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Irvin Manuel Gonzalez (Dance, Florida State University). Hacer de Tripas Corazón (Making Heart out of Guts): Rasquache Dance Techniques as a Methodology for Brown Belonging

Event Type: Lecture
Sponsor: Supported by the LoradoTaft Lectureship on Art Fund/ the College of Fine & Applied Arts . Co-sponsored by Illinois Theatre, the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum of World Cultures
Date: Feb 23, 2023 5:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Irvin Manuel Gonzalez, Assistant Professor, Florida State University
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Originating Calendar: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS); This presentation examines quebradita dancing, a Mexican/Mexican American social dance form first cultivated during the1990s through transborder exchanges, as a tool for the development of rasquache pedagogy, kinship, and survival.

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