Tracing the Soul, Choreographing Transgression in Flamenco and Tauromaquia: Dance and Ritual in Contemporary...

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Miriana M. Lausic Arratia

Tracing the Soul, Choreographing Transgression in Flamenco and Tauromaquia

Dance and Ritual in Contemporary Spain

Miriana M. Lausic Arratia

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Routledge
07 November 2025

Performance art; Theatre Studies; Dance; Philosophy

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

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 that flamenco and la corrida 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.

This interdisciplinary text serves scholars across fields including Dance, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, and Iberian and Latin American Studies, particularly

By: Miriana M. Lausic Arratia
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 570g
ISBN: 9781032811598
ISBN 10: 1032811595
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 07 November 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Images Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: THE PRELUDE Chapter 2: The Patio 2.1 My Body is Within Your Body 2.2 Tauromaquia class, Beyond the Imagination Chapter 3: The Labyrinth Chapter 4: INTERLUDE, OF PARENTHESIS Chapter 5: La Corrida Conclusions Bibliography Index

Miriana M. Lausic Arratia holds a PhD from York University, Toronto, an MFA in Choreography from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica of Chile. She has published in Studies in Theatre and Performance, The International Journal of Arts Theory and History, and Common Ground Research Networks. Her choreography has been presented, among others, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.