Toward a Salsa Dancing Hegemony: Dancing-with Laclau with-Derrida

Research in Dance Education (forthcoming)
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Abstract

In the present article, the first section recapitulates my “figuration” philosophy of dance, the “dancing-with” interpretive method derived therefrom, and my previous application of figuration to salsa dance as a decolonizing gestural discourse. The second section deepens and modifies this analysis through a reinterpretation of Argentinian philosopher Ernesto Laclau’s concept of hegemony and his dance-resonant interpretations of Derrida. And the final section offers a template for this hegemonic dancing-with in the Birmingham, Alabama Latin dance troupe, Corazon de Alabama (Heart of Alabama), as a new strategy for decolonizing and reconstructing social justice.

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Joshua M. Hall
University of Alabama, Birmingham

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