Provincializing reenactment:

a critique of the idea of patrimony towards a sensitive historicity of the dance work

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58786/rbed.2022.v1.n1.53679

Keywords:

historia de la danza, teoría de la danza, teoría poscolonial, memoria, danza contemporánea.

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to offer an approach to the concept of reenactment from a perspective linked to postcolonial theory. In this sense, it is proposed to provincialize reenactment, that is, to renew its meaning from and for the global south. The concept of reenactment is understood as an implicit critique of the objectualization of the dance work and the monetarization of the past characteristic of the neoliberal economy. Its functioning as the axis of the artistic work has the capacity to reveal theplace of history in the scene, which in the case of dance in Buenos Aires refers to a poetics of absence, linked to the historical experience of the last dictatorship.

Author Biography

Juan Ignacio Vallejos, CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Emily Wilcox es especialista en estudios culturales de la China moderna y contemporánea, con especial atención a la danza y las artes escénicas. Es autora de Cuerpos revolucionarios: Chinese and the Socialist Legacy, (University of California Press, 2019, ganador del Premio de la Torre Bueno) y coeditora de Corporeal Politics: Dancing East Asia (University of Michigan Press 2020). La doctora Wilcox ha publicado veinticinco artículos y capítulos de libros sobre danza y performance en Asia y fue presidenta de la Association for Asian Performance. En 2014-15, recibió una beca de humanidades del American Council of Learned Societies. En 2016-17, recibió una beca Transregional Research Junior Scholar del Social Science Research Council.

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VALLEJOS, Juan Ignacio. Provincializing reenactment:: a critique of the idea of patrimony towards a sensitive historicity of the dance work. Brazilian Journal of Dance Research, [S. l.], v. 1, n. 1, p. 265–289, 2024. DOI: 10.58786/rbed.2022.v1.n1.53679. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/rbed/article/view/53679. Acesso em: 21 nov. 2024.

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2022): Outras Danças, Muitas Histórias

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