Dancing across Borders: Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos

Contents

• Acknowledgments xi
• Introduction xiii
• Olga Najera-Ramirez, Norma E. Cantu, and Brenda M. Romero
• Part I: Contested Identities
• 1. Embodied Recuperations: Performance, Indigeneity, and Danza Azteca 3 Elisa Diana Huerta
• 2. The Zapopan Dancers: Reinventing an Indigenous Line of Descent 19 Renee de la Torre Castellanos
• 3. La Feria de Enero: Rethinking Gender in a Ritual Festival 48 Xochitl C. Chavez
• 4. Dancing to "Whittier Boulevard": Choreographing Social Identity 66 Marie "Keta" Miranda
• 5. Creating Agency and Identity in Danza Azteca 80 Maria Teresa Cesena
• Part II: Dimensions of Space and Place
• 6. The Semiotics of Land and Place: Matachines Dancing in Laredo, Texas 97 Norma E. Cantu
• 7. Dancing to the Heights: Performing Zapotec Identity, Aesthetics, and Religiosity 116 Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez
• 8. Traditional Dances of the Sierra Norte of Puebla: Identity and Gender Relations 138 Alberto Zarate Rosales
• 9. Por Que Estas Aqui?: Dancing through History, Identity, and the Politics of Place in Butoh Ritual Mexicano 148 Shakina Nayfack
• 10. El Baile de los Elotes: The Corn Dance 165 Jose Sanchez Jimenez
• Part III: Trajectories of Tradition
• 11. The Matachines Danza as Intercultural Discourse 185 Brenda M. Romero
• 12. The Ballet Folklorico de Mexico and the Construction of the Mexican Nation through Dance 206 Sydney Hutchinson
• 13. Dancing Culture: A Personal Perspective on Folklorico 226 Rudy F. Garcia
• 14. The Mexican Danzon: Restrained Sensuality 237 Susan Cashion
• 15. Gender as a Theme in the Modern Dance Choreography of Barro Rojo 256 Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter
• Part IV: Politics of Traditional and Innovation
• 16. Staging Authenticty: Theorizing the Development of Mexican Folklorico Dance 277 Olga Najera-Ramirez
• 17. Dance, Politics, and Cultural Tourism in Oaxaca's Guelgauetza 293 Chris Goerizen
• 18. Bailando para San Lorenzo: Nuevo Mexicano Popular Traditional Musics, Ritual Contexts, and Dancing during Bernalillo Fiesta Time 318 Peter J. Garcia
• 19. Folklorico in the United States: Cultural Preservation and Disillusion 335 Russell Rodriguez
• 20. Zapateado Afro-Chicana Fandango Style: Self-Reflective Moments in Zapateado 359 Martha Gonzalez
• Epilogue 379
• Selected Bibliography on Folk, Ritual, and Social Dance in Greater Mexico 383
• Works Cited 403
• Contributors 431
• Index 437