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Inhabiting the Impossible: Dance and Experimentation in Puerto Rico
Susan Homar and nibia pastrana santiago, Editors
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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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Cover
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Half Title
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Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices
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Title
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Contents
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Preface to the English Edition
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Introduction: Inhabiting Dance in Puerto Rico
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Part I. Histories, Bodies, and Alterities
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Clear the Way, We’re Coming Through! Forging a New Dance Field in Puerto Rico
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Insurrectionary Bodies: Performance at the Borderlands of Governability and Regeneration
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against erasure, in favor of strangeness, and remember: this choreography is not a Caribbean myth, others came before it
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Part II. Considerations About, from, and with Dance
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The Legacy of Gilda Navarra and the Taller de Histriones
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Transforming the Gaze: Moving Beyond Boundaries with Poetry, Testimony, and Dance
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Puerto Rico: Four Encounters Linking Dance, Music, and the Visual Arts
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Part III. Decolonial Tasks: Improvisations, Performances, and Events
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The Possible from the Unknown: Transformations in the Present-Present of Improvisation
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Curating the Foro Permanente de Performance
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Moving Queer Feminist Movements in the Commons . . . or How Puerto Rico Dances Its Decolonial Desires
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Part IV. To Inhabit, to Write, to Move
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Alicia Díaz
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Oscar Mestey Villamil
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Ñequi González Martínez
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teresa hernández
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Jesús Miranda Santiago (Pito)
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Awilda Rodríguez Lora
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Jeanne d’Arc Casas Panouze
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Javier Cardona Otero
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Noemí Segarra Ramírez
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Karen Langevin
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Pepe Álvarez Colón
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Part V. Mapa: Originary Cartographies
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Mapping Puerto Rico: Coordinates of Five Explorers of Dance as Performance
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Interviews with:
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Petra Bravo (Hernández)
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Merián Soto
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Myrna Renaud
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Awilda Sterling-Duprey
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Viveca Vázquez
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Part VI. Approaches to Documentation
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Guide to Informational and Bibliographic Resources on Experimental Dance in Puerto Rico
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Bibliographic Resources
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Informational Resources
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Collaborators
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Published: 2023
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-05654-5 (paper)
- 978-0-472-22140-0 (ebook)
- 978-0-472-07654-3 (hardcover)
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