Description
Book SynopsisThis first-of-its-kind book brings together writing by artists and scholars to survey the field of Puerto Rican experimental dance across four decades. Originally published as
Habitar lo Imposible, the translation features essays, artist statements, and interviews plus more than 100 photos of productions, programs, posters, and scores.
Trade ReviewInhabiting the Impossible 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
Table of Contents
- Preface to the English Edition
- Susan Homar and nibia pastrana santiago
- Introduction: Inhabiting Dance in Puerto Rico
Part I. Histories, Bodies, and Alterities
- Susan Homar
- Clear the Way, We’re Coming Through! Forging a New Dance Field in Puerto Rico
- Adriana Garriga-LÓpez
- Insurrectionary Bodies: Performance at the Borderlands of Governability and
- Regeneration
- nibia pastrana santiago
- against erasure, in favor of strangeness, and remember: this choreography is not a Caribbean myth, others came before it
Part II. Considerations about, from, and with Dance
- Alma ConcepciÓn SuÁrez
- The Legacy of Gilda Navarra and the Taller de Histriones
- Teresa PeÑa JordÁn
- Transforming the Gaze: Moving Beyond Boundaries with Poetry, Testimony, and Dance
- Translated by Sarah Yates Gibson
- Nelson Rivera
- Puerto Rico: Four Encounters Linking Dance, Music, and the Visual Arts
Part III. Decolonial Tasks: Improvisations, Performances, and Events
- Lydia PlatÓn LÁzaro
- The Possible from the Unknown: Transformations in the Present-Present of Improvisation
- Arnaldo RodrÍguez BaguÉ
- Curating the Foro Permanente de Performance, FPP
- RamÓn H. Rivera-Servera
- Moving Queer Feminist Movements in the Commons … or How Puerto Rico Dances its Decolonial Desires
Part IV. To Inhabit, to Write, to Move
- Alicia DÍaz ConcepciÓn
- 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--Interviews
- Alejandra Martorell
- Mapping Puerto Rico: Coordinates of Five Explorers of Dance as Performance
- Interviews with:
- Petra Bravo (HernÁndez)
- MeriÁn Soto
- Myrna Renaud
- Awilda Sterling-Duprey
- Viveca VÁzquez
- Sonia DaubÓn Aquino
- Guide to Informational and Bibliographic Resources on Experimental Dance in Puerto Rico
- Notes on Collaborators
