Launch | Andean Movement. Dances, bodies, and repertoires in the city

Tuesday, May 12 → 10:15 AM → Roberto Bellarmino Room. Central House → Av. Bernardo O'Higgins 1825. Los Héroes Metro Station. Santiago Centro.

«Andean Movement: Dances, Bodies, and Repertoires in the City of Ignacia Cortés.

This publication explores the intersections between dance, affect, and social mobilization, reconstructing the experiences of those who use dance as a way to inhabit the political. Our guests will discuss this recent publication.

In her research, Ignacia Cortés writes a history of Andean movements recounted as acts of defiance: that of migrants in the eighties who brought Andean music and dance repertoires into urban neighborhoods; the squatters in the nineties who opened vacant and dilapidated houses, fostering a blend of gutter hardcore-punk chords with the rhythm of the tinku; and finally, the defiance of those in the 2000s who continue to teach that dance steps allow one to evade tear gas and hunger, embody memories, and invoke utopias.

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Ignacia Cortés. Academic School of Theatre and Interdisciplinary Institute of Aesthetics of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and author of the book.

Carla Pinochet. Doctorate in Anthropology from the Autonomous Metropolitan University, Mexico. Academic at the University of Chile and alternate director of the Millennium Nucleus in Musical and Sound Cultures, CMUS.

Enrique Antileo. Social anthropologist. Doctor of Latin American Studies from the University of Chile. Academic at the Alberto Hurtado University and coordinator of the Anthropology Collection.

→ Review the book here