Abstract

BROZAS-POLO, María Paz. Gender Discourses in Contact Improvisation Debate and Choreographic Action in the Contact Quarterly. Co-herencia [online]. 2020, vol.17, n.33, pp.133-164. ISSN 1794-5887.  https://doi.org/10.17230/co-herencia.17.33.5.

The technique of group dance named Contact Improvisation emerged almost half a century ago in New York as an alteration of contact codes and choreographic hierarchies. From the first decades of its development (i.e., ideological, pedagogical, or aesthetic), there has been a complex debate regarding gender. In this study, the different perspectives in the debate are analyzed, which are articulated in-what can be deemed as a foundational journal- Contact Quarterly: questioning of masculinity, the ideas of neutralization and minimalization of sexual topics, and various feminist approaches, as well as queer theory. Rather than the definitions of each one of the postures, we focus on the critical observation of paradoxes, tensions, and points of contact that are reflected in the practice and knit a prolific discourse net.

Keywords : Contact; improvisation; dance; body; debate; gender; history; Contact Quarterly journal..

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