29 juillet 2021
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Iván Jiménez, « Variations of Nationalist Feeling : A Problematic For Decentered Dance Studies in Latin America », HAL-SHS : histoire de l'art, ID : 10.5216/ac.v7i1.69382
Over the course of the 20th century, a particular concept of the nation was consolidated in Latin America as a cultural unity, determined by a centralized power, and broadly diffused in order to inculcate a feeling of belonging among the masses. Based on two case studies– the cofounders of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba (Alicia, Fernando and Alberto Alonso) and a Colombian folkloric duo of the 1960s (Los Darof, formed by Ofelia Betancur and Darío Arboleda) – we intend to highlight expressions of nationalistic feeling in stage dance as linked to the appropriation of gestures from other locales, a process that transcended limits imposed by geopolitical tensions. In order to decenter our historical regard, instead of adopting the typical singular focus on nationalism, we take into account that which the artists’ speeches and work itself suggest on the issue : that is, that there was wide variability in nationalist feeling rooted in each artist’s particular gestural project.