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This article examines a spatial experience: the nature, form and stakes of a “choreographic system”, that is to say the way in which dancers organise themselves and move about during a performance. In the morenada, a devotional dance performed during Bolivian patronal feasts, this system brings toge...
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| Language: | fra |
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Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative
2021-07-01
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| Series: | Ateliers d'Anthropologie |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ateliers/14609 |
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| Summary: | This article examines a spatial experience: the nature, form and stakes of a “choreographic system”, that is to say the way in which dancers organise themselves and move about during a performance. In the morenada, a devotional dance performed during Bolivian patronal feasts, this system brings together several hundred men and woman who, at first glance, appear all to be dancing in a synchronised way, forming rigorously constructed groups. Yet close attention to the women’s displacements during the dance shows that they are actually deploying contrary forces: the imperative desire to construct a united group, but also the opposite desire to distinguish oneself from the set. Sometimes the dancers’ effort is motivated by the desire to follow the group movement, while at other times they perform disruptive actions that put the entire general organisation to the test. How should one understand the coexistence of these two dynamics within one single spatiotemporal unit? What social rules and female relations are tested through the dance, with its spatial stakes and games? |
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| ISSN: | 2117-3869 |