Moving Borders and Dancing in Place: Son Jarocho's Speaking Bodies at the Fandango Fronterizo

Power-Sotomayor, Jade

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Moving Borders and Dancing in Place: Son Jarocho's Speaking Bodies at the Fandango Fronterizo

Jade Power-Sotomayor

Jade Power-Sotomayor is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego. Some of her publications can be found in Latino Studies, Gestos, Latin American Theatre Review, and The Oxford Handbook of Theatre and Dance. She coedited a special issue for Centro Journal for Puerto Rican Studies on Afro–Puerto Rican bomba music and dance. As a scholar, educator, and performer, she researches and writes about the fluid reconstitution of Latinx identity through discourses of embodiment and the performing body. jypower@ucsd.edu

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Jade Power-Sotomayor

Jade Power-Sotomayor is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego. Some of her publications can be found in Latino Studies, Gestos, Latin American Theatre Review, and The Oxford Handbook of Theatre and Dance. She coedited a special issue for Centro Journal for Puerto Rican Studies on Afro–Puerto Rican bomba music and dance. As a scholar, educator, and performer, she researches and writes about the fluid reconstitution of Latinx identity through discourses of embodiment and the performing body. jypower@ucsd.edu

Online ISSN: 1531-4715

Print ISSN: 1054-2043

2020

New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TDR/The Drama Review (2020) 64 (4 (248)): 84–107.

https://doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00966

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The annual Fandango Fronterizo is a binational performance gathering where the US-Mexico border meets the ocean. Fandanguerxs enact a performative, political gesture that interrupts the discursive racialized and gendered logic of the two nation-states, refusing to be eternally desterrados by the violence of the border.

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