Art and politics in democratic opening Argentina: the beginnings of Contact Improvisation in Buenos Aires Article Sidebar PDF (Español (España)) Published Jul 31, 2024 DOI https://doi.org/10.25074/actos.v6i11.2571 Author Biography Mariela Singer, UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES, FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES, ARGENTINA Doctora en Ciencias Sociales y Licenciada en Ciencias de la Comunicación por la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). Profesora Adjunta integrante del Circuito de Formación Feminista de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (CIRFFEM-UBA). Directora y Coordinadora Académica del Posgrado “Cuerpo, comunicación, estética y política. Perspectivas situadas y feministas”, dictado por la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales-UBA y avalado por el Ministerio de las Mujeres, Políticas de Género y Diversidad Sexual de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Investigadora del claustro de investigadorxs formadxs del Instituto de Estudios de América Latina y el Caribe, IEALC, UBA. Directora del proyecto de investigación UBACyT “Cuerpos, feminismos y resistencias arteactivistas. Repertorios de acción colectiva en el sur de América Latina en el reciente ciclo de protestas” (2023-2024), con sede en el IEALC. Docente de grado y de posgrado en la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y en la Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo de la UBA, a cargo del seminario “Cuerpo, comunicación, arte y performance” del Doctorado de FADU-UBA. Docente del seminario de doctorado STAN-CONICET y de la Maestría en Arte y Sociedad en Latinoamérica de la Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Main Article Content Mariela Singer UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES, FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES, ARGENTINA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0859-817X Article Details Issue Vol 6 No 11 (2024): Revista Actos Section Artículos How to Cite Singer, M. (2024). Art and politics in democratic opening Argentina: the beginnings of Contact Improvisation in Buenos Aires, 6(11), 22-32. https://doi.org/10.25074/actos.v6i11.2571 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver estadisticas Downloads Download data is not yet available. Abstract This paper reconstructs the beginnings of Contact Improvisation (CI) dance in Argentina, specifically in Buenos Aires in the 80s, in interrelation with the sociopolitical context of democratic opening. CI, which emerged in the United States in the early 1970s, was introduced in the country in the mid-1980s, almost a decade after its introduction in other South American countries. However, the reception of this practice in Buenos Aires was especially significant, becoming in a few years the city in Latin America with the greatest development of CI and one of the cities in the world with the highest concentration of practitioners. This text analyzes some milestones of that rapid expansion in the aforementioned territory in connection with the framework of Buenos Aires counterculture of that time, which operated as fertile soil for the development of the practice. The article is based on a qualitative methodology and on the recovery of personal interviews with referent people of Buenos Aires CI, exposing results of field work that contribute to filling an important vacancy in the situated study of this aesthetic-political practice in the Argentine territory. Keywords Contact Improvisation; democratic opening; body; art and politics Contact Improvisation Democratic Opening Body Art and Politics
