Memory Transmission through a Dance of Devils: from Costa Chica to Mexico City

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https://doi.org/10.36025/arj.v9i2.28897

Keywords:

dance, memory, migration, transmission

Abstract

A young man from the Costa Chica region of the state of Guerrero, living in Mexico City, feels a deeply rooted connection to the Danza de Diablos (Dance of the Devils), a native tradition from his homeland. Given that it was not customary to do this dance in the capital and because the tradition was starting to fade in his hometown, this young man did everything possible to ‘rescue’ this dance by creating the Grupo Danza de Diablos CDMX, in which he represents the character of the Tenango.  This article intends to show the process of forming the group in 2021, framed by the COVID-19 pandemic, with an emphasis on memory transmission.

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Claudia Lora, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO)

Rosa Claudia Lora Krstulovic. Anthropologist, dancer and audiovisual producer (Peru-Mexico). She is an ethnologist from the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH), with a master's degree in Latin American Studies from UNAM and a PhD in Social Memory from UNIRIO, Brazil. She investigates Afro-diasporic dances from the American continent, analyzing for several years the Dances of Devils in Mexico and the Caribbean. Later she delved into the investigation of roda dances, moving to Brazil and carrying out an investigation on the transmission of the Samba de Roda in the Recôncavo de Bahia. She is currently doing a post-doctoral stay at CIESAS CdMx, where is researching Afro-Mexican dances from the Costa Chica region of Mexico.

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29-12-2022 — Updated on 10-01-2023

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LORA KRSTULOVIC, R. C. Memory Transmission through a Dance of Devils: from Costa Chica to Mexico City . Art Research Journal: Revista de Pesquisa em Artes, [S. l.], v. 9, n. 2, 2023. DOI: 10.36025/arj.v9i2.28897. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufrn.br/artresearchjournal/article/view/28897. Acesso em: 21 dec. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022): Dossier “Insurgent Dramaturgies and Epistemologies in Dance”; Articles; Reviews

Section

Dossier: Insurgent Dramaturgies and Epistemologies in Dance

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