ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023
Spain On Stage: Dance and the Imagination of National Identity
This project aims to propose new narratives of Spanish dance history analysing the components, processes, and contexts involved in the configuration of the dancing body through its negotiations with national identity at the turn of the 20th century. It will recuperate, study, and reconstruct a corpus of choreographies and dances conserved in footage and film fragments between 1894 and 1936, the period between the crisis of the colonial system and the military coup that caused the Civil War and the following four decades of dictatorship. The study will articulate new theoretical tools to rethink the place of Spanish dance between the colonising and the colonized, understanding the body as a…
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