LatinX Dance & Performance

Harvard FAS

We will trace the histories of a variety of dance traditions to gain new understandings about agency, erasure, hegemony, and refusal in the Americas. In particular, our class will focus on understanding the body and the ways it is racialized, gendered, and sexualized as an importantsite for the inscription of modernities and colonialities. LatinX Dance & Performance introduces students to the fields of performance and LatinX studies through a trans-Atlantic and hemispheric…