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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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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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