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Choreographing Mexico – Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation, Hardback Book

Choreographing Mexico – Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation Hardback

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The years between 1910 and 1940 were formative for Mexico, with the ouster of Porfirio Diaz, the subsequent revolution, and the creation of the new state.

Amid the upheaval, Mexican dance emerged as a key arena of contestation regarding what it meant to be Mexican.

Through an analysis of written, photographic, choreographic, and cinematographic renderings of a festive Mexico, Choreographing Mexico examines how bodies in motion both performed and critiqued the nation. Manuel Cuellar details the integration of Indigenous and regional dance styles into centennial celebrations, civic festivals, and popular films.

Much of the time, this was a top-down affair, with cultural elites seeking to legitimate a hegemonic national character by incorporating traces of indigeneity.

Yet dancers also used their moving bodies to challenge the official image of a Mexico full of manly vigor and free from racial and ethnic divisions.

At home and abroad, dancers made nuanced articulations of female, Indigenous, Black, and even queer renditions of the nation.

Cuellar reminds us of the ongoing political significance of movement and embodied experience, as folklorico maintains an important and still-contested place in Mexican and Mexican American identity today.

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