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

martasa@mac.com

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

Make connections with Jensen!

gaze

I need to work with the gaze.

ways of seeing, john berger

the masses

To think about multiple bodies as one, how the masses of barranquilla carnival affect, or give a particular characteristic to the fiesta

Quien lo vive es quien lo goza

Quien lo vive es quien lo goza, that's C de B's motto, meaning that you have to enjoy it bacause the Carnival is not a thing to see but endure, participate and feel.
at the same time, it's funny because even though C de B is to be lived, it is also to see. Is a place to achieve visibility, to see and be seen. The parades have tribunas so people can pay expensive tickets and sit (or stand) and whach the floats, the people... certanly, not everyo e can be in the streets and not everyone can be on the tribunas... for those that don't qualigy to the tribunas or the parades, there's always the sunny side of the sidewalk, hot as hell.

anna 2

Two queen in the parades: the concept of veauty as is evoked or displayes in the two Q and the cumbiambera, as inside the body.
Why is there a popular and an official? how it means to live in a "lower case" for the popular queen
How beauty is viewed and performed

questions to ask;
Beauty as work? (tommy's article on beauty) is beautya type og labor, can you extac surplus form it?
somethin is being estracted, maybe the margins fighting back
who is this beauty for?