Preface to the English Edition Susan Homar and nibia pastrana santiago Introduction: Inhabiting Dance in Puerto RicoPart I. Histories, Bodies, and Alterities Susan Homar Clear the Way, We’re Coming Through! Forging a New Dance Field in Puerto Rico Adriana Garriga-López Insurrectionary Bodies: Performance at the Borderlands of Governability and Regeneration nibia pastrana santiago against erasure, in favor of strangeness, and remember: this choreography is not a Caribbean myth, others came before itPart II. Considerations about, from, and with Dance Alma Concepción Suárez The Legacy of Gilda Navarra and the Taller de Histriones Teresa Peña Jordán Transforming the Gaze: Moving Beyond Boundaries with Poetry, Testimony, and Dance Translated by Sarah Yates Gibson Nelson Rivera Puerto Rico: Four Encounters Linking Dance, Music, and the Visual ArtsPart III. Decolonial Tasks: Improvisations, Performances, and Events Lydia Platón Lázaro The Possible from the Unknown: Transformations in the Present-Present of Improvisation Arnaldo Rodríguez Bagué Curating the Foro Permanente de Performance, FPP Ramón H. Rivera-Servera Moving Queer Feminist Movements in the Commons … or How Puerto Rico Dances its Decolonial DesiresPart IV. To Inhabit, to Write, to Move Alicia Díaz Concepción Oscar Mestey Villamil Ñequi González Martínez teresa hernández Jesús Miranda Santiago (Pito) Awilda Rodríguez Lora Jeanne d’Arc Casas Panouze Javier Cardona Otero Noemí Segarra Ramírez Karen Langevin Pepe Álvarez ColónPart V. MAPA: Originary Cartographies--Interviews Alejandra Martorell Mapping Puerto Rico: Coordinates of Five Explorers of Dance as Performance Interviews with: Petra Bravo (Hernández) Merián Soto Myrna Renaud Awilda Sterling-Duprey Viveca Vázquez Sonia Daubón Aquino Guide to Informational and Bibliographic Resources on Experimental Dance in Puerto Rico Notes on Collaborators

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