Inhabiting the Impossible

Dance scholar Susan Homar was, until her retirement, a professor at Universidad de Puerto Rico.nibia pastrana santiago is an artist and choreographer based in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

“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.”

• Preface to the English EditionSusan Homar and nibia pastrana santiagoIntroduction: Inhabiting Dance in Puerto RicoPart I. Histories, Bodies, and AlteritiesSusan HomarClear the Way, We’re Coming Through! Forging a New Dance Field in Puerto RicoAdriana Garriga-LópezInsurrectionary Bodies: Performance at the Borderlands of Governability andRegenerationnibia pastrana santiagoagainst erasure, in favor of strangeness, and remember: this choreography is not a Caribbean myth, others came before itPart II. Considerations about, from, and with DanceAlma Concepción SuárezThe Legacy of Gilda Navarra and the Taller de HistrionesTeresa Peña JordánTransforming the Gaze: Moving Beyond Boundaries with Poetry, Testimony, and DanceTranslated by Sarah Yates GibsonNelson RiveraPuerto Rico: Four Encounters Linking Dance, Music, and the Visual ArtsPart III. Decolonial Tasks: Improvisations, Performances, and EventsLydia Platón LázaroThe Possible from the Unknown: Transformations in the Present-Present of ImprovisationArnaldo Rodríguez BaguéCurating the Foro Permanente de Performance, FPPRamón H. Rivera-ServeraMoving Queer Feminist Movements in the Commons … or How Puerto Rico Dances its Decolonial DesiresPart IV. To Inhabit, to Write, to Move Alicia Díaz Concepción Oscar Mestey VillamilÑequi González Martínezteresa hernándezJesús Miranda Santiago (Pito)Awilda Rodríguez LoraJeanne d’Arc Casas PanouzeJavier Cardona OteroNoemí Segarra RamírezKaren LangevinPepe Álvarez ColónPart V. MAPA: Originary Cartographies--InterviewsAlejandra MartorellMapping Puerto Rico: Coordinates of Five Explorers of Dance as PerformanceInterviews with:Petra Bravo (Hernández)Merián SotoMyrna RenaudAwilda Sterling-DupreyViveca VázquezSonia Daubón AquinoGuide to Informational and Bibliographic Resources on Experimental Dance in Puerto RicoNotes on Collaborators