This article analyzes three artistic acts of the subversion of precariousness in the contemporary dance community in Buenos Aires. It explores the participation of dancers in political groups that demand improvement of ...

I recently saw Angelin Preljocaj’s Rite of Spring (2001) on film. This was the latest of many ballets staged by the French choreographer from the repertoire of the Ballets Russes. Earlier Preljocaj had offered the world ...

A phenomenon that defines how dance practices in Argentina developed during the 1960s was the fact that those working in the field were compelled to deal with the political sphere, both at an institutional level and vis-à-vis ...

O presente trabalho se debruça sobre as experiências artísticas da E² Cia. de Teatro e Dança, Cia. Sansacroma e Nave Gris Cia. Cênica, atuantes na cena paulistana nestes primeiros quinze anos do século XXI, para estudar o ...

The chapter offers an introduction to the central issues of research on dance and politics. In the first section it examines key thinkers who have contributed to ways of exploring the topic. Then it concentrates on two ...

Professional dancing in São Paulo, Brazil, developed from the 1950s on, with a constant and strong influence from modern dance. As modernism looked disapprovingly at ballet, seeing it as something from the past, prejudice ...