Subverting Precariousness

Work, History, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Dance in Buenos Aires

Bibliographic Data

ID11222741
AuthorsJuan Ignacio Vallejos (0000-0003-1396-6974, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume51
Issue1
Pages32-46
Publication date2019-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDance Research Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0149-7677 • E-ISSN: 1940-509X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0149767719000032
OpenAlexW2941714870
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited16

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 their working conditions. It examines how Marina Sarmiento's investigation of dance history stages a precarious body as an archive that deals with aesthetic colonialism. And lastly, it discusses the emergence of an aesthetics of precariousness in Fabian Gandini's work, which brings artistic ethics to the fore. The argument proposed in this article asserts that working conditions, history, and aesthetics represent three dimensions of contemporary dance practice that operate simultaneously and determine the precariousness in the Argentinian dance community

Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis) · Art · Colonialism · Contemporary dance · Dance · Modern dance · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subversion · Visual arts · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Studies · Law · Music History and Culture · Theatre and Performance Studies

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