Dance and metamorphosis: The choreographic politics of equality

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metamorphosis, contemporary dance, dance and politics, dance and nature

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Juan Ignacio Vallejos
Universidad de Buenos Aires / Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

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The idea of metamorphosis has been present in many writings about dance, since Antiquity, and has been continued in various philosophical and aesthetic reflections. It relates to the conception and experience of a body that has no precise limits and experiences a synchronic identification with the world. Based on the critical analysis of philosophical concepts and choreographic works, this article argues that the relationship between dance and politics refers to the construction of choreographic politics of equality that theorize and experiment with new forms of common life. The protean body of dance exercises a practice capable of redefining that which today designates our conception of nature.

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Vallejos, J. I. (2022). Dance and metamorphosis: The choreographic politics of equality. Heterotopías, 5(9), 1-21. https://revistas.psi.unc.edu.ar/index.php/heterotopias/article/view/38163
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Vol. 5 No. 9 (2022): "Aesthetics, politics and nature: languages and ecopoetic experiences" Volume II "Bord(e)ados de vida. Marks of condition of existence in times of extractive violence"
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Juan Ignacio Vallejos, Universidad de Buenos Aires / Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Juan Ignacio Vallejos has a PhD in History and a Master in Social Sciences from the EHESS in Paris. He is an Adjunct Researcher at CONICET. His research revolves around the relationship between dance, performance and politics from a historical and critical theoretical approach. He also writes reviews of stage works for the magazine Otra Parte. He collaborated with several choreographers such as Dominque Brun, Fabián Gandini, Eugenia Estevez, Marina Sarmiento and Diana Szeinblum. He worked as a teacher at UBA, Nancy 2 University, EHESS and the Centre National de la Danse de France, and was a Mentor of the TGSM Action Lab in 2019. He has also been a guest lecturer at the University of Lille, Temple University, New York City University and New York University. He is coordinator of the Performing Arts Research Area of the Institute of Performing Arts at the UBA. His articles have been published in Dance Research Journal, Debate Feminista, Perspectives (INHA), Repères - Cahier de danse, Musicorum, Eadem Utraque Europa and Aisthesis, among others. He also edited and contributed to several collective works, including the Bloomsbury Companion to Dance Studies (2019). He translated and wrote the introductory study to Mark Franko's book "Dancing Modernism/Acting Politics" (2019).

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Vallejos, J. I. (2022). Dance and metamorphosis: The choreographic politics of equality. Heterotopías, 5(9), 1-21. https://revistas.psi.unc.edu.ar/index.php/heterotopias/article/view/38163

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