Tracing the Soul Choreographing Transgression in Flamenco and Tauromaquia

<p>This book analyzes gesture ritual and performance in flamenco and tauromaquia the extended definition of bullfighting within the visual arts and poetry in contemporary Spain. </p><p>Based on the author’s extensive ethnographic field research it emerges from recent critical thinking on the body in dance and performance studies. The main argument is that flamenco and <i>la corrida </i>are a type of choreographic writing as both corporeal inscription and a field of spacing and timing bordered by death. Transgression is conceived as the breaching and blurring of limits between two seemingly opposed spaces: the corporeal and incorporeal; the animal and human; the real and the imaginary; life and death. Flamenco and tauromaquia incorporate and reshape cultural and historical layers of memory and sense which are marked by multiple social and political intersections. This book fills a gap in the knowledge of their interconnectedness. It equally contributes to resolving an epistemological crisis in dance studies to the interplay between the visible and the invisible in choreographed movements. </p><p>This interdisciplinary text serves scholars across fields including Dance Cultural Studies Anthropology and Iberian and Latin American Studies particularly </p>