Vol. 2 (2016): post(s) 2
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Gesture in Mambo Time

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  • Juana María Rodríguez,
  • Santiago Castellanos
Juana María Rodríguez
University of California Berkeley
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Santiago Castellanos
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/posts.v2i1.810

Published 2016-08-01

Keywords

  • performance,
  • gesture,
  • time,
  • music,
  • dance,
  • memory
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Rodríguez, J. M., & Castellanos, S. (2016). Gesture in Mambo Time . Post(s), 2(1). https://doi.org/10.18272/posts.v2i1.810
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Abstract

To write about gesture is to engage that which exceeds language through language, to reach out to touch figures in motion that are no longer there, to capture in static black and white marks the scent of a body that has left no trace. To write about gesture requires, to borrow Peggy Phelan"™s iconic phrase, "representation without reproduction" (Unmarked146). Rather than emphasize inscription, Phelan points us to "the possibility that something substantial can be made from the outline left after the body has disappeared." Her "hunch is that the affective outline of what we"™ve lost might bring us closer...

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