Tracing the Soul, Choreographing Transgression in Flamenco and Tauromaquia : Dance and Ritual in Contemporary Spain - Miriana M. Lausic Arratia

Tracing the Soul, Choreographing Transgression in Flamenco and Tauromaquia

Dance and Ritual in Contemporary Spain

By: Miriana M. Lausic Arratia

Hardcover | 7 November 2025 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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, flamenco and la corrida are a type of choreographic writing, as both corporeal inscription and as 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.

This interdisciplinary text serves scholars across fields including Dance, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, and Latin American Studies, particularly in specialized graduate seminars on methodology and qualitative research.

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