Brazilian Bodies and Their Choreographies of Identification Swing Nation
Cristina F. Rosa Cristina F. Rosa is a native of Brazil who migrated to the US in 1996. She is currently a full-time faculty lecturer in dance at Tufts University. Her research interests include the intersection of embodiment, knowledge production, and processes of identification. She has been published in TDR and e-misférica. She previously taught in the US at Reed College, the University of California, Riverside, the Florida State University, and the California Institute of the Arts. She has also served as a research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin’s International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” (Germany, 2012-13). She earned her PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. About the book
Brazilian Bodies and Their Choreographies of Identification retraces the presence of
New World Choreographies Hardback 9781137462268 Aug 2015 £55.00 $90.00 $104.00CAN
“ginga”, a particular way of swaying the body, across distinct realms of Brazilian culture. With examples ranging from Afro-Brazilian practices (e.g. samba and capoeira) to Carmen Miranda’s cinematography and the repertoire of the Grupo Corpo Dance Theater, this comparative study examines how ginga functions at the bodily level, the multiple roles it assumes in each realm, and the effects that it mobilizes through set or improvised actions. More importantly, the author combines historiography and ethnography with movement analysis to demonstrate how ginga is a key element within a non-hegemonic system of bodily organization and knowledge production grounded on Africanist aesthetic principles such as polycentrism and polyrhythm. This unprecedented book confirms the relevance of dance and other movement practices to the understanding of how identities are constructed. It also offers invaluable information for all scholars and students concerned with the embodied knowledges cultivated across the black Atlantic. CONTENTS Introduction: Choreographing Ideas PART I: UNDERSTANDING GINGA 1. Decoding Ginga Aesthetic 2. Historicizing Ginga PART II: ANALYSING GINGA 3. Understanding the Presence of Ginga in Samba Circles 4. Investigating the Articulation of Ginga in Capoeira Angola 5. What is it about the Baiana? PART III: STAGING GINGA 6. Brazilian Bodies and the National in Dance 7. What is it about Grupo Corpo? Conclusion: The Pride and Shame of being a Swing Nation
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