Inhabiting the Impossible

“Enters into current conversations about the connections between corporealities, choreography, dance, geopolitics, identity construction and ideas of nation, race, gender, class and sexuality, political agency and artistic practices--and the circulation of these concepts in the Americas. The book will interest scholars, students, practitioners and those interested in Latin American cultural theory, aesthetics, political studies, anthropology, or gender and sexuality studies.”

“This history of experimental dance in Puerto Rico also serves as a model for understanding the aesthetic impacts of dance within particular cultural and political contexts. Further, it foregrounds the voices of artists as it narrates the importance of dance as a mode of cultural manifestation, whether on the street, in living rooms and kitchens, within ritual sites, in abandoned, repurposed spaces, or on concert stages.”

"Inhabiting the Impossible is a critical addition to the canon of Puerto Rican studies, expanding both how and what we understand as comprising its terrain. It insistently and artfully introduces readers to Puerto Ricans who have given their lives to making the archipelago through dance, demonstrating how dance itself is a powerful register for historical accounting."

* Centro Journ