I
have more questions than anything else. I started
thinking about “El Acercamiento” and what I would really like to explore, and
the first question that came to my mind was : What it means ‘identity’? And…how
can it be expressed? Through dance? Through food? Through language? What is the
impact of migration in a country? How is migration influencing cultures? I got
closer to Cuban heritage and how Cuban culture and history was so challenged by
migration. Also, how the power of dance
as an expressive culture that function as a kind of “embodied history”,
enriched and extended narratives of migration and identity.
Cuba, like many
other lands, were influenced by migration and imperialism. How about the effect
on the ones who dominate? Can Cuban culture influence the US? It is posible to
think that a communist society could throw critical and creative ideas to a
capitalist party?
The US is still casting
shadows in Cuba and seems to perform as a parent, but this island seems to be transcending this situation and getting immersed in a global cultural
scene.
“Cuba’s
Tumba Francesa”, Diaspora dance, Colonial Legacy by Grette Vidal, 2007
https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/book/cubas-tumba-francesa
“From ‘I love lucy’ to pop music, Cuba’s
influence on America runs deep by
Aliyah Frumin and Emma Margolin, December 2014
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