order

introduction about reinas and cumbiamberas like a narration, like a tale

parallel in one side reinas in the other cumbia
infancy, roles, activities in the carnival, simbolic presence, meanings

methodology

Martha's talk

Fetishization of movement in reinas and cumbia

Displaying of "untangible patrimony"

Perpetuation of the patrimony through teaching, framing the dance, making the source into a resource

vocabulary, steps,secuences...studio time

what dance is worth: desire, value, pleasure

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Dialectics of Seeing and Women

Reading about Benjamin's use of women as icon for modernity, makes me think about the objectification of women from male gaze. The dancing body of cumbiamberas and carnival queens are used as makers of class, status and for entretainment of spectators, I wonder about the agency of those bodies and their possibilit of self-expression.
Does one becomes dependent of male gaze? girls are trained since infancy to be stared at, to be the center of the spectacle, to shake it, and turn... the process of becoming a commodity starts early on life.

Can the cumbiamberas and queens' bodies be any expression of social desires and conflicts? Yes! are they "moving signifiers"of Barranquilla culture?

I the figure on benjamin's woman (p.99) aplicable in Barranquilla? (emphasis on the new +antique of newness) what demands are there for Barranquilla's girls? objectified female/masculline objectifier

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