Touring History
Tórtola Valencia Between Europe and the Americas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11223751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michelle Clayton (0000-0002-9670-5077, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 29-49 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dance Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-7677 • E-ISSN: 1940-509X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0149767711000362 |
| OpenAlex | W2129123635 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 7 |
In 1907, the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío published the collection El canto errante [ The Wandering Song ], containing a poem entitled “La bailarina de los pies desnudos” [“The Barefoot Dancer”]. The title leads the reader to anticipate an aesthetic of lightness and simplicity, yet the poem is weighted down by its many cultural references: at least one per line, and barely harmonizing amongst themselves. Its space is heavily perfumed, thickly ornamented, animated by the movements of a dancer who invokes different cultural references and plastic forms with each extended limb, each trembling body part. At first sight sinuously seductive, this central figure unravels into a welter of fragments and contradictions: both animal and divine, eroticized and chaste, a lunar deity (Selene) and a literary character (Anactoria), a “constellation of examples and of objects” ( constelada de casos y de cosas ) whose body, as the line suggests, barely contains its referential chaos
Art · Art history · Character (mathematics) · Lightness · Linguistics · Literature · Poetry · Simplicity · Symbol (formal) · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · Philosophy · Spanish Literature and Culture Studies
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |