Andean movement
Dances, bodies, and repertoires of protest in the city

In the words of Cristián Opazo, this book invites readers on a journey that goes from celebration to protest and vice versa. With the rigor of someone who understands American epistemologies and, at the same time, with the expertise of someone who knows the streets, Ignacia Cortés reconstructs the web of affections, bodies, and voices of those who, during the years of the transition, decided to confront alienation with tinku and huayno, always, by dancing! Armed with cassette tapes, photocopied fanzines, sound recordings, and evidence as ephemeral as it is irrefutable, she writes a history of Andean movements that are recounted as acts of defiance: that of migrants who, from the midnight eighties, brought Andean music and dance repertoires that illuminated the neighborhoods; that of the squatters of the nineties who, as the ruins of the public realm became private property, opened houses that fostered the mixing of the chords of street hardcore-punk with the rhythm of tinku; and above all, the defiance of those who, as of the two thousands, continue to teach that dance steps allow one to evade tear gas and hunger, embody memories, and invoke utopias.