Abstract
This chapter aims to define some general characteristics of borders as cultural and geographic spaces and to place dance within that framework; to examine quebradita dancing in the 1990s as a border dance; and to explore the quebradita in virtual space at the present time. The relocation of quebradita to virtual space also serves to remove the dance from its charged political "home" context, both freeing the dance and depoliticizing it. Not only refusing to cross borders but removing them entirely, the new generation of quebradores force us to question basic concepts like borders, boundaries, migration, and movement.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Transnational Encounters |
| Subtitle of host publication | Music and Performance at the U.S.-Mexico Border |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780199918607 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780199735921 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 28 2011 |
Keywords
- Dance
- Embodiment
- Kinetopia
- Quebradita
- Virtual spaces
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Arts and Humanities