Melissa Blanco Borelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 2375488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Blanco Borelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa Blanco |
| FAMILY NAME | Borelli |
| SIGNATURE | BORELLI M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Surrey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Práticas De Performativas E O Conflito Da Memória Na Colômbia
Este artigo examina Corpografías, um arquivo digital que documenta as práticas artísticas das comunidades afrodescendentes e indígenas da Colômbia e seu papel na memória, paz e reconciliação no Pacífico colombiano. Ele combina dança, teatro e estudos de performance com ciências sociais e humanidades digitais, colocando as comunidades afrodescendentes e indígenas no centro do desenvolvimento do arquivo. O projeto desafia a marginalização dessas co…
TikTok, Friendship, and Sipping Tea, or How to Endure a Pandemic
No abstract available
Decolonizing performance philosophies
In this co-authored essay, the authors reflect on how their respective research interests in Latin America have led them to engage with epistemologies of the global south. The chapter begins from an encounter with Sylvia Wynter as a performance philosopher – foregrounding her philosophical concerns to undo the supremacy of the Western concept of the human and dismantle notions of universal knowledge through a philosophical practice of ‘decipherin…
Presencing” Pleasure and Pain in Hispanophone Caribbean Performance
Diffuse is a good way to describe the messiness of diaspora. Spread out, tentacular, scattered, dispersed. Diffuse, from the Latin diffus- “poured out”, from the verb diffundere, from dis- “away”
Cindy Garcia, Salsa Crossings
She is Cuba
She is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body traces the history of the Cuban mulata and her association with hips, sensuality and popular dance. It examines how the mulata choreographs her racialised identity through her hips and enacts an embodied theory called hip(g)nosis. By focusing on her living and dancing body in order to flesh out the process of identity formation, this book makes a claim for how subaltern bodies negotiate a cultural ident…
Dancing Economies Conference Welcome, February 2015
This essay was used (in a previous form) as opening remarks for the United Kingdom's Society of Dance Research conference “Dancing Economies” in 2015. Structured around a collection of musings prompted by global issues, such as the Greek economic crisis, the Black Lives Matter movement, the European migrant crisis, and the pernicious effects of neoliberalism on the arts, the essay is my attempt to make connections between these events and the sig…
Dancing with Myself
This chapter acts as a video game battle or interaction between the two authors. It discusses how dance video games construct corporeality. It provides an overview of Microsoft Xbox 360 Dance Central’s relationship to choreography, choreographers, and dance analysis. It also theorizes how bodies and corporeality function in a virtual world. Finally, the chapter considers how avatar bodies provide new ways of thinking about the relationship betwee…
Some Dance Scenes From Cuban Cinema, 1959–2012
This chapter traces dance in Cuban cinema from the onset of the Revolution to contemporary films. In so doing, the author attempts to set up a Cuban structure of feeling and how a corporeal form of Cubanidad manifests through various filmic representations, whether narrative or documentary film. Might dance be an inherent aspect of Cubanidad ? How does the Cuban filmic apparatus incorporate dance and all of its complexities into a narrative about…
“He’s Doing His Superman Thing Again”
This chapter explores how bodies in the Matrix film series function as markers of larger cultural, technological, and ideological shifts, particularly with regard to identity, movement, and the cinematic apparatus.
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen
This anthology offers contemporary perspectives on dance in the context of the popular screen. It analyzes the role played by the dancing body in popular culture and its multi-layered meanings in film, television, music videos, video games, commercials, and Internet sites such as YouTube. It explores how dance and choreography function within the filmic apparatus, and how the narrative, dancing bodies, and/or dance style set in motion multiple ch…
Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen
There's Black People in England”
A taste of honey
This article examines the filmic representations of the mulatta body in the films Sparkle (1976), Flashdance (1983) and Honey (2003). More specifically, this article seeks to unravel how the Hollywood filmic apparatus engages with signifiers of raced sexuality and hierarchies of dance styles to enforce and reify mythic narratives about dance, dancing raced bodies and dance-making. By establishing a genealogy of the mulatta body in a US context th…
Y ahora qué vas a hacer, mulata
This essay examines the film Mulata (Martínez Solares 1954) starring Cuban vedette Ninón Sevilla through the various performances of mulata identity featured in the film. By introducing the theory of hip(g)nosis and the sentience corpo-mulata, these theoretical models demonstrate how a body racialized as mulata choreographs identity through gestures, bodily articulations, and socio-historically inscribed movement repertoires associated with this …
Presencing” Pleasure and Pain in Hispanophone Caribbean Performance
Diffuse is a good way to describe the messiness of diaspora. Spread out, tentacular, scattered, dispersed. Diffuse, from the Latin diffus- “poured out”, from the verb diffundere, from dis- “away”
Y ahora qué vas a hacer, mulata
This essay examines the film Mulata (Martínez Solares 1954) starring Cuban vedette Ninón Sevilla through the various performances of mulata identity featured in the film. By introducing the theory of hip(g)nosis and the sentience corpo-mulata, these theoretical models demonstrate how a body racialized as mulata choreographs identity through gestures, bodily articulations, and socio-historically inscribed movement repertoires associated with this …
Y ahora qué vas a hacer, mulata
This essay examines the film Mulata (Martínez Solares 1954) starring Cuban vedette Ninón Sevilla through the various performances of mulata identity featured in the film. By introducing the theory of hip(g)nosis and the sentience corpo-mulata, these theoretical models demonstrate how a body racialized as mulata choreographs identity through gestures, bodily articulations, and socio-historically inscribed movement repertoires associated with this …
A taste of honey
This article examines the filmic representations of the mulatta body in the films Sparkle (1976), Flashdance (1983) and Honey (2003). More specifically, this article seeks to unravel how the Hollywood filmic apparatus engages with signifiers of raced sexuality and hierarchies of dance styles to enforce and reify mythic narratives about dance, dancing raced bodies and dance-making. By establishing a genealogy of the mulatta body in a US context th…
There's Black People in England”
Dancing with Myself
This chapter acts as a video game battle or interaction between the two authors. It discusses how dance video games construct corporeality. It provides an overview of Microsoft Xbox 360 Dance Central’s relationship to choreography, choreographers, and dance analysis. It also theorizes how bodies and corporeality function in a virtual world. Finally, the chapter considers how avatar bodies provide new ways of thinking about the relationship betwee…
Some Dance Scenes From Cuban Cinema, 1959–2012
This chapter traces dance in Cuban cinema from the onset of the Revolution to contemporary films. In so doing, the author attempts to set up a Cuban structure of feeling and how a corporeal form of Cubanidad manifests through various filmic representations, whether narrative or documentary film. Might dance be an inherent aspect of Cubanidad ? How does the Cuban filmic apparatus incorporate dance and all of its complexities into a narrative about…
“He’s Doing His Superman Thing Again”
This chapter explores how bodies in the Matrix film series function as markers of larger cultural, technological, and ideological shifts, particularly with regard to identity, movement, and the cinematic apparatus.
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen
This anthology offers contemporary perspectives on dance in the context of the popular screen. It analyzes the role played by the dancing body in popular culture and its multi-layered meanings in film, television, music videos, video games, commercials, and Internet sites such as YouTube. It explores how dance and choreography function within the filmic apparatus, and how the narrative, dancing bodies, and/or dance style set in motion multiple ch…
Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen
She is Cuba
She is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body traces the history of the Cuban mulata and her association with hips, sensuality and popular dance. It examines how the mulata choreographs her racialised identity through her hips and enacts an embodied theory called hip(g)nosis. By focusing on her living and dancing body in order to flesh out the process of identity formation, this book makes a claim for how subaltern bodies negotiate a cultural ident…
Dancing Economies Conference Welcome, February 2015
This essay was used (in a previous form) as opening remarks for the United Kingdom's Society of Dance Research conference “Dancing Economies” in 2015. Structured around a collection of musings prompted by global issues, such as the Greek economic crisis, the Black Lives Matter movement, the European migrant crisis, and the pernicious effects of neoliberalism on the arts, the essay is my attempt to make connections between these events and the sig…
Cindy Garcia, Salsa Crossings
Presencing” Pleasure and Pain in Hispanophone Caribbean Performance
Diffuse is a good way to describe the messiness of diaspora. Spread out, tentacular, scattered, dispersed. Diffuse, from the Latin diffus- “poured out”, from the verb diffundere, from dis- “away”
Decolonizing performance philosophies
In this co-authored essay, the authors reflect on how their respective research interests in Latin America have led them to engage with epistemologies of the global south. The chapter begins from an encounter with Sylvia Wynter as a performance philosopher – foregrounding her philosophical concerns to undo the supremacy of the Western concept of the human and dismantle notions of universal knowledge through a philosophical practice of ‘decipherin…
TikTok, Friendship, and Sipping Tea, or How to Endure a Pandemic
No abstract available
Práticas De Performativas E O Conflito Da Memória Na Colômbia
Este artigo examina Corpografías, um arquivo digital que documenta as práticas artísticas das comunidades afrodescendentes e indígenas da Colômbia e seu papel na memória, paz e reconciliação no Pacífico colombiano. Ele combina dança, teatro e estudos de performance com ciências sociais e humanidades digitais, colocando as comunidades afrodescendentes e indígenas no centro do desenvolvimento do arquivo. O projeto desafia a marginalização dessas co…
Art (11 works) · Dance (6 works) · Visual arts (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (4 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Cuban History and Society (3 works)