Dancing With the Virgin

Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico

By: Deidre Sklar

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Paperback | 16 March 2001 | Edition Number 1

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241 Pages

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The author went to Tortugas, New Mexico, where an annual three-day fiesta honours the Virgin of Guadalupe, in order to seek answers to her questions about community, performance, and the embodiment of belief. How do we know what we know? where do we belong, and how do we fit in? The author's own background and learned values form the conscious, constantly challenged raw material for the undertaking, and the intimate language of the body and sensation is her medium. Her ten-year study and movement analysis of the sacred dances and the "backstage" work involved in the festival take her deep into the life of he community, as dancer, participant-observer, and self-interrogating woman merge in a vividly narrated experience of "communal sacred time".

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