: Rosa Linda Fregoso’s article on Lupe Vélez attempts … Continue reading
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Salsa Crossings: Dancing Latinidad in Los Angeles by Cindy García
García, Cindy. Salsa Crossings: Dancing Latinidad in Los Angeles. Durham, Duke University Press, 2013. Context: Cindy García writes a unique ethnography and analysis of the Los Angeles salsa scene in the early 2000s. She is currently a scholar of theatre arts … Continue reading
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Tagged bodies, Cubans, dance, dance history, female bodies, Imaginary, love matches, materiality, Mexican Americans, Puerto Rican, theory
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“‘¿Y ahora qué vas a hacer, mulata?’: Hip choreographies in the Mexican cabaretera film Mulata (1954).” by Melissa Blanco Borelli
Blanco Borelli, Melissa. “‘¿Y ahora qué vas a hacer, mulata?’: Hip choreographies in the Mexican cabaretera film Mulata (1954).” Women & Performance: a Journal of Feminist Theory. 18.3 (2008): 215-233. Summary/Quotes: Blanco Borelli digs into José Piedra’s idea of “Hip … Continue reading
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“Latina Subjectivity, Sexuality and Sensuality” by Alicia Arrizón
Arrizón, Alicia. “Latina subjectivity, sexuality and sensuality.” Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. 18.3 (2008): 189-198. Summary/Quotes: This article is the Introduction to a special issue of Women & Performance that focuses on Latina bodies. As Arrizón notes, … Continue reading
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Bodies that Matter (Intro) by Judith Butler
Butler, Judith. “Introduction.” Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex.” New York: Routledge, 1993. 1-23. Summary/Quotes: It seems that Butler is trying to show that both gender and sex are social constructs (and thus regulating ideas) that are materialized … Continue reading
“Embodying Difference” by Jane C. Desmond
Desmond, Jane C. “Embodying Difference: Issues in Dance and Cultural Studies.” Cultural Critique. 26 (1993-1994): 33-63. Summary/Quotes: Not unlike the Susan Leigh Foster article, Jane C. Desmond is calling for more careful attention to the study of dance, particularly how … Continue reading
Intro to Choreographing History by Susan Leigh Foster
Foster, Susan Leigh. “Introduction.” Choreographing History. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1995. 3-24. Summary/Quotes/Reaction: This introductions to Choreographing History does so many things. It starts off (and repeatedly has) sections of text that perform the act of the body writing, … Continue reading
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